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McCain Seeks to Sausage Wary Conservatives
San. Fran. Chronicle ^ | Thursday, February 7, 2008 | Joe Garofoli

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


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KEYWORDS: mccain; mcmexico; sausage; thewurstrepublican
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

ROFL!
This epic typo has made my day!


61 posted on 02/07/2008 6:50:22 AM PST by chaos_5 (McStain and Suckabee 2008)
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To: CDHart

Sausage = coarsely ground baloney...


62 posted on 02/07/2008 6:50:30 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: rface
"Oooooooh.....I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Weiner..."


63 posted on 02/07/2008 6:51:16 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: rface

64 posted on 02/07/2008 6:51:32 AM PST by JZelle
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To: maggief

ROTFL!!!!


65 posted on 02/07/2008 6:52:11 AM PST by jdm (A Hunter Thompson ticket would be suicide.)
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To: Joe Brower; sit-rep; Squantos; F15Eagle

Damn, I love sausage, but it will be months before I can look at another one.


66 posted on 02/07/2008 6:52:13 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: JZelle

Somebody needs to send this to Rush.


67 posted on 02/07/2008 6:52:45 AM PST by kjo
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To: kjo

I was thinking about sending it to Ingraham.


68 posted on 02/07/2008 6:53:22 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: CDHart
McCain Seeks to Sausage Wary Conservatives

I was sausaged by my last employer of 35 years so I know what McCain has in store for me.......

69 posted on 02/07/2008 6:53:24 AM PST by Hot Tabasco ( Don’t go messing with Smokey Taylor. He just bought a whole bunch of fresh ammo.)
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To: rface

He’s already sausaged us many a time.


70 posted on 02/07/2008 6:53:24 AM PST by B Knotts (If McCain wins, we lose.)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

Perfect!

A RINO screwing an Elephant!


71 posted on 02/07/2008 6:53:32 AM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: rface
my typo. Should have typed "Assuage".

Would you like sausage with your beeber?

72 posted on 02/07/2008 6:54:27 AM PST by Stentor
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

This is an incredible election. I amaze daily at it. The libs don’t even need to run against McCain. His base is doing it for them. What a riot.

PS The “Straight Talk Express” was just noted as entering I-20 into Texas. Look out down there Deep in the Heart.


74 posted on 02/07/2008 6:55:10 AM PST by Hattie
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To: rface; CDHart

Assuage, Sausage, same thing when it comes to McCain…


75 posted on 02/07/2008 6:55:58 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: rface
McCain has picked up Abe Froman's endorsement?!


76 posted on 02/07/2008 6:56:35 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: rface

And the sausages he’s tried to ram into conservatives are:

Amnesty Sausage
Higher Taxes Sausage
McCain-Fiengold/Kennedy/Leiberman Sausage
Close Gitmo Sausage
Sell-Out-to-the-Rats Sausage
Stem Cell Research Sausage
Mentally Unstable Sausage

No thanks.


77 posted on 02/07/2008 6:57:06 AM PST by pke
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To: Inwoodian

“a weiner”

And if I were . . . then everyone would be in love with me,
and I’d build their damfence . . .


78 posted on 02/07/2008 6:57:36 AM PST by tumblindice ("It's not the money, it's the principle of the thing.")
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To: ConservaTexan
McCain has made a career of 'playing hide the sausage' with conservatives.

With his mantra being " 'Tis better to give, than to receive".

79 posted on 02/07/2008 6:59:11 AM PST by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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To: kjo

Then you need to compare our economy to that of other nations.....low unemployment, growth in manufacturing orders..low interest rates...stop listening to the negative Democratic controlled press.......get out and give positive support to your party so we can elect good Supreme Court Justices and fight socialized medicine.


80 posted on 02/07/2008 6:59:13 AM PST by HappyinAZ
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