McCain Seeks to Sausage Wary Conservatives

San. Fran. Chronicle ^ | Thursday, February 7, 2008 | Joe Garofoli

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"You can't win the White House just by saying you're not Hillary Clinton," said Jon Fleischman, publisher of the conservative Web site Flashreport.org and a vice chair of the California Republican Party. "Before he focuses on her, he's got to focus on his base. And he doesn't have it yet.".......

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He's seen as too liberal for his party's base and too conservative for independent voters who want to end the war in Iraq.

His speech before the influential Conservative Political Action Conference will show whether he can start to mend his relationship with the conservative activists .....

Each of the remaining GOP presidential candidates - in addition to President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney - will address its 6,000 attendees over the next three days.....

They think that his past stances on immigration are too liberal and that he has not supported Bush's tax cuts. It doesn't help that, as Keene puts it, McCain "blew off" last year's gathering.....

Also hurting McCain is that he doesn't have the backing of conservative talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, whose program provides the soundtrack for the party's base. Limbaugh conceded on Wednesday's show that McCain appears to be well on his way to becoming the party's nominee. Limbaugh remains skeptical that McCain is sufficiently devoted to conservative principles. It's not just that McCain reaches out to Democrats, Limbaugh said, "it's that he's in league with them."

[John O]

He will carry no more than 15 small, western electoral college state in November; the GOP will be swamped.

It’s the economy stupid.

The economy is in great shape. He'll lose but the reason is that people won't vote for a pseudo democrat when they can vote for a real one and he will not get a single conservative vote.

[hiredhand]

Sausage?.... perhaps a typo? We will NEVER vote for him. He's a pandering turd who refuses to flush, in the toilet bowl of politics.

Unless some miracle happens, I'm sticking to my guns...which amounts to a write-in vote of Thompson/Hunter.

[RSmithOpt]

I don't know who's bigger, but it appears for the conservatives this Nov:

VOTE!!:

McSausage / HuckleWeenee '08 - You'll notice the change!

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Why do we want this? Do not give the the VP argument.

Ummmm, if he had a really good VP, and I was certain he'd step down or croak before he could do any real damage, I'd vote for him.

Unfortunately He'll probably do the 'traditional' thing and select a VP based on impeachment insurance.

He can do a LOT of damage in a short time, and

The bastard may outlive us all...

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my typo. Should have typed "Assuage".

Don't apologize, this has the makings of a stuning new FReeperism...

[JRios1968]

Yes...me be bad...although it does explain why your screen name includes the word “mom” :)

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Mmmmmmmm, moose sausage...

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Is that the Brat Pack?

[bmwcyle]

I don’t believe that for one minute.

[RSmithOpt]

Me neither, actually. But, I’d figured the slogan would work for conservative FReeper FRiends.

[bmwcyle]

He has not made a VP choice. McCain has screwed us how many times?

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Preferably a chorizo.

Can't be. You can't make choriso without testicles.

[Constitution Day]

LMAO!!!

[bmwcyle]

We are in big trouble but the fat lady has not sung. McCain needs to be stopped. He will sell us out.

[MrB]

That’s funny right there, don’t care who ya are.

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He has not made a VP choice. McCain has screwed us how many times?

Dunno, I can't count above twenty, unless I use my sausage...

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Thank yew!

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I’ll be here all week, try the sausage...

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I think he’s had the lymph nodes removed, and that has caused the swelling...

I can see what you mean