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John McCain on his 2000 campaign

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I didn't decide to run for President to start a national crusade for political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth I wanted to be President because it had become my ambition to be … [Read more...]

Award for Best Conservative Commentary

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Nominations are only officially accepted from liberals (though others are welcome).Nominations can consist of either a comment or a whole thread contributed by a conservative here.You must disagree with the comment! Too easy and no fair … [Read more...]

Thanks but no thanks

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PolitiFactBy the time Palin pulled the plug on the Gravina bridge project in September 2007, much of the federal funding for the bridge had already been diverted to other transportation projects. The bridge would cost $398-million, Palin … [Read more...]

Executive Experience

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The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman wondered how difficult it would be to run Wasilla after Palin replaced so many employees: A reporter named Laura Mitchell Harris asks Palin about her intentions for a shake up. How would she effectively run a … [Read more...]

A Small Anti-McCain Video Gallery

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Next we have a video that emphasizes McCain's remarkable fondness for military force. McCain is one of those Dolchstoss nuts from the Vietnam War era who still believes that killing yet another million Vietnamese would have successfully … [Read more...]

McCain’s Dumb Plan for Russia

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Zakaria notes "with sadness because I greatly admire John McCain" that this is a stupid neoconservative idea. It's all posturing and very little common sense. (Russia's president concurs.) In a Los Angeles Times opinion  titled … [Read more...]

McCain and the Iraq-Pakistan border

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Foreign affairs "expert" McCain, who continues by the way to refer to Czechoslovakia, has now complained about problems on the Iraq-Pakistan border:The trouble is there's this thing called "Iran" that lies between Iraq and Pakistan. Note … [Read more...]

McCain and Czechoslovakia [sic]

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Two other observations on foreign affairs expert McCain's ideas about Eastern Europe:He wants to kick Russia out of the G8.He wants to rearm Europe with missilesBoy, is foreign affairs expert McCain ever qualified to be President! Coming … [Read more...]

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