shadowlion
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Republican Hippocrits (hmmm mispelled it in heading lol)
First off I would like to say that I am neither a Democrat or Republican. I am not voting for Barrack Obama or John McCain. I am a true independent (I agree and disagree with issues on both sides). I enjoy listening to Conservative Talk Shows (Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, more of entertainment than actually agreeing with them). I just find many things about the current status quo well lets say funny and after reading several post on these forums of people arguing bout why they are voting for Obama or McCain would like to point out a few things.
First off I would like to ask you McCain supporters, Which McCain are you getting? The Senator McCain that as his record and history shows has voted more inline with the Democrats and even spearheaded many issues against the Conservative Base Republicans or the Presidential Candidate McCain who is trying to portray himself as the 2nd coming of Bush Jr.
Now as I stated before I listen to Conservative Talk Radio and I find it funny that throughout the years both Rush and Sean have hated on McCain most of his career but now on their shows have swallowed pride and support him and act as if he is the United States Savior. Here are some quotes and articles from earlier this year.
In mid-January, talk show host Rush Limbaugh told his 13 million listeners: "If either of these two guys get the nomination, it's going to destroy the Republican party. It's going to change it forever, be the end of it. A lot of people aren't going to vote. You watch." Those of us who watched last night only saw Republicans favouring the two alleged destroyers over Romney, whom Limbaugh consistently favours.
McCain, as the would-be frontrunner, has incited special wrath from the right-wing talkers. Sean Hannity, who has endorsed Romney, said of the Arizona senator: "I don't trust him. He spends too much time talking with liberals like Ted Kennedy." Laura Ingraham went further, proclaiming: "There is no way in **** I could pull the lever for John McCain."
In January, Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader, told Fox News that McCain "has done more to hurt the Republican party than any elected official I know of". Rick Santorum, the ultra-conservative former senator from Pennsylvania, weighed in with the comment that "almost at every turn on domestic policy, John McCain was not only against us but leading the charge on the other side".
Contrary to rumors spawned by a show-opening satire, Sean Hannity and Newt Gingrich haven’t learned to speak RINO overnight. They didn’t come out for “modernizing” the party or any of that. They also didn’t come out for Mitt Romney, though they both pretty much did come out against John McCain, at length and over more than one issue.
I also believe that McCain would of stood a better chance this election if he would of stuck to the issues and his policies, and letting the people know what his ideas could do to help this country. Instead all we hear is Obama the Socialist, Obama the terrorist, and if he mentions Joe the Plumber one more time (who I feel was planted to begin with).
RONALD REAGAN (all conservatives bow their heads and remember their IDOL) was a SOCIALIST!!!
Hearing all this talk of Obama the socialist did you know Reagan (by that meaning McCain is using) was the biggest Socialist President in history.
So would Russell Long. In 1975, the Democratic senator from Louisiana had passed into law the earned income tax credit (EITC), essentially a wage subsidy for the working poor. Long's measure was tiny to begin with and had dwindled to insignificance by the time Reagan agreed to expand it in 1986 as part of the tax reform act. Despite years of opposing social insurance programs, Reagan's support of the EITC gave rise to what has become one of the most effective antipoverty measures the federal government has ever devised--by the late 1990s, the EITC was lifting 4.3 million people out of poverty every year. Reagan's decision to expand it was "the most important anti-poverty measure enacted over the past decade," wrote The Wall Street Journal's Al Hunt. The exemption of millions of low-wage earners from income taxes through the EITC and other reforms in 1986 added a significant measure of progressivity to the tax code.
Enacted in 1975, the initially modest EIC has been expanded by tax legislation on a number of occasions, including the more widely-publicized Reagan EIC expansion of 1986.
The following year, Reagan made one of the greatest ideological about-faces in the history of the presidency, agreeing to a $165 billion bailout of Social Security. In almost every way, the bailout flew in the face of conservative ideology. It dramatically increased payroll taxes on employees and employers, brought a whole new class of recipients--new federal workers--into the system, and, for the first time, taxed Social Security benefits, and did so in the most liberal way: only those of upper-income recipients.
Despite his promises of less government, less taxes, and no social programs. Reagan not only DID not rid the government of any programs but added some including the Dept. of Veterans Affairs. He also increased taxes to companies to pay for his social programs. Which is Sharing the Wealth IS IT NOT???
Of course Bush Sr. and Clinton also supported and expanded these programs so are they Socialist as well Mr. McCain?
I am not attacking McCain or Supporting Obama but these are facts and things I find somewhat comical if you actually think about it.......Vote for who and what you think is right that is the best policy.
Edit: Fixed title spelling! :thumb:
First off I would like to say that I am neither a Democrat or Republican. I am not voting for Barrack Obama or John McCain. I am a true independent (I agree and disagree with issues on both sides). I enjoy listening to Conservative Talk Shows (Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, more of entertainment than actually agreeing with them). I just find many things about the current status quo well lets say funny and after reading several post on these forums of people arguing bout why they are voting for Obama or McCain would like to point out a few things.
First off I would like to ask you McCain supporters, Which McCain are you getting? The Senator McCain that as his record and history shows has voted more inline with the Democrats and even spearheaded many issues against the Conservative Base Republicans or the Presidential Candidate McCain who is trying to portray himself as the 2nd coming of Bush Jr.
Now as I stated before I listen to Conservative Talk Radio and I find it funny that throughout the years both Rush and Sean have hated on McCain most of his career but now on their shows have swallowed pride and support him and act as if he is the United States Savior. Here are some quotes and articles from earlier this year.
In mid-January, talk show host Rush Limbaugh told his 13 million listeners: "If either of these two guys get the nomination, it's going to destroy the Republican party. It's going to change it forever, be the end of it. A lot of people aren't going to vote. You watch." Those of us who watched last night only saw Republicans favouring the two alleged destroyers over Romney, whom Limbaugh consistently favours.
McCain, as the would-be frontrunner, has incited special wrath from the right-wing talkers. Sean Hannity, who has endorsed Romney, said of the Arizona senator: "I don't trust him. He spends too much time talking with liberals like Ted Kennedy." Laura Ingraham went further, proclaiming: "There is no way in **** I could pull the lever for John McCain."
In January, Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader, told Fox News that McCain "has done more to hurt the Republican party than any elected official I know of". Rick Santorum, the ultra-conservative former senator from Pennsylvania, weighed in with the comment that "almost at every turn on domestic policy, John McCain was not only against us but leading the charge on the other side".
Contrary to rumors spawned by a show-opening satire, Sean Hannity and Newt Gingrich haven’t learned to speak RINO overnight. They didn’t come out for “modernizing” the party or any of that. They also didn’t come out for Mitt Romney, though they both pretty much did come out against John McCain, at length and over more than one issue.
I also believe that McCain would of stood a better chance this election if he would of stuck to the issues and his policies, and letting the people know what his ideas could do to help this country. Instead all we hear is Obama the Socialist, Obama the terrorist, and if he mentions Joe the Plumber one more time (who I feel was planted to begin with).
RONALD REAGAN (all conservatives bow their heads and remember their IDOL) was a SOCIALIST!!!
Hearing all this talk of Obama the socialist did you know Reagan (by that meaning McCain is using) was the biggest Socialist President in history.
So would Russell Long. In 1975, the Democratic senator from Louisiana had passed into law the earned income tax credit (EITC), essentially a wage subsidy for the working poor. Long's measure was tiny to begin with and had dwindled to insignificance by the time Reagan agreed to expand it in 1986 as part of the tax reform act. Despite years of opposing social insurance programs, Reagan's support of the EITC gave rise to what has become one of the most effective antipoverty measures the federal government has ever devised--by the late 1990s, the EITC was lifting 4.3 million people out of poverty every year. Reagan's decision to expand it was "the most important anti-poverty measure enacted over the past decade," wrote The Wall Street Journal's Al Hunt. The exemption of millions of low-wage earners from income taxes through the EITC and other reforms in 1986 added a significant measure of progressivity to the tax code.
Enacted in 1975, the initially modest EIC has been expanded by tax legislation on a number of occasions, including the more widely-publicized Reagan EIC expansion of 1986.
The following year, Reagan made one of the greatest ideological about-faces in the history of the presidency, agreeing to a $165 billion bailout of Social Security. In almost every way, the bailout flew in the face of conservative ideology. It dramatically increased payroll taxes on employees and employers, brought a whole new class of recipients--new federal workers--into the system, and, for the first time, taxed Social Security benefits, and did so in the most liberal way: only those of upper-income recipients.
Despite his promises of less government, less taxes, and no social programs. Reagan not only DID not rid the government of any programs but added some including the Dept. of Veterans Affairs. He also increased taxes to companies to pay for his social programs. Which is Sharing the Wealth IS IT NOT???
Of course Bush Sr. and Clinton also supported and expanded these programs so are they Socialist as well Mr. McCain?
I am not attacking McCain or Supporting Obama but these are facts and things I find somewhat comical if you actually think about it.......Vote for who and what you think is right that is the best policy.
Edit: Fixed title spelling! :thumb:
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