New Stanek poll: “Do you think McCain would be a worse president than Obama?
I have a new poll question up (lower right side of home page):
Do you agree with Glenn Beck that John McCain would be a worse president than Barack Obama?
[HT: Bill O’Reilly]
Here are the results of my previous poll. Almost 2/3 agreed…
Here were your votes. Click to enlarge to find your own brightly colored flag…
As always, make comments to either this or last week’s poll here, not on the Vizu website.
Oct.03, 2009 4:09 pm |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
The answer to the question as stated: no. McCain would do some maddening things, but he would not have gutted conscience protections and the Mexico City policy. Furthermore, his foreign policy would be coherent and protective of America’s interests–both of which we do not see under Obama. And there are scores of other things as well. Glenn Beck is wrong on this one.
I agree with Glenn Beck (world ends).
well, he certainly wouldn’t have wasted tax payers $ going to Copenhagen to try to get Chicago the Olympics.
I don’t necessarily think he would’ve been a whole lot better than Obama, but I don’t think he would’ve been worse. For one thing, he would’ve had Palin advising him instead of Biden.
I’m not saying McCain was my #1, but of the two of them, I feel like he would’ve been a better president than BO.
Considering that our choice was between McCain who voted to uphold the sanctity of life, a true American hero who was tortured for his country and refused to turn his back on his country and his comrades as a POW vs.Obama the proud “rock star” of the “party of death”, who swore alligience to PP, a President and First Lady who sent out fundraising letters for PP calling PBA “a legitimate medical procedure”, a former legislator who NEVER saw an abortion law he did not love and who even voted three times against BAIPA, I don’t believe we PROLIFERS really had a choice but to vote for a man who at least cared about the most important right, the right to life, without which any other right is null and void. Glen Beck is wrong I think, but maybe the only way for us prolifers to get organized and on one accord in this fight for life was for the most pro-death president ever to get into office.
Oh by the way, I forgot to post one of the biggest reasons that McCain would have been a better president that Obama, it is because of his vice-presidental candidate, a woman who lived her pro-life convictions who gave birth to a Down’s Syndrome baby named Trig instead of giving him a death sentence in utero, a woman who is hated by the pro-aborts for walking the walk not just talking the talk, a woman named Sarah Palin.
McCain would not have been a worse president than Obamanator, however he would be worse, long term for the Republican party.
Obama has been good for conservatism, but dangerous as a president.
Prolifer L- Alaska bloggers have posted indisputable photographic evidence that Palin was never pregnant with Trig, including photos 20, 10 and even 5 days before his “birth”. See “Bree Palin” “Immoral Minority” and “Palin Deceptions”
websites for the photos. Trig was apparently adopted. Adopting a DS child is laudable, but why lie about it? Perhaps Sarah’s book will reveal the truth–ha ha.
As others have so well stated, if nothing else McCain was very pro life, and a hero who served his country. Obama did nothing but community organize and vote “present.” So if nothing else, he is head and shoulders above Obama in that regard.
However, I also agree with the poster who said McCain would have done damage to the Republican party long term. Aside from the pro life issue McCain voted with the Democrats a lot, all in the name of being “bipartisan.” Funny but I don’t see the Democrats siding with Republicans. Very seldom anyway. And I think this is exactly why McCain was defeated…. too many conservatives decided not to vote, or perhaps voted Liberatian. That is why McCain lost in my opinion.
Bystander, you are a sick, sick, disgusting person. If someone ever came to me accusing me that I didn’t give birth to either one or both of my children, I would beat them down. Seriously.
X as the parent of two adopted children, if someone “accused” me of not giving birth to them I would say “your’re right, and aren’t we lucky to have them?” I find your apparent abhorrence of adoption curious for a “pro lifer”. The suggestion that you would “beat people down” also casts some question on your parenting skills.
It’s quite different if I KNEW I gave birth to them and it was a matter of public record and then been accused of lying about common-knowledge occurrences in my own life…
Have you given birth to a child? Adoption is quite laudable, wonderful, and a great thing to do, I hope to do it some day myself…but birthing my two children were two of the most extraordinary achievements of my life (especially my son, as we tried for so long to have him and I didn’t actually get pregnant until I had given up hope), and having someone try to take that from me through baseless accusations is disgraceful…just as it is disgraceful for you to make such wild and baseless accusations about Sarah Pailin.
I don’t hate adoption, and attempting to intentionally misconstrue what I said as an attack on adoption is utterly ridiculous. I find it interesting you chose to adopt…Don’t most pro-abortion people advocate children like that being killed and incinerated?
X if Sarah Palin were like you, undoubtedly she would debunk the “baseless allegations” by releasing Trig’s birth certificate, some basic medical records showing that he was born to her and let the doctor that supposedly attended the delivery confirm the delivery.
Instead, she has supressed all of that information. Curiously, she has not threatened suit against any of the bloggers who have published the “baseless allegations” apparently because she would have to produce that evidence in court to prover “falsity” of the statements.
I find her actions with regard to Trig very strange, particularly since adopting a DS child is pretty near sainthood in my book, and that story is a lot more favorable to her than her own story of the “Wild Ride” where she got on two planes and spent ten hours without medical treatment after her amniotic fluid started leaking, and went past noenatal ICU units in Texas, Seattle and Anchorage to “give birth” in a small clinic in Wasilla that had no NICU capability, with her only explanation that she didn’t want her baby born in Texas. Had Trig died as a result of her recklessness, she might have faced charges of homicide or child abuse resulting in death
If she were to eschew public office and go back to shooting wolves from helicopters, I would not care about this bizarre tale. However as long as she is attempting to scuttle health care reform, criticizing the President and the country on communist foreign soil and trying to be elected president, I think we are entitled to an explanation as to her conduct and judgment in this matter.
No, McCain was not my frst choice BUT he would never allow the liberal craziness tht Obama has.
Probably because she knows better than to waste her time chasing around frothing lunatics on the internet and revealing private documents to insane people who have said things along the lines of she should be aborted for not aborting Trig (granted, I’m somewhat paraphrasing, but I’ve seen some of the most venom-filled hate for Sarah Palin the likes of which is unparalleled in politics up to this point). I don’t blame her for not wanting to put others quite possibly in harm’s way due to her prominence and the unjustified rage of the left-wing extremists (like people who would bite off fingers or shoot those who oppose their world view…don’t act as though these things haven’t been happening).
Once again…have you ever given birth? This wasn’t exactly Sarah’s first rodeo, and after the first time, you kind of know what’s going to happen when you feel a certain way, and how long the process will take once various stages are complete. My water didn’t break on its own for either one of my children, but maybe Sarah’s tended to break early on in the labor of all of her children. You’re a presumptuous little pissant grasping at straws trying to skewer Mrs. Palin with whatever you can grab. It’s really quite unbecoming.
“I find her actions with regard to Trig very strange, particularly since adopting a DS child is pretty near sainthood in my book…”
1.) Maybe, oh, I don’t know, HE WASN’T ADOPTED?
2.) Perhaps even if he was, normal, thinking, feeling people do not have the need to wear their children-adopted or not-around like medals or awards, screaming to the world, “LOOK AT WHAT A GREAT PERSON I AM! I ADOPTED THIS POOR LITTE WRETCH! I AM AWESOME!!!”
3.) Do you make your children wear t-shirts that say “Adopted” and await the backpats from strangers at your wonderful deed when you march them to Starbucks? Most people who have kids see them as other people with their own emotions and thoughts, not good deeds to be cared for out of pity or pride.
But I suppose it’s hard for people who think that “Well, we can take them or leave them, really. It’s the woman’s choice whether or not they’re REALLY human beings.” to actually understand that there just happen to be more people in the world than the one they see when they look in the mirror.
I sincerely hope she does seek public office. At this point, I’m certain she will succeed in obtaining it and I will be happy to vote for her.
X like most Palin fans is an extremely angry person, prone to hateful rants and threats against anyone who questions their hero.
If Sarah Palin wants to run for public office, she will have to face a lot of questions including this one, as hiding her from the media for 2 months didn’t work so well last time.
I think Sarah should stick with selling lipstick.
Can I just say Bystander, as someone who wouldn’t personally vote for Sarah Palin for various reasons, you’re an extremely simple person, aren’t you? If someone disagrees with you, you call them hateful. How was her speech hateful? She didn’t say anything hate speech. I’m beginning to comprehend just how little you know about the word “hate.” It clearly doesn’t mean what you think that it means.
And stick to selling lipstick? You ignorant, misogynistic, sorry excuse for a functioning human brain. You’re a very little man with very little evidence to support the argument that you’re even sentient yourself. You’re a bigot, can’t stand anyone who’s different from yourself, and would rather keep repeating rhetoric that you probably have no comprehension of.
Leave X alone. If you don’t support Palin, fine; I don’t agree with enough of her politics, either, but your speech’s are marred with hatred (look up the definition if you’re having a hard time with that): you’re sexist, classist, ignorant, and keep repeating yourself like a broken record.
Get a new argument (hopefully one that you made up yourself as opposed to borrowing from Sanger) or get a new place to kvetch about those damn people who just won’t fit into your narrow-minded view of society.
Or maybe trying to save her family from bankruptcy after paying for all of those baseless ethics investigations which turned up nothing but cost the state (and herself) thousands upon thousands of dollars?
Not that I believe a thing that comes from the other side about this woman. They’ve been lying their butts off since the moment she stepped foot out of Alaska.
I am so sick of bigotry against children’s rights that I could scream. :(
How about you, Xalisae?
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It’s open season on public figures and that’s why they don’t sue for libel. They can’t. However private citizens can launch a successful libel lawsuit.
Now that Sarah Palin is a private citizen, she can use this as an income stream if she so desires. However, lawsuits against the obviously insane are not profitable because those people can be deemed mentally unfit to appear in court, and are otherwise not held responsible for what they say.
;-)
Thank you Vannah for all your kind support. We may not see eye-to-eye on everything, but you’re a genuinely good person, and that counts for so much.
And yes, I’m so very sick of people who would treat others and advocate anyone treating their own children as if they’re disposable commodities who only exist to enrich THEIR lives.
Thanks, X. I’m all warm and fuzzy inside. :)
And I think that you’re a great person, too! :D
Sarah Palin is like holy water on a possessed Reagan McNeil to pro-aborts. They cannot stand to see a prominent pro-lifer with her Down Syndrome baby held proudly on her hip. It’s no surprise that they gleefully pounce on an unflattering and false narrative that seeks to shatter her personal credibility.
Janette, I have no problem with Palin being a prominent pro-lifer or with her Down Syndrome baby “held proudly on her hip.” I would never vote for her, but her pro life views and her baby have very little to do with it. I simply disagree with almost everything she believes and I don’t think she’s a very good candidate. I’d love to see her run for president. No fear from me about that. Her nomination in ’08 really made McCain look bad.
Hal,
I’m sorry, I should’ve been more clear. I was referring only to pro-aborts who seek to prove that Trig isn’t hers and/or seem bent on trashing that aspect of her life. I absolutely think it’s possible to dislike her based on her policy proposals without it being anything personal against her or her family situation.