Comments on: McSame???? well yes and no http://nevadapundit.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/mcsame-well-yes-and-no/ Nevada and US Politics with a Conservative Slant. Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:19:31 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Looking for the Logic http://nevadapundit.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/mcsame-well-yes-and-no/#comment-47 Looking for the Logic Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:07:07 +0000 http://nevadapundit.wordpress.com/?p=33#comment-47 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. 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.

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