Beanie_N
11-17-2010, 02:51 PM
Don't believe me? Read the comments on this thread from Hot Air:
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/11/16/mccain-im-worried-about-isolationists-like-rand-paul-wanting-to-cut-defense-spending/
The commenters are about as generic Republicans as you can get. I usually don't read general conservative blogs like this because they're always full of neon-cons and social-cons. But the title of this entry caught by attention so I thought I'd give it a read. And the commenters are absolutely tearing into McCain for suggesting that the Defense Budget is off the table for cuts. Almost every one of them.
You got comments like:
Let Europe defend Europe. Let Japan defend Japan. Let S. Korea defend S. Korea.
Let the US defend the US.
and
We have troops all over the world – in places like Germany? Why? Are we going to defend Germany if the Russians hit them? I sincerely hope not – the Germans don’t deserve one ounce of American blood spilled to protect them. That goes for every other European nation also.
We need to rebuild here – and yes, we need a VERY strong military – but we don’t need to protect the fools we’ve been protecting – they hate us.
LET THEM DEAL with the Russians and the Chinese.
and
First of all, I agree. Countries like Japan and Germany can afford to take care of themselves and they don’t seem to be so appreciative.
Then there are countries like South Korea. They know and we know that they are incapable of defending themselves; however, some of this is because we made them too dependent on us. Talk to the Koreans. They don’t hate us, but they don’t look at us as compassionate liberators. Consider the Beef Deal with the US. That alone was a huge headache. We’re better off maintaining good relations with them and giving them the appropriate time to build a sufficiently strong military to defend themselves… and then stepping back.
and
McCain is not a hawk. Barry Goldwater was a hawk. McCain in an Islamic Nation Building obsessive-compulsive freak.
Comments like these are being widely applauded. By "mainstream" conservatives. If I had any doubts that the GOP base is open to being converted to the ideals of liberty, they are gone now.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/11/16/mccain-im-worried-about-isolationists-like-rand-paul-wanting-to-cut-defense-spending/
The commenters are about as generic Republicans as you can get. I usually don't read general conservative blogs like this because they're always full of neon-cons and social-cons. But the title of this entry caught by attention so I thought I'd give it a read. And the commenters are absolutely tearing into McCain for suggesting that the Defense Budget is off the table for cuts. Almost every one of them.
You got comments like:
Let Europe defend Europe. Let Japan defend Japan. Let S. Korea defend S. Korea.
Let the US defend the US.
and
We have troops all over the world – in places like Germany? Why? Are we going to defend Germany if the Russians hit them? I sincerely hope not – the Germans don’t deserve one ounce of American blood spilled to protect them. That goes for every other European nation also.
We need to rebuild here – and yes, we need a VERY strong military – but we don’t need to protect the fools we’ve been protecting – they hate us.
LET THEM DEAL with the Russians and the Chinese.
and
First of all, I agree. Countries like Japan and Germany can afford to take care of themselves and they don’t seem to be so appreciative.
Then there are countries like South Korea. They know and we know that they are incapable of defending themselves; however, some of this is because we made them too dependent on us. Talk to the Koreans. They don’t hate us, but they don’t look at us as compassionate liberators. Consider the Beef Deal with the US. That alone was a huge headache. We’re better off maintaining good relations with them and giving them the appropriate time to build a sufficiently strong military to defend themselves… and then stepping back.
and
McCain is not a hawk. Barry Goldwater was a hawk. McCain in an Islamic Nation Building obsessive-compulsive freak.
Comments like these are being widely applauded. By "mainstream" conservatives. If I had any doubts that the GOP base is open to being converted to the ideals of liberty, they are gone now.