Friday, March 28, 2008
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McCain Camp: Shuler's Taken One Too Many Hits
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Posted by:
Mary Katharine Ham at
10:19 AM
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On a blogger conference call today, Steve Schmidt took on the SAVE Act question:
The comments with regard (to phone calls that he made) are false. It makes me wonder if Health Shuler had one too many encounters with a linebacker in his previous profession. Shuler, of course, was a football player.
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There are now 181 signed on to the discharge petition to get it to the floor. Nancy Pelosi has kept it bottled up in committee because she does not want the laws enforced. Why has John McCain not supported the SAVE Act? Why has this allegedly conservative site not supported the SAVE Act? This is the first post on the blog directly related to the SAVE Act and it is criticism aimed at the sponsor. One might think TH is not in favor of our enforcing our laws. |
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McCain does not want the laws enforced, he thinks surrender is the only option regarding illegal aliens.
McCain keeps saying "Secure the border first". We know that he means amnesty next. The plan is to get the border state Gov's to declare the border secure. Conveniently, they are all on board the cheap labor express. Then his good friend Ted Kennedy will bring back McCain/Kennedy and McCain can provide his good friends across the aisle with their new permanent majority.
I will not vote for amnesty.
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Perhaps he spent too much time in closed rooms with LaRaza and Teddy kennedy. |
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Shuler said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership were not pleased with his attempts to get the bill to the House floor.
"They said (the bill) was not the proper thing for our caucus," Shuler said.
But he said the SAVE Act is "not about Democrats. Not about Republicans. It's about what is best for America."
Shuler said he went to Washington to solve problems and was not willing to go along with the leadership in his party.
"You can't be scared in Washington," Shuler said. "You have to do what is right."
Shuler said he understands party leadership and that the party system has a role. But he said partisanship and the struggle for power get in the way of solving problems.
"We need to move forward as a country," Shuler said. "Not as Democrats, not as Republicans." |
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If somebody said McCain had too many canes to the noggin' while a POW, how would that go over...?
Shuler has put politics aside and crafted a bi-partisan bill that has teeth, because as he says, he wasn't elected to cut deals but to do the work that needs to be done.
For McCain to be against this bill shows how invested he is in open borders and amnesty. If he wishes to squander the great political largesse the Lord has shown him lately, he's on the right track.... |
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Shuler has voted basically in lock step with Pelosi on key votes. On votes that were clearly going to pass he 'stood strong' as a blue dog democrat. Something may not be up to par with this save act or he knows it has no chance of passing and he is just grandstanding. I'd suggest for conservatives to tread carefully in support of this guy. |
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From Amanda Carpenters column today about Bloggers questioning McCain's Amnesty stance.
“John McCain’s position on immigration is very clear and this a question that gets asked at townhall appearances everyday in media appearances and has answered the question at least a thousand times before the New Hampshire primary,” Schmidt said.
He explained, “Any person who supports John McCain’s campaigns is a subscriber to John McCain’s views"
A vote for McCain is a vote for amnesty, plain and simple.
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I'll be casting my amnesty vote...I mean voting for John on November 4.
Other than that, I don't know what to tell you guys. I'm sorry John McCain is the way he is. I'm sorry he isn't in lockstep with you. And, as always, I'm sorry I signed up at Townhall merely because I had crushes on MKH and Amanda Carpenter. This is a close-minded place sprinkled with far-left trolls that like to use words with "neo" and "con" in them. And commenters only have fun when they're talking to other commenters that are in lockstep with them.
I've lost track of how many times I've threatened giving up commenting here, but that's what I'm doing right now. |
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I have been curious about that, so I appreciate your point of view. It could be that Shuler is indeed grandstanding and that this bill has no chance of passing, but isn't that exactly what's wrong with our political system today....?
The thing we actually need is dangled like bait, but always just out of the water.
This bill is like light shone on the Congressional kitchen, and the cockroaches are scattering. |
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MCLIJazz wrote;
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"I've lost track of how many times I've threatened giving up commenting here, but that's what I'm doing right now."
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Bro, don't let other commenters get under your skin. Stick around.
We dig your regular O'Reilly analysis.
MCLIJazz, if it's any consolation to you, Virginia Robot--oops, I mean, Virginia Patriot--has also threatened to leave on a few occasions.
But he can't stay away because he gets too much of an adrenaline kick robotically informing us that he opposes McCain more than he opposes President Barack Obama nominating radical lefties to the Supreme Court and withdrawing from the fight against Islamic Jihad.
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...then I'll stay. And I'll learn to ignore the "Robot." ;) (I also call him the killjoy.)
I had no idea my comments, especially on Bill O'Reilly, were so appreciated. He can be a technological dinosaur, though. But that's a story for the next "On like Donkey Kong" posting.
My dad contributed to McCain's campaign. So, he gets mail from the campaign every now and then. Yesterday, he got a thank you photo with John and Cindy in it, signed (on a template, assume) by both of them. |
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...and I go to McCainBlogette.com from time to time. |
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just keep on braying about his virtues, and ignore his liberal faults.
He's a RINO, plain and simple,....who's he going to get for VP?....John Heinz Kerry?
The republican party is DOA and run by RINOs for RINOs, thanks to the likes of BOOSH and Seno'r Juan MCScamnesty. |
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My e-mail to McCainBlogette.com was part of "Viewer Mail Volume 5" on that blog. The McCain haters should go there. Mitt Romney is campaigning with him and they look pretty chummy (friendly, on good terms) in the pictures shown. |
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