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Who says John McCain fares poorly in these types of sessions? At Rick Warren's forum, he seemed more comfortable and his answers flowed a bit more naturally than Barack Obama's. Granted, the audience was probably more favorably inclined to him. Obama did fine. Penty of humility. And his answer on taxes was as crisp as I've heard. .. ** McCain recounted the story of his secretly Christian gun guard who drew a cross with his foot. He teared up as he recalled it. It's a very effective way of talking about what his faith means to him without having to...

McCain has recently been making efforts to reach out to all sorts of people not traditionally associated with the GOP. He appeared on the View, the Daily Show, before black civil rights activists in Alabama, etc. When is he going to make a serious effort to reach out to conservatives? How about promising to appoint strict constructionist judges? How about re-assurances on gun ownership rights? What about reducing the out-of-control spending of this administation? Does he take conservative support for granted? Does he even want them? Maybe he sees that Obama and his kooky spiritual advisor have totally freaked most...

  Conservatives Coming Together For McCain: Why? Recent polling indicates that the GOP is uniting behind our nominee, John McCain, that's the good news. Why are conservatives coming home? First and foremost are the key issues. McCain can be trusted on national security given his background, experience and judgment, especially compared to the Democratic options. Second, McCain has been reliable in judicial appointments and has made clear he will appoint "judges who ... faithfully apply the law as written..." Third, McCain has a good pro-life record, except for stem cell funding. Fourth, McCain is tough on earmarks and runaway...

John McCain reminds me a lot of a friend I once had as a young man. Let's call him "Jerry." Since Jerry's family was dirt poor, he was something of an outcast. Since I was quite a bit younger than he, I did not look down on him because his pants and shirts had holes in them. My family had recently relocated to the same town, and I felt like something of an outsider myself. The two of us naturally gravitated toward one another, inspite of our age difference. We spent a lot of time fishing, hiking, and just hanging...

Usually the guy who's ahead finds it within himself to be gracious to his competitors whereas the desperate runner-up goes negative and reaches for any stick. So it was peculiar to watch John McCain sneering and slicing his way through the debate with Mitt Romney at the Reagan Library. When McCain was given up for dead last summer, he was witty and fun on the stump. Now that he is the front-runner, he is snarky and obnoxious. Dr. Freud, call your office. They say that McCain harbors a particular dislike for Romney. And why would that be? Well, Romney is...

Talk show host Michael Reagan invited John McCain to call into Reagan's radio show on Tuesday, February 29. McCain obliged, and what follows is a transcript of their brief and tense conversation, aired nationally on more than 220 radio stations. This transcript was provided by the Bush for President Campaign.Michael Reagan: This is an interview I tried to do earlier today with John McCain... It would be choosing the judges if John McCain becomes President of the United States, and will they be liberal judges, or will they be conservative judges? That's an issue many people would like to get...

Both Hillary Clinton and John McCain scored hugely significant wins on Saturday in Nevada and South Carolina, wins which might set them on the road to the nomination. Hillary is very likely to lose South Carolina because of the large black vote there. Had she lost Nevada too, she would have been badly handicapped going into Florida and Super Tuesday, having suffered two consecutive defeats. But now that she has won Nevada, she can lose South Carolina and still have momentum. The run-up to South Carolina and the primary itself will feature constant focus on the African-American vote. Analysts and...

Republican presidential candidate John McCain has decided not to assail Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton for her stance on the Iraq War in a speech Wednesday at a military prep school. On Tuesday, McCain's campaign released excerpts of his speech at Camden Military Academy in which the Arizona senator accuses Clinton of indecisiveness, arguing that won't work for a post-Sept. 11 commander in chief. "The Democratic front-runner wants to have it both ways when it comes to foreign policy. On the one hand, the New York senator voted for the Iraq War. On the other hand, she now opposes it—sort...

President Bush and Sen. John McCain have reached an agreement on legislation covering tribunals for enemy combatant suspects, NBC News reported Thursday. Details on the deal were not immediately available. The compromise comes amid a stalemate that has divided the House and Senate on the treatment of detainees. The two sides remained at odds this week over how to adhere to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and — simultaneously — give the CIA wide leeway to conduct interrogations.

President Bush's chief of staff, Andrew H. "Andy" Card, Jr. has observed Senator John McCain's notorious outbursts of anger first-hand, Card said in his first extensive interview since leaving the White House. Referring to the Republican front-runner for president, Card said, "Sometimes he was pretty angry, but I felt as if he was putting on a show. I don't know if it was an emotional eruption or for effect." In a July 5 NewsMax.com article, former Senator Bob Smith, a New Hampshire Republican who served with McCain on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said, "I have witnessed incidents where he...

With the war in Iraq, higher energy costs and breakneck government spending, the GOP faces a tough round of congressional elections in 2006 unless things change, two key Republican senators warned during a campaign appearance. "I think if this were not an odd-numbered year, we would have great difficulties," said U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona. McCain and fellow-Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina were interviewed by The Associated Press when they stopped here Sunday night to campaign for Republican state Attorney General Henry McMaster. "But we can recover," McCain said. "Reagan recovered. Clinton recovered. We can recover."...

David Gergen was questioned this morning during a CBS segment concerning the possibility of indictments to White House chief aide Karl Rove and Dick Cheney chief of staff Scooter Libby. The “Early Show's” Bill Plante mentioned that the White House is behaving like it’s business as usual. Gergen responded: “Bill, I was in the Nixon White House during Watergate, and we pretended that we were all about business as usual. And we had a president who was talking to the portraits. It was not business as usual, but you have to say it.” Gergen later in the interview said: “This...

So Peter King is a boxer. We've always known that the Republican congressman from Seaford is combative. Now an entertaining story by Newsday's J. Jioni Palmer reveals that King is throwing literal as well as rhetorical punches. We hope the cardiovascular benefit outweighs the ill effect of too many jolts to the head. In any case, when he disagrees with us in the future, we can simply ascribe his scrambled thinking to pugilistic dementia.

December 14, 2004 - Is John McCain right on Rumsfeld? I have always respected John McCain. In the spirit of the old west, he speaks his mind and doesn't hold back. He went against many of his Republican brothers and called for an end to the attacks on John Kerry's military record. He has also supported limited health care and benefits for illegal aliens, something that has not made him a lot of friends. On Monday McCain gave an interview in which he stated he has 'no confidence' in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. McCain has publicly stated over the past...

Does Anybody Have A Classic Caption For This Picture of the Clown-Loving John McCain?Thanks! E_C_N

McCainiac was a guest on Imus this morning at about 7:30 EDT. Imus was doing his usual sucking up, but did get around to asking one of Bernard's questions (which are usually the best ones). Paraphrasing a bit... Imus: Senator, you've heard about Majority Leader Daschle slipping that ammendment into the Defense Spending bill to exempt SD from enviromental lawsuits, so they can clean up the forests to prevent fires. What's your thoughts on that. McCainiac: Hmmm, haawwww, well Iman, you know a lot of that goes on and that there's really not that much wrong with it. He did...

Schwarz says doubts about Posthumus driving GOP supporters his way By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN The Associated Press 4/23/02 6:29 PM LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- State Sen. John Schwarz says doubts about whether Lt. Gov. Dick Posthumus can win the governor's race in November is driving disenchanted GOP supporters his way, a charge the Posthumus camp denies. "There's hand-wringing and tooth-gnashing going on," Schwarz said Tuesday. "My perception is that there is great discomfiture in the party in places like Oakland County and western Wayne. ... Those aren't the only places." Anecdotes from Republicans show even some GOP faithful are struggling...