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Posted on 04/10/2006 12:05:37 AM PDT by neverdem
First Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, now John McCain and the media. Even torrid relationships are perishable. It was only a matter of time before the media turned on their pin-up, and that time has arrived. A rivulet, soon to be a river, of journalism is reporting — as a mystery deciphered, even a scandal unearthed — that McCain, who occupies the Senate seat once held by Barry Goldwater, is a conservative Republican.
He has been unmasked as a "pro-life, pro-family, fiscal conservative." Those words are his, and are a reasonably accurate self-description of the man who voted against the prescription drug entitlement and the most recent transportation bill because of their costs.
McCain proclaims his extravagant admiration for Teddy Roosevelt, a man of many virtues, not one of which was moral modesty. Speaker of the House Thomas Reed once said to TR, "If there is one thing for which I admire you more than anything else, Theodore, it is your original discovery of the Ten Commandments." St. John of Arizona can seem insufferably certain that he has cornered the market on incorruptibility. So as he begins trying to assemble a presidential majority, he seems, as anyone trying to do that will, like a run-of-the-mill sinner.
But his quest for the Republicans' 2008 nomination was bound to require tactics inconsistent with his carefully cultivated reputation for unexampled authenticity. He has endorsed teaching "intelligent design" theory in schools, and has sought a detente with Jerry Falwell, one of "the agents of intolerance" he denounced in 2000. But who has ever assembled a presidential constituency without endorsing positions formerly avoided or compromising positions formerly endorsed?
McCain is considered compromised because he now favors making permanent some of President Bush's tax cuts that McCain opposed when they were first proposed. But enacting the...
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Anyone but McCain. Oh yea and Mitt Romney too...
He is a true Manchurian candidate who has NO business at the head of the most powerful nation on earth. A leopard cannot change it's spots. McQuig can bark and howl about what a conservative he is to the media and anyone who will listen. Those of us who have watched himknow the real truth.
if he get the nomination, I'm not voting, and I'll be encouraging others not to vote either.....regardless of if Hillary is nominated or not.
The headline left out an "sh" in front of "it".
You know Romney and Rudy are bad by the fact, that McCain can actually run to the right of them and Romney and Rudy are probably the only 2 guys in the country who could make McCain look like a real conservative.
No they didn't. It's the 'it', as in 'it's full of it'
McCain would beat Hillary in an electoral rout not seen since 1984.
The fact is we can do much better.
NO to McLAME!
Peesident = President
I wouldn't vote for him for all the mexicans in the US.
If it's Hillary he's running against, I'll be dragging everyone I can to vote for him.
NOOOO!!!!!
"McCain .... is a conservative Republican. "
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ROTFL -- I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Just look at his voting record.
He recently authored and sponsored the "terrorist protection" bill, that doesn't sound like something a conservative Republican would do.
Not to mention all his other votes that were not only NOT "conservative Republican", but there were opposite of the votes of the Republican majority.
However, the man is nuts. He scares me.
Thanks for the reminder. This guy is arguably more dangerious than Hillary.
Bank on it !
"Jet Puffed" is not presidential timber.
Yes, and Cindy Sheehan makes mcCain look sane.
You are entitled to your baseless opinion.
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Depending on who is on the opposing ticket, McCain may be the greater evil.
Not my favorite, and I wouldn't vote for him in the Primary. If it came down to him against Hillary, or Feingold against Hillary, well most any Dem, I would vote for McPain. He could never do as much home to this country as a Liberal.
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Fortunately, the Republican nominee is chosen by Republican primary voters, not by insufferable Beltway swishes like George Will.
Should McCain run, he will get a rude shock from the voters, imo!
Interesting. Cannot wait to find out who a lesser evil could be.
I like Allen, but a lot of FReepers don't.
In theory, Tancredo would be the best pic but I don't think he's a winnable candidate.
I already rather much detested McCain, but pigs will fly through a blizzard in hell before I'd vote for him now.
I don't "hate" McCain, but I sure would never vote for him. It isn't a matter of hate, it's just that I can't stand him. As soon as I see him, I get angry. That's all it takes. Especially after seeing him up there with Ted fat head Kennedy on the amnesty thing. I can't say "that was the last straw", because the last straw was a long time ago. Let's just say, after seeing him up there the other day with fat-head, "that was the last, last straw". I don't care what the "polls say" ... he has about as much chance of getting the nomination as Lindsey (Lindsay? - what's his name?) Graham-cracker (or whatever his name is - he was up there too, with fat-head). What happened to Rudy? He isn't running? God knows where this thing is going, but I like George Allen of Virginia.
You wouldn't vote for someone if they wanted ID taught? Not as a replacement to darwin but as an alternative. teach both
PS. And in case that seems unclear, even though I detested McCain I still would've voted for him over someone even more detestable (e.g., Hillary). But I'd sooner chop my hand off now..
If NovoCaine can get past the primaries I can see him comfortably winning the General election against any Democrat. That is unless the base deserts him in November. But then we are not letting him get past the primaries, so McPain can forget it.
He comes off as a wack job even if we agree 100% !
It will be George Allen 100% bank on it !
"McCain would beat Hillary in an electoral rout not seen since 1984."
Not with my vote.
Absolutely not. I would never vote for anyone that to my knowledge supports teaching "intelligent design" as if it were science. ID is not science and science education in America has enough problems without teaching mysticism and philosophy as if they're science. Who knows what future scientist's achievements could potentially get aborted by teaching him unscientific nonsense as if it were science??
My thoughts exactly. We need to start a grassroots campaign and bring this guy upto the front. And let's not keep saying he's not winnable, it doesn't help. He is already the frontrunner at the FReep polls which means something.
Really ? What makes you say that ?
Hmm...looks like you're right.
I will not vote for McCain now way not how ! ! ! He is a nut case ! Anyone but McCain is what I say. Don't know much about George Allen but would vote for him Rudy, Romney over McCain. What do all of you have against Romney?
Well at least he has all the Mexican vote locked up.
Carnac: Why McCain might be it...
Ed: Ho ho ho!
Carnac: Because every conservative running has dropped out, and we all forget there are third parties begging to be considered.
Ed: Hey-AHHHH!
The only way a RINO like McCain gets my vote is if he's got a gun to my head. I'd rather 'waste' my vote on a third party conservative than REALLY waste my vote on an insane nutbag like him.
And for anyone still remotely considering that dirtbag--Senator Keating Five McCain, lately Mr. "Campaign Reform," didn't vote against the 'bridge to nowhere' when he could have stood tall against pork and had it COUNT instead of grandstanding.
Funny how demoRATs love to pick our candidates for us. I'm certain they have our best interests in mind.
I'd pick Cynthia McKinney for them.
You're welcome!
You are a hoot and a half, FO. You are nothing but the biggest Ah-nold shill on FR, and yet McCain ain't Conservative enough for you. As erratic and nutty as McCain is, he looks like a John Bircher compared to the liberal fraud in Sacramento, whom in your eyes poops platinum bars. Hypocrisy ain't just a creek in Greece.
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