Posted on 12/20/2007 6:39:06 PM PST by Norman Bates
I truly hope that the exact same things can also be said about Mike Huckabee and Rudy Giuliani! I truly don’t see either Mike Huckabee or Rudy Giuliani being the final choice for the GOP for POTUS.
[McCain is the only candidate who could be confused with being a ‘rat.]
McCain, a Better Bob Dole.
Florida alone has 25
Aside from that, we are just going to have to disagree on your post, but have a Merry Christmas anyway! :)
Hillary does! :)
She won't shut up about it...
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2007/12/17/cackles-evasions
That would be true if his last name were Clinton or if (D) followed his name. But remember the 40 year old DUI in 2000? Bush almost lost because of it. Much less substance there than Keating 5.
Well Norman, the folks at the Heritage foundation took a look at what Senator Kennedy was proposing an guess what? That’s precisely what would and will end up happening. Twenty to forty million new “Americans” who broke the law to enter the country and who will be rewarded for it.
Florida has 27. But who’s counting? :)
Merry Christmas!
The difference is the DUI had not been vetted and Keating has.
McCain - Liberal endorsed (Lieberman, news rags), RINO approved.
He sure is racking up the ‘establishment’ non-conservative endorsements.
What wins him such plaudits? His signing up for Goronic CO2 cap-and-trade and globaloney fears? His work at undercutting conservatives on Judges (gang of 14), taxes (voting against Bush tax cuts), regulation (CFR), immigration (McCain-Kennedy “amnesty aint amnesty”)? Or his years of sucking up to the media at a cost of conservatives?
Except for budget/spending, where he is solid, McCain has had a very bad habit of joining liberal Democrats on key issue after key issue, and poking the finger in the eyes of conservatives. The number 1 issue where McCain is dreadfully wrong is immigration, but CFR is perhaps the worst bill in the past 10 years, and the #1 reason it passed is John McCain.
Fine if he’s running for “centrist senior statesman”, but these endorsements practically scream out - “thank God we can endorse a RINO.”
” we also address our words particularly to those millions of independent voters here, in New Hampshire and around the nation who can choose to cast their ballot in either party primary.” ....
Translation: INDEPENDENTS, PLEASE F*** WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BY VOTING MCCAIN. THAT’LL SHOW SHOW EVIIIL CONSERVATIVES. LEAVE THE DEMOCRATS ALONE THIS YEAR.
‘Apparently the Herald is not endorsing any Democrat for their primary and is instead choosing to endorse John McCain fully for President.’
Given McCain spent a full week considering being Kerry’s running mate in 04, its not surprising.
The best home-town endorsement that Romney has is that the liberal rag the Boston Globe hates him. It's a true sign of how good Romney could be for conservatives when that happens.
McCain's MSM endorsements is just another reminder that he's been an MSM lapdog for years, and for years used that position to pummel and harm conservatives.
“This is the Herald’s Republican primary endorsement. I think they may endorse Huckabee for the Democrat primary.”
ROFLMAO.
Really, McCain should run in the Democrat primary.
Not only would he clean up there, they could rerun the 2004 “ready for duty” schtick that Kerry had and it would work.
“The Boston Globe and Boston Herald has had a hate/hate relationship with Gov Romney for a long time. There were many contentious press conferences with Romney’s spokespeople and snarly commentaries from the Boston TV political pundits.”
You mean like when a journalist was demanding an answer out of Romney and saying “I represent the people” and Romney smacked him down hard?
Good clip.
Whenever I hear the phrase "democrat reach" I grab my wallet! Some of us don't want the liberal regulatory policies and baggage that comes with that 'independent and democrat reach'.
We dont want McCain-Lieberman reaching into our energy bills and putting carbon taxes and cap-and-trade costs, and we dont want the reach of 12 million yesterday's illegals becoming tomorrows Democrat voters due to McCain's amnesty.
No sale.
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/122007_release_web.pdf
Question 27:
Does Lieberman’s endorsement make you more or less likely to vote for McCain?
(more / less / no diff.)
Republicans 25% / 10% / 62%
Democrats 12% / 24% / 59%
Independents 15% / 12% / 69%
You might also consider that on the most important issue - Iraq - McCain is dead right.
“Only until he gets the nomination. As soon as he is the nominee, they will take him down with his participation in the Savings and Loan scandals in the 80’s. McCain barely avoided indictment and his participation was as smelly as it gets. McCain, Paul and Huckabee are safe candidates for the Old Media. None of them can possibly win. So they get all the positive press during the primaries.”
Good points, but you have to understand what McCain has done to innoculate himself and overcome that scandal - he became a ‘reformer’. This is why the media loves him. McCain has been doing 20 years of penance for his Charles Keating sins by engaging in liberal reform policies, like CFR, like CO2, like immigration.
Nevertheless, dont underestimate the MSM’s ability to make a mountain out of a molehill.
What is with you? I wonder what you think of Ronald Reagan. You didn’t actually think he acheived two landslides with conservatives alone, did you? He had a large chunk of democrats and a majority of independents as well. Just like McCain can take.
I wish that right now a couple of the heavy hitters would team up and agree to share the ticket.
And by heavy hitters, I mean Thompson, McCain, or, as VEEP
ONLY, Julie Rudiani.
I just think if they did it now, they’d be a shoo in for the nomination, and the right combo would kick Hill’s backside so bad she wouldn’t sit down till 2010 or so.
“McCain is strong on national security - which is going to increasingly be the focus in the election because it pertains to the sheer survival of this nation.”
I actually think the OPPOSITE is happening.
Sicne Bush and his surge have turned around Iraq, the MSM has decided to put Iraq to back pages and move on to other topics, and the voters likewise are not going to be as concerned about it as they were in 2004 and 2006. By the time the next President gets in office, Bush and our military will have Iraq and Afghanistan stable enough for the next President to continue to draw down our commitments while meeting security goals an acheiving victory.
History will record that Bush will have ‘won the war’ in Iraq by end of 2008.
We need a President who is good on the GWOT (eg cross Huckabee off the list, and a reason to say NO to Obama or any Democrat), but IMHO it wont be the #1 issue.
Economy will be #1.
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