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Barry and John

6.2.08 @ 12:01AM

FOOL ME THRICE
Re: Quin Hillyer's Meet the New Barry Goldwater:

Before the American public answers, "Who's Next?" We better ask Obama and McCain, "Who are you?" so we "won't get fooled again."
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

Mr. Hillyer makes as good an argument for John McCain as I have ever read in his column.

That being said, I cannot, and will not ever vote for John McCain. Let me count the reasons:

1. McCain-Feingold
2. McCain-Kennedy
3. The Gang of 14
4. Requiring men in harm's to "interrogate by a field manual."
5. "OK, give them their damn fence."
6. Closing Gitmo and bringing that terrorist scum to Ft. Leavenworth and getting them lawyers as if they were entitled to the same treatment as a U.S. citizen.

I survived eight years of the Clintons, and I am sure I can survive four with Obama.

Lastly I absolutely no faith in him to appoint Conservative judges, and should he do so how will he get them past a Democrat controlled Senate?

I am damned proud to be writing in Ted Nugent for President!
-- Jim Karr
Blue Springs, Missouri

The biggest asset McCain has going for him is he's better than Obama or Hillary. That's pretty much the same Bush had going for him. No, we are going to get half a loaf at a time when the full loaf is needed. This is the time for a Reagan to come forward but all we get is a McCain. Yep, grumpy old man. Quin Hillyer forgets about McCain-Feingold and some of the other legislation McCain has sponsored that has flown in the face of constitutional and conservative thought. Conservatives might support McCain because we don't have much of a choice, however, the nation will not benefit greatly by his presidency. The best that can be said is: he'll do until something better comes along.
-- Pete Chagnon

It is not John McCain's conservative philosophy "with occasional forays into liberalism" that I object to so vehemently. I have a hard time getting past his self-serving attitude in the Senate. For instance, the three months in 2001 when he openly negotiated his switch to the Democrat party. Jim Jeffords beat him to the punch and he remained a Republican -- our loss, I wish Senator McCain had made that move. Again in 2004, he made overtures to John Kerry to become the Democrat nominee for Vice President. Straight talk, honesty and principles!

In the last ten years, John McCain has shown he can't be trusted. At every turn he did whatever he could to embarrass and thwart the Bush White House -- and then went on Meet the Press or Hardball to crow about his pranks. Fool me once...
-- Judy Beumler
Kentucky

"New Barry Goldwater"? "Old Barry Goldwater"? "Old John McCain"? "New John McCain?" They are all spelled out the exact same way. "R-I-N-O"!!
-- Michael Skaggs
Murray, Kentucky

President Lyndon Johnson was once asked what he would do about people overseas who told Americans to go home. Johnson wasn't bothered about it, he said that if a man told you to leave his house, you didn't argue with him, you simply picked up your hat and left. John McCain has repeated insulted conservatives, he called them racists and bigots and he said that he doesn't need their support and doesn't want it. I took President Lyndon Johnson's advice a long time ago about John McCain -- he told me to leave his house, so I picked up my hat and left. I'm not
going back no matter what anybody says.
-- Christopher Holland
Canberra, Australia

As a conservative, I can't wait to NOT vote for Senator McCain this November. As Rush Limbaugh has noted, "We are all mavericks now."

And Senator McCain is going to get a dose of his own medicine, at least from me and any other conservatives I can influence.
-- Blant Hurt
Jonesboro, Arkansas

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