Monday, July 07, 2008
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Mike Murphy Joining McCain Team?
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Posted by:
Matt Lewis at
8:25 AM
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Bill Kristol predicts Mike Murphy -- the man who "masterminded" McCain's 2000 campaign -- might be joining the McCain campaign.
My take: McCain needs advisers who think outside the Bush world paradigm, and Murphy fits the bill. In a best-case scenario, Murphy's presence might rekindle some of the 2000 magic, and allow McCain to be McCain. But I also have to think that in a worst-case scenario, McCain has to believe that if he has to go down, he should at least have the peace of mind in knowing that he went down doing things his way.
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Glad to see the glass is half empty for you Matt. In the words of Commander Peter Quincy Taggart in Galaxy Quest, "Never give up, never surrender." |
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Please do. Can't wait to see it. This is going to be fun. |
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Look, she's a fifty-year-old broad trying to look like an ageless muscular teenage boy in drag. Is that Madonna being Madonna? Yeah, letting McCain being McCain will rekindle that old magic. Pinch me, bite me, slap me and call be a knuckle-dragging, bigoted, xenophobic, hate-filled, absolutist, extreme right winger again. I'm getting all tingly all over.
How about taking a good hard look at the candidate. It's the material, not the costumes and makeup. |
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So what are you looking for love? Or do you want to play the role of A-Rod to McCain's Madonna (or vice versa)? That is frankly a pretty disturbing image.
I know this much, John McCain is a better man than Barack Obama. And while John McCain is hardly a perfect conservative, he is definitely and demonstrably more conservative than Barack Obama.
Of course some say the right already knows the battle is over: "Lewis appears to have accepted McCain's defeat as a realistic possibility, if not indeed the most likely outcome. Lewis is echoing the sentiment of most young Republicans in Washington, who are already mapping out their contingency plans for an Obama administration. The GOP is already psychologically defeated. John McCain's campaign is a symptom, not a cause, of this mindset." http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2008/07/more-obamacons.html |
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This election was over once the Democrats succeeded in getting McCain nominated for the GOP. We've been over this a million times already. McCain cannot win. He can only hope for a forfeit by Obama. Obama has stuck to the conventional pattern of securing the left-wing Dem base when the Republican candidate is normally doing the same with the conservative base. Problem is that the base HATES McCain and that is fine with McCain. So he spent all of his time floundering aimlessly in the center without a coherent message and now that Obama is tacking to the center, as is always the case for the Dem, McCain is losing the very ground beneath him with nowhere to go.
Conservatives are not going to be swayed with the impassioned (and condescending) fear-mongering and race-baiting that apparently is very effective in swaying the Republican Uber Alles crowd. We are conservatives and like I have said many times, you cannot squeeze a stoled ID card in the space that separates the two candidates. And now that Obama is tacking to the center and the Iraq war is winding down while the economy tanks, they are becoming less and less distinguishable.
You might try begging us to change our minds and trying appealing to our soft hearts with pathetic sobbing and contrite apologies. It won't work but at least it would be appropriate considering the abuse you RINOs have heaped on us for holding onto our principles, the same principles that have delivered GOP majorities for so long.
McCain cannot win and everyone knows it. In reality, what I expect to happen during the convention is for conservatives to insist that the focus (and money) be shifted to getting Republicans elected in Congress because they don't have a candidate in the presidential race. That is a real possibility. |
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"The GOP is already psychologically defeated. John McCain's campaign is a symptom, not a cause, of this mindset."
McCain's IS the cause by the very fact that he IS the nominee. Conservatives had just won decisive victories with well-organized and surging campaigns to defeat the obnoxious McCain-Kennedy bill several times before and immediately following the disastrous November 2006 elections. How dumb was that for the RNC to then enable the very architect of that debacle and focus of our disdain, McCain, to become the nominee? That sucked the life out of the GOP and is why Republican registrations have sunk to current levels of 22%.
It is that simple. No one has ever been elected from a party whose memberships were on the decline. 38% to 22% in two years. |
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