Pat Dollard | Young Americans

It seems both political parties in our country are a bit ‘fractured’.

You have the republicans who use a Ronald Reagan template by which to measure their presidential candidates … and it is a very hard standard to live up to. And in Sen. John McCain we all have our reservations to his positions on domestic issues. However, we feel confident he fully understands not only the importance in finishing the mission in Iraq to our nation, but to our tireless military who have given so much so selflessly these past few years. Mac also understands the threat presented in Iran, and has strongly stated his willingness to meet that threat with the strength and intestinal fortitude our great country is known for … but is dangerously absent from Sen. McCain’s democrat competition for the job of POTUS.

Which brings me to the democrat party. They are like a family that claims each other as family … but when they get together for that big family reunion or Christmas bash … have one too many drinks … begin to pick each other completely apart and shit all over each other … and then spend the rest of the new year either carrying a grudge or scabbing over just in time for the next B-B-Q or egg nog slog.

It is where they are at right now. There is an understandable extreme bitterness in the Hillary Clinton universe. Shit … They’re pissed! (LMFAO!) Her presumed ‘entitlement’ aside, you must admit (in spite of her Red Square ways) the woman IS leaps and bounds above Hussein in being the better (lesser ‘evil’ of the two unqualifieds) to sit behind the desk her husband had … well, you know. And as Hillary lingers, much like an annoying post bronchitis cough, will she or won’t she be Hussein’s running mate? To do so, while stinging to her and her supporters’ egos, would bring the democrat party back together a bit.

However, we have seen since Her Royal Comrade’s decline over the months her supporters saying they would not vote for Obama, and would even vote McCain. And NOW we are starting to see some of these supporters contacting the McCain campaign camp … and offering to help him get elected:

Clinton Supporters Offer To Help McCain - (The Atlantic)

Matt Burns, the spokesman for the GOP convention in St. Paul e-mails to say that the RNC’s convention office in St. Paul has received numerous telephone calls in the last few hours from people who identify themselves as Clinton supporters asking how they can help Sen. McCain.

So … Sen. Clinton may [appear] to be out of the race … seems she still has hold of the reins of both remaining horses. Thing is, which of the two horses has NOT burned the Clinton bridge during the last several months, and can comfortably hold out a friendly and welcoming hand to her supporters/voters? I’ll give you a hint … He probably has a bottle of Centrum Silver right next to his bottle of Viagra in his medicine cabinet.

Hillary Clinton, at this point in time, still holds quite a bit of power over this election … and don’t think for a second she doesn’t know just that. (Did you see the look on her face last night during her speech?)

Quite a messy little chess board being set up, my friends … And then there’s that nasty little fly-in-the-GOP-ointment … HEH! … Hell, I need a beer.

McCain Going After ‘Hillary Supporters,’ Democrats, Independents

By Susan Jones - (CNSNews)

“I hope I can attract Democratic voters, including Sen. Clinton’s supporters,” Sen. John McCain told Fox News on Tuesday.

The presumed Republican presidential nominee wasted no time making a pitch to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s supporters: “As the father of three daughters, I owe her a debt for inspiring millions of women to believe there is no opportunity in this great country beyond their reach,” McCain (R-Ariz.) said in a speech Tuesday night in New Orleans. “I am proud to call her my friend.”

To win the election, McCain told Fox News he must also attract independents and Reagan Democrats.

“When it comes to many of the challenges facing the nation, “I think I can offer a plan of action that will attract Democrats and Independents.” He said he wants to “represent all Americans,” and he emphasized his “record or reaching across the aisle and working in a bipartisan fashion.”

In his Fox News interview, McCain admitted that his reaching across the aisle has produced some “dismay” among Republicans. Many conservatives, in fact, don’t trust McCain to represent their interests.

In his Tuesday night speech, McCain cast the upcoming general election as a choice between “right change” and “wrong change” and between “going forward and going backward.”

According to McCain, the right kind of change will produce “widespread and innovative reforms in almost every area of government policy — health care, energy, the environment, the tax code, our public schools, our transportation system, disaster relief, government spending and regulation, diplomacy, the military and intelligence services.”

The wrong change, he said, looks to the past for solutions that have failed the nation before.

“I have a few years on my opponent, so I am surprised that a young man has bought in to so many failed ideas,” McCain said Tuesday night. “Like others before him, he seems to think government is the answer to every problem; that government should take our resources and make our decisions for us.”

McCain also attacked Obama’s repeated contention that electing McCain would be the equivalent of a third term for President Bush: “Why does Senator Obama believe it’s so important to repeat that idea over and over again?” McCain asked. “Because he knows it’s very difficult to get Americans to believe something they know is false. So he tries to drum it into your minds by constantly repeating it rather than debate honestly the very different directions he and I would take the country.”

McCain said the American people know him — and they also know his “long record of bipartisan problem solving.”

McCain noted that he and Bush “have not seen eye to eye on many issues…We’ve disagreed over the conduct of the war in Iraq and the treatment of detainees; over our of control government spending and budget gimmicks; over energy policy and climate change; over defense spending that favored defense contractors over the public good.”

McCain criticized Obama for his call to immediately withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq and for his stated willingness to meet with anti-American leaders. “Americans ought to be concerned about the judgment of a presidential candidate who says he’s ready to talk, in person and without conditions, with tyrants from Havana to Pyongyang, but hasn’t traveled to Iraq to meet with General Petraeus, and see for himself the progress he threatens to reverse.”

McCain repeated his opposition to wasteful spending, saying that Obama supports it — and has “proposed more of his own.”

On America’s oil dependence, McCain said the next president must be willing to break completely with the energy policies of the Bush administration and “lead a great national campaign to put us on a course to energy independence. We must unleash the creativity and genius of Americans, and encourage industries to pursue alternative, non-polluting and renewable energy sources, where demand will never exceed supply.”

But McCain said nothing about drilling for oil in the United States.

He did, however, tout his climate change policy — saying it would “greatly reduce our dependence on oil.” But conservative critics of McCain’s recommended “cap and trade system” say it is a de facto tax that would drive up gasoline prices. See related story

McCain also criticized Obama for planning to spend more money on “big-government programs,” with the money coming from higher taxes on “seniors, parents, small business owners and every American with even a modest investment in the market.”

He criticized Obama for steering Americans toward government-controlled health care.

Mr. Bipartisanship

McCain reserved the final part of his speech to attack the “hyper-partisanship” of Washington.

“Both Senator Obama and I promise we will end Washington’s stagnant, unproductive partisanship. But one of us has a record of working to do that and one of us doesn’t. Americans have seen me put aside partisan and personal interests to move this country forward. They haven’t seen Senator Obama do the same.”

McCain said Obama “makes a great first impression, but he hasn’t been willing to make the tough calls; to challenge his party; to risk criticism from his supporters to bring real change to Washington. I have.

“When members of my party refused to compromise not on principle but for partisanship, I have sought to do so. When I fought corruption it didn’t matter to me if the culprits were Democrats or Republicans. I exposed it and let the chips fall where they may. When I worked on campaign finance and ethics reform, I did so with Democrats and Republicans, even though we were criticized by other members of our parties, who preferred to keep things as they were. I have never refused to work with Democrats simply for the sake of partisanship. I’ve always known we belong to different parties, not different countries. We are Americans before we are anything else.

“I’ll reach out my hand to anyone, Republican or Democrat, who will help me change what needs to be changed; fix what needs to be fixed; and give this country a government as capable and good as the people it is supposed to serve,” McCain said.

“I have seen Republicans and Democrats achieve great things together,” he concluded. “When the stakes were high and it mattered most, I’ve seen them work together in common purpose, as we did in the weeks after September 11th. This kind of cooperation has made all the difference at crucial turns in our history. It has given us hope in difficult times. It has moved America forward. And that, my friends, is the kind of change we need right now.”