{"id":1538,"date":"2008-04-20T11:24:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T15:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2008-04-20T11:24:54","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T15:24:54","slug":"pj-orourke-on-john-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1538","title":{"rendered":"PJ O’Rourke on John McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Don Carl sent me this article, 24 Hours on the ‘Big Stick’ <\/a>from PJ O’Rourke, about his 24 hours as a guest on the USS Theodore Roosevelt. It seems he discovered reasons to vote for John McCain while he watched a night launch of F-18s from the deck of the nuclear-powered carrier;<\/p>\n

\u00a0We went back on deck to see–wrong verb–to feel and hear the night flights. The only things we could see were the flaming twin suns of the F-18 afterburners at the end of the catapult slot.<\/p>\n

Some say John McCain’s character was formed in a North Vietnamese prison. I say those people should take a gander at what John chose to do–voluntarily. Being a carrier pilot requires aptitude, intelligence, skill, knowledge, discernment, and courage of a kind rarely found anywhere but in a poem of Homer’s or a half gallon of Dewar’s. I look from John McCain to what the opposition has to offer. There’s Ms. Smarty-Pantsuit, the Bosnia-Under-Sniper-Fire poster gal, former prominent Washington hostess, and now the JV senator from the state that brought you Eliot Spitzer and Bear Stearns. And there’s the happy-talk boy wonder, the plaster Balthazar in the Cook County political cr\u00c3\u00a8che, whose policy pronouncements sound like a walk through Greenwich Village in 1968: “Change, man? Got any spare change? Change?”<\/p>\n

Some people say John McCain isn’t conservative enough. But there’s more to conservatism than low taxes, Jesus, and waterboarding at Gitmo. Conservatism is also a matter of honor, duty, valor, patriotism, self-discipline, responsibility, good order, respect for our national institutions, reverence for the traditions of civilization, and adherence to the political honesty upon which all principles of democracy are based. Given what screw-ups we humans are in these respects, conservatism is also a matter of sense of humor. Heard any good quips lately from Hillary or Barack?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ya know, when he puts it that way, it’s hard to stay away from the polls, ain’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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