I was surprised that John McCain did as well as he did in South Carolina. I was specifically interested in where he performed well and where he performed poorly. John McCain's participation in the Amnesty for illegal aliens, McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform fiasco and the Gang of 14 prove that he is not a conservative at heart. McCain "became" a conservative especially in regards to the above issues as he entered South Carolina. He debated that the Amnesty bill was not Amnesty and when he was cornered on the issue time and again, he would divert to "I think we should lower the rhetoric and move on." Which in other words means I don't want to be held accountable so please change the subject.
My interest in McCain's performance lied in the important issues and my belief that these areas will not be addressed IF he becomes the Republican party nominee. I do not believe the experience of John McCain being a prisoner of war equates to his ability to be a good commander in chief. If he is as strong on National Security and our defense as he professes, why was he willing to leave our border open until the voice of the people spoke loud enough that in his words "we have heard from the American people and they no longer trust their government, they want the border secured first." Well John McCain is a part of the government and he is part of the reason that the American people do not trust the government to keep its word. Leaders who run as conservatives who embrace liberal democratic views are not to be trusted. How competent is a commander in chief if he has to reach the point of hearing the voice of the American people before calling for the border to be secured.
I am sorry John McCain was a prisoner of war but I do not believe he is the best potential commander in chief because of it. How about spending, Congress has allowed rampant spending for the past 8 years and while I am glad John McCain stopped the funding of an overly expensive airplane contract, where has he contributed with any degree of energy an effort to stop pork earmarks. He hasn't because he has been party to the spending spree. He dodges the issue of voting against the tax cuts because he is attempting to play a great national shell game where the politician hides his record and dodges the evidence of who he is and what kind of leader he will be if elected as the President.
I can go on at length about the issues where John McCain has proven his true "stripes"; and those stripes are liberal; but I want to divert my attention for a moment to his buddy Lindsey Graham. Lindsey has worked diligently to become just like John McCain and he has mirrored McCain's sad positions more oft than not. I know Lindsey is hoping that since John McCain squeaked by with the SC primary victory that he can hope to enjoy the same level of 'forgetfulness' on the part of the voters of SC.
Lindsey needs to understand that McCain won SC because of the split vote among so many candidates. Let's look at the numbers for a moment. McCain came out with 33% of the vote.
That means that 67% of the SC Republican voters reject John McCain and his positions.
67% of SC Republicans did NOT want John McCain as their representative or the party nominee. Lindsey can expect to share the same level at best when we run in the spring.
I am running for the United States Senate to replace Lindsey Graham and I am speaking to the 67% or more of SC Republicans who feel as I do about these important issues. Join me in this campaign and let's prove to the pundits that SC still holds a majority of conservative republicans who will prove their discontent when they cast their vote for their next Senator.
The numbers and the odds worked against us in the Presidential race but we can loudly express our views in the race for Senate. If and I repeat IF John McCain goes on to become the Republican nominee how much more important will be the need to unseat Lindsey Graham so we can be a counter balance to the liberal policies that McCain is sure to try. I will as Senator stand firm on the policies and positions that I hold, it is because we have been betrayed in our conservative values from Lindsey and others like McCain that I have entered into this race. There is no acceptable reason for elected leaders to abandon their principles. When they run as strong conservatives, like Lindsey did, and then they promote these liberal positions, again like Lindsey has done, the evidence that their principles were ones of convenience rather than principles of conviction is hard to ignore.
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Showing posts with label Lindsey is Liberal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lindsey is Liberal. Show all posts
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Monday, September 10, 2007
How Liberal is too Liberal
If you are conservative exactly how many bills and/or amendments do you expect your Senator to argue in support of from a liberal viewpoint ? My answer is none. Now I know there are those who will claim that there are 3 lanes in every road, Conservative, Liberal and Middle of the Road. What Middle of the Road means is that a liberal has moved toward the conservative viewpoint and a conservative has moved to the liberal viewpoint.
When we negotiate for what portion of our conservative views are included in a bill, we work to get all of the conservative positions fully represented and fully enacted. It will be true that sometimes, we will not always get everything we want and because of that we can say a bill is middle of the road or a compromise between our conservative values and the values of our liberal counterparts.
The dramatic difference is when we totally abandon the conservative viewpoint and if we begin to debate for the liberal position. We argue against the conservative values. We work against the Senators making a conservative stand. In taking the position of advocate for the liberal position we are now not conservative nor are we meeting in the middle of the road with a compromise of positions to be included but we are working to the cause and advancement of the liberal policy.
Here in lies the problem with Lindsey Graham's representation of South Carolina.
He is a conservative part time. He argues from a conservative viewpoint and he attempts to accomplish conservative policy.... sometimes. But he is also a liberal.. part time. He argues from the viewpoint of a liberal and applies as much energy in accomplishing the liberal positions and policies as he ever does for the conservative. He works against our values. This is why he moves to name calling and making petty threats about the state not receiving the next Post Office they desire etc..
In this duplicity of personality, this dual representation he causes the conservative values to suffer more than he causes our values to prosper.
Lindsey plays the political game; he professes one position and argues against it in Congress. It is like the argument for Amnesty of 30 million illegal aliens where he came out to a news conference and adamantly declared "This is Not Amnesty !" only to have to recant those shallow and false words later when he himself admitted the policies he proposed were in fact Amnesty.
Lindsey knows that most South Carolinians are busy with their lives and do not take the time to watch or guard the policies of our Senators. We shouldn't have to. We should be able to depend on their political integrity and trust them to represent us as they promised and with the values they professed to hold.
Lindsey prides himself on being rated a 90% conservative and when we examine his record we find that he voted with the liberal party and argued from a liberal perspective 13% of the time during the last 2 Congressional sessions. He is as liberal in those times as is the well known liberal Senator from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy. Lindsey votes in agreement with Ted Kennedy when he is voting from his liberal personality. In fact as you review his record, you will find times where even Ted Kennedy voted for conservative values when it came to security and citizen protections. Kennedy voted with the Republican party in some critical areas where you would expect a Conservative Senator to be champion of the cause but Lindsey was found voting against the Republican party, against conservative values and more liberal in his stand than Kennedy.
One prime example of this was when the bill came before Congress which would have increased cargo container inspections at the point of origin and would have required 100% inspection for nuclear materials to prevent a terrorist group from using our shipping cargo containers for the purpose of shipping in a dirty bomb or the radioactive material to be used in a dirty bomb. We all know this is an area of risk and the 9/11 commission even called on us to tighten this area of vulnerability. The republicans in majority voted for this protection, the democrats in majority voted for this protection but Lindsey voted against it.
Similarly when the opportunity to protect American citizens from being sued when they in good faith reported suspicious activities. Ted Kennedy voted with the majority of Republicans and Democrats to offer this protection to the American citizen but Lindsey voted against.
Hypocrisy ? Liberal ? You Decide... When Congress voted to express the concern and the resolution that the new Iraq government Not grant Amnesty to any terrorist who had fought against, wounded or killed an American soldier and that the President issue this concern to the President of Iraq, the majority of Republicans voted Yes, the majority of Democrats voted Yes. And even our liberal Senator from Massachusetts voted Yes but Lindsey Graham representing South Carolina, the Senator who wants you to believe he fully supports our troops, he voted NO !
We can go on with further examples but if you visit the campaign website http://www.carnesforsenate.com/ and select the link to view Lindsey's Liberal positions, you will be taken to a page dedicated to catalog many of Lindsey's liberal positions.
How liberal is too liberal ? Now that we know Lindsey will tell us one thing and do another. Now that we have seen him push for the amnesty of 30 million illegal aliens, not once but three times. Now that he has said he will introduce and get the bill passed in piece meal fashion. How liberal is too liberal ?
Lindsey is too liberal. He has served one term and now it is time for him to go home.
We want, we expect and we demand consistent conservative representation from our Senator.
We are not bigots and we will not shut-up so Lindsey can pass his liberal agenda despite our objections. We will not give Lindsey another term to betray us further.
When we negotiate for what portion of our conservative views are included in a bill, we work to get all of the conservative positions fully represented and fully enacted. It will be true that sometimes, we will not always get everything we want and because of that we can say a bill is middle of the road or a compromise between our conservative values and the values of our liberal counterparts.
The dramatic difference is when we totally abandon the conservative viewpoint and if we begin to debate for the liberal position. We argue against the conservative values. We work against the Senators making a conservative stand. In taking the position of advocate for the liberal position we are now not conservative nor are we meeting in the middle of the road with a compromise of positions to be included but we are working to the cause and advancement of the liberal policy.
Here in lies the problem with Lindsey Graham's representation of South Carolina.
He is a conservative part time. He argues from a conservative viewpoint and he attempts to accomplish conservative policy.... sometimes. But he is also a liberal.. part time. He argues from the viewpoint of a liberal and applies as much energy in accomplishing the liberal positions and policies as he ever does for the conservative. He works against our values. This is why he moves to name calling and making petty threats about the state not receiving the next Post Office they desire etc..
In this duplicity of personality, this dual representation he causes the conservative values to suffer more than he causes our values to prosper.
Lindsey plays the political game; he professes one position and argues against it in Congress. It is like the argument for Amnesty of 30 million illegal aliens where he came out to a news conference and adamantly declared "This is Not Amnesty !" only to have to recant those shallow and false words later when he himself admitted the policies he proposed were in fact Amnesty.
Lindsey knows that most South Carolinians are busy with their lives and do not take the time to watch or guard the policies of our Senators. We shouldn't have to. We should be able to depend on their political integrity and trust them to represent us as they promised and with the values they professed to hold.
Lindsey prides himself on being rated a 90% conservative and when we examine his record we find that he voted with the liberal party and argued from a liberal perspective 13% of the time during the last 2 Congressional sessions. He is as liberal in those times as is the well known liberal Senator from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy. Lindsey votes in agreement with Ted Kennedy when he is voting from his liberal personality. In fact as you review his record, you will find times where even Ted Kennedy voted for conservative values when it came to security and citizen protections. Kennedy voted with the Republican party in some critical areas where you would expect a Conservative Senator to be champion of the cause but Lindsey was found voting against the Republican party, against conservative values and more liberal in his stand than Kennedy.
One prime example of this was when the bill came before Congress which would have increased cargo container inspections at the point of origin and would have required 100% inspection for nuclear materials to prevent a terrorist group from using our shipping cargo containers for the purpose of shipping in a dirty bomb or the radioactive material to be used in a dirty bomb. We all know this is an area of risk and the 9/11 commission even called on us to tighten this area of vulnerability. The republicans in majority voted for this protection, the democrats in majority voted for this protection but Lindsey voted against it.
Similarly when the opportunity to protect American citizens from being sued when they in good faith reported suspicious activities. Ted Kennedy voted with the majority of Republicans and Democrats to offer this protection to the American citizen but Lindsey voted against.
Hypocrisy ? Liberal ? You Decide... When Congress voted to express the concern and the resolution that the new Iraq government Not grant Amnesty to any terrorist who had fought against, wounded or killed an American soldier and that the President issue this concern to the President of Iraq, the majority of Republicans voted Yes, the majority of Democrats voted Yes. And even our liberal Senator from Massachusetts voted Yes but Lindsey Graham representing South Carolina, the Senator who wants you to believe he fully supports our troops, he voted NO !
We can go on with further examples but if you visit the campaign website http://www.carnesforsenate.com/ and select the link to view Lindsey's Liberal positions, you will be taken to a page dedicated to catalog many of Lindsey's liberal positions.
How liberal is too liberal ? Now that we know Lindsey will tell us one thing and do another. Now that we have seen him push for the amnesty of 30 million illegal aliens, not once but three times. Now that he has said he will introduce and get the bill passed in piece meal fashion. How liberal is too liberal ?
Lindsey is too liberal. He has served one term and now it is time for him to go home.
We want, we expect and we demand consistent conservative representation from our Senator.
We are not bigots and we will not shut-up so Lindsey can pass his liberal agenda despite our objections. We will not give Lindsey another term to betray us further.
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