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Meghan McCain's Endorsement May Solidify Mitt Romney's Status as Moderate
Yahoo! News ^ | March 16, 2011 | Tina Molly Lang

Posted on 03/16/2011 10:07:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

On Monday, Meghan McCain told Kennesaw State University that she wants Mitt Romney, not Sarah Palin, to be the next president.

As McCain explained, "My personal favorite right now is Mitt Romney. I like that he's not so radical. I like that he has really, really played his cards right, almost perfectly since the last election" (as reported by Marietta Daily Journal).

McCain's endorsement may be a double-edged sword for Romney. On the one hand, her endorsement is a boon because she chose him over her own father's running mate. And McCain enjoys a devoted following among independents, moderate Republicans and young voters, which could help him with crucial swing voters.

On the other hand, praise from a high-profile moderate like McCain could backfire on Romney as conservatives might take it as further evidence that he's too liberal for the Republican Party.

Other recent news stories suggest the conservative base's reservations about Romney: Mike Huckabee's attacks on "RomneyCare," David Axelrod's praise of Romney's health plan and Rick Santorum's attacks on Romney.

Last month, Huckabee began promoting his new book, A Simple Government. In his book, he criticized Romney's health plan, comparing it to "ObamaCare." According to Politico, Huckabee argued that if Romney wanted to be a serious contender for the GOP nomination, then he needed to admit that he was wrong and to see that as a lesson on why socialized medicine doesn't work.....

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She has a "devoted following?" Really? And after the Kennedys, Tip O'Neil, Mike Dukakis, John Kerry and Scott Brown, haven't we had enough bad luck from Massachusetts?
1 posted on 03/16/2011 10:07:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Mitt Romney/Meghan McCain in ‘12


2 posted on 03/16/2011 10:09:29 PM PDT by Rational Thought
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Meghan McCain's endorsement has such weight!

WHO CARES ABOUT THIS MORON?

3 posted on 03/16/2011 10:11:02 PM PDT by frogjerk (I believe in unicorns, fairies and pro-life Democrats.)
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I’d like to meet Meghan McCain’s “Devoted following” let me guess..mental patients


4 posted on 03/16/2011 10:11:22 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Good! I don’t “do” Moderates. And to the yahoos at Yahoo “news”, we’re going to be picking our own candidate this time. No more McCains.


5 posted on 03/16/2011 10:15:25 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you thought the lame duck Congress was fun, you're gonna love a lame duck Kenyan president.)
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This is like saying that a dog turd validates my sidewalk. Except that that same dog turd, on my lawn, is just about the same turd as it would have been on my sidewalk. So, no, maybe the presence of a dog turd on my sidewalk leads me to believe, quite logically, that my sidewalk is actually a hard, monolithic concrete lawn.

I hereby suggest the following.

Moose
Cheese
Sister
Shower
Beeber

I will agree to chuckle at the use of any of the above words, provided NO FREEPER EVER POSTS ANOTHER ARTICLE ABOUT THIS TWIT WITH TITS!


6 posted on 03/16/2011 10:15:52 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Which has more wrinkles? Helen Thomas' face or Lawrence O'Donnells' panties?)
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Meghan McCain's endorsement has such weight!

Well now, that was certainly a softball setup:


7 posted on 03/16/2011 10:17:40 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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She’s endorsing Romney because she knows Obama will wipe the floor with him.


8 posted on 03/16/2011 10:19:42 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Meghan McCain's endorsement has such weight! WHO CARES ABOUT THIS MORON?

Big Buns for Big Love.

Moron supports Mormon in 12

9 posted on 03/16/2011 10:20:04 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Just saying.......)
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The girls she takes out to lunch? Her hairdresser and nail technician? Her massuese, plastic surgeon, tattoo artist and lawn boy?


10 posted on 03/16/2011 10:20:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet ("You cannot invade the US There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." Yamamoto)
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As McCain explained, "My personal favorite right now is Mitt Romney...

What a silly little nit wit. I guess she was stuffing her face while her father and the Huckster teamed up to screw Romney in WV during the '08 primary. McLame hated Romney and now his little precious is selling him like he is gold. What a ditz. I'm sure Myth is ecstatic to get this endorsement from a vapid trust fund kid.


11 posted on 03/16/2011 10:22:03 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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An endorsement by Ms. McCain will do nothing to convince conservatives that Romney shares their values. But maybe he’ll be able to rouse some of the unwashed, 20-something celebrity stalkers, who are notorious non-voters.


12 posted on 03/16/2011 10:23:20 PM PDT by Paul Kib (http://whattoreadtoday.blogspot.com/)
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An endorsement by Ms. McCain will do nothing to convince conservatives that Romney shares their values. But maybe he’ll be able to rouse some of the unwashed, 20-something celebrity stalkers, who are notorious non-voters.


13 posted on 03/16/2011 10:23:29 PM PDT by Paul Kib (http://whattoreadtoday.blogspot.com/)
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“She has a “devoted following?”

Devoted followers to the pig trough.
The McStains make me sick.
They need to dry up and blow away, but in her case,
call the lard truck.


14 posted on 03/16/2011 10:26:48 PM PDT by AlexW
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Meghan McCain

We'd be better off going with whomever the NYT and WAPO wind up endorsing.

15 posted on 03/16/2011 10:28:45 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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Lol I just hope she doesnt shut up.


16 posted on 03/16/2011 10:28:57 PM PDT by Maelstorm (Better to keep your enemy in your sights than in your camp expecting him to guard your back.)
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I believe an accurate description for Meghan McCain is “odious.”


17 posted on 03/16/2011 10:30:32 PM PDT by filbert (More filbert at http://www.medary.com--The Revolution Will Be Exit-Polled. I hope.)
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It’s a damn sad testimony when Megan McCain’s endorsement solidifies anything north of the belt buckle.


18 posted on 03/16/2011 10:33:48 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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That headline has got to get some award for “Living In A Bubble” news.

They really think Meghan McCain has the ability to influence a single vote? Whose?

This was probably written by someone who thinks the kids are into those new “8-tracks” and “Hula hoops.”


19 posted on 03/16/2011 10:36:36 PM PDT by Darkwolf377
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