McCain Gains on the Right

New York Post ^ | 2/3/06 | DEBORAH ORIN

[Vaquero]

"I, on the other hand, can see myself voting for McCain in one set of circumstances - if it was him or a Demoncrat getting into the WH. Sorry - but any Demoncrat would be worse than McCain."

Here is my take on it......if it looked like the congress was going to remain in Republican hands....I would vote 3rd party. A Democrat prez with a republican congress would elicit gridlock....which is much worse than a liberal Republican Prez sending anti gun or anti life legislation to be shooed in by a republican congress....

a good example is here in NY. While Cuomo was Governor, the Republican state senate would not allow any of his proposed anti gun legislation become law.

When liberal RINO Pataki became governor, the republican state senate, keeping party unity, shooed in some pretty draconian anti gun legislation.

[ajolympian2004]

And she is with exercise / health & nutrition guru Denise Austin.

[maggief]

Blast from the past ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38a489b60931.htm

[ajolympian2004]

Denise Austin's website:

http://secure.agoramedia.com/denise/index_denise.asp?

[mkjessup]

McCain would be even older than Ronald Reagan if he were to be elected President (72 in 2008, vs 69 for Reagan in 1980) and McCain certainly does not have the robust health that the Gipper possessed at the time of his election.

And other posters are quite correct about the negative impact that Cindy McCain would have on a successful run for the White House. Think Teresa H-K unplugged.

At this point, I would have to cast my vote for Senator George Allen, an Allen/Cornyn (Senator John Cornyn of Texas) would be a powerful ticket.

[joe fonebone]

NEVER.....................NEVER

[paguch]

If McCain ran against Hillary , one man would be in the cat bird seat, George Soros. This is the man who funds Move on.org and People for the American Way and John McCain's campaign finance reform. McCain's his man.

[SC Swamp Fox]

[Enduring Freedom]

McCain's recent ratings have been 72 in 2004, and 75 in 2003, although he has an 83 lifetime rating.

For a 91 rating, consider Senator George Allen.

He seems to have 'Freeper Approved' written all over him.

Like President Reagan, he is well-spoken, telegenic, strong, tall, dark and handsome.

Senator Allen is a Conservative with robust family values and common sense.

He is the son of Hall of Fame pro football coaching legend George Allen.

Senator Allen is passionate on personal property rights (he despises Eminent Domain abuse), lower taxes (he sponsored Internet Tax Moratorium legislation signed by President Bush), he's a strict Constructionist (he was outspoken in support for Justice Alito), respects our military (recently visited Iraq to support the troops), and is pro-Life.

Not bad. Not bad at all.

FYI

[John D]

McCain will NEVER get the nomination..for two reasons

1. Health...melanoma is the most dangerous form of cancer..it would become a huge issue

2. His wife..she makes Teresa H-K look sane.. She's completely vanished from the public eye these last few years..butonce the story comes out..no way the voters want her as first lady..


Those may be concerns, but he will never get elected (I hope) primarily because he is crazy.

[johnny7]

I'd also demand a full medical disclosure on him too.

I'd want a team of Republican shrinks to give him a good, going over. I'm sure they'd find him as mad as a hatter and stick his aSS in the rubber-room.

Voting for McCain in 2008 would be like voting for a dead-Nixon.

[John D]

I'm no fan of McCain, but he does have a lifetime ACU rating of 83.


For an AZ senator that is dismal. In some states a senator may have to vote for more liberal issues in order to get reelected, but AZ is much more conservative. He would be in the mid to high 90s if he were really a conservative.

[Moby Grape]

You are right...the MSM WANTS McCain so bad, since he is a democrat-lite.

I am convinced that McCain CANNOT win the GOP primaries...I know GOPers who dislike McCain as much as their dislike Gore and Kerry....However, he could be a spoiler as an independent.

[secret garden]

"It's the 'special' factor — there's just something special that makes him seem... nutso???

[John D]

Not even if he promised to only take one term?


It wouldn't take McCrazy one year to get us into a world war, if he thought it would add to his legacy.

[GSlob]

"This guy has to too much baggage to make the grade in the uber red states."
Not against hillary - in that case there is no such thing as "too much baggage". The only thing worse than a clinton is another, bigger, piece of clinton.

[IamConservative]

Did he see it in a hair ball?

LOL. Very entertaining symbolism. McCain as cat yack. :)

Evan Byah was out trashing the President and everything Republican yesterday. I think he could be the fair haired Democrat dark horse. He is certainly telegenic and has full command of his eyebrows. He is a little dry, but may warm up to the task. He has one redeeming quality over Hillary, people don't run for the remote when he speaks. I waited until he said "stunning incompetency" about the war in Iraq before I disappeared him from my screen.

[moose2004]

If elected in 08 McCain would be 72 on inauguration day, the oldest man ever sworn in to his first term. Under these circumstances it seems to me the best job in Washington would be VP as McCain would surely be a one term president. I don't support McCain, I support George Allen, but if McCain somehow wins the Repub nod I will only vote for him if his running mate is a solid conservative (George Allen, Jeb Bush, Sam Brownback). If he asks some clown RINO like Chuck Hagel or Lindsay Graham to be his running mate then I will not vote for the Repub ticket.

[chainsaw]

conservatives are really warming up to Sen. John McCain as they look ahead to 2008

Christ, I hope not. But then he is the least of the two evils. He is only just a little bit to the right of Hillary. His senate high jack move should have done him in.

[dead]

And the data can be found for this..... where? Did he see it in a hair ball?

Deborah Orin was an absolutely breathless McCainiac throughout the 2000 election. She ran with the McCain party line on every single bit of controversy back then - writing about how evil it was for George Bush to have his people secretely try to destroy "war hero maverick John McCain".

She wrote heart tugging stories on the horrors that McCain's "phone boy" had to endure. Remember him? He was the high school kid that McCain trotted out on the campaign trail. Apparently "phone boy" received a phone call (from parts unknown) that was less than complimentary to John McCain. This sent Phone Boy into a fit of hysterical tears that he could recreate on stage whenever Johnny Crash needed him to.

Ignore anything Orin writes about McCain. It's like reading a Tipper Gore article about the new popularity of Al.