Posted on 01/30/2008 5:47:25 AM PST by meandog
HARACTER COUNTS; some- times it counts in the count. In Florida, Arizona Sen. John McCain yesterday won the Republican primary, overcoming big disadvantages favoring former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. What disadvantages? Let us, well, count.
Mr. Romney built a huge campaign apparatus in Florida over the last year, while Mr. McCain, since his campaign nearly expired last summer, was able to do very little organizationally in the Sunshine State.
Many Floridians voted early--before Mr. McCain picked up the endorsements of Florida U.S. Sen. Mel Marinez and the state's governor, John Crist (to say nothing of Sly Stallone).
The number of voters self-identifying as conservatives rose from 50 percent four years ago to 60 percent this year, and a solid majority preferred Mr. Romney. Independents--a group that has been kind to Mr. McCain--could not vote in the GOP primary.
Yet Mr. McCain pulled out a victory, in no small part, surely, because he seems simply more genuine than his chief GOP opponent, whose stances on key issues such as abortion and immigration have changed with the office he's pursuing. By contrast, Mr. McCain backed a "surge" in Iraq three years before it was ordered, and later when that position badly hurt him in the polls. His "heterodoxies" (ask any of the talk-radio gasbags) on immigration and the environment, whether one agrees with him or not, show him to be a man, not an ambition-twisted taffy stick.
Mr. McCain, now the bona fide Republican front runner, may have saved the angry right from itself. Among Republicans nationally, Mr. McCain has a 71 percent favorable rating, and Independents like him. He could win--and not just the GOP nomination. Never count character out.
Actually, Mitt had sole, constitutional powers to nominate all judges. So he had the ability to twist arms and get a few good judges in, or at least reward hard pressed Republican supporters. He did none of that. Why? Laziness? Political bare knuckle incompetence? Ideological vacuousness? The only hint is that Mitt has mumbled something about wonkish ‘process’.
I rather think in keeping with his limp political definition it was, and is, where Mitt is comfortable in vagueness. He likes the area of ideological squishyness. This is the genesis of his flip flopping.
I have problems with McCain, but there's too much kooky venom on FR directed towards a guy with an 86%+ rating on conservative issues.
It's like dealing with the Ronulans, who will tell you Jefferson should have been impeached for going after the Barbary pirates and for negotiating the Louisiana Purchase.
The real problem with McCain is that he's like Bush: rock solid when he's right, but also rock solid and stubborn when he's wrong.
With both, at least you know where you stand, unlike Romney's pandering.
Hmmmm. I thought the “ambition-twisted taffy stick” was on the other side of the aisle.
Yeah, sure.
McCain's son is either in Iraq or Afghanistan as we speak.
Unless the laws have changed in the last 3 years, you’re all wet about “gun shows”. I attended an auction here three years ago where more than 200 firearms were offered and watched a buddy purchase a PPK while completely avoiding the background check. True, he did fill out a form...but the sale rules in no way prevented someone like John Mohammad or any recently released ex-con to come in an purchase a gun.
now how is john freaking mccain any better? oh yeah.. the MSM ignores his flip flops and covers for him. He will be no better than hillary. I won’t vote for him. If the rest of the world wants him okay.
A man with “character” does NOT do what he did to the wife who remained faithful to him when he was a POW. He’s vile.
Let’s try to remember that Kennedy was Reagan’s THIRD choice and it was RINOs that kept Bork off the bench.
The Facts About Gun Shows (Cato, 2000)
But of course you have some non-verifiable anecdotal evidence to the contrary...
Because it has become very common in the past year for FRiberals to excuse liberalism by saying, "Reagan did it too," it reminds me of how grade-school siblings act.
My wife bought a gun at a gun show last month (in Virginia no less) and had to fill out the exact same forms that you fill out in a gun store and the exact same FBI/state police check was done.
As far as I know, gun dealers can sell certain guns defined as “collector’s pieces” without any checks (though they usually do it anyway). However, this is for truly collectible guns and I really doubt that anyone is going to spend over $10,000 on a Civil War era revolver and use it to commit a crim.
And he appointed O'Connor too. She worked out soooooooooo well too. Didnt she.
The “gun show loophole” is a flat-out lie. Proponents of closing something that doesn’t exist are either liars or fools. It’s really that simple.
And, HW who basically got elected because of Reagan, couldn’t run away fast enough from mean, old Reaganism and promptly blew his re-election.
NO BACKGROUND CHECKS...We here in Virginia had a little incident at one of our state institutions of higher learning last year. Perhaps you heard about it. We also had a crazed sniper on the loose a couple years ago. The sniper was a dishonably-discharged vet with a prior felony; the Va Tech killer was mentally disturbed. (Both should have been denied the right to own a firearm)
It actually took longer to get the approval back at the gun show than it normally would. I believe they have a few extra people at the state doing the processing on gun show weekends (I know the check cost more than normal), but when you have a couple hundred people an hour buying guns it will slow down the process.
The best time to buy a gun is mid-morning on a weekday that’s not a government pay day.
The senile oldsters in Florida voted for him as his was the only name they recognized.
OK I will say it, those of you who have voted McCain are morons.
“CLOSER TO SHRILLERY’S VALUES THAN ANY CONSERVATIVE’S.”
i dont know about that
McCain’s ACU ranking is 82.6 (lifetime) and 65 for 2006
HIllary’s is lifetime of 9 and 12 for 2006
Bama has 8 and 8
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