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Howard Baker gives the nod to McCain
wbir ^ | 01/28/07 | AP

Posted on 01/28/2008 4:41:09 AM PST by TornadoAlley3

Former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker has endorsed John McCain for president.

Baker was influential in convincing fellow Tennessean Fred Thompson to run and was an honorary national chair on his campaign.

Baker, who ran unsuccessfully for president in 1980, was also Ronald Reagan's chief of staff and recently served as the U.S. ambassador to Japan.

In a statement released Saturday, McCain said Baker gave up his own political aspirations to join Reagan's staff and guided the president's tax cuts during the 1980s. McCain pledged to continue the Reagan tradition that Baker served.

A spokesman for Baker said the former Tennessee senator would make a statement later.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: howardbaker; mccain
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
All these people get government checks and pensions... Romney is the only one who doesn’t. Fiscal conservatism. Rubber meets road

Ouch! ;-) Insert class envy argument here: Oh but Romney is riiiiich..... so he must be baaa baaa baaaad. ;-)

21 posted on 01/28/2008 5:02:35 AM PST by rhombus
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

“The weakest lady in the Senate!” LOL. I will never forget this quote about Baker from the late editor of the Manchester Union Leader. His name escapes me at the moment but he was known as a real hard line right winger. In 1980 Sixty Minutes asked him to rate the GOP candidates and when he referred to Baker in that sneering way I had to laugh. He said Baker was not a man because of how he failed to oppose President Carter on the Panama Canal treay.


22 posted on 01/28/2008 5:06:43 AM PST by TNCMAXQ
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To: TornadoAlley3

More evidence Thompson was McCain’s stalking horse.


23 posted on 01/28/2008 5:07:37 AM PST by gruna
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To: rhombus

I am so tired of these people lecturing me on “fiscal conservatism” when every one of them are getting a government check.

Baker is getting a government welfare pension with the Rolls-Royce health benefits.

And the whole bunch is telling us we should pay for public housing and other goodies for illegals because they do the jobs we won’t.

Then, on top of all this, they say they have some government program to create jobs! They have some government program to bail out bad mortgage lenders.

Lyin’ sacks of shiite.


24 posted on 01/28/2008 5:09:49 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Thermalseeker
This is yet more proof that anytime a Senator looks in the mirror, he sees a President......<<

Yup!..but the problem is they have a record!!!!...thats why so few senators have ever been elected POTUS....that and their over sized egos and elitist attitude they develop from being in the senate..

25 posted on 01/28/2008 5:11:28 AM PST by M-cubed (Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
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To: Thermalseeker
Senators as presidents are living proof of the Peter Principle...
26 posted on 01/28/2008 5:14:20 AM PST by M-cubed (Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Mr. Kiss the saudi’s buts

Mr. what’s wahabists?

The piling on for mccain today is beyond a stench.

It is as bad as the days of the paid rudy trolls.


27 posted on 01/28/2008 5:14:47 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Nextrush
Will we get a McCain-Thompson ticket to mollify us at the convention?

No, but we do have some lollipops. Would you like one?

28 posted on 01/28/2008 5:20:09 AM PST by MARTIAL MONK
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
All these people get government checks and pensions...

McCain has a net worth of around $15 million. Maybe he can work nights as a door greeter at Wal-Mart.

29 posted on 01/28/2008 5:23:45 AM PST by MARTIAL MONK
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To: TornadoAlley3

More of the same old guard. It’s time for all of them to go home, retire, shut up, etc.


30 posted on 01/28/2008 5:24:11 AM PST by nfldgirl
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To: TornadoAlley3

Of course, McCain is also CFR.


31 posted on 01/28/2008 5:24:49 AM PST by AliVeritas (The Christian satan warned you about.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Howard Baker? How’s that Iraq Study Group coming along? This is an endorsement that McCain wants? Go figure.


32 posted on 01/28/2008 5:25:18 AM PST by rhombus
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To: M-cubed

“Senator” was a pejorative in the Roman Empire for a reason...


33 posted on 01/28/2008 5:25:19 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: rhombus

No that was James Baker - not Howard Baker. Is Howard Baker any better?


34 posted on 01/28/2008 5:26:46 AM PST by rhombus
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To: TornadoAlley3

Yet ANOTHER reason not to vote for McCain.


35 posted on 01/28/2008 5:28:24 AM PST by nina0113 (If fences don't work, why does the White House have one?)
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To: TNCMAXQ

re: Panama Canal

Oppose him... shoot he helped him.


36 posted on 01/28/2008 5:34:25 AM PST by AliVeritas (The Christian satan warned you about.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

I think Rudy will endorse McCain when he bows out.


37 posted on 01/28/2008 5:38:27 AM PST by Sybeck1 (McCain/Huckabee 08! Let's make Mississippi, Texas, and Utah swing states!)
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To: TornadoAlley3

I did not like Baker to start with - this finishes him off to me.


38 posted on 01/28/2008 5:39:37 AM PST by mathluv
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To: Tennessee Nana
Do you mean that you consider mccainniac to be a R? I will have to agree with Rush. if mccanniac is the nominee, I will not vote R on the top. If the country is going to go downhill that fast, I want a dim at the top.

I apologized to one of my grandsons last night - for letting the country get to this point. He is just beginning his life, and if the dims gain control, it will be bad.

39 posted on 01/28/2008 5:44:53 AM PST by mathluv
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To: TornadoAlley3
The Republican Establishment Elite are really pushing hard for McCain, aren't they? I've noticed a definite shift on FOX now that their 1st pick Rudy is tanking - now they are pushing McCain big time! Today I heard Steve Doocy say that voters would get a CEO with Mitt Romney and a Commander in Chief with McCain!

It wasn't just - what - a month or so ago? That McCain was at the bottom of the polls - everyone hated him. This is the worst election ever.

40 posted on 01/28/2008 5:49:01 AM PST by alicewonders
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