Posted on 01/30/2008 9:41:23 AM PST by rface
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Senior Republicans said Rush Limbaugh and Tom Delay would rally behind him........"Oh, they'll rally behind me," McCain told reporters on his campaign battle bus, the Straight Talk Express.
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John McCain will woo conservatives and independents with an upbeat message lauding Reagan-era economic values and a pledge to defeat Islamic extremism, strategists say.
"He has tremendous momentum coming out of this race, and we'll be out talking about the two issues that Americans care most about, which is winning the war against radical Islamic extremism ... and the economy," Steve Schmidt, McCain's key strategist said at a party celebrating McCain's win.
In the weeks ahead, advisers say he will try to use a strong national security message and an appeal to conservative Reaganite principles of low taxation and small government to win over disaffected conservatives alienated by his willingness to support unpopular issues such as immigration reform.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
McCain won’t be helped in the general election by Hispanics as he was in the Florida primary (or further primaries?). Some pro-border security Republicans and independents may bite the bullet and vote for him, but he’ll lose a substantial part of his conservative base. Other independents may vote for him over Hillery, but I question their numbers against disenfranchised conservatives.
What could be the deciding factor is how the Democratic base deals with a Hillary candidacy after her handling of the delegates issue. Against Obama, McCain wouldn’t stand much of a chance. The support for America’s first black (real) candidate will be just too powerful.
Basically what John has said about the economy (and I'm loosely paraphrasing here...) is "I'll need some help with that one."
In fact the entire DNC punishing states that broke their rules was simply part of the Clinton plan also. Deny more delegates from states and you increase the influence of the super delegates at the convention ( the ones the Clinton’s have been buying for years). And since these early states don’t matter, use democraps to vote for McCain like what happened in Florida.
So it’s even worse than I thought, the GOP hasn’t been overrun by moderates, it’s been taken over by the DNC.
Locked, loaded and waiting for the revolution to commence
Thanks for the clarification!
I remember each other candidate saying something about the economy, but not McCain. Now I know why.
i guess this is stupid but i called my congress critter this morning to ask that they try to stop mcpain.
funny, the young guy i talked with referred to mcpain’s anger management problems,lololol.....
Indeed (see my tagline) In fact yesterday was the first example of Huck's interference.
You’re a fool, John. An arrogant fool.
““Oh, they’ll rally behind me...””
Quoting you, Senator McCain....”F*ck You”.
“John McCain is Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism and youth.” Ann forgot the word “temperament.”
Could be wrong but I think for a republican to win in November he must have the full support of the the “broken glass” republicans to overcome democrats and their vote stuffing. McCain may get some support from the base but by no means the broken glass voters. I fear not that he may win or lose but the damage he will do to the other republicans running for congress, without a good turnout congress will be a democrat playground.
“I may be too old, short-tempered, unstable, treacherous, unprincipled, shallow, passionate about nothing except myself, compromised, vain, puffed up, arrogant, a caricature of an overstuffed politician...
“Um, where was I going with that?”
O.K. so who, McCain or Senator Clinton, will crush the jihadist’s? Romney or Obama? None of the issues will matter a whit if those people are allowed to florish - sadly these politicians on both sides are politically correct and will do little to crush the spread of Islam/Imams invading our schools as well as our government. Who running will allow the imates from GitMo to come to this country and be tried in our courts?
I’ll rally behind the twerp,heres my foot now wheres his a**!
“Not this conservative. If he’s the nominee I ain’t voting. He’s no better than what we’d get from the Democrats so why bother. If this country has to go down the tubes I’d rather a Democrat was responsible.”
Looking at history, I think you’re right, and there are some scary parallels to prove it.
We gave the GOP to Nixon and Ford, and where did that get us? Watergate, and the biggest expansion of liberal government programs since FDR.
When Ford beat Reagan in 76, that gave us four years of hell under Jimmy Carter. But it also rallied the GOP like never before.
I’d rather suffer under 4 years of a Democrat...that’ll put the GOP back on track again. Four years of McCain will just hurt conservatism as much, and will do nothing to build the party.
My point exactly! That is how McCain has gotten this far...FL is the perfect example.
You are correct my FRiend....I wish more voters would think about term limits....I notice these establishment candidates won't touch that with a ten foot pole!
He’s too old, it’s troublesome.
That's where I'm at. But rebuild a party that adheres to bedrock conservative principles.
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