Posted on 06/28/2009 7:37:52 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
John McCain is back — and he's in a fighting mood!
The Arizona senator looked even younger and fitter than during his recent presidential campaign when I caught him last week on C-SPAN.
I admire people who show character in defeat. A prominent 19th-Century pundit once said "the greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." For sure, John McCain has not lost heart at all.
Though McCain was defeated last November, I believe he did a good job with his campaign under extremely difficult circumstances.
In September, the McCain-Palin ticket was narrowly ahead in the polls. Then the roof caved in. The Bush administration announced that the entire U.S. and global economy was on the verge of collapsing. Bush requested a $1 trillion blank check to bail out the banks. McCain's campaign was doomed.
Still, the former POW remained true to strong Republican values and ran a classy campaign. Despite carrying George W. Bush’s political baggage and unpopularity, McCain did better than expected — Barack Obama won 52.9 percent of the vote rather than the landslide numbers many had predicted.
Since his election loss, McCain could have quietly sat back and enjoyed the limelight as a senator and major presidential contender. Instead, has been “in the arena” as Theodore Roosevelt called it, at the forefront of those Republicans in Congress holding President Obama accountable on a variety of issues.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
(Shakes head)
Ruddy must be on ‘shrooms or something.
LMAO!
Too bad you weren’t in a fighting mood a year ago when it might have done U.S. some good. Go home and let the men handle it from here.
If only the Founders had put term limits into the Constitution! Our government would be completely different.
>classy campaign<
?
the mccain campaign bad-mouthed governor sarah palin.
I loathe McCain. I was sick when I donated and voted for him. The Dems made sure he was “our” candidate and McCain was set up to lose.
He needs to be beaten in the AZ primary.
Ruddy is no Conservative, and Newsmax just slipped lower ... below irrelevant.
I’ve noticed some moderation in Newsmax as of...the last couple years.
******Though McCain was defeated last November, I believe he did a good job with his campaign under extremely difficult circumstances. ********
Well Mr. Ruddy , you must be the only stupid person that thinks so.
I thought he sucked. Big time.
Good grief, you’ve got to be kidding me! Imagine how old McCain is going to look by then. Imagine how much worse his public speaking will be by then. I know, you might think, how can it get worse? But it can. That would be a sure-fired way to achieve the lowest Republican turnout yet.
Ya right. No spine and no balls.
Despite carrying George W. Bush’s political baggage and unpopularity, McCain did better than expected...
Only because Palin saved McCain's ass from being skewered.
Goodnight, Newsmax.
And don't forget to turn out the lights.
So what's significant here?
I think that is pretty characteristic of Democrats in general: They love Republican losers.
It's effective Conservatives they hate.
Who endorsed Snoozemacks?
I got flamed by a so-called Freeper
for expressing this exact sentiment.
He’s free to run for president in 2010 all he wants but he won’t get very far...
There was SO MUCH stuff on ozero that would have disqualified his to be president, but ol moderate mcshame didn’t have the balls to bring it on. What a 10 year old girl. My frikkin mailman would been more of a adversary aginst this unAmerican marxist than maclame. The one ad he ran that made sense, “By his mighty hand” was run for a very short time. They could have run a lot on that image alone, but NO, he had to be civil and all that crap. HEY YOU STOOOPID REPUBS, the dims play for keeps and want to have absolute control. You all will be just as fornicated as the rest of us unless you grow a set and take these people on. WAKE UP!!!
“McCain hasn’t lost heart”. No, he just lost millions of votes. I’d rather vote for Ross Perot.
They did, they are called elections, our fellow voters are too stupid to use them for what they were intended for.
What’s Newsmax?
McCain's reason for being is to back-stab conservatives. He is so full of himself that he needs the adulation of the liberals and the liberal press to keep his BS tank topped up. His pathetic behavior easily out trumps his former POW status. The looming amnesty fight will once again prove that he is an enemy of anyone who believes in freedom and our constitution.
LOL. Yeah, well, unfortunately the list of Republicans who show character in defeat is growing alarmingly long.
Absolutely true.
In a way, with barack elected, the fast track to socialism may wake up the American public to return to conservative principles!
p.s. great profile page!
C. Ruddy, has lost his mind! What a joke newsmax has become!
No way! McPain is still McPain.
I’m sick of him and I want him to go away.
McCain can go to he**. NO WAY would I ever waste my vote on that poser again.
Thank you....however, I do NOT see a “return to conservative principles” by the GOP. It’s too late for them, & IMO, they’ve given up the ghost.
>> Though McCain was defeated last November, I believe he did a good job with his campaign under extremely difficult circumstances.
Gullible fool.
McCain didn’t have the will to win.
Nor did he have the SKILL to win.
Picking Sarah Palin was a master stroke. Pretty much everything with his half-hearted pandering loser “campaign” was downhill after that.
You have properly identified McShame. A great POW, a hopelessly outclassed candidate— should make a terrific elementary school student council contest runner-up.
I had two brief encounters two decades ago with the man—both brightly illuminated his contempt for the ordinary citizen in the political arena and bloated view of himself.
I seek the man no ill, just wish he would retire and keep his coniviving ways and disgust with the Palin crowd to the Arizona shuffleboard court.
Love his service contribution but that is all we have left.
Oh so now he is in a fighting mood!?? Great John. Since you rolled over and played dead in the last election, you should have plenty of energy to fight this time!
Umm, no to McCain.
Doesn’t sound like him. Alien body snatchers?
He never should have gone along with the Dems on campaign finace reform.
“No good would have come out of a McCain Administration...”
At least we’d have had Sarah Palin.
I believe in the Tooth Fairy.
So what? She would only be VP, which has a minimal constitutional role, basically when the need to break a tie in the Senate exists. Juan McCain picked her only as window dressing for conservatives.
I have gotten flamed before for calling McCain a creep. He needs to retire. His service in the military was outstanding but his ‘service” in the senate has been a travesty. He stabs concervatives in the back all the time. He is almost as bad as Arlen Specter.
If I wanted an arguement I’d have asked for one, wouldn’t I? And I didn’t, did I?
We're a lil testy today, aren't we?
So you seem to think that the reason for voting for President is who they choose as their VP, correct? That's what it sounds like.
So the Presidential candidate may be a total prick (which he was / still is)...but hey, the VP is pretty cool! ROTFLMAO!!!
Great pic. I love it!!
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