(WA) McCain takes narrow win over Huckabee, Paul in state

seattletimes.com ^ | 2/10/08 | Jim Brunner & Ashley Bach

[ncalburt]

Grow UP. I admit I was saying the same thing weeks ago after Fred left but
Mccmnesty is a Pain but he is not a RADICAL SOCIALIST like Osama Obama and Hillary.
These two radicals will IMPOSE the fairness doctrine immediately and shut down talk radio and then go after the internet next !
The left can not allow free speech and these radical know that.
Go out and vote against socialism.
Don't get suckered by all this discontent .
Quite few of these posting are from the DU/ KOS KIDS
who are here keep the discontent stirred up.
It was there strategy in 2006 and look what WE got .
Comrade Harry Reid and Nancy Botox Pelosi.

[ncalburt]

I hope that Nasty /snide remarks like that by the media’s called Saint Osama Obama keep coming. The largest voting block and volunteers are the elderly and that kind of smart ass comments will keep that Radical socialists out the the WH.

[drpix]

"Grow UP."

Gee childish me... with a choice between the Democrats' favorite Democrat and their favorite Republican, how could I have been so foolish as to not fall in line at McCain's beck and call - like you.

Wake up! Put aside your McCainish arrogance aside and deal with reality. My vote and many others has to be earned and not taken for granted.

[ncalburt]

I don’t like Mcpain ,I worked for Fred before he left but Mcpain is not as radical socialist.
Do you have any idea the radical damage that 4 year of Obama could do ?
He will have majority in Congress to ram thru a radical socialist agenda which will include shutting down talk radio and the internet . The left can not keep power with out restricting our free speech.
It is time to grow up and realize the Dem candidates are REALLY donw right dangerous. Divided we fall and let the left rewrite the laws to keep us out of power for ever.
Just look at how the left took over Europe and Canada.

[drpix]

While in the Senate, McCain was the Democrats’ and the MSM’s spearhead against Conservatives.

Yet now - because he makes a few campaign speeches claiming to be the champion of Conservatism - we must believe that once in the WH he will be our bulwark against these same Democrats.

Do you realize that that argument depends on either you or me being a fool.

[drpix]

"The left can not keep power with out restricting our free speech."

Missed that 1st time. So McCain(-Feingold) will protect our 1st amendment rights?

[Gritty]

[Mr Rogers]

‘Mitt’ and ‘other’ got a larger vote (30%) than the presumptive nominee (26%)...hard to spin that as a win!

For all practical purposes, he has the nomination sewn up - and still got just a quarter of the vote. Amazing!

[Clintonfatigued]

Conservatives are not sold on McCain. And if they do eventually rally around him, it will only be grudgingly, and if he’s elected, he’ll be regarded with skepticism.

[jonrick46]

I understand that McCain is not doing such a hot job bridging the gap between the conservatives and the moderates. Perhaps he needs to take a lesson from Ronald Reagan who had to deal with inter-party differences during his 1980 election. Can you imagine the look on the moderates face when it was publicized far and wide that Reagan was taking donations from the John Birch Society? The Democrats knew back then how to exploit such differences to disrupt party unity.

Thank God that Ronald Reagan was able to form a solid coalition between moderates and far left groups that brought him his landslide victory. If that coalition had not been built, we would have never won the Cold War.

John McCain has a similar challenge. I am hoping for the future of this nation that he can create a miracle cure on a divided party.

[jonrick46]

That is a brilliant idea.

McCain is not doing a great job building a coalition between the moderates and the conservatives. I think he also has to take a lesson from Ronald Reagan, who has a similar task in 1980 before his landslide victory. It was Barry Goldwalter’s run for the Presidency in 1964 that brought the John Birchers into the Republican Party. Many of the Moderates saw the John Birchers (incorrectly I may say) as the loony right. The Democrats exploited this element of the Republican Party by trying unsuccessfully to label Ronald Reagan as part of the loony right.

To Ronald Reagan’s credit, the effort to cast him as a part of the far right backfired and gave him the landslide victory in 1980.

We only hope the McCain has the wisdom to build a powerful coalition that will crush the Democrats on all levels of government this fall.

I can dream can’t I?

[Cincincinati Spiritus]

Go out and vote against socialism.

"Com'on bend over. McCain will be a lot gentler than Hilary or Obams.

Thanks, but no thanks. McCain's is a slow death. Hillary's quicker. I'll choice the neither column.

If you ask me, the primary has been rigged. 10 candidates. Split the conservative vote. Giuliani or McCain steal the nomination.

I'ld like to see the results of Washington State: McCain v. Huckabee or McCain v. Ron Paul. That goes for the rest of the states as well. This primary has been a joke.