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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Nah, trust me, he wants to sausage the conservatives.
They think that his past stances on immigration are too liberal
I wonder about the truth in that statement.....maybe there's a lot of truth....maybe none.
Stamp out daily sex! Oops! That should have been “dyslexia.” Sorry.
That is funny. I figured that’s what you meant, but I think I like sausage better.
‘e’s ‘olding me sausage...
...er...’ostage.
-ct
Yep,
He'll be porking the country alright.
He IS a weiner.
Somehow when I read that my butt cheeks tightened up, almost to a cramp.
This statement it true. He condition is public enough for this doctor to know.
This statement it true. His condition is public enough for this doctor to know.
Freudian slip? McCain has made a career of 'playing hide the sausage' with conservatives.
Your title says it all!
how would you know about Lymph Nodes?
Why, I never sausage a headline!
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