Posted on 09/30/2008 6:16:09 AM PDT by Brian_Baldwin
It's in McCain's DNA to pi$$ off Republicans. Even Dubya lets these trolls pummel him and he never says a word. If I had the "bully pulpit", I would be on prime time every night calling Pelosi a witch and Fwank a homo. Instead, he just slides further down in the polls. Soon, it will be Murtha's idea for the "surge" and no one will counter it.
I watched the interview. I thought McCain did fine. You and eye are not on same page. However, this election, with conditions as they are.... is Obama’s to lose.
Amen Gal. The boards preach to the choir though.
This is up to McCain and Palin and GOTV and of course our votes.
As a huge optimist for McCain/Palin I say this, he needs to fight with every inch.
If he does not, then every anti McCain conservative will be right about him, and he will fade away like 2 day bread.
If Juan still supports the bailout and is stupid enough to admit it live on national television, then either things are not alright upstairs or he is in league with the Big Government freaks in Congress.
>> Just because you are at FR 9 years does not make you a political expert. A member for 5 days or 5 years does not matter, it what is inside the mind that counts.
Absolutely agree. We were all new at one time, weren’t we?
However, there is a difference between a newbie taking issue what a poster has to say — and calling him a troll and asking that his words be taken down.
FRegards
Obama doesn't have to do anything. With McCain failing the way he is, Obama can just sit back and win by default.
I'm dismayed beyond words at the prospect of four years of Obama, but it's looking inevitable now. McCain has absolutely blown the opportunity given to him by Congressional conservatives and the American people themselves who were monolithically opposed to this bailout.
Apparently, the Maverick who said "no more bailouts" and promised to "name names and make them famous", is a myth.
No...That is the beauty of FR. We are free to post our views and essays as well as comment of the drools and bilge of the Drive-By media along with pearls of wisdom from respected conservative commentators. The day I can’t post my opinions is the day I leave FR.
The best way for the tide to turn is for Pelosi to formulate a bill more liking to her majority caucus.
Then McCain and the entire GOP caucus can oppose it.
I am speculating — out of sheer hope and zero confidence — that he is baiting her to do so.
God help us if Obama is elected.
The sky is not falling. The two interviews this morning changed nothing and will be forgotten in short order. Completely inconsequential except for the shot McCain took at Nooner directly on MSNBC. Yes, he did FOX, then MSNBC and they were about the same, bland.
FWIW, I’ve been lurking FR for years and only joined recently. I found that in other BBs I’ve posted on for over 10 years now, they have become troll ridden with obamamnaughts so I decided to jump in with the big league FR where I feel in comfort with like minded people.
I’m no huge McCain fan, but the good people must close ranks behind him. Since I watched the interview and almost fell asleep, I’m surprised that a poster is screaming bloody murder.
Know what you mean...I’m going to drink an early lunch next door. Hope the boss doesn’t call this afternoon.
Newt is great, but he has more skeletons than a Aerobics Studio.
You've been here for a while, plus you've got an actual posting history. It's the ones with the six month or newer sign up dates that are inherently riskier, especially this close to the election.
It was an opportunity to distance himself from Bush which he really needs to do. They are painting Mccain as a Bush third term and the polls are showing that it's working.
Why not today? Why not now?
Maybe he should explain it in his memoirs, so people can look back and say, "Gee, McCain was right. I wish we had known it then."
We need action, now. He needs to lead the fight, now. He needs to speak the truth to the American people, now, and let the chips fall where they may.
You can't hold hands with snakes.
Learn how the game is played before you pop off again.
Well said Doug.
I also was at various sites that were terrific in 2004, but were infiltrated by the DEM KGB and are now intolerable.
Someone turned ne on to FR, and I wish I would have found it sooner.
I agree these defeatist vanities are really really anoying.
There is a deeper logic here which folks might figure out sooner or later. This is about congressional politics, presidential politics and the economy.
The financial system has been presented with a clear choice. You can play the blame it on the pubbie game, get 0 as president, but will get no bail out because the republicans won't go along and the public is outraged, or, you can throw 0 under the bus and work a deal which is in the best interests of the country.
As I see it, that is the real choice on the table, and if McCain were to reject any and all financial assistance, then he loses.
It's a bit disheartening. I spent the summer not caring which of those two bozos won and I'm almost back there again.
I don’t know about that. It does seem that McCain is pissed that he’s been cheated out of his big leadership moment. He wanted to sweep into DC with a huge fanfare, get a bill - any bill - passed and then run back out on the campaign trail and talk about what a unifier he is.
Instead, he got a “seagull” moment. He dropped in, made a lot of noise, crapped all over everything, and then left.
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