Posted on 02/07/2008 6:32:01 AM PST by rface
"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."
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The Beeber, it has been stuned.
I dunno about everyone else but sausaging me would make me, in fact, MORE wary.
For the next months and years we will have references to ol' John trying to sausage us at every opportunity.
the pun is almost ideal.
Cheers!
I think your typo is more accurate. He'll be trying to sausage us all right...assuaging will never enter his mind.
ROTFL. Best typo ever.
Considering this is a San Francisco, “sausage” is probably the right verb to use.
brilliant.
how totally cool!
Gee, I don’t know what to say! Wish I were a more ardent admirer of McCain, and not sure why he ended up being our candidate of choice.
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