Posted on 09/13/2009 5:51:32 AM PDT by mazda77
. . . Mark McKinnon, a former adviser to Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and other Republicans, said there is an "opportunity for Republicans" to tap into legitimate fears about an overreaching federal government. But he said that "right-wing nutballs are aligning themselves with these movements" and are dominating media coverage.
"It's bad for Republicans because in the absence of any real leadership, the freaks fill the void and define the party," McKinnon said. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Eschew JUANnabies and their ilk.
Has been Juan and his butt-balls keep trying to tell us they won the last election.
I hope McCain loses to Simcox in the primaries.
Let’s trade in the opportunist for a conservative!
“Bad for us RINOS”, is what he means. Good for the GOP.
1 million “nutballs” in D.C. yesterday...no outbreaks of violence or vandalism.
Mark McKinnon was
From a simple Google search showing that this punk is a Democrat, thus he is perfectly qualified as a McQueeg advisor:
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Not surprising since Mark McKinnon also worked for Jorge Bush.
Mark should just go get a job as Peggy Noonan’s pool boy.
One wonders what the McCainiacs would have thought about those nutballs Jefferson, Madison and Washington.
That is not surprising. They have deluded him into thinking that he will be one of the masters or at least an overseer. He has no clue that he will end up as one of the inmates and eventually a lampshade or bar of soap. But he will learn soon enough. Kinda like the ACORN workers did.
Maybe he would learn something from her now that she is groveling at the feet of conservatives to be let back in.
FU Markey
FU Markey
People are becoming aware of your tactics of trying to minimize us.
Anyone watch southpark? This is all like a typical comment from officer Barbrady..... "Nothing to see here people, cows turn themselves inside-out all the time".
However, denial will not lead to survival of the liberal in the next election. All of those "nut-jobs" you keep pointing to?... they are in large part, your constituents. Every time you stand up and accuse them of being part of some large corporate sponsored group of idiots, you offend your own base. They are standing there listening to you and are extremely offended that you are refusing to recognize the will of the people by writing them off. I assure you, ignoring us will not make it go away.
Keep it up. Your doing a great job of not only promoting the opposition, and at digging your own political grave... one shovel-full at a time.
F- him and the horse he rode in on (John McCain)!
(GRIN!) "Eschew" is a delicious fifty-cent word and I love it! Of the places in cyberspace I hang out, the mightiest English is spoken on the FRee Republic. Brilliant!
LLS
Well, one only can hope this fellow, Mark M, is running Juan’s re-election effort. When, hopefully, Juan loses, maybe Mark can get Juan to hire him as a personal assistant paid for with Juan’s second wealthy wife’s inheritance.
Stay out the McCain!
LLS
Hey, Mark!!!!! Take a hike!
The ‘sour grapes crowd’ from the sorry excuse for a campaign for McCain should start their own party and call it the RINO PARTY!
Worse the any dem I know, why? You can fight with much vigor your enemies outside and external, but it's a completely arduous and enormous task to try and rid those enemies from within!
This is what the conservative republican party is facing and if conservative's do not regain power from these rino prix and totally reinforce conservative viewpoints, the repubs will remain a minority party!
“digging your own political grave... one shovel-full at a time.”
One of the shovel-ready projects obama promised? :)
Yes we are nutballs enough to think that the Constitution and believing in America still matters.
...and if the RNC wants to keep the primaries open and assist another RINO like McCain or any other mealey mouthed POS....by God and country I swear I will stay home and let that Socialist punk Obama have four more years.
Conservative or bust.
This is an essential part of the entire RINO line now, and certainly in the immediate past, like the previous campaign, AND the Election, and it is ENTIRELY the mindset that got them defeated. It could NOT HELP BUT get them defeated! The ONLY thing the McCain camp did of any value was give us Sarah Palin, but the way it gave us Sarah Palin was to introduce her and then ‘neuter’ her, doing exactly HALF the work the Democrats were ready to do. This is another way of “extending your hand across the aisle” I suppose. At this point it DEFINES exactly what has been wrong with the Republican Party and the man it chose last time to represent it, John McCain. I REPEAT: SARAH PALIN was chosen by them and exploited in the most cynical way, because they knew it would get McCain votes. IT DID.
His ticket lost anyway,and would have lost WORSE if Palin was not the Veep choice. I hold Mc Cain and his campaign accountable and responsible for exploiting her , manipulating her, and eventually attempting to render her into the same non-entity status that McCain has now achieved. And, where, oh where, has this most pathetic of “opposition candidates” been since the beginning of this disastrous Presidency, except hovering in the background letting his daughter and Mark McKinnon make these inane statements to the Press?
Let’s see he an ex-advisor to one of the more pitifully run campaigns on record.
I am really going to clear out my day’s activities just to pay close attention to this “sage”-—not.
You have to understand the subtext, “Palin cannot win”. Nor can she be found to have been right during the campaign.
Sarah could easily step in and lead the Tea Party Patriots, Juan cannot lead a bathroom brigade. Juan has tried several times in recent months to be the party leader and failed miserably. We just aren’t going to be led by McCain .
Look at what Network he is on. This is not about Democrats, it is about corruption and cronyism. McCain fits in well with cronyism. He needs to go with all the rest.
We are dealing with a failed government not a problem with capitalism.
And don’t forget: “eschew” is pronounced “es-keeyoo”, NOT
“es-chew”, as in “chew gum”.
If anyone associated with the McCain campaign is considered a top Republican strategist, then future candidates need to purge the old party strategists and find some new ones.
Where are all these moderates speaking out against big government???
Silence, sometimes could, and would, be golden from these idiots.
I don’t think Juan is corrupt, he has enough of his wife’s money to not need anymore ... But I do think he is a crony, as much as anybody is, of the pointed headed elites who are trying to collapse our civil society.
Good point — yes the station ID is all you need to know.
2010 et.seq. The year of the PURGE!
Maybe someone with the untold story of the Keating 5 scandal will finally spill the beans before next October insuring the ouster of Juan.
Good point. McKinnon and the "Forehead" are running neck and neck for advising losers!
this ex-mccain adviser sounds like the nutball himself....he ruined our chances in 2008 and is determined to undermine us still. pathetic.
There were a couple million out marching yesterday - maybe he can go to Washington and “tell them what he thinks” ...
McKinnon was also one of many contributors who donated money to McCain to help insure his nomination, and then took it back later on (per FEC records, 2008).
I’m sure Harry Reid was deeply disappointed.
Are there any stories of taunting by ACORN goons trying to get a reaction from the Tea Partiers? It struck me that would be the perfect place to trump up some “violence”.
Freaks? Right wing freaks?
These are the type of people the GOP must purge if they are ever to return to power.
With friends Like McKinnon it is no Wonder McCain Lost, Other than He is a Rino and a Boring old man, with crappy Ideas.
With friends Like McKinnon it is no Wonder McCain Lost, Other than He is a Rino and a Boring old man, with crappy Ideas.
“It’s bad for Republicans because in the absence of any real leadership, the freaks fill the void and define the party,” McKinnon said. . . .
‘Scuse me, Jerkboy...seem to me like you guys defined the party and took it over a cliff.
Go sit down.
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