Wednesday - January 16, 2008
The View From Maine
In another of his cut-through-the-bullshit posts, Maine gunsmith Joe from Realguns.com takes a hard look at the GOP candidates. Somehow I don’t think he really gets behind any of them. I think an awful lot of people share that viewpoint, even among the Democrats. Look how well DNC “undecided” did yesterday in Michigan.
John McCain is an interesting guy, the kind of guy you’d have a beer with, or swap lies with during a poker game. Tough and resilient, tested. That said, he is a guy with many hidden agendas, most that fly in opposition to the will of the voters.
Fred Thompson had been represented as the great hope of conservative values, who was being subjected to a conspired negative news coverage. Unfortunately, lack of public disclosure may be what has kept his candidacy alive.
Rudy Giuliani, a moderate Democrat thinly disguised as a Republican, would probably make a good cabinet member.
Mike Huckabee is an invention of the press and the darling of the Democratic party. On the issue of...issues, he offers little more than criticisms of the other candidate’s positions and squirms whenever asked about his own.
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When he speaks, all I can hear is Jim and Tammy Fay Baker.
Ron Paul is...an idiot, or at least he plays one on TV.
I always appreciate the real Yankee viewpoint when I can find it. This is the kind of bedrock “get the government out of my hair” Conservatism we don’t hear enough about, or when we do it gets bunched in with the Religious Right and surrounded by scare quotes. You may not agree with him, but Joe gives us his opinions without the slightest bit of nuance or sugar coating. I admire that.
Oh, and for you 1911 owners out there, he has also put up Part II of his series on tuning up the old warhorse. Part I has about the best detailed disassembly instructions you will ever find, and explains that pesky parts relationship underneath the hammer really well. Thanks Joe.
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