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He certainly could do with some "energizing" characteristics. |
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oh really?
And, pray tell, what does this say about you? |
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John McCain.
His fight has been against the very people that gave him the priveledge to represent them. Good bye, Mr McCain. |
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I'm with you. McCain was a poor candidate because he refused to call Obama out on his past and failed MISERABLY in forcing him to reveal how he planned to do what he promised. His campaign was poorly thought out IMO, and his hands off approach to dealing with Obama wasn't good either. Regarding his politics, who ever referred to McCain as a conservative anyway? He's a CINO and everybody knows it. Sadly, he was the face of the party in 08 but hopefully never again. |
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you guys were lucky to have him. Between McCain being acceptable to the American middle and us fielding a black guy, you were lucky to get as close as you did.
McCain ran an exceptionally dishonorable campaign--craven and silly. but it wins votes and with Palin, he was able to bring the base along. Next time, you will not be so lucky. You put forward one of those radicals you call "conservative" and watch your lunch get handed to you. Folks in the Reep base do not have a clear understanding at exactly how widely they are held in contempt--not by the corporate media, who always gave them a fair shake--but by the silent majority. McCain had some moral authority. The rest of your leadership has zero. It is a worldview in disgrace--kinda like liberalism in the late 70s--and in 2012, unless you clowns grow up fast, you're gonna get your clocked cleaned. |
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The hatred for McCain in these blogs is amazing. McCain has been far and away the most successful Republican in blocking Obama's major initiatives including govcare, capand spend, and others. McCain has also gone on television and three Sundays in a row to defend Sarah Palin.
The election is over. Whatever you think of how McCain did or how well he could have done, the last blogger (Though clearly a lib) is correct. McCain is still the most honest, coherent and respected Reublican leader. Do conservatives want to win on the issues or do they want to root out perceived traiters. And if that is the case, why the deafening silence on Ensign and Sanford?
Remember that the battle is against liberal economic policies that will hurt our country, not with Republicans you don't like. We will need all those traiters if we want to beat back Obama. |
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the more I miss McCain. And the more furious I am at the conservatives who still continue to condemn McCain.
Was he the perfect candidate? No way. Would he be a better president that Obama? You bet.
And Pat Lib: Contempt by you? If I was a conservative candidate I would consider that a badge of glory.
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candidate since IKE, he WAS ill-advised in some areas, but one thing sure didn't help and that was people like el rushbo bad-mouthing him.
All I ever heard from him was SCOTUS is the issue, well, then he should have looked a little more carefully at what we'd get if the commie got elected and a little less at McCain's desire to make this a better country for everyone and quit this ""he's not conservative enough".
Limbaugh has a personal bias against JSM and couldn't see past it to his everlasting damnation in my eyes.
Many people sat this one out because of Limbaugh and ought to be ashamed of themselves.
I've met McCain and I knew his old man, you won't find a better guy to lead this country and you blew it.
Anyone want to bet JSM would have been bowing down to ANYONE or apologizing for America? |
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"If you thought that the senior senator from Arizona would ride off into the political sunset last November..."
No, but Republicans could hope for it, couldn't they?
I predict that the next hopeless loser the Republicans nominate will be Romney who'll run on a platform of Democrat-Lite. Then the Republicans will be able to hope that he rides off into the sunset after being crushed in the election.
As long as the Republican party nominates people that come across as pale copies of their Democratic opponents they had better be ready for many years of watching their candidates ride off into the sunset of oblivion.
It would be nice to have a real second party. |
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From the Stephen Moore article:
"Why did [McCain] suspend his campaign, and why did he vote for the $700 billion bank bailout plan, which was wildly unpopular with voters?
“You have no idea the pressure I was under,” [McCain] says. “I remember being on the phone with President Bush, Vice President Cheney, the Treasury secretary and [Fed Chairman Ben] Bernanke. They assure me the world financial system is going to collapse if I don’t vote for the bill. "
Pressure? Pressure? He was running for the highest pressure job in the world. If he couldn't take that pressure as a candidate then what would he do as president if something like this happened?
It's only pressure if you lack independent judgment and haven't got the courage to act on your own thinking.
If McCain had the brains and the guts to vote against the bailouts he would be president today. He was leading in the polls at the time that Paulson dropped his phony economic bomb. Incidentally, Paulson is a lifelong Democrat.
Obama didn't win the presidency, McCain lost it. |
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I was a huge McCain guy, I went ballistic when he did that.
I called my guy at the campaign and asked if they were TRYING to lose the effing thing.
JSM had a 26 year record of fighting pork, never putting in so much as 1 earmark. never!
Had he delivered a speech on that and walked out taking the republicans with him, as Apollo stated, he'd be POTUS today.
Bush screwed him in SC in 2000, he never should have trusted him or helped him out ...the trouble was McCain loves this country FIRST and wouldn't have taken the chance that Paulson was wrong, just to pay Bush back...the stakes were too high, his patriotism was his undoing.
We are ALL the worse off, this nation committed suicide on Nov 4 2008. |
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not me. no contempt from me. i respect you clowns and your ability to run campaigns--if not govern and lead. the contempt is from the silent majority--just as they were contemptuous of the noisy and self-insistent left in the late 70s. you guys have become the noisy and self-insistent radical minority, and you will pay for it at the ballot box until you grow up and come to a more adult form of conservatism. |
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As much as many conservatives love to hate him, the Republican Party and the cause of conservatism is much better served with John McCain (for the most part) on our side. He's principled, but you also know that he's not reflexively against anything the Democrats do, so when he does take a stand people take notice. And he's been taking a stand against the Administration quite a bit.
There is a place for principled moderates like John McCain in the Republican party. The Democrats can have the unprincipled schmucks like Arlen Specter. |
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I don't agree with McCain 100% of the time but I would much rather have a President/Senator/Congressman that I agree with 80% of that time than 25% of the time.
It is often said that the only person that you agree 100% of the time is YOU! |
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Juan Mequeno is a waste of space. I'm glad my third-party vote helped send him back to the Senate. The only problem is, he's still in the Senate. Let's hope AZ does better when Mequeno retires.
If the GOP does not rid itself of pseudoconservatives like Mequeno, the GOP is done. |
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McCain was ahead in the polls, with the help of S. Palin, until the Wall Street Bailout came up. He dropped his campaign and could not wait to get to Washingtoin to sign on to given out money to those billionaires. Nobody wanted to vote for McCain after that. I voted for Palin.
A lot of us called our congressment and they went against us anyway. Now we have Obama. That huge bailout was the beginning of our precipitous demise. |
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His ridiculous Senate compromises were nothing more than an old cranky man sticking conservatives in the eye. He's the guy that keeps your baseball when it rolls into his yard. Much of the trouble we have today is due to his compromises. Go home. |
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"It is often said that the only person that you agree 100% of the time is YOU!"
Not me. I'm at 90%, 95% tops.
"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
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I have a place reserved in my heart for his service and sacrifice for the country but as for his political career he has been a negative.The republican party has to purge itself of Mccain and his ilk to be relevant again. |
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Or does it seem like John McCain and Newt Gingrich have been on TV more than any other politician? Two card-carrying losers - whatever happened to our beloved "liberal" media? |
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Yes I believe it is just you. |
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"More than Obama,Vlad?"
Obama hasn't been on the talk shows practically every Sunday morning. Hardly a weekend has passed without either McCain or Gingrich holding forth as if they are some kind of experts. |
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...have expressed the sentiment that Sen. John McCain is an honorable old sailor who, like the honorable soldier, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, should simply fade away. |
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sloandog writes: Monday, August, 03, 2009 11:08 AM
Right Cicero
I have a place reserved in my heart for his service and sacrifice for the country but as for his political career he has been a negative.The republican party has to purge itself of Mccain and his ilk to be relevant again.
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Sloandog. As far as I am concerned, McCain should be voted out of office asap. We need real conservatives in the Senate and House. McCain and his ilk have failed us miserably and lost the majority. Screw them and everything they stand for. Lib light is all they are. Now look where they have led us! |
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