Just another pretty face on NBC news.
Posted on 07/09/2008 8:54:16 AM PDT by VA Voter
Mike Murphy, the garrulous Republican political strategist who helped Sen. John McCain dump the Karl Rove-led George W. Bush candidacy on its butt in the 2000 New Hampshire primary, is joining NBC News in an expanded role as political pundit.
[ed. DEFINES MURPHY'S ASSESSMENT OF MCCAIN'S CHANCES???]
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No bias here.
Mike Murphy, the garrulous Republican political strategist who helped Sen. John McCain dump the Karl Rove-led George W. Bush candidacy on its butt in the 2000 New Hampshire primary...
How’d he do after New Hampshire? I thought so.
follow the money
Murphy is sooooo lame, why else would NBC hire him?
Just another pretty face on NBC news.
The real reason.... that McCain is pretty much toast in 2008....A GOP Liberal against a DNC Liberal always favors the DNC.
I guess this guy realizes that the best way not to sink with the Titanic is to not board the Titanic in the first place
Nice hair.
I get a kick out of Murph.
He’s the one who called Hillary “Ed Muskie in a pantsuit”
I honestly do not think that McCain can be managed. I believe his campaign will blunder from issue to issue and desperate ploy to desperate ploy without theme or coherence until the final act is pathetic. I hope I am wrong but I'm not here to wallow in false hope but to call them as I see 'em.
“The real reason.... that McCain is pretty much toast in 2008”
That is precisely the conclusion the LA times wants you to draw. Thanks for playing.
Remarks by John McCain
Denver, CO
7/7/08
“Small businesses are the job engine of America, and I will make it easier for them to grow and create more jobs. My opponent wants to make it harder by imposing a “pay or play” health mandate on small business. This adds $12,000 to the cost of employing anyone with a family. That means new jobs will not be created. It means existing employees will have their wages cut to pay for this mandate. My plan attacks the real problems of healthcare — cost, availability and portability.”
“We need to keep the IRS from taking more of your income and making life harder for small business. If you believe you should pay more taxes, I am the wrong candidate for you. Senator Obama is your man. The choice in this election is stark and simple. Senator Obama will raise your taxes. I won’t. I will cut them where I can. Jobs are the most important thing our economy creates. When you raise taxes in a bad economy you eliminate jobs. I’m not going to let that happen.”
“Senator Obama’s tax increases will hurt the economy even more, and destroy jobs across this country. If you are one of the 23 million small business owners in America who files as an individual rate payer, Senator Obama is going to raise your tax rates. If you have an investment for your child’s education or own a mutual fund or a stock in a retirement plan, he is going to raise your taxes. He will raise estate taxes to 45 percent. I propose to cut them to 15 percent. His plan will hurt the American worker and family. It will hurt the economy and cost us jobs. For those of you with children, I will double the child deduction from $3,500 to $7,000 for every dependent, in every family in America. At a time of increasing gas and food prices, American families need tax relief and I, not my opponent, will deliver it.”
“My opponent believes America would be better off by refusing opportunities to sell in growing foreign markets. But protectionism not only puts a hidden tax on almost everything you buy, but it undermines American competitiveness and costs jobs.”
“When I’m president, I will order a stem to stern review of government, modernize how it does business and save billions of dollars. I will veto every single bill with wasteful spending. We aren’t going to continue mortgaging this country’s future for things Americans don’t want or need. My opponent has a very different record on this issue. He has sought millions upon millions of dollars in earmarks since his election to the Senate. In 2007 alone, Senator Obama requested nearly $100 million for earmark projects. I have never asked for a single earmark in my entire career. He supported the $300 billion pork laden agricultural subsidy bill. I opposed it. He voted for an energy bill stuffed with give-aways to oil compan ies at a time of record profits. I voted against it.”
“My opponent’s answer to the Lexington Project is no; no to more drilling; no to more nuclear power; no to research prizes that help solve the problem of affordable electric cars. For a guy whose “official seal” carried the motto, “Yes, we can,” Senator Obama’s agenda sure has a whole lot of “No, we can’t.” The Lexington Project will create millions of jobs, help protect our environment, improve our security, and solve the nation’s energy problems.”
If only Harold Wolfson had gone to NBC instead of FNC.
Then all the ugly dogs would be on one channel.
Why as a political pundit? Why not just make him the new Tim Russert. Russert came out of the Cuomo administration, but was able to be totally non-biased, so why can’t this guy be non-partisan?
Well, how did his strategies work out for McCain in the Carolinas in '00?
lol!
6. The house should pass every conceivable energy measure such as drilling in Anwar, drilling offshore and around Florida etc. providing for refineries, providing for nuclear power plants and let the Democrats and the Rinos oppose them and create a climate in which the people can direct their rage about gas prices at the Democrats.
7. The reality is of course is it's all too late for this and any other intelligent policies which might have saved the Republican Party from the disaster which is facing us. Many of our problems have been brought on by Iraq and there too we could have done much better in a public-relations sense. Alas it is all too late now. There is nothing left but to go the polls and vote for the most conservative man on the ticket who has a chance of winning. Let's fight the good fight and go down like soldiers.
“I honestly do not think that McCain can be managed. I believe his campaign will blunder from issue to issue and desperate ploy to desperate ploy without theme or coherence until the final act is pathetic. I hope I am wrong but I’m not here to wallow in false hope but to call them as I see ‘em.”
Perhaps you and I are following different campaigns so just for the hell of it why dont you in DETAIL lay out EXACTLY what McCain is doing wrong and then draw a parallel with what we are hearing from the inside the beltway geniuses is a “brilliant” campaign. Help all of us understand what Hussein is doing that is so “brilliant”. Is it his 180 on every single issue? Is he being brilliant because the media says so? Do you believe EVERYTHING you read in the lib media? And just WHAT is McCain doing wrong? be specific, “jumping from issue to issue” doesn’t cut it> I have watched him, he speaks about Iraq, same message as always, he speaks about abortion, same message as always, he has spoken about gun rights, no change there either. Now he has said he will balance the budget in his first term. Hussein as said “impossible”, not why it is, just is and he apparently will not even try because “to much needs to be done and investments (read tax increases) need to be made.
McCain has called for 10 debates, Hussein has run after saying “I’ll meet McCain anytime any place” McCain’s message is experience and character, legitimacy and focus while Hussein’s message so far is in essence, “It isn’t what I’ve said it’s what I am saying now”
So tell me about how awful McCain’s campaign is and do so without plagiarizing the panelists on the Brit Hume show who seem to hold the same views you do but yet cannot explain why he is so close in the polls nor why Hussein’s negatives have sky rocketed since the lib primary ended and McCain coincidentally started to run what many here are calling “awful” ads.
Feel free to get together with your other McClain bashing friends in order to come up with some sort of an explanation that makes at least a bit of sense.
Otherwise, go sodomize yourself.
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