Posted on 04/04/2006 8:01:36 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Good. Then he should appear at a fundraiser with Allen. No hugging allowed though! ;-)
later read
everything seems to be falling into place for the McCainiacs
Yea I've been wondering about that. It seems like McCain is being verrrrrrrry careful this time around. He's taking no chances - he wants the presidency real bad! But that aside he should help out his fellow Republicans no matter what.
Webb is going to have to take positions on issues. This is going to be interesting, because the primary voting democrat is a liberal; is Webb?
>This is going to be interesting, because the primary voting democrat is a liberal; is Webb?<
Don't think for one moment the VA democrat party leaders aren't playing chess, here. They are looking to run Mark Warner for President, and they are betting that he's a shoe-in against McPain. They'll get the party faithful marshalled into place. Mark (warner) my word.
"Former Navy Secretary James Webb"
IIRC, this is the guy on whose watch the Kerry discharge matter transpired, and he refused to tell what he knew during 2004.......incidentally, McCain's activities and statements as a POW were (at minimum) a topic of discussion at a time when Webbs position(s) in govt were relevant also.
http://www.webbforsenate.com/biography/index.php
I am from Northern Virginia and I will not vote for a Dem or McCain. James Webb is an interesting man but I don't trust anyone who torpedoes a conservative. McCain is insane.
They've been annoying here on free republic lately, they are the largest part of the "Hillary can't be beat, we need McCain" crowd.
And the McCainiacs are speaking of Hillary like she has supernatural powers of mind control.
McCain knows he won't surivive the primary without Hillary being built up to mythological status and with anybody running to the right of him.
I doubt he will do anything to help Allen.
Varies from issue to issue, but he is a bit out there.
Him and Oliver North have one hell of a nasty rivalry going back decades, as do some other conservatives, but some libs have issues with him too.
However, its pretty clear he has changed more then a bit over the years and has been drifting left for some time now.
*** ping ***
Sen. Allen ping.
I read just last week how the Dems' attempts at getting Iraqi veterans to run in races was not faring well at all.
Harris Miller?
Never heard of him. How can he beat James Webb 2 months from now?
Maybe we can Freep the demonratz' primary?
Abortion? Gays in the military? Flag Amendment? Does he still believe that Women don't belong in the service academies? Immigration? Chain immigration? Homosexual (polygamous/polyamorous) marriage? If he has shifted views on so many of these things you need to wonder what he was doing in the Reagan Administration to begin with.
Since when has McCain helped out repubs - McCain helps himself - and that's why I don't like him.
And .. when I saw McCain's wife wearing a "Hillary" pin - that did it for me.
Bill Kristol goes party-building
By W. James Antle III
web posted March 13, 2000
From their perch at The Weekly Standard, William Kristol and David Brooks embraced John McCain and claimed that he was engaged in a process of Schumpterian "creative destruction" that would ultimately revive the GOP's electoral fortunes. They went on to ascribe all sorts of unlikely virtues to the senator and tut-tut conservatives short-sighted enough to oppose him.
Now that it is clear that the only creative destruction that has taken place within the Republican presidential race was of McCain's candidacy, it might be time to revisit Kristol's and Brooks' thesis. Their political strategy in essence was this: Jettison the boorish white Southerners -- a Weekly Standard bete noire held responsible for much of the GOP's troubles within its pages -- and their Christian right friends, as well as other elements of the Republican coalition easily caricatured by the Democrats. Replace them with a party that chablis-sipping sophisticates from the Northeast who dress like Tucker Carlson would be more comfortable with. Sprinkle generous amounts of happy talk about reform. Voila! A new majority is born.
Do they speak English?
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