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...:)
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.
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
I've never seen anything like it - there's got to be more to this than meets the eye.
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.
Can you summarize what you’re trying to say in like two or three sentences?
Here’s mine:
John McCain could never convince me to vote for him, Obama and Hillary are causing me to vote for him-—Thomas Sowell
I haven’t donated to McCain as yet. Was going to but not this week. I’m furious with his slander of the federal response to Katrina. Crybaby Blanco and Tantrum Nagin should be shot for their gross negligence and incompetence in the face of an emergency.
I got a questionaire yesterday from the RNC. This was fiona what’s her name.
They gave me a list of issues and wanted to know what my feelings were on them.
Illegal immigration wasn’t even on the menu.
I emailed them back and told them they were rat’s ass crazy.
Likely it didn’t compute.
The McCain people are bent on suborning american soveignty to the NAU and swamping the country with illegals in the name of free flow of workers. Rich republicans will get cheap labor. Rich democrats will get cheap votes. The tax payers will get the bill.
Hear, hear!
When Clinton and Obama speak, it makes me want to vote for McCain. When McCain speaks, it makes me not want to.
I have never considered that I would vote for him. I’ll go third-party if I can find someone with a majority of issues in which I believe. If I don’t, I’ll write someone in. I don’t waste my vote by voting for people I don’t support.
Unfortunately, you’re more correct than not. Whatever hopes I had that he would at least give the appearance of moving a smidge to the right, have been dashed by his response to the ad, on top of his response to Bill Cunningham and all the other issues on which he’s disappointed us. As his peculiar approach to a campaign unfolds, I am beginning to see him as a naive, political idiot.