Posted on 11/15/2008 8:34:34 AM PST by TennTuxedo
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (CNN) – South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint on Friday became one of the first high-profile Republicans to publicly criticize John McCain following his electoral defeat, blaming the Arizona senator for betraying conservative principles in his quest for the White House.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Jim DeMint is a guy that more of our Senators need to get behind and follow.
McCain lost because he couldn’t take the right side of the immigration issue.
McCain is not used to fighting against Democrats -- only spitting in the face of his fellow Republicans.
When it came time for him to run against a Democrat and face the opposition of his buddies in the media, he naturally became pussified and his good little boy campaign invited disgust and disaster.
What do you expect? McCain is a Lib.
I also told him that we have only Jim DeMint working for us in South Carolina now (in congress). I compared Barrett to Lindsay Graham.
I hope that it pi**es him off enough to come back from the darkside.
Well, at least McCain didn’t support illegals getting driver’s licenses, like Obama! So by this logic, voters actually wanted a President who was more radically FOR illegal immigration than even McCain!
That and the fact he is somewhat of a dunce.
That would be true if Republican principles coincided with conservatism. The fact is the GOP has been moving incrementally to the socialist left for many years in an effort to expand the voter base. The result are candidates like McCain who merely reflect the shift towards socialism and a merging of the GOP and the socialist Democrats forming a one Republicrat party system.
Hell yeah!
Let's start with Obama.
IMPEACH OBAMA!!
In many respects, I am glad that I no longer have to pretend to support him any longer. That was excruciating painful.
Now that is pure bovine waste.
DeMint has been running some radio ads here in the Upstate critisizing Pansey Graham.
It appears that DeMint has a fire in his belly so let's give him all the support that we can.
Sounds fair. Why wait for the formality of an inauguration? Impeach Obama now.
I don’t think McCain ever had ‘Conservative Principles’ he has always been a RINO.
No, he just wanted to give them citizenship................
Mark Sanford/Jim DeMint - two exciting conservatives who have alot to contribute to the future of the Conservative Republican Party.
“McCain Betrayed Republican Principles”
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I think, in order to “betray” them;
one would first have to “commit” to them.
John McCain said...... “I am on the hill-top, and must go down into the valley; and when Uncas follows in my footsteps, there will no longer be any of the blood of the Rino’s, for the moderate republicans and I myself are the last of the Mohicans.”
McCain was a punching bag for the democrats just like Bush. If it wasn’t for Sarah Palin, he would have lost by at least 10 percentage points.
Ditto to that. If Palin had not been on the ticket, we would have written in Fred Thompson or Duncan Hunter.
If McCain had bail’d-out instead of bail’d-in last month, he migt have had a shot, a slim one,, but..
It’s like Norm Coleman,, if he had supported drilling ANWR, Franken would be roadkill in the rear view mirror.
We know what Stevens problem is, and it looks like Georgia will re-elect Saxby, but he should have never had to go thru a run-off.
I realize that you feel the incessant need to post that same sentence on thread after thread, but if you’d read the article, you’d clearly see that the man is right:
“McCain, who is proponent of campaign finance reform that weakened party organizations and basically put George Soros in the driver’s seat,” DeMint said. “His proposal for amnesty for illegals. His support of global warming, cap-and-trade programs that will put another burden on our economy. And of course, his embrace of the bailout right before the election was probably the nail in our coffin this last election. And he has been an opponent of drilling in ANWR, at a time when energy is so important. It really didn’t fit the label, but he was our package.”
So, hows about posting your ‘always angry, always unappeasable’ speech in some other thread where it actually applies.
Palin breathed new life into the campaign. But McCain sucked it out when he pushed for the bailout.
I remember feeling suckerpunched when he came out for it.
I thought, what an idiot, this was his chance to shine. To show himself different than O, to show he understood conservative principles and side with the free market.
But I don’t think he could help himself. He really IS a maverick, who marches to his own weird drummer. And I don’t think he ever really was presidential material.
You can’t be quirky and a leader.
RE :betraying conservative principles in his quest for the White House.
His WHAT? Come on. It was common knowledge he was a RINO and his final election strategy (and his cheer leaders) was “Forget about me or what I will do, that Obama guy is dangerous”. Spare me the fake surprise. Short a foreign crisis in Fall 2008 he was going to lose, and the financial crisis and his soiling his pants and cowardly response (join Bush, Pelosi. Obama) sealed the deal.
McCain is irrelevent. He was the Bob Dole of 2008 and Obama was the Bill Clinton.
McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Lieberman, Gang of 14.
McCain betrayed conservative principles long before his quest for the White House.
McCain lost because he couldn’t take the right side of MOST ISSUES!
And you know that because you are a tarot reader I guess.
Not defending McCain...but pullleeeeeeeze...he lost to the economy. Plain and simple...look at the polls...from first to worst right after the “money shot” of the limos outside Shearson...no Republican could have won NATIONALLY in this economy...I don’t care who, how or what, the economy killed us...we NOW need a full throated attack on the Dems and the GSE policies and make a coherent plan to right the ship...because we are not going to win anything back playing nice with these barbarains...
Beyond politics, the key right now is to get something done. Each day of inaction moves us closer to the brink. The Republican Party needs to get its act together, or we can forget about being in control of any part of government for a long time to come.
Let’s stop looking back...and kicking Mccain...
Wow, you repeated pretty much what Jim DeMint said in the article. One might think you actually read it. Good job.
BS. The election was very winnable for a Republican. But it had to be a leader, who was willing to stand with the people on the bailout bill and communicate a clear message of how to fix the crisis. All we had was John McCain.
He knows that because it’s simply common sense. Anyone who isn’t completely blinded by PDS can see that.
No he doesn’t he’s reading cards and throwing in a lot of wishful thinking..
“BS. The election was very winnable for a Republican.”
None that I can think of...but I respect your passion. It was a good old fashioned “throw the Bums out” election. How else to explain electing B. Hussein Obama? over ANYONE? Just awful timing. Terrible...but it is time to get our house in order...
It was obvious to the most casual observer that McCain was dead in the water until he brought in Sarah Palin. Anybody with any common sense could see that.
Paul Broun and now Jim DeMint . . . I hope more Conservative Republicans make their voices heard and work to bring the RNC back to its CORE because there has to be a yang for every yin.
Yin: dark, downward, cold, and weak is Democrats. Yang: bright, active, upward, and strong would be Republicans.
No, you must be reading tarot cards, because we all know that Willard Myth Romney would have been a much better pick because he had ‘authority on the economy’.
They’re just ticked because they took a bath after going long on grecian formula.
Mark Levin and hannity had to go 180 degrees from attacking McCain to defending him. Rush was smarter and endorsed McCain just before election, it was already lost. Neil Cavuto FNC business was the best and called both Campaigns to task, more the liberals obviously. I voted for Mr Maverick-reformer-not a republican 1 hour before poll closed when I knew he had lost, big time. Honestly?? We needed him to lose(which was pretty certain) . His winning would..., I know it seems like things couldn't be worse, but it would have been worse than last two years, and worse results in 2010.
I AGREE WITH JIM! NO SURPRISES FOR ME ON ELECTION DAY!
And can you imagine four years of knowing you DID vote for him??? It is a bit of a dodged bullet. Now, I can be 100% against the president and know with a clear conscience that my vote didn't put him in there.
I’d really like DeMint as minority leader. I think he’s angling for that in the near future.
Let’s all just keep on pointing fingers and doing nothing. I’ll believe it when I see some positive action in the ‘right’ direction.
AV
Isn’t it interesting how somehow, right at the beginning of the Prmaries that McCain was somehow chosen? All of a sudden, all the governors started to endorse him just before the primaries in their states. What was that all about? Why did the Republicans ever think it was a good idea to nominate a vindictive man? That is not good leadership qualities. When you are being vindictive it means someone else is controlling what you do. That is a lousy leadership quality. Do we really need to wonder why McCain lost? He lost before he began. He was never meant to be President.
I thought it applied perfectly.
Just as you say he got a lot of votes because of Palin, is that really true? Would you have really allowed a Marxist to be elected over someone like Romney, who changed his opionion on abortion? Personally we need more leaders like Romney. I would love it if someone like Ted Kennedy became pro-life. People who follow doctrine are not as nearly powerful as those who have done real soul searching and have changed for the better. I don’t understand why this is so difficult for so many to understand.
Just would you like us to be doing on 11-15-2008, except discussing what went wrong, how to fix it, and who should be the leaders of the GOP?
Wow, he hits the nail right on the head, global warming, amnesty, spending, cap and trade BS, etc. Go DeMint.
Yep. I dont necessarily dislike John Boehner, (R) but leaving him in charge is a bad mistake. We need someone who opposed the bailouts, someone clean. We need to become the party of freedom again, a tough road. I have no solution for those prostitutes in the Senate.
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