Posted on 09/19/2006 2:35:24 AM PDT by Oakleaf
"For Senator McCain, This Is Personal"
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Look, folks, there is no question here that this is being seen as a political opportunity. Somebody raised the possibility last week, and I want to put it out there again because I did last week, too, but put it out there that there are those who are theorizing -- you know people in politics, analysts and pollsters and so forth who sit around and, you know, like global warming experts, try to predict the future and analyze why certain people are doing certain things. And there's a segment of the political analyst community which believes that McCain understands he's got a problem with the Republican base, but that he would be helped if the Republicans lose big in November, lose the House, maybe even lose the Senate, because his theory is that that would scare the Republicans into voting for whoever Republican they thought could win the presidency in '08 and maybe pick up some House seats and Senate seats along the way. If that's true, and I don't know that it is, but if it's true it means for McCain it's entirely personal.
I think a large part of it is personal for McCain based on his own prisoner of war experience. But I mean there's little doubt here that there's a cabal lining up against the administration here for reasons that don't make practical sense. So you have to look at them through another prism, such as through a political prism, to try to understand them....
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(Excerpt) Read more at rushlimbaugh.com ...
If true, McCain and all the other RINOs and RATS do not care one bit about our country's safety. They only care about themselves in the short term and are incapable of long-term considerations.
Psssssst... as soon as mclame resigns as a Republican, he is forever stripped on any leadership positions in the Senate. He knows this, plus hundreds of statements that "I will always be a Republican, I was born a Republican and will die a Republican", that will be used to destroy his very word.
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I can't stand McCain....he needs to be cut off at the knees (politically speaking)and his little "Igor" Lindsey Graham!
You AND ME, both, friend (either that or stay home) and this from a 63 year old, life-long Conservative and Nam Vet.
And, I threw in my service for a reason.
Won't go into details as most are known, but McCain killed ANY chance of my support in 04 (in spite of it being very weak after his despicable conduct during the POW/MIA hearings, which he chaired) when he sided with his good "bud" Kerry and told all of us Nam Vets, to basically shut up and quit criticzing Kerry and went out of his way to condemn the Swift Boat Vets.
That did it and the ONLY way anyone could get me to vote for this Meglomaniac is if his good "friend" Kerry, was running against him.
So why do you think McCain and VP Graham are acting like the french wing of the democrat party? I don't know about this theory thing but i have heard it from other places, articles have been written about it. I loved rush's examples re iran, he makes quite a sharp point, leaving out the "why" in it all. Do you know why they have taken this position? Like they and the far left are the only people in the world that could think this way?
For a long time (at least since the leftist Ellen Ratner expressed hope that McCain would be the Reppublican nominee) I have believed that McCain is being set up by the media. They have reams of material on him, both things we know, like the Keating 5, and all of those unguarded comments he made on the Straight Talk Express. They are ready to unload on him once he gets the nomination.
I have little fear that he will get the Republican nomination. His high-water mark of support was in 2000. Republicans have now had 6 years of his back-stabbing antics and are less than enthused with him.
So, his most likely avenue would be a third party nomination. I note that a coalition has formed in Colorado which could be his vehicle for running.
But then, what would the media do? As a third party candidate, McCain would NOT draw from Republicans. If they wouldn't vote for him as a Republican, why would they vote for him as a third party? His support would come from democrats, and the few Republicans who were alienated against whoever the nominee is. Destroying McCain will become necessary to the media once they realize where his support comes from.
Anyway, those are my thoughts on this issue. We will see.
One thing I think everyone is forgetting is McCain's temper is "legendary". If things get tight in the months leading up to the election in '08, McCain's mouth will alleviate any chance he has of being elected, third party or otherwise.
McCain is a megalomanical egocentric opportunist who will say anything, take any position, osculate any media prostitute or sacrifice any American security issue to achieve his goal - the White House and a place in history as President.
I'd rather vote for a dead dog than John McCain.
He's despicable.
His antics recently on the treatment of terrorists and intransigence on that subject, his posture on the First and Second Amendments, on illegal invaders, on the Internet, and on McCain- Feingold, and his collusion with liberal Democrats to block conservative Supreme Court nominees of the President expose him for the moral strumpet he is.
If it came down between John McPain and Her Royal Thighness Hillary, I vote against Hillary, but not out of any love for McPain. I would never stay home.
Lacking a full psychological test results proving otherwise, I maintain John McCain is the Manchurian Candidate.
We simply don't know who is pulling his strings.
McCain NO, Rudy YES.
Glad you think you know this guy. I, unfortunately, voted for him when he ran for congress the first time, and have watched him slide consistently leftward over the years. He's a slimy guy, and I don't trust him a whit.
One thing's for sure: I will never, ever vote for him, even against Hillary. At least she admits to being a lunatic leftist.
Rush's theory sounds exactly right to me, and the only thing I'm on is antacids.
McCain has already long burned his bridges within the Republican Party. Even the most moderate of Republicans can see that he's obstructing a bill that's only purpose is to clarify a part of the Geneva Convention and most don't understand why he wouldn't want a more specific law.
The purpose of this public 'dispute' is to save RINO's like Chafee this election. "He's an effective 'moderate'- cause he's on the inside!".
McCain is just after face time on the media.
If you mean lip-service or appearing to support the nominee while schmoozing the news cameras, then I agree.
He is a selfish mental case that is so power hungry he doesn't care who he tramples over to reach his goal.
The guy does NOT have what it takes "upstairs" to be president.
He is WAY too unstable and proves it on a regular basis with his temper tantrums.
No. McCain is a "nut case" and that makes people think he is a maverick.
If McCain is a "maverick", so is Howard Dean.
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