Posted on 07/11/2007 7:59:23 AM PDT by hardback
Fred is getting too many donations to announce right now, I’m assuming.
This doesn’t even begin to suggest the real reasons why McCain lost. It certainly wasn’t because he supported victory in Iraq. I notice that there is no mention of McCain Feingold or the McCain Kennedy amnesty bill, or old albatrosses hanging around his neck like the POW-MIA betrayal, because that might give leftist readers the wrong ideas.
...one could only hope....
He is toast.
It will be Romney or Thompson.
I believe this story is way off base. (consider the source)! Rudy doesn’t seem to have any of the results that McCain is showing. Rudy is a proven leader...McCain tried to show leadership in his speeches, but you can’t do that after having betrayed your base (where the money is).
Unspoken is McCain’s sleeping with the enemy on issues like the amnesty bill and his signature abomination, McCain-Feingold. It is not the appearance of flip-flopping, it is an inescapable record that no amount of media protection can overcome. There are many similarities between John and Rudy, including their strong national defense credentials. However, they are also similar on the social side and that will prove to be as detrimental to Rudy as it was to John.
I think Mitt supporters and Fred supporters should keep their powder dry because it is looking more and more like the 2008 ticket.
McCain sealed his fate with the ‘Gang of 13’ in the Senate
Never mentioned Immigration.
That was another nail in his campaign coffin. but the lid was closed well before then.
I agree, Rudy does not mesh well with the Conservative agenda, and nothing can change the stripes on that tiger. He is a good man and a good leader, but not a true Republican. Republicans don’t need to change their stripes to accomodate Rudy, we know what we stand for. McCain was toast before he even started. I also think it will boil down to Fred vs. Mitt, and I would be happy with either. I’m just hoping we can mop the floor with the weakness and idiocy of the Dem opponents, despite the media’s relentless campaign for the Dems.
More likely he is getting more value in free publicity from Law & Order reruns and appearances on the Late Night Television circuit than he could earn with donations. All of this will go away when and if he announces his candidacy. Then he has to compete on equal footing with everyone else on the rubber chicken circuit in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
He has to earn the nomination, not have it handed to him. Reference what happened to Lynn Swann in Pennsylvania when the nomination was handed to him.
For me, he sealed it way back in the Keating Five era...
Duncan Hunter has great hair like Mitt, a similar hard work ethic and a better track record as a conservative.
The writer of this Seattle Post article is a big time liberal. Sounds to me like Rudy worries him.
Or the Gang of 14.
Leni
This story is way off base. It never mentions immigration, campaign finance reform, gang of 13. The only thing keeping him ali ve was his strong support against the War on Terror and what feeble support he was garnering from the MSM. He’s toast.
Guiliani is no where near McCain. This is wishful thinking from some liberal hack out in Seattle. Nice try, go sell your Republican doomsday scenarios elsewhere.
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