McSame???? well yes and no July 8, 2008
Posted by Nevada Pundit in Conservative, Freedom, John McCain.trackback
There are those words that Democrats love to say “McSame”. I think that there is something that they are overlooking, President Bush was elected on a platform of strong conservative beliefs, ideas that enough people believed in that he was elected President. President Bush’s unpopularity was not with his ideas so much as his implementation. The part that I don’t think the Democrats understand is that the Republican party doesn’t want those ideas to go away, they want someone in office that will be effective in getting their ideas through.
Very little that I have heard from McCain is a continuation of Bush’s policies, what they are are a continuation of Republican ideas in a way that McCain and many feel will be much more effective than President Bush’s approach. The idea of “McSame” is only being used, in fact can only be used as a scare tactic to the moderate voters of both sides to help throw off support for basic Republican values. Now granted McCain is not the poster boy for the ultra conservative out there but his base values of America and the freedom of it’s people first does and will strike a cord with many Americans.
Ah Freedom, the idea that made our relatively new country the most powerful and influential country on the planet. Based on the idea that if you work hard and apply yourself you can reap the benefits of your actions, that the amount of effort put out is returned and allows you to give yourself and your family a better life. It is a shame that the thing that made us great so quickly the Democrats are slowly trying to leak away. Obama has made no secret of the fact that he wants to, on many levels, take from the rich to give to the poor, redistribute wealth, everyone work to the best of their ability and have from the government what they need. Why does that last part sound scary, the words are pretty enough…oh yeah, the 85 year case study done in the former USSR proved it doesn’t work…personal responsibility and freedom of choice are what make a country great. Well at least the great thing about Obama is that next week all of his idea’s will be different so maybe there is nothing to worry about.
[...] 12th, 2008 at 02:06pm Mark Noonan Nevada Pundit has a word to say about this rather tiresome Democratic talking point: …Democrats love to say [...]
The leftie bloggers keep telling me that McCain is a Bush Clone. They also seem almost pissed that the body count on American soldiers in Iraq has dropped precipitously in the wake of the surge. This makes me wonder: There was a time when both Bush and Obama didn’t support a troop surge in Iraq, while McCain was well ahead of both of them in pushing hard for it. Does that make Obama the real Bush clone when it comes to Iraq? Only if I employ the same wacky logic I’m seeing from the left.
I just don’t get it. I mean, I don’t assume Obama is a male incarnation of Hillary Clinton just because they agreed on most every material policy issue raised during their primary battle (and thus, had to resort to name-calling on the immaterial issues). Nor do I presume that McCain is W. Redux just because he has some things in common with Bush. Instead, where Obama is like Hillary in ways that I don’t like, it will count against him in my eyes come election day. And where McCain is like Bush in ways I don’t like, it too will be counted in the negative on Nov. 4.
Rather engaging in all this guilt by association crap, why don’t people just judge the candidates on who they really are and where they really stand? Am I asking too much of our political process? Probably.
Thankfully, there’s only about 75 days left until all this is over. For sanity’s sake, I plan on tuning out 90 percent of what I see and hear from either side until we get inside the final 30 of them.