Friday, July 4, 2008   Return to top

Friends: For the record, and Snooper can attest to this, I requested of my blogging partners and contributors that we set aside our 'debate' (more like a food fight, but whatever) for a day and enjoy the country's birthday. The founder of this great blog decided he did not want to do that. So, today I post these quotes which I'd been saving for tomorrow. These, from the man running for President, are the real 'Quotes of the Year'. The man is not perfect, but in light of a truly sinister and menacing candidate like Barack Obama, McCain is the one patriots ought to vote for.

A write in vote is tantamount to throwing your vote away, and worse than that, throwing your vote toward Barack Obama. Incredibly, there are a few who have argued for this very act. I continue to scratch my head at the notion.

Barack Obama believes in none of the things that McCain has said in these quotes.

Here then is John McCain, in his own words. And with these words, John McCain himself nukes those insisting that Obama be allowed the Presidency. God bless America this day, and God bless John McCain. --Jimmy Z

And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat?

But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.

Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will.

Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in rerun.

I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief. I don't need on-the-job training.

I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.

My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.

On the subject of Osama bin Laden: We will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell.

Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.

We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.

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