Posted on 02/17/2008 9:08:26 AM PST by jdm
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(CNN) — Likely GOP nominee John McCain said Sunday that beating an energized Democratic party in a fall election fight would be “an uphill battle all the way.”
The Arizona senator told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week that he “can out-campaign them, and I can out-debate them, and I can out-perform them” but conceded that he had his work cut out for him in the months ahead.
“…We've got to reunite the party, and we've got to re-energize the party. And I'm prepared to do that. We've got plenty of time. But I won't waste a day,” said McCain.
The Arizona senator, who is close to capturing the number of delegates required to claim the Republican nomination, has struggled to win over much of the GOP’s conservative base. But party leaders have begun to rally to his side: Monday, he is scheduled to receive the endorsement of former President George H.W. Bush.
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When we invaded Iraq, many Dems made pretty eloquent statements on the need to invade. Once we were engaged in war, however, Dems hammered Bush because they saw it as a political vulnerability. Do the democrats hate the WOT? Maybe some or many do. But just as we say.."liberals hate George Bush more than they love freedom," I think the Dems really hate losing more than they hate the war. If the Democratic party has realized that they need to prosecute the war and win it in order to keep power, then that's what they'll do. IMHO, for what it's worth.
I agree with him on waterboarding, it is flat stupid to hand our enemies that kind of PR for something we are going to use all of three times. It wrecked the French in Algeria and it is a stupid policy all the way down.
Hmmmm.......
Son of Cain.....
I like it!
Has a certain je ne sais quoi......
ummm....
Class....
About it.....
I think I'll use that instead of calling him McLame or McScum
Thank you
Do you think any of them will support someone like Musharrif at the cost of their sacred NYT holiness on democracy? It isn't going to happen. They will demand socialist left candidates in all countries and only support those, with litmus tests for support that no one effective can pass.
Hillary is marginally more realist and hardnosed than Obama, perhaps. She might fire 20 cruise missiles over the course of her presidency. Obama will bend over backwards to give terrorists whatever they want, and Iran will get nuclear weapons on his watch, untouched.
And you can help that happen. Or not. Your call.
The hysterics are coming from folks like yourself. People who, I am sure consider themselves good, strong conservatives but generally tend to wilt in the face of controversy, shut up and get in line to vote for someone simply because they have that magic “R” next to their name.
It’s when confronted with other conservatives that REFUSE to sell out for a piece of s**t such as McCain, that you otherwise gentle folk start getting all hysterical.
We are not hysterical, we are simply saying “no, my principles ARE more important that YOUR power.” John McCain will not ever BE President because if you look at his record of betrayal over at least the past 8 - 9 years, he does not DESERVE to be President.
Now you can do with that what you will, but I genuinely suggest that you have a nice day.
You can't. It is pure slander.
The country does not deserve an Obama presidency. Our dead in Iraq do not deserve an Obama retreat. The people of Iran and of Israel do not deserve Ahmadinejad effortlessly getting nukes, which Obama will let happen.
And what you plan to do about it, is go fishing. Then you pretend that is a moral thing to do on your part. It isn't, it is the height of irresponsible partisan pique. It is exactly like Dems knifing Bush over the war because they saw ideological advantage in it, and the country be damned.
And I sincerely suggest you give up politics. You don't have the sense of duty for it.
Maybe. That’s one way of looking at it. Or spinning it. Another would be that you’re gonna agree with anything that agrees with you and discount any contrary evidence as tainted.
The statement that will really come back to haunt him is that we will be in Iraq for 100 years.
Dumb, dumb, dumb and dumber.
Also, you've been reported to the mods for your amateur porn.
He has already said to Chris Wallace that he would sign the CIR bill right now if presented to him. No doubt, Juan Hernandez, will be standing over his shoulder laughing at the screwed over US Citizens.
How’s that? I’d say it’s about on the same intellectual level as all your other posts. Essentially: worthless.
“Name one controversy in the face of which I have ever wilted.”
I was speaking in generalities.
“It is pure slander.”
Some would call it opinion. If I said that you JasonC, do not have good hygeine and smell like a 3 day dead Yak, THAT would be slander.
But I wouldn’t say that.
Have a nice day.
You are a pathetic fool. You are unfit to post as a conservative. You are unfit to decide what is best for the US. It isn’t John McCain.
I needn’t worry though, the voters will make that known come November.
McCain needs to retire, he is an old washed out man, the manchurian candidate, unfit for office and exudes the temperament of someone like you. Nasty.
Give it up, you lost...
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