Posted on 05/30/2005 10:28:41 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Having helped broker the Great Senate Compromise last week, Sen. John McCain is back in the media limelight, winning the usual accolades for bucking his party. But the deal by 14 "moderates" doesn't just preserve the judicial filibuster and allow confirmation of a few of President Bush's "extremist" nominees. It also reveals that the myth the McCainiacs hoped would propel their man into the Oval Office in 2000 still endures, despite evidence of successive elections to the contrary.
The myth is simply that the only way to win elections is to draw voters from the other party by bucking a few of your own party's principles. Call it "maverick moderatism," but this belief has been the foundation for Mr. McCain's strategy for achieving national office and has given us great ideas like the recent iteration of campaign finance reform, opposition to some tax cuts and dogged attacks by Mr. McCain on some military expenditures. It's also the foundation of many pundits' advice to the president that he pick more "moderate" judges, give up on using payroll taxes to create private Social Security accounts, and trim his sails on fighting terrorism by spreading freedom.
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Oh I sure like that "Maverick John McCain" tune Rush's been playing on his show. It's priceless!
I remember my pastor saying back in the 2000 election primaries that he might vote for McCain. He was an old military man, and McCain's war record appealed to him. He was from NC.
That week McCain called members of the Christian right "evil". Everyone in the church immediately turned against him. He lost the primary, and the momentum.
Every so often I hear the left talking about how Bush's "dirty tricks" cost McCain the election. Hogwash. McCain viciously attacked the base on the eve of a major primary. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
McCain will not win the Presidency in 2008 because:
1. He will be too old in 2008.
2. He is a senator and being a govenor not a senator is the path to the White House, ie GW Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Carter etal.
3. He is from a state with 10 electoral votes. GOP presidents seem to come from CA, Tx, MI etc., ie bigger states. Even Dim presidents, Clinton aside seem to come from pretty big states, GA, MA, etc. [MA was a more important state in the Electoral College in 1960 than it is now.]
I'm convinced McInsane, the pitiful bastard, is a few cans short of a 6-pack.
NOTHING means as much to him,......as him.
His "closeness" to Kerry "the traitor" and his behavior at the MIA/POW hearing, confirmed his untrustworthiness for me...
Semper Fi
McCain reminds me of Dean.
'nuff sed.
McCain is a corrupt, coniving, treacherous, little weasel. He is ethically challenged, (censured by the House Ethics committee) consorts with crooks and gansters on a regular basis, and will sell anyone down the river to advance his agenda.
He might not ever be President, but with an inflated ego such as he has, it wouldn't surprise me if he tried to run as a third party candidate, and do what Ross Perot did in the '90s.
Only by going up against Hitlery could McCain possibly convince me to vote for him. And even then, I'd be seriously conflicted. With his most recent betrayal, I'd probably vote third party (probably libertarian). So McCain loses.
It's all about voter turnout. The GOP persisting in making it so difficult for me to determine the lesser of two evils does not incline me to vote. And there are MANY MANY conservative voters out there just like me.
That said I would vote for absolutely anyone who would/could be Hitlery.
Two words: "Luke Skywalker".
Agreed.
McCain has no chance of becoming the Republican nominee, but I wouldn't be surprised if he played the "spoiler" role, running as an Independent or Reform candidate, siphoning off enough votes from the real Republican nominee to put Hillary in office.
The only chance McCain has to even run for President is to cast a YES vote to the eventual "nuclear" option. If the Dems filibuster and McCain falls in for this option, he can claim an attempt at moderation while pretending to stick to an up or down principle. The only, and very slim, chance would be to lead on a conservative victory.
<< I'm convinced McInsane, the pitiful bastard, is a few cans short of a 6-pack.
NOTHING means as much to him,......as him.
His "closeness" to Kerry "the traitor" and his behavior at the MIA/POW hearing, confirmed his untrustworthiness for me...
Semper Fi >>
Spot on!
Even his actual Military Record, as seperate and different from his admiral's-son JFKerry-esque politicized "military record" seems to pose more questions than answers.
Got your sixes, 'rat.
Per Ardua ad Astra -- B A
You are a fool if you do not vote. Pure and simple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
McPoopStain will soon be out of politics for good.
If it came down to voting for the hildabeast or Mcpain, I think i'd go fishing.
mcpain (media) AZ will not be the president simply because he has no support. In 2000 he got just 19% in the show down South Carolina primary, the first one where there was no cross over voting allowed. His party The Media does not have enough members to elect him president.
He'll certainly never win as a Republican, as there's about a zero percent chance he'll make it through the primaries.
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