Why Democrats Fear John McCain the Most

Rick Howell Speaks *A progressive outlook on international, national and Virginia politics). ^ | 1.21.08 | rick howell

[meandog]

Sen. John McCain's victory in the South Carolina primary was huge. The importance of it should not be underestimated. After all, it was South Carolina that finished him off in 2000, when the religious right spread rumors and told lies to help their boy, George W. Bush, win the primary. It was a victory that put the swaggering little Texan on the road to the White House.

(In other words, yes, we have the religious rightists in South Carolina to blame for much of the shame and disaster that has been Bush's presidency....). It's amazing, isn't it, how awful "Christians" behave in politics? And they tried it again this year against McCain, on behalf of their new boy, Mike Huckabee.

But this time, McCain showed that he had learned his lesson. He fought openly against the new attacks, and called them what they were. His campaign didn't hesitate to lay the new attacks at Huckabee's door. This time, he would not lose.

If he follows it with another victory in Florida, he will clearly be the new front-runner. And he may be the candidate Democrats least want to face.

Here's why:

* McCain could unify the party like none of the other candidates. Republicans are a collection of "Lost Boys" right now, desperately looking for a national leader in the wake of the Bush disaster. There is no Ronald Reagan (a role McCain can't even fill), and they know they have to find the next best thing....McCain's status as veteran senator, war hero, and maverick reputation may just fit the bill better than anyone else.

* Mitt Romney is such an ultimate flip-flopper, not to mention the Mormon baggage....There's something sleazy about Rudy Giuliani when you think of him locking one of his wives out of the mayoral mansion, and his association with Bernard Kerik. Plus, he's a one note candidate, and we know what that note is: "War on terror!"

* Huckabee appeals only to the religious right, and would probably be the easiest for the Democrats to beat. I can't imagine him having a national appeal. Like George Wallace in 1968, he'd probably win a few Southern states and that would be it....(after all, how much can Ric Flair and Chuck Norris really do for you?).

* Fred Thompson is finished and always was.....(and by the way, what bad judgment former senator George Allen showed in tagging on with Thompson; get a clue, George).

So, it looks like McCain - who appeared out of it in the bad 'ole days of summer (and I admit I wrote him off, too) - is probably the front-runner right now.

Don't get me wrong...I think Democrats can beat him, too. But McCain may just be the guy who can bring a fractured party together. And that means the White House won't be a slam dunk for Democrats, but something we'll have to work hard to win.

[meandog]

The Dems are absolutely salivating for Romney, Rudy or Hick!

[Travis McGee]

I love getting "helpful advice" from liberals. Puke.

I'll vote for Amnesty McInsane when hell freezes over.

[meandog]

ping!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This is a bunch of crock. Independents and conservatives aren’t going to vote for McCain in the general election.

[Red_Devil 232]

Salivating for any of them except Thompson!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

1974 pic of McCain

[Blood of Tyrants]

McLame would turn off so many conservative voters that he would give the election to the ‘Rats.

[Question Liberal Authority]

it was South Carolina that finished him off in 2000, when the religious right spread rumors and told lies

According to CNN Exit Polls in 2000, John McCain rated highest among South Carolina Republicans for character and trustworthiness. What sunk McCain was the issues. His big issue was Campaign Finance Reform, which nobody wanted. Bush's big issue was Tax Cuts, which everyone wanted.

McCain's biggest support was from people who listed military service as their #1 characteristic. Unfortunately for McCain, that was only 4% of the voters at the time.

There is absolutely zero evidence that any alleged whisper campaign against McCain had any impact on the results in South Carolina in 2000. Maybe some yahoos went to Kinkos and made some flyers, but McCain lost that election because nobody cared about his big issue.

[Bernard Marx]

Why Democrats Fear John McCain the Most?

Because he'll steal all their platform positions?

[El Cid]

An equally fair title:

"Why Republicans fear John McCain the most..."

Just an all around scary fellow...

[Let's Roll]

That screed must have been dictated by Bill Kristol.

[SoConPubbie]

More disinformation from the Left.

The democrats love McCain because they know they can count on him to compromise on just about everything they hold dear.

[nickcarraway]

John McCain will lose in a landslide to any of the Dem candidates. They will use his scandalous past, his age, heighth, and health, and his base (the media) against him.

[meandog]

***According to CNN Exit Polls in 2000, John McCain rated highest among South Carolina Republicans for character and trustworthiness. What sunk McCain was the issues. His big issue was Campaign Finance Reform, which nobody wanted. Bush's big issue was Tax Cuts, which everyone wanted.***

I have yet to find anyone who can tell me how CFR has personally affected them (still waiting)

***There is absolutely zero evidence that any alleged whisper campaign against McCain had any impact on the results in South Carolina in 2000. Maybe some yahoos went to Kinkos and made some flyers, but McCain lost that election because nobody cared about his big issue.***

I happen to have relatives in SC--they got daily telephone calls in 2000 (the typical kooks dogging him today--i.e. "did you know that John McCain committed treason against his country and his fellow POWs..." "John and Cindy McCain have adopted mulatto child, are you aware that she could be from from a past affair that admitted adulterer John McCain was involved in after he returned from captivity?" etc., etc.

[Sun]

As a pro-lifer, I cannot support Giuliani or McCain. I have done much research on all of the candidates, but in my e-mail today from lifenews.com, I received this: "Pro-Life Senator Rick Santorum Says John McCain Not Passionately Pro-Life Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- John McCain's meteoric rise in the polls is earning him considerable attention from the press and pundits and one former senator who served with him says he doesn't think he is passionately pro-life. Sen. Rick Santorum was a pro-life leader during his time in the Senate and he says he can't enthusiastically support his former colleague. Santorum gave an interview to Hugh Hewitt of Town Hall and said he doesn't think the Arizona senator shares the same zeal pro-life advocates have. "On social conservative issues, you point to me one time John McCain ever took the floor of the United States Senate to talk about a social conservative issue," Santorum said. "It never happened." "I mean, this is a guy who says he believes in these things," Santorum explained. "But, I can tell you, inside the room, when we were in these meetings, there was nobody who fought harder not to have these votes before the United States Senate on some of the most important social conservative issues, whether it’s ... abortion or the like," he said about McCain. Full story at LifeNews.com."

[Sun]

“The democrats love McCain because they know they can count on him to compromise on just about everything they hold dear.”

Yep, McCain is one of them. He really should join the Dem Party.

[papasmurf]

Why, because they fear he'll take their jobs as anti-American DUmocraps!




The Real McCain Record
Obstacles in the way of conservative support. By Mark R. Levin

There’s a reason some of John McCain's conservative supporters avoid discussing his record. They want to talk about his personal story, his position on the surge, his supposed electability. But whenever the rest of his career comes up, the knee-jerk reply is to characterize the inquiries as attacks.

The McCain domestic record is a disaster. To say he fought spending, most particularly earmarks, is to nibble around the edges and miss the heart of the matter. For starters, consider:

McCain-Feingold — the most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley v. Valeo.
McCain-Kennedy — the most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.
McCain-Lieberman — the most onerous and intrusive attack on American industry — through reporting, regulating, and taxing authority of greenhouse gases — in American history.
McCain-Kennedy-Edwards — the biggest boon to the trial bar since the tobacco settlement, under the rubric of a patients’ bill of rights.
McCain-Reimportation of Drugs — a significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety (hey Rudy, pay attention).
And McCain’s stated opposition to the Bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts was largely based on socialist, class-warfare rhetoric — tax cuts for the rich, not for the middle class.

The public record is full of these statements. Today, he recalls only his insistence on accompanying spending cuts. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, McCain was consistently hostile to American enterprise, from media and pharmaceutical companies to technology and energy companies.

McCain also led the Gang of 14, which prevented the Republican leadership in the Senate from mounting a rule change that would have ended the systematic use (actual and threatened) of the filibuster to prevent majority approval of judicial nominees.

And then there’s the McCain defense record. His supporters point to essentially one policy strength, McCain’s early support for a surge and counterinsurgency. It has now evolved into McCain taking credit for forcing the president to adopt General David Petreaus’s strategy. Where’s the evidence to support such a claim? Moreover, Iraq is an important battle in our war against the Islamo-fascist threat. But the war is a global war, and it most certainly includes the continental United States, which, after all, was struck on 9/11.

How does McCain fare in that regard?
McCain-ACLU — the unprecedented granting of due-process rights to unlawful enemy combatants (terrorists). McCain has repeatedly called for the immediate closing of Guantanamo Bay and the introduction of al-Qaeda terrorists into our own prisons — despite the legal rights they would immediately gain and the burdens of managing such a dangerous population.

While McCain proudly and repeatedly points to his battles with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who had to rebuild the U.S. military and fight a complex war, where was McCain in the lead-up to the war — when the military was being dangerously downsized by the Clinton administration and McCain’s friend, former Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen? Where was McCain when the CIA was in desperate need of attention? Also, McCain was apparently in the dark about al-Qaeda like most of Washington, despite a decade of warnings.

[Norman Bates]

The McCain List.

[Question Liberal Authority]

I happen to have relatives in SC--they got daily telephone calls in 2000

Maybe, but there's no evidence from the exit polls that these had any effect. John McCain got higher marks for character than any other candidate. No Republicans cared for his pet issue, then or now.

[TigersEye]

Copy this post and send it out on your e-mail list. But don't tell the Dems about any of it. They might use against McCain.

Free Republic Opinion Poll:
Would you be for or against McCain?
Member Opinion
against 92.4% 2,989
for 7.6% 247

The Real McCain

McCain and Stem Cell Research Round-up

McCain and 'the Constitution'

SEN. JOHN McCAIN: THE ULTIMATE "RHINESTONE HERO"

SEN. JOHN McCAIN: THE ULTIMATE "RHINESTONE HERO" Part II

John McCain Is No Hero

U.S. Sen. John McCain is no War Hero

John McCain: The Manchurian Candidate

JOHN MCCAIN, WARTS AND ALL

McCain Is Booed by Labor Activists

McCain Rides to Kerry's Rescue: "John Kerry is Not Weak on Defense" (Today Show alert)

John McCain SCREAMS AT 9/11 FSA MEMBERS FOR OPPOSING HIS BILL TO GIVE AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS

John McCain's Skeleton Closet

A number of articles on McCain. (some the same as above)

McCain Seeks to Change California Primary

John McCain Gets Soros Cash

McCain/Soros by Rabbi Areyh Spero

Soros' "Reform" (an article about Soros‘ instrumental hand in McCain/Feingold)

Not Child‘s Play [McCain/Schumer bill could effect FR?]

McCain's Letter (McCain aligns with Global Enviro activists)

The Turning Point on Global Warming (McCain and Lieberman Op-Ed Alert)

Climate bill sets stage for debate (Sens. McCain, Obama, and Lieberman join forces)

McCain: Global warming is fact, must be addressed [hurl alert]

McCain Looked into Caucusing with Democrats

McCain Still Disliked by Fiscal Conservatives (Club For Growth)

John McCain Goes Left for Money

McCain, Obama Make Deal on Financing

Sens. Snowe, Collins to head Maine exploratory committee for McCain

Double Talk Express. McCain in his own words. VIDEO

More YOUTUBE - McCain On Abortion (UH OH! YouTube Has a Video of Him in 1999)

How Cindy McCain was outed for drug addiction(stole drugs from the American Voluntary Medical Team)

John McCain: Hypocrite by Mark R. Levin

McCain and his Chicom Connections: Posts #17 and #18 by Calpernia

John McCain's Newt Problem

McCAIN AND THE KLA CONNECTION

TEN REASONS NOT TO SUPPORT MCCAIN (Free Republic thread from 2000)

It depends on the meaning of “never” (McCain's Convenient Memory) **NEW**

McCain Ties to Lobbyists Troublesome - Newsmax Staff

McCain Sides With Leading Dems on Global Warming (NH voter reminder ALERT

The Conservative Case Against John McCain In 2008

McCain Blames Bush For Osama's Escape

The Real McCain Record Obstacles in the way of conservative support.

Captains of Industry Could Populate McCain Cabinet ( Lieberman Potential Cabinet Member)

John Kerry: McCain Approached Me About Joining Dem Ticket in 2004

Democrats say McCain nearly abandoned GOP

McCain denies he was close to quitting GOP

McCain Is the Amnesty Candidate

UN Double Talk from Straight Talker McCain (Law of the Sea Treaty)

This Man is Not a Republican (re: McCain) (FR thread - Jan. 2000)

Freeper Alert: Sen. KERRY / Communist Vietnamese Killing Off Christains in Central Highlands... (...with Senator McCAIN (R) in complete agreement with him, is because "Engagement" with Communist Vietnam is better for the people of Vietnam in the long run.)

The War Secrets Sen. John McCain Hides

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Why don't you shut your political pie hole?

Stifling the www? Online Freedom of Speech Act (H.R. 1606)

"1606 is needed because federal courts have ordered the Federal Election Commission to regulate "electioneering communications" on the Internet because of the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act (McCain-Feingold). If H.R. 1606 fails to become law, your Web site or blog could be shut down for the 30 days prior to a primary election and the 60 days prior to a general election should you express "electioneering communications."

John McCain, enemy of free speech

John McCain, you treasonous bastard, I challenge you or any of your traitorous cohorts... (thread by Jim Robinson)