Posted on 08/24/2010 8:30:04 PM PDT by Scythian
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LOL, you roll over easy, don't you?
McCain spent $20,000,000 to win a PRIMARY! JD only spent $2,500,000. That means that it cost McCain $57.00 per vote, and JD only $7.00. McCain had to BUY his seat, and had to lie like crazy and convince people he was actually a conservative. It was worth JD losing just to watch McCain crawl on his belly to keep his seat.
Very disappointing. These incumbents need to go to save America.
Will, I have no idea what motivated Arizonans to vote for McCain, other than the fact that JD was simply more flawed than him.
As I pointed out, long ago on other threads, JD, after 6 terms as Congressman couldn’t beat his Dem opponent in 2006, in a reliably conservative district (and don’t give me that jazz that redistricting changed the dynamics...it was still 57% GOP) and my question then was, “if he can’t win in his own district, how can he win statewide?”
Answer: he can’t and didn’t.
As to the “stances on the issues” you best answer that yourself.
I do live here and I told my wife the same thing last week when It was obvious he was buying the race.
McCain spent 25 mil vs. JD's 3 mil. Works out to be about $75.00 a vote for McCain.
I shouldn’t be so flippant. THere is no validity to the $20 million number.
According to his opposition: “According to his campaign finance reports, McCain transferred a whopping $4.65 million in Presidential money to his Senate race.”
This was from his “compliance fund”, which was set up to help pay for things unrelated to the direct campaign. McCain couldn’t spend this money on direct campaigning, becausse he took public funding. But there are some get-out-the-vote things you can do, and also you can use the money to fight ballot recounts in close elections.
Obviously, this wasn’t a close election, and there were no challenges to fund.
McCain is a major player in Senate politics, and was easily able to raise millions of dollars in campaign contributions. It is false to claim that the full $20 million came from some presidential fund. The total was under $5 million.
The sorry POS didn’t even try to win the presidency.
He flushed it down the crapper when he said, ‘There’s no reason to fear Obama. He’s an honest family man’.
For whatever the reason(s), the voters of Arizona voted to stay with McCain. Where did we ever get the idea that everyone we want is going to win??? The teaparty movement is a beginning movement; some of our candidates may not be strong in dollars and/or campaigning skills. So what! I, for one, am still going to work hard to take this country back..however long it takes.
I’m a Texan who sent JD money! I’ll not “cut and run” from this war because I don’t get everything I want from the electorate and/or this election...
And Arizona does have a recall and Senator McCain was once the subject of one....The battle is just beginning.
JD was running 7% behind McCain when Sarah came and campaigned for him. It confused the tea party people enough that they stopped contributing to JD. They didn't come to their senses until it was too late. McCain spent $20 million. That is $20,000,000, JD spent $2.5 million
I have to agree with you. I can understand peoples frustrations, but that’s no reason to just give the seat to a Democrat in November by not showing up or voting for the Democrat, which I’ve read some here say they will do. That’s just stupid.
McCain still votes 90% of the time with the Republicans and is a senior senator with power. I much as I don’t like him, why would we want to trade him in for a guy who will cast his vote 100% with the Democrats?
You mean laws like McCain-Finegold that gave the dems the electoral advantage? Or how about McCain-Kennedy that gave us open borders and a checkered flag to the illegals? You mean those kind of laws?
I’m just wondering. Can illegals vote in Arizona like they do so prodigiously here in California? They’re not supposed to, but who’s stopping them? A good many illegals vote via the absentee method here. Yea, I’m profiling at the voting booth.
I got conned into voting for McCain for president, I won't let that happen again.
Why do you like Obama so much more than Sarah Palin? What is it about Obama that you admire so much?
Exactly.
McJuan lied and said he never voted for amnesty.
Here’s proof:
2006- Sen. McCain voted against extending the border fence in the Sessions Amendment (2) to H.R. 5441.
2006- Sen. McCain voted to prevent the border fence from being built by voting in favor of the Managers Amendment to S. 2611, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006.
2006- Sen. McCain voted to allow illegal aliens to receive Social Security by voting to table the Ensign Amendment to S. 2611, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006.
2006- Sen. McCain voted against funding additional immigration investigators by voting against the Sessions Amendment (1) to H.R. 5441.
2005- Sen. McCain voted against providing funding for additional Border Patrol and ICE agents by voting against the Byrd Amendment to H.R. 1268.
McCAIN: THE AMNESTY KING FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS
2007 Sen. McCain was heavily involved in the backroom negotiations of S. 1348 with Sen. Kennedy and Pres. Bush this was an amnesty (permanent residency & path to citizenship) for more than 10 million illegal aliens.
2007 Sen. McCain cast several votes to protect the amnesty in S. 1639 and to move the amnesty toward a vote.
2007- Sen. McCain is a cosponsor of S. 774, the DREAM Act. The bill would grant in-state tuition and amnesty to more than a million illegal aliens under the age of 30.
2007- Sen. McCain is a cosponsor of S. 340, the Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits, and Security Act of 2007 (AgJOBS). This bill would grant amnesty to millions of illegal agricultural workers.
2006- Sen. McCain voted in favor of S. 2611, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006. This bill would have awarded amnesty to 10.2 million illegal aliens.
2005- Sen. McCain and Sen. Kennedy introduced S.1033, an amnesty for virtually all illegal aliens.
2005- Sen. McCain was a cosponsor of S. 239, the AgJOBS amnesty.
2003- Sen. McCain was a cosponsor of S. 1645, the AgJOBS amnesty.
2003- Sen. McCain was a cosponsor the S. 1461 amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.
http://angelinoview.com/2008/02/02/a-vote-for-john-mccain-amnesty/
Well, Az, make way for amnesty. You brough it on yourselves.
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Read all of my post, dope.
Even if that is what decides the control of the Senate — R or D?
In November, I would vote for the devil himself, with an R after his name. What is at stake is control of Congress — to stop the Obama agenda.
I never liked McCain — I have a very long list of reasons, but I voted for him over Obama and as I said, would vote for anyone with an R after their name, we must take control of Congress — then once we do, we can try to get rid of RINOs, as long as it won’t jeopardize the Republican majority.
Your post was incoherent and made no sense. If you are incapable of engaging in intelligent conversation please don’t resort to childish name calling.
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