Put an Onion on His Belt

Hugh Hewitt at Townhall.com ^ | 06/14/07 | Dean Barnett

[Reaganesque]

Count me among those perplexed by John McCain’s decision to go negative. Does the Senator think he’s not coming across as curmudgeonly enough? Does he think he’ll reap some benefit from turning himself into the political version of Grandpa Simpson?

If I were McCain, I’d go upbeat and explain my own positions and repair my own relationships with the party faithful. That’s what he has to do. Honestly, is there any Republican candidate out there that McCain would defeat (other than Larry Libertarian) in a head-to-head match-up? He has to tend to his own image. Knocking down nine other guys at this point simply isn’t feasible.

This advice even carries over to McCain’s critiques of the Democrats. He’s not helping himself insulting Hillary at this point. He’s just looking cranky and irritable. Unless he’s planning on campaigning with an onion on his belt, I would urge him to rethink this strategy.

[Reaganesque]

Which was the style at the time!! McCain just keeps digging. He's done, gone, over. Buh, bye!

[Reaganesque]

Mitt Ping!

• Send FReep Mail to Unmarked Package to get [ON] or [OFF] the Mitt Romney Ping List •

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Is McCain still running?

[stevio]

Ah yes the good ole’ days, an onion on your belt and illegal meant illegal.

[ozzymandus]

I have more respect for Abe Simpson than for Nutsy McCain.

[VegasBaby]

McCain’s a twit. I find it incredibly ironic that he’s willing to use the same dirty tactics on Romney that he claims GWB used to defeat him in 2000. We’ve come a long way, haven’t we? If you can’t win it honestly, then cheat.

[NeoCaveman]

I don’t understand the McCain stategery. Let’s say hypothetically he slayed Mitt, does he think then all the Mitt supporters would become McCainiacs? Heck they’d hypothetically go to Fred, maybe Rudy, and maybe even Huckabee.

[Reaganesque]

Who knows what he’s thinking?

[NeoCaveman]

Who knows what he’s thinking?

Maybe he thinks Mitt took his strawberries.

[Jaysun]

McCain is an ass. Shame on Arizona for keeping him in office all of these years.

[crazyshrink]

Sane people should not try and figure out what insane people are thinking or why they are thinking it. Please poor Juan McVane alone. /s

[TexasCajun]

Next thing you know, he’ll have to borrow campaign money from Mrs. John Kerry.

[crazyshrink]

Sane people should not try and figure out what insane people are thinking or why they are thinking it. Please leave poor Juan McVane alone. /s

[traderrob6]

Romneys throwing a bit of mud too only he’s doing it against Thompson via the proxy organization known as Evangelicals for Mitt.

[PeterFinn]

McCain is and always has been running for the DEMOCRAT nomination and I wish he’d stop pestering us Republicans about it.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

The McCain Mutiny....John could play Humphrey Bogart to a tee!

[elizabetty]

Romneys throwing a bit of mud too only he’s doing it against Thompson via the proxy organization known as Evangelicals for Mitt.

You are completely wrong. EFM is completely independent and I suspect you know it.

The other reason you are wrong is there are a lot of kind things said about Fred on EFM. In the last week there was a long post titled, "I heart Fred."

[traderrob6]

With all due respect what planet are you on? They have been slamming Thompson since he became a worry and all the other candidates since day one.

I suggest you go over their and read their postings concerning Fred Thompson.

http://www.evangelicalsformitt.org/

[traderrob6]

[there]

[2ndDivisionVet]

Here’s the “dream team” as I see it:
President—Fred D. Thompson
Vice President—John Bolton
Secretary of State—Joe Lieberman
Secretary of Defense—Duncan Hunter
Homeland Security—Tom Tancredo
Treasury Sec’y—Mitt Romney
HUD—Michael Steele
Energy Sec’y—Mike Huckabee
Veterans Affairs—Jim Gilmore
etc, etc...

[Gritty]

[subterfuge]

McCain is SO done, I don’t even read these threads anymore!

[elizabetty]

With all due respect what planet are you on?

Respect? We do not consider such statements "respectful" on my planet.

They do not think Fred is the best person to be chief executive and they point out why. They also have said several very nice things about him.

This is not attacking, it is simply voicing your opinions.

[elizabetty]

http://www.evangelicalsformitt.org/front_page/confession_i_heart_fred.php

[Neu Pragmatist]

Thomspon is like McPain, without all the insanity . McPain is imploding and Thompson will pick up the McPain mantle minus the overtly pro-immigration stance .

[Neu Pragmatist]

Your list is good , although we need a true Constitutionalist in the AG slot. Ashcroft was great , Gonzales needs to step down .

[REDWOOD99]

“Honestly, is there any Republican candidate out there that McCain would defeat (other than Larry Libertarian) in a head-to-head match-up?”

To whom could he be referring?

[kevinw]

He’s referring to Ron Paul.