GOP goon squad can’t rattle McCain

DL-Online ^ | February 9, 2008

[Dane]

GOP goon squad can’t rattle McCain DL-Online Published Saturday, February 09, 2008 It’s been a kind of perverse pleasure to watch Sen. John McCain overcome the vitriol of talk radio’s conservative goon squad. Despite vicious daily broadsides from Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham (and their sycophants on regional and local talk radio), McCain emerged Tuesday as the front-runner among Republican candidates for president.

On Thursday, the senator’s only credible competition, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, suspended his campaign, effectively handing the nomination to McCain.

So much for the influence of the talkers with the base of Republican voters.

In responding to questions about the attacks from talk radio’s allegedly conservative voices, the senator was gracious and even extended an olive branch.

But why should he? Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity, Ingraham and small-fry talkers taking their agenda from the big-time four have been so unflinchingly critical of McCain that the senator owes them nothing. His campaign, which a few months ago seemed ready for last rites, has been a resurrection story for the political history books. After his multi-state win in every part of the nation on Tuesday, he all but secured the Republican nomination.

And he did it without the help of the right-wing talkers. Indeed, he accomplished his comeback while fighting the blowhards’ headwind.

The radio attacks on McCain were not merely disagreements about policy. They went after him personally and politically. They charged that his conservative credentials are phony, although a perusal of his long Senate record reveals McCain is one of the most consistently conservative senators ever to serve. They ripped him up and down because he’s had the courage to stake out his own positions on immigration and campaign finance reform. Because of those apostasies, and the fact that he has refused to kiss their rings, the talkers tried to do him in.

And failed.

Ingraham went so far as to say that if McCain is the Republican nominee, she will vote for the Democrat, even if it’s Hillary Clinton. Well, she apparently made a decision that’s akin to packing up her Barbie dolls and going home because she didn’t get her way.

What seems to be going on here is a serious nationwide repudiation of the far right — at least as it’s represented by talk radio’s bile. The righty bloviators can’t stomach a candidate who is independent of their dogma — who doesn’t dance when they play the tune. They can’t accept that maybe their time as high priests and priestesses of the conservative agenda is coming to an end.

Whether liberal Democrat, conservative Republican or independent thinker, one can admire McCain’s genuine maverick status. The Vietnam War hero has cultivated a streak of contrariness that has served him well in the U.S. Senate and now is serving him admirably as he seeks the presidency. The fact that he won’t be intimidated by the overblown, self-important egos on talk radio makes him all the more attractive to American voters. — The Forum

[Salvation]

Republicans,

I sincerely believe that we must come together to support McCain, mend the GOP and defeat the dimocrats.

 

Makes sense to me; certainly hope it makes sense to you.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

conservative suicide voters who are willing to throw our troops under the bus

Suicide voters for open borders during a war are throwing the country under a logging train.

[GregoTX]

Where do I sign up for this “goon squad”?

I’ll vote for McCain in November, but what’s your problem w/ conservatives trying to have a say in the Primary? That’s what primaries are all about. Get over it.

It’s not hard to convince me to vote for McC over Hill or Barack Hussein, but the hostility McCainiacs consistently show conservatives ain’t gonna help him in the general.

I just thought your post needed to be posted again, it should be posted a few more times.

[sageb1]

Go back to DU, Dane.

[hosepipe]

Mclaim cannot win.. in a year he will just be a loser..
Unless Hillary makes him Ambassador to Cuba..
He should lose his Senate job too being a loser..

I doubt Hillary will release 8mm's of Mclaim servicing his captors in Vietnam.. as valet..

[Hunble]

VOTING FOR JOHN McCAIN IS LIKE TRYING TO PICK UP A TURD BY THE CLEAN END.

I love it!

Personally, my taxes were increased by a Republican governor. I can no longer legally smoke in any building in my State because of Republicans.

Now I am being asked to support McCain, because he is registered as a Republican.

At the moment, I am so disgusted with the Republican party, I will probably vote Democrat this election.

What else could they do to my own personal life, that the Republicans have not done already?

[AllseeingEye33]

The Republican Party has become a pitiful, direction less, train wreck that needs to be purged and then rebuilt beginning at the bottom and working our way up... if that is even possible. “The Right is nothing but fiction, everyone is on the Left.” Essentially what we have is a Socialist/Communist party in the Demoncats...and a liberal party in the Repugnant Party. We are at the point of no return for the Republic if that does not happen.

[YCTHouston]

Ha ha, I wish we had a temper tantrum like that every election.

[Travis McGee]

No surprise you're lining up behind Shamnesty Quisling Benedict Arnold McCain.

Why do I call him this? On what basis do I make such a charge? Other than his writing and pushing the notorious McCain Kennedy Amnesty Bill....

This is the man John McCain chose to be his "Hispanic Outreach Director." Hernandez is a certified traitor. Born in Dallas, he decided as an adult to become a dual-national Mexican citizen. His last "real" job was serving on Mexican President Vicente Fox's cabinet as his "American Reconquista Director." After that gig ran out, he worked (sic) for George Soros funded internationalist foundations, like the one that published his new book.

The "New American Pioneers" proclaimed in his book are the illegal alien invaders he urges to become settlers in the USA. Hernandez believes all Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the USA should become dual citizens and consider themselves Mexicans first, "to the 8th generation." He believes there should be no border at all between Mexico and the USA, ever.

And this is the man McCain chose for his "Hispanic Outreach Director." In the past week McCain was asked about this choice, and he said he chose Hernandez because he agrees with his positions. If so, McCain is supporting invasion and reconquista.

Then I read our Constitution, Article 4 Section 4, where it says the federal government MUST protect the states from invasion, and I can only conclude one thing: John McCain is our new Benedict Arnold.

"In his own words: McCain’s radical Hispanic outreach director Juan Hernandez on youtube"

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/27/in-his-own-words-mccains-hispanic-outreach-director-preaches-open-borders/

[hosepipe]

In 2001, McCain founded the Alexandria, Va.-based Reform Institute as a vehicle to receive funding from George Soros’ Open Society Institute and Teresa Heinz Kerry’s Tides Foundation and several other prominent non-profit organizations.

[YCTHouston]

Thanks for the sentiment!

[bobby.223]

right on sage, he’s a punk kid still wet behind the ears. he belongs over at the DUmp.

[Travis McGee]

"Drink RINO arsenic Koolaid: it'll kill ya slower than 'Rat cyanide Koolaid!"

[loungeSerf]

... because he’s had the courage to stake out his own positions on immigration and campaign finance reform.

Very persuasive, Demosthenes.
/sarc>

[JerseyDvl]

Then John McCain had better stop acting like a wolf in sheeps clothing.

[VeniVidiVici]

Ingraham went so far as to say that if McCain is the Republican nominee, she will vote for the Democrat, even if it’s Hillary Clinton. Well, she apparently made a decision that’s akin to packing up her Barbie dolls and going home because she didn’t get her way.

Is this like all the Hollywood left-wingers packing up an moving to France?

Come to think of it I wonder if any did? And if so, I wonder how it's working out with Sarkozy? LOL!

Whose website is this and why should I care to go read it?

[YCTHouston]

Dude! Haven’t noticed you around in a while.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Nobody at all has influenced my decision not to go for McCain more than McCain. I didn’t want him in 2000 and his actions since then have made me want his as President even less.

[org.whodat]

Good now leave the conservatives to vote as they wish, makes sense to me, hope it makes sense to you!

[quickquiver]

RUSH for Pres. At least he’s documented to be right 98.8% of the time. The whole slate of candidates is definitely not impressive. Yawn! Screw the powers that be. Queen of diamond ditto’s. Been there done that. Are you a Dim lurker? Most people don’t even bother to vote anymore, because our reps don’t rep the people, anyway.