Posted on 03/10/2007 6:38:40 PM PST by FairOpinion
Barely a week has passed since John McCain declared his candidacy to the chat show host David Letterman, but supporters of the Republican presidential hopeful fear he may already have lost the race.
Faced with a sudden surge of support for his main rival, Rudy Giuliani, the Arizona senator is struggling to stay in the fight with the former New York mayor.
Asked yesterday to explain why Mr Giuliani appears to have established a commanding lead so soon among Republican voters, he confessed: "I don't know. If I did it would be a lot closer."
New opinion polls make Mr Giuliani the clear favourite, not just to win the Republican nomination, but to go on and capture the White House. A poll for Newsweek last week put Sen McCain 14 points behind Mr Giuliani; they had previously been neck and neck.
Most significantly, his earlier effort to build bridges with conservative Republicans appears to have come to nothing. After snubbing a major conference of conservatives in Washington last weekend, Sen McCain came last in a ballot of delegates, while Mr Giuliani came a strong second.
other advisers to Sen McCain are understood to be worried that they are losing financial backing from wealthy Republican supporters who are switching to Mr Giuliani.
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I am very happy for Mr. McAmnesty.
falters? what is that, french for sucks?
Poor Rudy can't catch a break /sarc
The medias favorite Republican. I alwas get a kick out of the left trying to pick the rights candidates for them. Maybe McCain can get one of them $50 an hr lettuce jobs.
Regards.
There is a reason and it is called "The Gang of 14."
McCain sold out the Republicans. Plus, he sold his soul to the Devil for a shot at the title and the devil said, ok, you had your shot, now you are mine.
The only thing McCain can hope for now is a spot as someones VP should we need Arizona in 08.
Gee, ya think maybe it might have a little something to do with the fact that McPain always comes across as angry when talking about Republicans, and yet he sucks Chris Matthews' butt every time he appears on his worthless show? Giuliani is too liberal for the preferences of many conservatives, but at least he doesn't bow at the altar of MSNBC and try constantly to stab his own party in the back. Gang of 14??? That's about how many votes McPain deserves.
Maybe Mccain should look at his CFR bill and he should also look at reports that he is working with Ted Kennedy on an amnesty bill.
Maybe Rudy is a closet liberal but at last he admits it.
Personnaly I dont like either of them.
My own picks right now are Fred Thompson, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney,Duncan Hunter Rudy, and Mccain in that order.
I dont see anything in the Democrat party even worth thinking about.
Perhaps Chris Matthews can rescue McCain with some more guest spots...oops, all that watch Matthews are 350,000 or so crazed lefties.
Unfortunately, I'm not even certain if Giuliani's politics are much less loathsome. But at least we have another year to figure that out. Would be nice if someone else jumped in though. Seems like a choice between little Republican midgets, big Republican midgets, and whatever filthy candidate the Dems offer.
1. He's nuts
2. He's stabbed too many people in the back
3. McCain-Fiengold
4. People are tired of the retreads
One of the problems McCain, Gore, Kerry, and Hillary have is that they're old, washed up retreads from previous campaigns. People are tired of their faces. They're tired of their positions. They're tired of baby-boomer Viet Nam era narcissists (Hillary and Kerry), and they want to hear something new from somebody new.
Rudy concerns me a lot on some social issues and of course the drag photos will be posted here six times a day for eight straight years if he gets elected and wins re-election. However, he's good on crime, and good on the WOT. Electorally, he throws a basketball onto the chess board of the current lineup of states in the electoral college. I'd love to see California, New York and New Jersey be in play for Republicans. If you see Hillary campaigning in New Jersey in October 2008, you're looking at a loser.
If Fred Thompson jumps in, I'm probably with him. I'm still considering Romney, but need to see if he's still viable in a few months. I'll think about the others if they begin to look viable. I won't consider McCain. Or any Rat, of course.
McCain PING! ROFL *snort*
Compare your list with mine. There's very little overlap, and I agree with all your points. Are we at ten reasons now?
That's okay. The McCainiacs have always had plan B, in the person of McCain's best political friend: Fred Thompson.
It's hilarious to watch certain FReepers who hate McCain viscerally wet their pants over Thompson.
I hate McCain but like Thompson. I've checked Thompson's positions and agree with most of them. I'm aware that they're friends. Bush called Ted Kennedy his friend, and I still like Bush and still wouldn't pull Kennedy out of a car in the middle of a river.
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