if that's the best you can do John, maybe you oughta save yourself some money and stand down now...
Posted on 05/10/2007 5:09:11 PM PDT by enough_idiocy
Republican presidential candidate John McCain (news, bio, voting record) said Thursday he believes President Bush's low approval ratings are hurting the GOP yet won't affect the party's 2008 nominee.
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Guess what Sen. McCain, the Dems' ratings are also in the tank. Why doesn't that hurt them? Why isn't that a problem of them? Why doesn't that reflect how they are trying to manage the war in Iraq?
Instead of beating up on Bush and the GOP, he should be noting how the opposition party barely has better ratings, how they haven't kept their word on their campaign promises, etc. Instead, he accepts the MSM mem, rolls over, and hopes for the best. Get up and fight John.
McCain's mental instability may not help either!
You have it exactly right - The MSM live in a world of lies and spin....and since 05 the RNC/WH have both decided to not call them on it...(nor the DEMs)...They have sat back and allowed false premise after false premise to be established...
The GOP lost in 06 because they didn't attack the DEMs...instead they listened to the MSM and attack ourselves and our CINC....Foolishness.
The main thing that has hurt the GOP is not being conservative enough when it had control of Congress, caving in to the Demagogue Party, making deals with Kennedy and other toads. McCain-Feingold is an excellent example of “not conservative”, since it violates the First Amendment.
Flash - McCain’s idiocy is harming the POTUS and GOP
McCain has done as much bad for the party as Bush has done good!
Exactly! While the democrats team up and bash republicans and Bush, the republicans have been doing nothing but bashing other republicans.
How ironic.
Any approval ratings John McCain gets only helps the democrats.
“The GOP lost in 06 because they didn’t attack the DEMs...instead they listened to the MSM and attack ourselves and our CINC....Foolishness” 100% correct.
1. They allowed the “culture of corruption” to be painted, while Murtha, Jefferson, Feinstein, Mollyhan, Menedez, and others sat back and coasted.
2. They got snowballed by the Foley October surprise, while a Democrat in South Dakota and NY got caught doing worse at the same time, let alone the Studds precedent.
3. They let the “Bush lied” story go on for 3 years despite similar “lies” told by the current leaders of the Democrat party.
It’s like watching a child get beat up in a schoolyard, you just wish he’d at least TRY to fight back.
McCain, pull your head out of your ass. If you and the other backstabbers in the Senate and house had spent more time supporting Cheney and Bush as they gave speeches all last year in support of the WOT, instead of cutting him off at the knees in public, the 2006 election and the apporoval ratings would have been different. But know, you wanted to suck up on Chris Matthews and other vile retards to get face time and reinforce your “maverick” status.
It’s symbolic of the WOT/Iraq - Bush/Repubs are fighting two enemies at once - the enemy + the home front.
The party is fighting RINOs and MSM lapdogs while fighting the dems. You can’t win against a strong opponent when you’re also fighting yourself.
Bush is fighting Al Qeada, while the dems are trying to tie his hands.
Winning this thing would be a huge victory, truly overcoming the odds.
Granted the GOP is far from perfect...nonetheless, neither are the Dems. The longer we focus on and broadcast our own imperfections, while being silent against the far more egregious errors of our opponents, the greater the democrat majority grows in this country.
There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging the obvious mistakes, etc.; however, at least do so while reminding the country of who is the lesser of evil of the two available choices.
McCain being the worst offender.
The DC Repubs keep shooting themselves in the foot, most recently the man who enforced “No aid if condoms are distributed” who was using the DC madam’s services.
First things first, we need to clean our own house, and we need to point out the Feinstien et al corruption constantly.
That is true as far as it goes. However the GOPs concern for approval ratings has hurt the GOP, the President and the country to an even larger extent. That is the bigger picture.
if that's the best you can do John, maybe you oughta save yourself some money and stand down now...
Well at least they should be fighting.
Problem is, we clean out our house, while they keep theirs a mess - Delay didn’t run again, while Jefferson got relected. What’s the other guy who recently stepped down from a position (last name starts with an R) for being under investigation, while Jefferson remains on a committee.
The problem isn’t cleaning our house, we seem to be doing that. The problem is, no one is cleaning theirs and the Repubs are allowing the MSM/DNC to paint a picture that it’s only the repubs with problems.
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