He’s kinda tied his hands though, by implicitly stating he supports the bill during Friday’s debate. If he had just kept silent, this course of action could have been much more feasible.
We will lose. McCain has decided to go the Bush route of trying to be “bi-partisan” and “change the tone.” After all, if we actually try to win the election, Katie Couric might call us racists!
Republican elites would rather lose power than have the media say they aren’t being nice. They are weenies.
I think that FR has 48 hours to stop these stupid vanity postings..
Yeah, he should have done this 48 hours ago. But McBonehead missed that big fat glaring opportunity somehow. duh
Agreed. Good points.
Dick Morris is that you? My, you are are busy! Posting if FR and doing Hannity and Colms at the same time!
Please stop these Doomsday vanities. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor??
Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops
No problem. Jack Bauer can save the world in only 24 hours, so 48 should be plenty of time for McCain.
If he makes a bold move like you propose; he should acknowledge the old bill's weaknesses and address them. He has to offer something better.
How in the hell is Obama getting people to swing to him on the economy?
Let's all be honest here. If Obama had to go up against Romney in an economics debate how could he possibly wind up looking any better than a moron?
Republicans wanted the perfect candidate and instead wound up with the guy they wanted only slightly more that Guliani.
To quote FReeper ‘SampleMan”
“Pull yourself together, you’re scaring the women.”
((SampleMan, that line had me laughing 1/2 the day. Thanks))
If they (Republicans-McCain) aren’t going to support the bill, then they really do need to explain why. Otherwise, they are just seen as obstructionists.
We're not going to die, frankly, after the market drops another 20% or so, we have great buying opportunities. Don't buy into this "sky is falling" BS. It plays straight into the dem/commies plans.
The soundbites played by Sean Hannity on his show today are damning evidence of Democrats blocking reform of Fannie Mae all along the way. Even had one of Schumer, I think, calling the whole effort by Republican Senators as "a public lynching of Frank Raines."
On that note, heres something interesing I found about Frank Raines. I think this was just back in April.
THIS IS A HUGE SCANDAL PEOPLE! IT WILL DESTROY DNC!
Sorry about the caps!
He's already on record supporting the bail-out plan. This is the kind of huge, comprehensive, solve-that-domestic-problem legislative effort that McCain favors, like campaign-finance reform or immigration reform.
Senator McCain has many admirable qualities but he is disconcertingly comfortable with big-government solutions.
McCain had a golden opportunity. He charged to Washington, but instead of backing the conservative approach, he promptly joined hands with Pelosi and got kicked in the teeth for his trouble. He is letting Obama win by default.
I agree, his best chance now is to say, The people have spoken and we need to go with the conservative “non-bail out” insurance based approach and then he needs to actually watch the “burning down the house” video, since to hear him talk you would never know he was trying to reform this mess three years ago and that the democrats who created the monster blocked him at every turn.
Golden opportunity and Mr. Milktoast is blowing it.
Did someone say Obama denoucned communsim? I ran into a neighbor today, can’t repeat what he said, it was rough, life long Democrat, he is not voting Obama, his family is not voting Obama, they hate Bush bad ... Shocked me.
I don’t see that McCain’s message is off track. Obama was already in the chair being hoisted on the Democrats shoulders, then the bill failed. The notion that Democrats gain when the economy tanks is a myth.
The notion that Morris is right about anything, is another myth.
Set Sarah-cuda free ... Energy runs the economy and energy will make things right.
When he started to go new toneish and not respond very, very forcefully to the blatant lies of the Empty Suit is when he fell behind!
He already took credit for working to pass it before it passed. He also said he wished it would pass.