Posted on 02/21/2008 9:32:26 PM PST by RegT
The staff of the McCain campaign had a rude awakening last Jan. 25th. They opened The Washington Post and found a front-page story linking McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, to the Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska. Who, some wondered, was feeding damaging information about Davis to the press? Skip to next paragraph
Speculation inevitably settled, as it must in McCain World, upon John Weaver. For nearly a decade, stories about the inner workings of the McCain apparatus inevitably involved the Weaver-Davis rivalry. These two McCain advisers share a mutual hatred, one McCainiac told me Thursday, that is total, absolute and blinding.
The tensions, which divided the McCain presidential campaign until Weaver was forced out last summer, exist on many levels. First of all, there is a personal contest for the attention and love of John McCain. But there are broader issues as well.
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Whoops, posted the wrong data. Should be tomorrow’s paper.
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No. Thanks just the same.
I see David Brooks has joined the Slimes’ full court press against McCain. The NYT corrupts absolutely. I wonder how long until Kristol starts supporting Obama.
Who cares?..McCain is so over. He is toast as well he should be.
So, you welcome a Democrat as POTUS?
Looks like old Pinchy has let loose the flying monkeys...
The GOP needs a big wake up call...I will decide in November but Mr McCain needs to move lots farther to the right side on energy independence, War on terror, kosovo, stem cell, border control, etc. before I cast my vote for him....actually, I see him dropping out in any case.
Brooks is just stating the truth.
It’s clear that Weaver is the source. His denial yesterday convinced many, but not me.(I posted some stories here yesterday that flush out the Weaver-McCain relationship, and they are everything Brooks says it is, and more).
And it’s clear from McCain’s response yesterday that McCain felt he had to deny it absolutely. But if he’s not telling the truth — it gets very bad for McCain.
Does that mean the party can take the nomination away from him, ie, not confer it? I would think so — I’m sure there’s a “moral turpitude” clause in the Party by-laws somewhere.
We can still suit up Romney, coming in off the bench.
The McCain World Rift? So says the New York Times? They declared a rift? Its a long time to November.
He’s dropping out? LOL! Not! But he WILL desperately try to convince conservatives to vote for him. He has a LOT of work to do.
I don’t believe you.
And let us not forget that if you you dare not vote for McAmnesty, God will kill a kitten.
You are full of it nimrod. The “west” is more socialist than the former Soviet Union.
You are stuck in some time warp. Russia is more west than the west.
Much like McCain and conservatives?
Oh but I can envision a scenario in which McPain cannot bear the attacks of those liberals he once had a love fest with.
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This is about the clash of strong personalities that happen every day in every campaign organization, in every corporation and business, in every classroom and in most families in America. Somebody wins, somebody looses. The loser might externalize his pain by irrational acts. Big deal.
If the babble—including Brooks column—produced by the Times in the last 36 hours is their best shot they should avoid fights.
I suggest you go look up a list of nationalized Russian businesses and get back to us on that.
Oh, McCain’s MSM “friends” have already begun their attack. But that said, NO Republican candidate would have avoided that. It’s SOP.
A vote against McCain is a vote for Hillary or Obama. Get a grip.
I agree, if anything comes out to corroborate the affair allegation, then McCain is absolutely finished. I imagine the same GOP establishment that has rallied around him would force him to step aside.
That being said, I find it hard to believe that McCain would risk flushing his honorable record of service to the country down the toilet in such a fashion. At his press conference today, that is essentially what he put on the line.
Get me a list of soulless international corporatized monopolies that owe their allegiance to anyone but US interests and I will give you the couple on that nationalized list in Russia.
The NYT would love nothing more than for Huckabee to get the GOP nomination.
A vote against John McCain is a vote against our troops.
A vote against John McCain is a vote against the GOP.
A vote against John McCain is a vote for surrender.
“A vote against John McCain is a vote for defeat.
A vote against John McCain is a vote for al Qaeda.
A vote against John McCain is a vote for Hillary Obama.
A vote against John McCain is a vote for Iranian nukes.
A vote against John McCain is a vote for the destruction of Israel.
A vote against John McCAin is a vote for the rebirth of the Soviet Empire.
A vote against John McCain is a vote for the destruction of America..”
But..But...cou would could a neat bumper sticker on your car that says: “Don’t blame ME, I didn’t vote.”
Good NY Slimes article for a change..You do get a sense of the venom Weaver has for Davis and how this has split McCain’s inner circle..The article says that Weaver was a renegade and thought nothing about going against the establishment..That is why McCain liked him and kept him, a man after his own heart..
McCain should take a good lesson from this: learn who his real friends are and dump the renegades and second guessers..He isn’t going to pick up any Conservative votes by tweaking the conservatives. He needs to get with the program and if he has more idiots around him he needs to get rid of them too.
Mccain like so many people do not see the Conservatives as wanting change..He thinks it is stagnant, just more of the same..Boy is he wrong!..There are plenty of things that need changing in this country and conservatism is a blend of political change while retaining the good values that Americans have..If he wants activism and progress there are many avenues to explore...just a word of advice to McCain: REAGAN
LOL!!
The Repub just Bite off you nose to spite your face strategy. Its makes the non stop dismantling of America by Comrades Obama/Michele all the more easier to put up with for eight years !
A vote for either McCain, Obama, or Hillary Clinton for POTUS is also a vote for the destruction of America, thanks to all of them truly agreeing to: 1.) the present campaign finance reform system that’s truly against free speech and will lead to the eventual full implementation of the Fairness Doctrine (No more conservative talk radio, no more Free Republic, etc.); 2.) the belief in the sham known as man-made global warming which will eventually truly create a finite number of economic problems including, but not limited to, unnecessary taxes and unnecessary regulations; and, 3.) allow amnesty for illegal immigrants to truly occur “to the max” all over the U.S. forever as well as eventually creating legislation which will legally allow illegal immigrants the right to vote in all future U.S. elections! There is also plenty of other problems that are also truly heading this country’s way that I won’t even mention here. All conservative voters are now supposed to just forget about all of this upcoming long-term “damage” that’s truly coming this way while also fully supporting and fully voting for McCain on November 4? Good luck!
Take a quick look at the articles I posted about Weaver here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974095/posts
It’s clear that Weaver is the “democrat” alter ego of McCain. Weaver even changed his political affiliation from Repub to Dem — it’s no secret.
I suspect Weaver has just gotten into the habit of talking all the time, and about too much, to the MSM, who McCain has of coure assiduously courted.
I suspect Weaver told mostly the truth, maybe with a touch of self-aggrandizement salted on top.
Now yes, and a will comb to FR, for you...
Seems like Weaver may have been McCain's Democrat alter ego. In such a case, I'm glad he's gone.
McCain has gone after Republicans and conservatives much harder than his response to the NYTimes. I will not vote for him or huckster.
Grunthor - 2007 - 02 - 15
IOW, get tested for Alzheimer's.
“The Repub just Bite off you nose to spite your face strategy.”
Exactly. I’ll keep my nose, even if I have to hold it to vote for McCain.
Oh cripes. This thing from 9 years ago? The times only investigates Republicans, doncha know?
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