Posted on 04/25/2008 9:19:27 AM PDT by Brian_Baldwin
Boy I wish Duncan Hunter were in the race.
That's priceless!
You could have saved yourself "considerable" agony by doing what I did at the first mention of his name as a possible POTUS candidate ............................
NEVER considered him for even one nanosecond!
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John...are you logged in?
(sorry...I just couldn’t resist. Just teasing...:)
He is in my mind. I will be writing in his name!
I have much the same feelings.
If McCain wants to be “above the fray” and not piss the base off, he needs to just shut up.
He also needs to get conservatives around him.
He further needs to learn that his beloved media is going to portray him as: a crook (Keating 5), too old, and too conservative -— no matter how liberal he really is.
He might as well be a conservative, since they are going to hate him anyway.
So, Senator McCain, who will you vote for in the Primary...Hillary or Barack?
I feel your pain.
Your post pretty much sums up what a lot of us think.
I miss Fred.
McCain did exactly what he should have done. Denouncing the ad was very smart political strategy.
It's a pitty so many pubbies are to naive to see it.
“Though even today, when I see Huckabee, the feeling I had then and now is, I was looking at a Park Ranger and not a Presidential candidate. He looked like a Park Ranger. He talked like a Park Ranger. He should be a Park Ranger.”
I was thinking more like air-conditioner repairman, but I can respect other views.
McCain doesn’t need your vote to beat Obama. All Freepers could boycott him and it wouldn’t matter. Old white people, the millions of them, will not vote for Obama and they think McCain is a more than acceptable alternative.
“I start to wonder, “What kind of campaign is he running, what kind of organization does he have working for him?””
I understand McCAin didn’t even put himself on the Oregon Ballot. I understand little about what he does.
And Senator John McCain says Americans can’t handle farm work, even if it pays them $50 an hour.
Of all those advocating a guest worker amnesty program, few are as outspoken as Senator John McCain. We have reported here how the senator told leering construction workers that there are plenty of jobs that Americans won’t and can’t do.
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: “ My friends, I’ll offer anybody here $50 an hour if you’ll go pick lettuce in Yuma this season and pick for whole season. So — OK? Sign up. OK. When you sign up — you sign up, and you’ll be there for the whole season. The whole season, OK? Not just one day. Because you can’t do it, my friend. Sign up.”
(END VIDEO CLIP)
DOBBS: Can’t do it, eh? Well, Project USA has made it possible for to you apply for one of those $50 an hour McCain and company lettuce picking jobs. In response to the question, “Are you qualified?” You can check, “Yes, I am an American,” “Yes, I am an illegal alien,” or, “Yes, I’m a qualified engineer interested in automating lettuce picking, and thanks to the H1-B cheap human import program you support, I’m unemployed, too.”
You can also fill out your application online at projectusa.org. Project USA will deliver those personally to Senator McCain, I’m told.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/13/ldt.01.html
Here he insists his amnesty will pass:
BASH: Tragedy, these senators say, because they all still agree on a compromise they thought they would never find on a highly controversial issue, putting millions of illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship.
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: That agreement would get 65 or 70 votes. And it’s not going away.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/07/ldt.01.html
His comments about his bad amnesty bill.
BASH: Key supporters like Senator John McCain admit it’s not perfect.
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: Sure, there’s some complexities associated with it, but as compared with the status quo it’s nirvana.
MCCAIN: Every immigration expert that I know of say this is a workable solution.
DAN STEIN, FED. FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM: This is a workable solution if your goal is to destroy U.S. immigration enforcement for the next 30 years. Nothing about this compromise is workable.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/06/ldt.01.html
Duncan Hunter just might be my write in candidate.
Wright?
Right.
I've never seen anything like it - there's got to be more to this than meets the eye.
Fred may have been the last really decent conservative that will bother trying to become President. After the marginalization and near blackout of his campaign by MSM plus all the propaganda that was regurgitated by some folks right here I could understand why Fred and other like him, Duncan and Tom, would refuse to run. Hell, I would refuse to step off a 300 foot cliff too.
If McCain becomes an advocate of smaller, less intrusive government and makes restoring the integrity of the Constitution a top priority, I will consider voting for him. If he doesn’t, I won’t.
Sorry but my bicycle doesn't stop there.
Long ago, I was a member of the Democrat party, when it was championing itself as the party of the working man.”
Remember that?
Well the democrat party left me behind long, long ago when it morphed into not the party of the working man, but
“the party of the man who doesn't work.”
The GOP is leaving me in the dust, along with every single other Conservative here as it careens ever farther leftward, from amnesty to global Warming to closing GITMO, etc, and the Democrat party is becoming ever MORE leftward to differentiate itself from the GOP.
Half of the Dems are outright kooks, nuts and Socialists.
I will not vote for any liberal trash, no matter what party initial is after their name.
This will be the first election since Reagan that I did not vote or contribute one dime to the GOP, instead contributing directly to different Conservatives that I admire.
John McCain's new campaign slogan:
"no back without a knife in it”
His bumper sticker:
Vote McCain: he doesn't suck as much as the other guy.
Sorry John.
You think that stabbing your most loyal supporters in the back, on the most important issue facing this country [ethnic separatism and our coming demographic doom] is "very smart political strategy"?
It might be "very smart" for the political career of John McCain in the very short term [when measured in terms of weeks - although it's not going to be "very smart" in the short term between now and Tuesday, November 4, 2008], but, in the long term, it's absolutely disastrous for the GOP and the nation as a whole.
Of course, McCain will be dead of melanoma circa 2012 or 2015, so what does he care about the rest of us who are left with the demographic and socio-political disaster that he and the people of his generation left us saddled with?
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