Posted on 10/20/2010 6:11:53 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
PHOENIX (AP) - Republican John McCain spent nearly $2.5 million during a two-month period ending on Sept. 30 in his bid to win a fifth term in the U.S. Senate.
The figure includes spending made near the end of his campaign against primary challenger J.D. Hayworth and as his general election race against Democrat Rodney Glassman began.
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That's because otherwise all he has to do is reach across the isle.
In the barracks they called him, ol’ Lean Forward McCain!
Why should he spend any money if people of AZ are going to vote R instead of conservative? I voted early, and voted third party instead of Juan McShame.
Palin saved him this year and that is a shame. It did lose her some support, but for McCain, it is his last chance to be relevant... Let’s hope he makes the most of it.
Just imagine a world where John McCain loses his Senate position.
And Harry Reid stays in control of the Senate by one vote.
Battles - including the battle for the re-ascension of conservatism - is incremental and done in steps. First, you get rid of the Democrats, then you start replacing RINOs. Trying to do both at once is a great way to ensure failure on both counts...
And Harry Reid stays in control of the Senate by one vote.
With McCain's vote Hary Reid would then control the Senate by two votes.
The Senate is very friendly to the minority we'd have gridlock. McCain losing would focus the mind of every other rino on doing the correct thing. Losing John McCain would be a gain for Conservatives.
Name one step forward that lasted.
Are you saying McCain would caucus with the Democrats, rather than the Republicans? Control of the chairmanships is 90% of the power of either chamber of Congress; McCain will caucus with the GOP, and that is one step further to getting Reid and the Democrats out of power.
Power to decide which bills even come up in committee - let alone the floor of the Senate - is the strongest power of all. In those situations, McCain, Snowe, and Collins are all useful. I’d rather have a few RINOs with GOP control of the Senate and committee than continued Senate rule by Democrats...
Talk is cheap.
The RINOs should have been replaced while the Republicans held Congress.
The problem is that they weren't.
The problem is that folks like you will say "defeat Democrats now, remove RINOs later" and stop after defeating Democrats.
Shame on you.
Not all Republicans are conservatives, and advocating that others shy away from attacking liberal Republicans is just as bad as advocating that others shy away from attacking liberal Democrats.
CCG, do you still have that "Conservative Derangement Syndrome" poster? Please post it for PSS here.
Liberals are liberals, no matter what label they carry. And they should be defeated and stamped out wherever they are found.
see post above
I’m with you, Rabs.
We are always told to sit down and be quiet. After the disaster of McCain as the GOP candidate in 2008, no more.
This country cannot sustain another two years of Obama, Dems, and liberal RINOS.
It is a time for choosing, right now.
If a line is not drawn in the sand on November 2nd peacefully, the end result will be more like 1860 than 2011.
"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it."Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.
Reagan won the Presidency twice, with landslides. The Governorship of CA twice as well. And I don't think any here would question his conservatism. I think I'll take the advice of a winner, the Gipper, on this one...
I will.
He signed into law the last amnesty, and there are some rumors that SS taxes were increased during his tenure.
Neither action is conservative.
Name one Reagan step forward that lasted.
A rant doesn’t have to be rational.
“First, you get rid of the Democrats, then you start replacing RINOs. Trying to do both at once is a great way to ensure failure on both counts...
Talk is cheap.”
Sure is....that is the same nonsense the McCain wing of the GOP has been spewing to us for 12 years.
McCAin HAS to go.
No, because McCain is for himself first and foremost and he would much rather get his Republican chairmanship and then walk across the aisle to please the NYT and WaPo by attacking conservatives.
McCain has proved through his actions, McCain/Feingold, Cap & Trade, Amnesty and big government spending that he is a vote that Democrats can count on when they need it.
Maybe his primary fight and the enthusiasm of the Tea Party has reawakened the conservative in McCain, but no one will be surprised if, on November 3rd McCain is, as usual, across the aisle working to pass his Democrat buddies legislation.
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