All over America, Conservatives are pondering how to stop the apparent
momentum of Senator John McCain in the Republican Primaries. While we agree
that it is significant that John McCain was in the lowest 1.2% of his
graduation class at the Naval Academy--no "leadership" there;--that it is
significant that he has an explosive and uncontrollable temper, which makes
him totally unsuitable to have his finger on a nuclear trigger, even if he
were not an advocate of virtually endless war; neither of these facts will
be accepted by enough people in time to stop the McCain momentum. And as
for those who, in my opinion unfairly, question the stories of McCain's
bravery and heroism, forty years ago? That will only backfire. The issues,
not anything that sounds like a cheap shot, must be our methodology.

No the way to stop McCain is by forcing other Americans to pay attention to
the failure of McCain on the real issues of the day. And the way to do that
is to ask questions, everywhere that you can; questions, which bring out the
core of his foolish stands, questionable policies and ignorance of political
and economic reality. We need to use whatever access we have to others--the
broadcast & print medias, the internet, our daily conversations--to ask:

1. Does his work with Teddy Kennedy, who has promoted an immigration policy
that favors third world peoples over Europeans for over 40 years, indicate a
bias against ethnic Americans or not? His claim that he has now heard the
message from the American people that they want to secure the border, does
not answer the question, why he was not willing to defend the border
earlier! Does he want to change the ethnic character of America, and if so
why?

All over America, Conservatives are pondering how to stop the apparent
momentum of Senator John McCain in the Republican Primaries. While we
agree
that it is significant that John McCain was in the lowest 1.2% of his
graduation class at the Naval Academy--no "leadership" there;--that it is
significant that he has an explosive and uncontrollable temper, which
makes
him totally unsuitable to have his finger on a nuclear trigger, even if he
were not an advocate of virtually endless war; neither of these facts will
be accepted by enough people in time to stop the McCain momentum. And as
for those who, in my opinion unfairly, question the stories of McCain's
bravery and heroism, forty years ago? That will only backfire. The
issues,
not anything that sounds like a cheap shot, must be our methodology.

No the way to stop McCain is by forcing other Americans to pay attention
to
the failure of McCain on the real issues of the day. And the way to do
that
is to ask questions, everywhere that you can; questions, which bring out
the
core of his foolish stands, questionable policies and ignorance of
political
and economic reality. We need to use whatever access we have to
others--the
broadcast & print medias, the internet, our daily conversations--to ask:

1. Does his work with Teddy Kennedy, who has promoted an immigration
policy
that favors third world peoples over Europeans for over 40 years, indicate
a
bias against ethnic Americans or not? His claim that he has now heard the
message from the American people that they want to secure the border, does
not answer the question, why he was not willing to defend the border
earlier! Does he want to change the ethnic character of America, and if
so
why? Does he even understand the cultural as well as economic effect of
what has been happening over the past 15 years? The ruined schools,
hospitals, neighborhoods? The soaring crime? Does he agree with his
close
supporter Lyndsey Graham, that those of us who want to preserve the
traditional culture of America, in the face of this influx, are "bigots?"

2. How can Americans protect the value of our money, if McCain would
keeps
us in Iraq, protecting & rebuilding that country, for up to 100 years (his
statement)? Why should Americans be taxed for such purpose--either
directly
or via increasing inflation of our money? Would a pacified Iraq prove
more
successful for America than a for a time pacified Ireland proved for
British
interests? How would our continued occupation of 2% of the Islamic world
persuade people in the other 98%, who resent that occupation, that they
should not support our enemies? Can we possibly afford to take on the
other
98% in endless--in mad and insane--preemptive Wars? Does McCain even
think
about these questions, when he struts around, claiming to be motivated by
"American" interests?

Would it have been an effective way to fight crime in New York City, had
McCain supporter Giuliani, placed most of his Police force on Staten
Island,
and claimed that by suppressing crime in the least Crime infested Borough,
he was somehow fighting Crime in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan & Queens?
If the idea would have been laughable there; how is it rational in the 2%
of
the Islamic World that we now occupy?

3. McCain brags about calling for the "surge" in Iraq, early, as though
that proves his insight and "leadership." Has anyone, ever, suggested
that
putting more troops in the field against the same number of enemy
combatants, would not improve the purely military results--that is short
of
putting so many into the fray that they get in each other's way? McCain
boasts about the obvious, when the real issue is why we continue to
provide
security & rebuilding in a land that now has its own Government, five
years
after we conquered it? Why do we risk American lives to rebuild the
infra-structure in Iraq, which sits on a sea of salable oil, while
hundreds
of American bridges--as the one that collapsed recently in Minnesota--are
reported to be in danger of collapse? Why do we provide security in Iraq,
when our own borders go largely unprotected? While McCain does not talk
about the economics of stepping up the efforts in Iraq; nor what would
actually follow a pacified Iraq; his policy is manifestly not the sort of
mission the Constitution envisioned.

To make the point, ask where in the Constitution there is one word that
suggests social engineering in other lands? Subsidization of foreign
lands?
Sacrificing American lives for foreign lands? Ask what McCain thinks
would
have been the result had the French fleet, which showed up at Yorktown at
the right moment in 1781, remained in the newly independent America, to
restore stability in communities where up to a third of the population had
openly opposed the Revolution? Would Americans have been freer as a
result
of such foreign involvement in our affairs? Would we have been more
responsible in our actions and attitudes? Is not the very essence of
freedom, in any land, that people chart their own course, in their own
way;
protect their own communities from their own dissidents, without foreign
meddling? (And build their own bridges, with their own resources?)

Looking at the same thing from a slightly different perspective. McCain
squabbles like an eight year old on the playground, over whether one of
his
rivals wanted a time table for withdrawal from Iraq, while avoiding the
real
issues, which all go to the question of what exactly we accomplish if we
continue to stay there?

4. McCain seeks to define the fight against the terrorists as the epic
struggle of the Twenty-first Century. Does not this "drama queen"
foolishness glorify the terrorists among all who do not like us, and
significantly aids in their recruiting efforts? Is not being a
participant
in the defining struggle of the century, something that those who do not
like us, would consider more worth dying for, than simply being an
international thug, anarchist, or something equally reprehensible? To
emphasize how silly this is, ask McCain--or his supporters--how a band of
fanatics, who have no army, navy or airforce; who have sovereign authority
over no land; who have only the ability to recruit criminals and outlaws;
are capable of waging the epic battle he apparently foresees, if we stop
glamorizing them, and simply concentrate on isolating them; and then
mopping
up and destroying them?

5. If McCain is hysterical on his signature issue, how can we trust his
judgment on any major issue? Has he shown any knowledge of economics?
Any
understanding of the relationship between policies that he advocates and
the
decline in the dollar? He talks about reducing spending, but does not
tell
us where we can make a significant difference. Yes, he attacks "pork
barrel" expenditures in America, though not what is nearly a trillion
dollars in Iraq; not foreign aid, in general. But it is not in the "pork"
that the greatest waste takes place. Has he proposed getting the Federal
Government out of education? He claims to have been a Reagan
"foot-soldier"; has he proposed continuing with those parts of the Reagan
agenda that got side-tracked in Congress, which would have reduced such
Federal domestic roles, those never authorized in the Constitution, such
as
the idiotic "no child left behind" policy; or the extraordinarily wasteful
Federal Medicare & Medicaid subsidies, including those going to illegal
aliens, whom he does not want to deport?

Ask questions that bring the real issues into play. Questions that reveal
the intellectual nakedness of the McCain campaign. Ask questions in the
words that you are most comfortable with. And keep asking them, every
chance you get, between now and the coming primaries.

The above suggestions, but scratch the surface!

William Flax
Attorney At Law
Cincinnati, Ohio

P.S. For a real contrast to McCain, take a closer look at Ron Paul:
http://pages.prodigy.net/krtq73aa/decision.htm

All over America, Conservatives are pondering how to stop the apparent
momentum of Senator John McCain in the Republican Primaries.

1. Does his work with Teddy Kennedy, who has promoted an immigration policy
that favors third world peoples over Europeans for over 40 years, indicate a
bias against ethnic Americans or not?

His claim that he has now heard the
message from the American people that they want to secure the border, does
not answer the question, why he was not willing to defend the border
earlier!

Does he want to change the ethnic character of America, and if so why?

Does he even understand the cultural as well as economic effect of
what has been happening over the past 15 years? The ruined schools,
hospitals, neighborhoods? The soaring crime? Does he agree with his close
supporter Lyndsey Graham, that those of us who want to preserve the
traditional culture of America, in the face of this influx, are "bigots?"

2. How can Americans protect the value of our money,

Why should Americans be taxed for such purpose--either directly
or via increasing inflation of our money?

Why do we risk American lives to rebuild the
infra-structure in Iraq, which sits on a sea of salable oil,

(And build their own bridges, with their own resources?)

4. McCain seeks to define the fight against the terrorists as the epic
struggle of the Twenty-first Century. Does not this "drama queen"
foolishness glorify the terrorists among all who do not like us, and
significantly aids in their recruiting efforts?

To
emphasize how silly this is, ask McCain--or his supporters--how a band of
fanatics, who have no army, navy or airforce; who have sovereign authority
over no land; who have only the ability to recruit criminals and outlaws;
are capable of waging the epic battle he apparently foresees,

if we stop glamorizing them, and simply concentrate on isolating them;

5. If McCain is hysterical on his signature issue,

how can we trust his judgment on any major issue?

P.S. For a real contrast to McCain, take a closer look at Ron Paul:
http://pages.prodigy.net/krtq73aa/decision.htm