Political poison: Opposition to McCain shows how ideologues have distorted democracy in America

Times ONline ^ | 2/10/08 | staff

[FBD]

lol!

[Radix]

I do not need a bogus ranking by some outfit even if it is the ACU to prove to me that McCain is a conservative. He plain and simply is not.

And speaking of ideologues, the NY Times is rather daring in making that charge against idealogical adversaries.

Hypocrites.

[leprechaun9]

A U.S. Senator whose every vote and action is designed to support his maverick characterization, should never be a member of any party because he has nothing in common and refuses to support the main goals of a party!

He works to be liked by the Jayson Blair Gazette!

[alicewonders]

Are they going to make me wear a dunce’s hat and sit in the corner?

[calcowgirl]

So-called conservatives’ hysterical overreaction to the likelihood that U.S. Sen. John McCain will be the Republican Party’s presidential nominee ...

Have no doubt. McCain is a conservative. As McClatchy Newspapers has reported ...

These opinion pieces are getting funnier every day!

[SkyPilot]

I’m sure the dems would rally behind Zell Miller if he got nominated.

Amen.

[Radix]

Not the NY Times? No matter, same point stands.

[McGruff]

The Times is published by Beaver Newspapers, Inc., 400 Fair Avenue, Beaver, PA 15009

Not quite the N.Y. Times but who cares what they think anyways.

[exhaustedmomma]

hysterical overreaction

Psychobabble.
This grown up doesn't need anybody to tell me how to vote or what to think. CALM DOWN, McCain. And, tell your wife to let her hair back down... it's a little premature for the "regal" up-do.

[calcowgirl]

It’s not democracy when only two or three states choose the Republican Presidential candidate.

It looks like McCain will end up winning upwards of 150 delegates in California, alone.

81% of registered Republicans in California did NOT vote for John McCain.

[paudio]

Err... that's how democracy works, I think. The outcome might not be the one I like, but the opposition is a sign of democracy at work. If there is no opposition to McCain then, we can say that democracy has been distorted.

[redhead]

"Is that 83% ACU part of a press release sent to all MSM?"

No, but it's the favorite club of the MSM for beating us over the head.

[calcowgirl]

You just have to go back a decade or so:

McCain's ACU ratings:

   1994	100
   1995	88
   1996	100
   1997	88
   1998	100
   1999	77
   2000	81
   2001	68
   2002	78
   2003	75
   2004	72
   2005	80
   2006	65

[Kirkwood]

“Idiots, McCain’s current rating is in the low 60s.”

Exactly. Zero McCain has been on a continuous downward trend into liberalism. I don’t care what his score was 20 years ago or what his lifetime average score is. Today he is as liberal as Hillary.

[roses of sharon]

LOL, too funny.

Since McCain was never called “hysterical” while mavericking his way to the NYT and the Dims, I’ll take this scolding with a grain of salt.

Yikes, paybacks are a bitch.

[browardchad]

Does that mean if Bush was running no one here would vote for him?

Of course you would, but he'd lose anyway.

(PS -- A really poor argument, that. Try again.)

[lonestar67]

POwerfully true comment!

[conservatives_R_us]

“They prefer purity to practicality.”

How ‘bout we know what we want?

Dang.

[conservatives_R_us]

Country first.

[Jay Redhawk]

I have lurked around here for years, and it has taken John McCain to drag me out of the electronic closet. I am tired of hearing the GOP shills and the liberal Republicans tell me I have to vote for the lesser evil because the greater evil is more evil. Heck, what we have had since Reagan is nothing but a choice between socialist light and socialist heavy. Either way my principles and values have remained on the losing side, and it is time we admit that the GOP will not be the vehicle to return the nation to the ideals and values of the Founding Fathers. It is time to build a new party, and while we do that we must hope and pray that there is still a place in America for those who truly believe in the founding principles of this nation.