Oliver North Slams Establishment Conservatives
RealClearPolitics has the scoop on those bashing McCain.
After I won the 1994 Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Virginia, I naively assumed that all in the GOP would pull together behind my conservative candidacy. I clearly don't know much about politics. If I did, I'd be writing this from my U.S. Senate office instead of my home in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. But at the trade school John McCain and I attended in Annapolis, Md., they did teach me how to count. I lost by a narrow margin in a three-way race. Some of those who were with me then are among those who now say they won't support John McCain.
Worse still, since this election cycle began last year, the Democrats have raised more money than the GOP, and in the primary balloting that began last month, Democrats have turned out more voters. These numbers matter because they reflect the energy and commitment of the opposing parties in this year's presidential contest.
Neither John McCain nor anyone in his campaign asked me to write this column. But I cannot sit silently while my fellow conservatives do to John McCain what GOP "moderates" did to me. Today the stakes for our country are far higher, and the implications for the future are far greater than who sits in one of 100 U.S. Senate seats. Now our nation is at war against a vicious foe. We need a president who has proved how to win it.
After volunteering for George Allen's gubernatorial bid in 1993, it was Ollie North's race in 1994 with pulled me into the Republican Party. The energy, the ideas, and the vision were all there.
We built a machine, and Virginia Republicans have been feeding off that carcass for fourteen long years.
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Stephen R. Maloney 
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Michael Barone's The Almanac of American Politics, 2008, p. 539, says the following of Obama as an Illinois State Senator: "He voted against providing medical care for fetuses who survived abortions." So much for his "universal health care."
For my own blogs, I'm doing rsearch on the relationship between George Soros and his political funding of -- and ideological influence on -- Barack Obama. A Hungarian who emigrated to American and made billions of dollars in finance and currency speculation, Soros, his family, and business asocicates have contributed huge sums to Barack Obama in his senatorial and presidential campaigns. (See the "Obama" financial sections on http://opensecrets.org, especially the "top contributors" segment for 2006 and 2008.)
Soros is the financial "godfather" of Moveon.org, the nation's largest political hate group. He's also a fan of Hamas, the Palestine-centered terrorist group. On Feb. 1, 2008, Moveon.org, an organization that claims 3 million-plus left-leaning members, gave its first endorsement to a presidential candidate: Barack Obama. The vast amount of money that's recently poured into Obama's coffers apparently has come from Moveon-types. Moveon.org members and Soros have been pressuring Obama to take more extreme positions on the economy and the war on terrorism.
My columns on Soros, Moveon, and Obama will begin appearing on Sunday, February 17 at: http://camp2008victorya.blogspot.com.
steve maloney
ambridge, pa
Bush probably wouldn't have won reelection if it wasn't for the War on Terror. Don't get me wrong, we did need at him that time, and we still need someone strong on the war on terror.
We also need someone who will stand up of the conservative principles that founded this country.
We need to have strong borders.
We need to have lower taxes and less government. We need judges to interpret the law, not make the law.
The problem is that the two nominees of both parts are not stalwarts of these causes.
McCain now wants to secure the border first, but he led the fight for 'path to citizenship'. What happens when he secures the border? Is the 'path' back? Or will the rule of law mean something.
He voted against the tax cuts because of helping the 'rich', but now wants to extend them.
He now wants strict judges that won't make the law, but he lead the gang of 14 which blocked many a good judges from getting on the bench.
Of course Obama is openly on the wrong side of all this issues and soooooo many more, and would be a Carter v 2.0 - or worse.
McCain is the clear choice on the War on Terror. Sadly there is little else that he instills confidence in me.
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