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What Senator McCain needs to do --urgently, right now-- is to come clean and admit he screwed up with the Gang of 14, and in a huge way, a way that he now sincerely regrets.

I don't think we need any more faux apologies that claim to be sincere.

1 posted on 11/18/2006 10:11:14 AM PST by freespirited
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To: freespirited

Hugh is right. My biggest gripe with McCain is his participation in the radicalization of the nomination process.

I think he and the gang of 14 did it to undercut Bill Frist, who had presidential aspirations of his own and would've been a serious contender for 2008 had he been able to shepard the constitutional option through the Senate.


2 posted on 11/18/2006 10:31:33 AM PST by Crooked Constituent
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To: freespirited
He won't do it. We threw Chaffee and DeWine under the bus. Graham and Warner are next. I don't think McCain really gets why his doublecross made conservatives so angry.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

4 posted on 11/18/2006 10:41:18 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: freespirited
Wonder what preemptive strike McCain would take against any 'gangs' that took him on as sitting President?

WACO?
5 posted on 11/18/2006 10:42:56 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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"I don't think we need any more faux apologies that claim to be sincere."

Not to speak of the fact that this two-faced jackass would institute the fairness doctrine against talk radio and impede internet sites like FRee Republic so fast our heads would swim. bttt

8 posted on 11/18/2006 11:02:00 AM PST by Matchett-PI (To have no voice in the Party that always sides with America's enemies is a badge of honor.)
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To: freespirited
What Senator McCain needs to do --urgently, right now-- is to come clean and admit he screwed up with the Gang of 14, and in a huge way, a way that he now sincerely regrets.

Too little too late.

11 posted on 11/18/2006 11:04:20 AM PST by Dustbunny (The BIBLE - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
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To: freespirited

Ask Mike DeWine if he would join the "Gang" again if he had it to do over.


17 posted on 11/18/2006 11:31:45 AM PST by Faith
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I don't think we need any more faux apologies that claim to be sincere.

Yeah... Hugh, Senator McCain would have to "take back" about 90% of what he has stood for or been the leader of for the past 6 years... I don't think he could do that. If we had 5-4 orginalists Supreme Court judges, McCain-Feingold would be "gone-zo!" To McLame, that would be unacceptable.

18 posted on 11/18/2006 11:31:51 AM PST by ReleaseTheHounds
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"Judges are the most important," Senator Schumer said.

And in what race were they up front with that? None, so why people continue to criticize and analyze this last election, we can thank McCain who took the "most important" issue away from Republican candidates.

21 posted on 11/18/2006 11:34:17 AM PST by Dolphy
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22 posted on 11/18/2006 11:41:14 AM PST by firewalk
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To: freespirited
What Senator McCain needs to do --urgently, right now-- is to come clean and admit he screwed up with the Gang of 14

Right.

And while he's at it he can also apologize for saddling American freedom of speech with McCain-Feingold, backstabbing us on illegal immigration, putting terrorists first in line for Constitutional Rights, opposing tax cuts,...

...on second thought, McInsane can forget apologizing. He should be treated as last weeks fish guts as far as the Republican Party and the decent citizens of this Republic should be concerned. He's not just a failed man, but a deeply malevolent one as well.

His agenda is "McCain", not "America".

25 posted on 11/18/2006 11:49:11 AM PST by Gritty (McCain is a moral exhibitionist whose principal goal is to showcase his exquisite decency-JP Mulhern)
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Good article....did Hugh actually write this? There's so many typos that at times it was difficult to read.

FMCDH(BITS)

29 posted on 11/18/2006 12:38:11 PM PST by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: freespirited
What Senator McCain needs to do --urgently, right now-- is to come clean and admit he screwed up with the Gang of 14, and in a huge way, a way that he now sincerely regrets.

McCain has been sticking his thumb in the eye of conservatives one day and groin kicking them the next on fundamental conservative issues for years. Regrets are useless. Regrets would be similar to Hubert Humphrey admitting that the "Great Society" was a mistake. Interesting but useless. There is still a huge mess to be cleaned up by the people that do the heavy lifting.

This last election proved that support from conservatives isn't an entitlement. It's earned. For the life of me I can't see what McCain could do by 2008 to earn support to get him elected President. If the GOP, even state by state were to grant him the needed delegates for the nomination, it would prove a death wish.

31 posted on 11/18/2006 1:01:15 PM PST by stevem
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To: freespirited

DeWhiner got his butt kicked out of the Senate because of his wussie votes with the Liberals....and now we have the Communist Sherrod Brown to replace him....nice goin' RINO's....


32 posted on 11/18/2006 1:28:02 PM PST by traditional1
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To: freespirited
With both houses in Democratic hands, the decision not to make it easier for narrow majorities in the Senate to have their way appears to me to have been one the smartest decisions Senate Republicans made in the last 2 years.
33 posted on 11/18/2006 3:45:10 PM PST by M. Dodge Thomas
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For Senator McCain to argue that the sacrifice of constitutional principle in exchange for the confirmation of three or four judges in 2005...

Senator McCain is only too ready to sacrifice constitutional principle. First, McCain-Feingold. Then, the Gang of 14.

Senator McCain has spit on the Constitution two too many times for him to be considered for the office of President.

34 posted on 11/18/2006 4:03:33 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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bump for 2008!


40 posted on 12/24/2007 11:44:42 AM PST by Sybeck1 (Huckabee - Our Sanjaya!)
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