Opinion Talk

By Truth Hurts

January 30, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this

Cynthia, as always you seem to get it wrong. McCain is not a conservative and Rush points that out. We still have super tuesday where anything can and will happen. I guarantee you that if McCain does get the nomination then you will have a lot of GOP faithful not voting in the election. I’d rather an idiot socialist lib like Hillary or Osama Obama screw up the country than the GOP. People like you were so giddy when dems took back congress and look what’s happened. Lowest approval in history. You people have no ideas and want the “evil rich” to pay you.

By Capt

January 30, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

Of course they will…..I will vote for anyone except an Obama Hillary dog and pony show.

By derek

January 30, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Not sure; More interested locally on what Neil Boortz has to say! lol Republicans will win Georgia again, probably Romney but Huckabee might sneak in. Seems like most agree on the main issues anyway except for the Fair Tax plan which Democrats will never approve no matter who’s in office. We should probably focus on the failures of Democrats locally such as the Clayton County school board and the HUGE budget shortfall of Atlanta!

By ZDAWG8

January 30, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

I hope Mccain is not the winner. He and Clinton both need to realize that people are tired of politics and running a campaign based on what people want to hear. they are both politicians who lie to reach their ambitions. As for Obama, he needs to quit writing Hallmark cards and get to the issues. Surely America can do better than these three. He’s called Romney.

By Ellen

January 30, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

I don’t know why Republicans insist on voting for Mitt Romney. Repubs say they hate liberals, yet Romney is a liberal masquerading as a conservative. Are you people blind?

By auburn1976

January 30, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

All Republicans do not march in line with Limbaugh, Hannity and Boortz. I think our country in general thinks in the middle, but the far left and far right seem to get all the press. McCain can defeat the devisive Hillary, and bring the contry back together and moving forward again.

By ASA

January 30, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

You know..I have always been amazed at how the Republican Party has treated McCain - and, the fact that McCain has remained a Republican. I remember those awful exchanges between McCain and George W. when W. first ran for president - W.’s campaign against McCain was mind-numbingly offensive (accused McCain - thru some sort of “swift boat type” organization - of cooperating with his North Viet captors). I watched that exchange when McCain confronted W. about that smear campaign - and watched while Bush sneered at McCain - made me want to reach thru the TV and slap that rotten smile of W.’s face. My thought is - why does the Republican party go out of their way to smear this man? I may not vote for him (I live in a dream world where the Democrats finally grow spines) but I would NEVER disrespect Sen. McCain. Somebody out there explain that - why do the Republicans attack this man - one of their own?

By Jennifer

January 30, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

Is Cynthia Tucker really the appropriate person to be commenting on the GOP? Even in these few sentences she can’t hide her disdain. Rush is right, that McCain is not the conservative we need. He has proven weak on immigration and campaign finance. A victory in Florida doesn’t change that.

By fatz

January 30, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

Ellen is 100% right. you can’t be elected governor of the most liberal state in the country and then pretend you are conservative. even if you are republican. it doesn’t bother me that romney may be a moderate, i just don’t appreciate his lack of sincerity about it. mccain- whether you love him or hate him- has pretty much developed his own opinions about things and stuck with them. i hope he doesn’t pander to the far right now for the sake of “unity”. just be himself and let the chips fall- let hillary fumble around with redefining herself realtime.

By lucky

January 30, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

What do the “Black Leaders” have to say? And who are the “White Leaders”?

By Aquagirl

January 30, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

Thanks, Cynthia, for reminding me to hold my nose and tune in to Rush’s show today. It’ll be worth it to hear him barfing in the garbage can as he does his show.

Let’s take a talkshow headcount: Michael Savage: Check. He was ranting about meatballs in an anti-McCain diatribe last night. Neal Boortz: Check. He just finished flaming Florida voters for wanting an old president so they could “all go out together.” As a bonus, he’s back on the kick that women are genetically wired anti-freedom.

I didn’t catch much of Sean Hannity last night, but his listeners seem to be having hissy fits at the idea of McCain. Apparently McCain doesn’t bash illegals with the gusto befitting a True Great American. And he worked with—gasp!—Ted Kennedy!

Maybe all these talk radio hateheads will implode on themselves. We can only hope.

By JR

January 30, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

I don’t listen to Limbaugh or the others and especially not to the local nut Boortz. His so called Fairtax only appeals to mindless zombies that can only repeat what he says! The reason I won’t vote for “Amnesty” McCain is his voting record.

By Brian

January 30, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

Rush is an idiot….smart enough to keep you tools listening day after day after day, I guess. But he’s a big part of what’s wrong with America. I hope McCain’s rise signals to all the utter insignificant role Rush plays any longer.

By Buck From Tucker

January 30, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

Why is the candor of conservatives on blogs so negative?

Sheesh! You guys have it so easy. You do not have to look at the grey area of any issue; you are by proxy always right and reinforced by vitriol-sayers who tell you how to think right; you suffer no pain to overlook the heinous actions of your leaders; and what’s good for just a narrow few, is in your minds, undoubtedly most beneficial for the entire world.

McCain will surely be racked and flogged by the flapping heads on air. It is just not the nature of conservatives to speak well of each other when a leader’s policies do not engage the narrow spectrum of what they believe, respectively, to be right.

By MrLiberty

January 30, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

If the GOP rallies around McCain, they do so at their own peril. McCain cannot beat the democrat, whoever that is. His insane remarks about being in Iraq 100 years if necessary only show how crazy the man is. Our country is past any basic definition of bankrupt and yet he offers no way to even pay for such folly. He sees “radical islamic fundamentalism” as being the greatest threat this country has ever faced. Not only is radical islamic fundamentalism a problem we created and we can easily work to suppress, but these folks have no rockets, no nuclear weapons, no ships, no planes, no real army, and no place to call home. The Soviets had 40,000 nuclear missles pointed at us, and China’s contingent is growing daily. This only further shows how out of touch he is with reality, let alone foreign policy.

He loves big government, he loves restricting freedoms (McCain-Feingold), he loves big taxes (just look at his voting record). In short, he is the crazy liberal uncle the GOP needs to keep locked in the closet.

The GOP needs to embrace a winning platform based on a responsible foreign policy, massive reductions in spending, massive cuts in taxation - or even elimination of the income tax entirely, a restoration of the bill of rights, and an adherence to the Constitution the way it was written and lawfully amended - period. There is absolutely no way a democrate like either Hillary or Obama could stand up to those principles and ideas. America is ready for change, and that is real change - McCain is just more of the same fascism we have been dealing with and fighting for the last 30 years.

But this would require the GOP to embrace Ron Paul, and currently the GOP, the AJC, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, and every news outlet in the nation is conspiring to make sure that he is not even mentioned as a candidate.

By Michael H. Smith

January 30, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

Tip of the old hat Ms. Tucker, you guys are winning for the moment. Your political strategy may actually work.

By Blind Homer

January 30, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this

We are just getting the two most centrist candidates, the more extreme candidates, from Obama to Romney all the way out to Huckabee simply can’t win. Welfare recipients can vote for Clinton and arms manufacturers can vote for McCain and it won’t make that much difference for the rest of us, which is the beauty of the moderates.

By Earl

January 30, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

I will support anyone on the GOP ticket and will wait with baited breath for the GOP candidate to do what NBC, CBS and ABC has not done so far and that’s to delve deep into the past of Obama and expose each sentence the man has uttered, each line the man has written and show Amercia the man behind the Obama mask. It’ll make the swiftboat attack of John Kerry in the Bush-Kerry election look like childs play. We need to know the real man, what Obam really stands for, his true agenda. The gloves will come off and all will be exposed for all to see about Obama. The liberal news is so slanted in favor of this man they refuse to print the stories we know they must know. Leave it to the Republicans to get the truth out. Who cares what Cynthia Tucker thinks, she is so biased it’s almost laughable. To call her a true journalist is like saying Hitler was a solider. VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2008, SAVE AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By crassrealist

January 30, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

The only “change” that Obomba (sic) is for is the change in your pocket. There won’t be any left after he takes it!

I call him “Obomba” because that is what will happen to the U.S. after these weak-kneed booger eaters take control - count on bombs all over the place. His response, “we tried to be nice to them…I don’t know WHY they hate us so much”

Don’t fall for it, LOOZERS

By Blind Homer

January 30, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

The GOP won’t have to beat Obama, Hillary has already done that. Only the talking heads pretend he still has a candidacy, so they will have something to talk about. I heard someone use Obama and ‘gaining momentum’ in the same sentence. Did they see the Florida results, he got massacred as he will in NY and Cal next week ending that dream.

By reebok

January 30, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

Moderates like me will save the GOP from itself, first by pushing McCain to the Republican nomination and then by electing him over Clinto in the presidential election. But his age scares me. We don’t need a replay of Reagan, when the President couldn’t hear or think for the last few years of his term.

By Tuesday's Gone

January 30, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

I found it interesting that 9 of the top 10 states with the highest rate for filing bankruptcy were republican strongholds, especially in the south. (Tenn, Al, GA were the top three in the nation.)

I’ve never seen a populace so twisted by fear and manipulated by language that they constantly vote AGAINST their best interests.

Time and time again, low-wage earners, living in their trailers, with no health insurance, vote for the party that cares only for big business, and these same people fill the coffers of Rush and Sean and Bill, while filing their bankruptcy claims, secure in their belief they are true, patriotic Americans.

They buy into juvenile rhetoric and catch phrases that are simple to understand, “the only change is there wil be none in your pocket,” and offer praise to measly 500 government rebate as if a gift from Jesus’s hands.

They say down with the capital gains tax of which they are exempt through poverty, down with the corporate taxes of which they don’t pay, they say down with the estate tax which they will never have to pay. They say deregulate business, though they don’t own one, no to universal healthcare even though they have no insurance, and so on, ad nauseum.

A phenomenon indeed.

By Conservatives Unite

January 30, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

McCain is decisive and will split the party. Social conservatives need to take a second look at Romney. ROMNEY IS A SOCIAL CONSERVATIVE! His record as Governor proves it! His whole life is an example of it! He testified before the Senate Judiciary committee as well as wrote 100 letters to all US senators urging them to pass a marriage amendment. HE IS PRO-LIFE! There is a huge difference between being a flip-flopper and having a change of heart. McCain who has shown he is willing to lie to get what he wants, will do nothing for social conservatives. It is one thing to talk the talk, and it is another to walk the walk. Mitt Romney has already proven he will fight for social conservative values, and he will do it again as president. Social Conservatives unite for Romney

By Buck From Tucker

January 30, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this

@ Conservatives Unite:

…McCain is decisive and will split the party….

Please forgive my laughter. That is the most humorous thing I have read thus far.

You heard it from Conservatives Unite, Decisiveness will split the party!

By MrLiberty

January 30, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this

How could a strategy of robbing peter to pay paul not work? Especially when there are more pauls and fewer peters?

The democratic party philosophy is based on two key sins - the sins of theft and covetousness. Sloth and laziness can grip anyone of us if we let them. For some it becomes a way of life. They take a job in a system that has no accountability, in an industry that produces no goods, in a marketplace with no competition. In other words, they work for the government. if they can’t even manage this level of activity, they exist on welfare, social security disability, or similar handouts.

It would be illegal for these folks to come directly to your door with a gun and take the money to pay for their paychecks or welfare. Instead they utilize the power of the state and its guns to steal the money from you. These folks sit around and rationalize this theft by extolling how wealthy someone else is, and that the money being stolen for them comes from these folks, not from the group that looks like tthem. The party that supports this behavior the most is the democratic party but republicans are just about as bed. The only real difference is that the republicans prefer to steal on behalf of the warfare state, not the welfare state. The reality that americans are finally waking up to is that both parties allow the excesses of the other so that they can get away with their takings when they get in office.

Obama isn’t promising change. There is only one candidate that is in any way shape or form offering something different - Ron Paul.

He has been warning all americans for the past 10 terms in congress about the excesses of empire, the worthlessness of our money, the destruction caused by taxation and overspending, and the rampant growth of government power. Now it has all come home to roost and he is being tagged as the jester - the funny old man in the corner who keeps babbling something about the TRUTH.

Socialist schemes like those of the democrats and republicans (except Paul) can only go on so long. Even the soviets figured that our as their economy was collapsing around their ears. We ignore his warnings and the great promise of his potential as our president - at our own peril.

By GeezGuys

January 30, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

Yeah, it would be illegal and socialist for someone to come in your doctors office with a gun and interfere with your medical decisions. Yet Ron Paul thinks this is okay? What a pathetic champion of liberty. Freedom from government intervention unless you possess a uterus. That belongs to the State.

By Sarah

January 30, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

if you think Katrina was a scam, and it was, look our if Obama wins the White House. The sound of your hard earned money will be deafening as it’s sucked out of your pockets, wallets, checking accounts and so forth. We’ll be paying taxes that will make the Carter years seem like they were the Reagan days. One more thing, I don’t want to be forced to wear a burka, they make my hips look big; my eyes are not my best feature…my legs are!

By galaxy gosphel

January 30, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

limbaugh and boortz. limbaugh’s exemption to stay out of vietnam was bed wetter and boortz’s was asthma. mccain was trying to get out of the navy when his plane was shot but so was everybody else when the enemy started shooting back. come on down you sinners.