Pat Buchanan has ripped John McCain to shreds in his latest piece, The Great Betrayal. The article is nothing but a relentless attack on John McCain for colluding with Democrats every step of the way in recent years, from McCain-Feingold to the fight for amnesty in 2007.
On controlling America’s borders and halting the invasion through Mexico, McCain collaborated with Senate liberals in the McCain-Kennedy amnesty, which was rejected only after a national uprising.
When 190,000 Arizonans petitioned in 2004 to put Prop 200 on the ballot, requiring proof of citizenship before an individual could vote or receive welfare benefits, John McCain led the GOP congressional delegation in opposing it unanimously. Prop 200 passed with the support of 56 percent of all Arizona voters and 46 percent of Hispanics.
Unsurprisingly, Juan Hernandez, the open-borders chatterbox and former adviser to Vicente Fox, has turned up in McCain’s campaign.
On the two issues where Bush has been at his best, taxes and judges, McCain has sided against him. On the three issues that have ravaged the Bush presidency—the misbegotten war in Iraq, the failure to secure America’s borders, and the trade policy that has destroyed the dollar, de-industrialized the country, and left foreigners with $5 trillion to buy up America—McCain has sided with Bush.
Pat Buchanan is not right on every issue, particularly on free trade (he seems unable to distinguish between true free trade and government-sponsored cartels formed in NAFTA, etc.), but the attack on McCain is well worth reading in its entirety.
Filed under: Election 2008, John McCain, Politics, Republicans
You know, you can say what you want about Pat Buchanan (although almost no one does), but the man ‘calls em, like he sees em’. In times such as ours, his voice reflects an uniquely qualified perspective rising pristinely above the maddening crowd’s deafening humdrum.
Pat is an interesting dichotomy these days. Some times he is as fact-based and rational as a person can be. Other times he slips into the role of Republican Apologist. It must be the chip they implanted when he was a Nixon speechwriter reactivating every now and then. (The same thing used to happen to Buckley until he took a couple more sips of that refreshing Kool-Aid and stopped making sense except by rare accident.)
We need a coherent policy on immigration that is enforced. Of course, that works against the Republican coalition. Right now they are loudly espousing the “Send them all the Hell back where they came from” position to pander to the Marching Moron vote while they underfund the programs to enact the draconian enforcement policy so that businesses get the cheap labor they desire.
It would help if could get past some of the false “truisms” of the immigration “debate”.
1 – “They are doing jobs Americans won’t do.” Have you ever watched the show “Dirty Jobs” with Mike Rowe? Watch a few episodes of that and you will quickly realize there is no such thing as a job an American won’t do. There are jobs Americans won’t do for what is being offered.
2 – “We need a guest worker program.” WRONG – this is the worst idea anyone has ever had. Look at how these programs have worked in Europe. It creates an underclass (aren’t we dealing with enough of this already?) that will never intergrate/assimilate. This will lead to unrest like the riots in Paris in 2006.
Can we stop tacking between the Republican “give business whatever they ask for even if it may ultimately deprive them of either a competent workforce, a market for their products or both” and the Democratic “give labor whatever they want even if it induces the collapse of the businesses that employ them.”
As for McCain, in 2000 I think he wanted to be President because he thought he could benefit the Nation. After Karl Rove’s hit job in SC in 2000, I think he just wants to be President because he wants to be President.
Still, he may be a better bet than Hillary. Both will pursue the wrong foreign policy, but McCain is more likely to do the wrong thing the right way. I can see Hillary continuing the current administration’s policies on torture, rendition, etc. (That’s probably why Ann O’Rexic likes her better.)
I don’t know, my own socioeconomic position doesn’t readily afford me either the time or resources to express my views on our nation’s statesmanship. Nonetheless, for someone with my training and background however, the prospect of sitting amongst a group of psychotics and discussing the finer aspects of our mutually shared disorder is, well, irresistible.
Frankly, prospects of a John McCain Presidency are utter insanity. As delusional as the United States’ citizenry already is, they will not put McCain in the Whitehouse. Mainstream thinking inevitably runs along the lines of, ‘if we aren’t going to stem the tide of global expansion, let’s at least get leadership who knows what they’re doing’. In this respect, John McCain is nothing more than the current poster boy for GOP impotence.
As long as members of the middle class are approaching the political process as if it were some kind of noble game, exercise, or process, under the current conditions, our respective communities will continue to become increasingly unstable to the point of being potentially dangerous. Consequently, there’s nothing in John McCain’s background that’s prepared him to deal with that eventuality.
When asked in debate, what he’d do to manage the Executive’s Office relationship with the Fed, he admitted he wasn’t actually smart enough to understand it, and would consequently rely on advisors who were.
As least Bill and Hillary know how to schmooze with the Big Boys . . .
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Truth is we are a Covetous nation. Preprogrammed by mass media. It’s in the core being of us all and we are now reaping the rewards. Some of us, through knowledge and wisdom have come to see through it. most of us… to include immigrants, do not.
The folks who come here to “better their lives” come because they too “Covet”. Our ever expanding younger generation, they have been taught by their dual working parents to go after every material item they want and desire. Forget the love, fill that hole with STUFF. I know, I used to be one of those kids.
Covetousness brings us to our knees. No wonder God made such a big deal out of it in Exodus. “Though shalt not Covet”. He knew this would bring us misery and not joy.
As a nation we are breaking down because of “coveting”. We wanted so much for so little that we shipped our jobs over seas. We feed ourselves on genetically modified plants that produce fruit with only a quater of the nutrition they had just 50 years ago, not to mention the pesticide content to ensure an abundant crop. What happened to back yard gardens and canning in the summer time? Root cellars and fresh eggs from our home grown chickens? Oh, that’s right, we don’t have time for these things we are too busy out coveting. Gotta’ pay the overinflated mortgage and the enormous energy natural resource depleting electric bill for the very large home we spend about 1/3 of our time in and in only 1/3 of it’s space. Gotta’ pay for the luxury ride to and from work, wouldn’t want to go off to covet in discomfort. Don’t have time to really cook in that very big beautiful kitchen, don’t want to mess it up either, Better Homes and Gardens may come to take pictures some day. Guess we have to resort to preprepared GMO Pesticide food prepared in another country sitting on a grocery store shelf just for you, can’t inconvenience a coveter, they don’t have time.
It’s a synical way to look at the true depth of our problem, but it is the truth. If we just all stopped for a moment and looked at the real cause of our demise, we’d soon see clearly that this is not what God intended for us. If we trust in him, which are the words on our now very devaluated currency due to our coveting (that would be the war for the oil that we need to drive our luxury cars to the job we need so that we can covet), why on earth do we do this to ourselves? Do we really trust in Him?
If we did trust in Him, we would all lead lives of simplicity, our jobs would not be shipped overseas, our local farmers would provide us with a plethura of healthy nutritous food (see deuteronomy for farming techniques inspired by the God we trust), and we would have time to do what is most important and that is love one another. isn’t that what we all really want anyway? Joy and Love?
Change your mindset. Quit putting your finger in the hole of a dam that is about to break, be the dam. Stand strong for God, walk in His ways, quit coveting (which, by the way, is as big a sin in his eyes as murder), and get back to simple basics.
Folks like John McCain, Rudolph Guliani, our current President and Vice President, etc…don’t want you to know the information on simplicity. They want to keep things complicated and confusing, the last thing they want is for you to wake up one morning, wipe your eyes and have some sort of epiphany that their own coveting ways will continue to deteriorate our nation. And this may not be much of a surprise, but those democrat folks in the headlines are just as bad if not worse.
Truly, there is only one man who can lead us out of this mess, his name is Congressman Ron Paul.
Thank you Mr. Buchanan though for getting folks to scratch their heads and wonder if something really is wrong, from one Christian to another, “that’s some dandy seed sowing”.
I certainly don’t wish to be argumentative with this topic, but assuming that ‘freedom’ and ‘justice’ can be preserved by observing merely one of the ten commandments is recklessly sophomoric. While you’re on the right track however, Divine (Godly) authority emanates from loving ‘the Lord’ with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and similarly, . . . your ‘neighbor’ as yourself (Mark 12:30 & 31) .
Tragically, America’s great failing to this point has been its unwillingness, and subsequent failure, to do just this. If we recognize however, that because these same values (‘freedom’ and ‘justice’) originate with God; they can only be sustained in relation to God, it puts the focus of the responsibility to do so, back where it’s really always been. In this regard though, I believe the historical record in respect to the consequences for not doing so, is quite clear.
Pre-World War II Europe provides a vivid example. When Mankind, in mass, turns its back on the responsibility to adopt ‘Godly’ ideals, or practically integrate them into daily life, the eventual outcomes must ultimately prove devastating. Nonetheless however, but in such times as these, God’s Word and Will as revealed in Scripture, is more than sufficient for our instruction.
From my own personal perspective, the parallels between the Roman Empire, the first century Church, and ourselves is really, rather astounding. Yet, as Jesus himself instructed the twelve disciples before commissioning them to the world:
“And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against [their] parents, and cause them to be put to death.
And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.” (Matt. 10:21 & 22)
All things considered, my Psych training and background suggests to me that the American people collectively, are at various stages of the ‘grief process’ in respect to the ‘loss’ they’re currently facing. Ironically enough, but in many ways, the ‘political hoopla’ surrounding us is little more than a temporary diversion, a ploy of ‘bread and circuses’ to deflect our disillusionment. Consequently, many of us have already addressed our own ‘denial’ of the present conditions, indignantly expressed our outrage (‘anger’) as to their injustice, attempted to ‘bargain’ or otherwise negotiate their resolution, only to find ourselves in the depths of (a coming?) ‘depression’ . . .
It makes me wonder what ‘acceptance’ will subsequently entail.
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