Just as bad as ROOTIE TOOTIE!
Posted on 12/07/2006 4:53:28 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
Former GOP Senator Al D’Amato said Republicans will "race to the center” in 2008 to make up for losses in the 2006 elections, and Sen. John McCain will be the man to lead them there.
D’Amato, appearing Thursday on Fox News Channel, said the Republican Party was hurt in the elections by the "morass” in Iraq and the ineffectiveness of a GOP-controlled Congress to pass meaningful legislation.
He also said President Bush was damaged by the appearance that he didn’t do enough to help Hurricane Katrina victims, with the image of Bush "flying over” New Orleans in a helicopter viewed by Americans as showing he was "out of touch” with the tragedy.
D’Amato said McCain can help bring voters back to the party for the 2008 presidential elections.
"If we have someone who demonstrates strength and compassion, like a John McCain, if we stay away from issues which almost trivialize the political process, like gay marriage . . . that’s nonsense. We shouldn’t be about that.”
D’Amato said Republicans may not favor McCain now, as some polls indicate, but he predicted that will change during the upcoming presidential campaign.
"If you have a McCain candidacy, you are going to capture the middle,” D’Amato said. "We will have a more moderate Republican tone, tuition assistance, an immigration policy that deals with reality . . . and stay away from bashing gays.
"He’s going to be the nominee,” D’Amato said.
Rudy's out..It's gonna be between the McCain and a real conservative...I hope that real Conservative is Brownback.
It would be worth a phone call...
Just as bad as ROOTIE TOOTIE!
I can't believe Al D still cares, but then again, he's a serious political junkie.
I predict a McCain/Brownback against a Gore/Clark ticket.
I want to say one "good" thing about McCain.
He along with Tony Atlas are going to clean up Boxing.
They will make the boxers join the Teamster Union!
Knee cap anyone.
D'Amato has a very simple position: he controls the New York Republican Party. For the most part, that's still true. In the event that D'Amato doesn't get to control the Republican Party in New York, D'Amato doesn't think there should be a Republican Party in New York.
There's a Republican Party in NY?
"For all you third party advocates. There will never ever, ever, ever, ever be a third party candidate win the Presidency of the U.S.A. Get over it!"
Then we better enjoy the liberalism the two Parties are puking on this nation.
Wasnt he found to be InSane last time around?
McCain is too creepy and too enamored with illegal aliens, appearing more like the Manchurian Candidate. Many voters will lack the enthusiasm to bother to vote Republican if he runs.
McCain will never make it through the primaries mostly because he is not likeable and you never know where he stands from one minute to the next! Hard to determine if he is conservative, moderate, or liberal he waffles so much!
If he is the nominee, he is the nominee.
I will not vote for him.
And as for him leading; he could not lead a starving person to a meal.
Hey D’Amato, wish in one hand and poop in the other.
See which one gets fuller quicker.
Well said. I like your nickname and home page, by the way. :)
I think he's bi polar.
Hopefully McCain will soon be elected to the same office that D'Amato occupies now.
"Conservatives will, of course, stay home to teach the country a lesson."
Not this Conservative! McCain is not my favorite, but I would support anyone against Hillary. The damage she would do to my country, the leftists she would appoint, would wound the country for generations, and would make it impossible to defend against our enemies."
This one also. I would vote for Attila the Hun rather than see another President Clinton.
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