Comment by impeachcheneythenbush — February 19, 2008 @ 4:18 pm

Yes, that’s fairly obvious. I think that Chris meant that it’s the “macho, red-meat, conservative chest-thumpers” that see McCain as a girlie-man — not Christopher Buckley himself.

With this in mind, perhaps McCain should campaign wearing an animal skin and carrying a asus m3 battery,asus m3n battery club if he wishes to pander to this particular voter segment.

While it is possible that McCain has fully healed, I seriously doubt he is mentally prepared to deal with the stress of the office without possibly becoming unstable and dangerous. There may also be the additional problem of McCain wishing to “right” the great wrong he may feel was done when we “abandoned” the Vietnam war, and this might lead him to try to play havoc in Iraq and Iran, where he may feel he can “win” the war by NEVER leaving and expanding it (to Iran/North Vietnam). He can “finish” the job he left undone when he was captured, imprisoned and sent home only after the U.S. had stopped its incursion/invasion of Vietnam.

So,
Torture makes the man?

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Again, I believe Buckley’s statement is mocking those who complain about McCain’s positions and, for the record, the man is a very well-respected writer and nothing like Bill Kristol, Dubya, John Podhoretz or any of the other mutated offspring of conservatism.

John Dean hit the nail on the head (I guess that’d be a fingernail) in “Conservatives Without Conscience.” Besides, torture rarely produces good information. I know I’d say anything to stop someone from pulling out my nails.

It seems like the sons of accomplished men, like Irving Kristol, George HW Bush, and William F Buckley, never seem to live up to papa. This may be “regression to the mean”–the fact that children of geniuses aren’t likely to be geniuses, but may be smarter than average bear. They “regress towards the mean,” which in all 3 cases above, includes being some mean suns of b___hs.

http://newsprism.wordpress.com

It’s actually not Buckley who has tied conservatives to torture, but conservatives themselves. Consider this bit from National Review editor Kathryn Lopez, from early January:

To Senator McCain, congratulations. But he has not got this thing wrapped up by any stretch. It’s less than a year since he tried to push a disastrous immigration bill into law — one as manipulative as any pork-laden appropriations bill — with vigorous opposition from talk radio, conservative bloggers, think tanks, and the grassroots. I don’t see how such a man wins the Republican nomination. I’m second to none in praising him on his surge leadership. But on a whole host of issues — including water boarding, tax cuts, and the freedom of speech — he’s not one of us. Rush Limbaugh has emphatically stated that McCain is not a conservative — and he has more than a few listeners with similar instincts. McCain’s not going to be handed this nomination. Conservatives suspect that he’s a recipe for heartache.

Get it? To be one of them–i.e., a Republican and a conservative–McCain would have to support corporate buyouts of elections, crippling tax cuts and torture techniques for which we prosecuted our WWII enemies.

Sadly, McCain, who was mostly one of them for years, is working during his current, sad campaign to perfect his themness.

Is that any way to talk about a flip-flopping girlie-man?

sarc.

Again.

Comment by toasterhead — February 19, 2008 @ 4:44 pm

Exactly. Even though Jimmy Carter is an honest and honorable man, and has elevated the position of “ex-president” to new heights, his presidency was a disaster because of the catastrophes that took place during it.

Which is why it’s not only important to recapture the White House in 2008, but our leader must exhibit Rooseveltian leadership to combat the smear machine and the engineered disasters that will surely occur.

Comment by NCBlueneck — February 19, 2008 @ 4:55 pm

And red meat will kill more Americans than all the terrorists in all the countries of the world combined.

Scroll up if you missed it.

Go on. Go look. :)

*shakes head*

Idiots. Stop provoking me with your idiocy! Now!

Is it November yet?