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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Everybody says it’s going to be an uphill battle, that’s politician talk for “keep donating”.
I’m not a Republican. Never was. Never voted for a rat or a rino.
Good for you, took me a while to realize that voting for the lesser of two evils every time was taking us further and further to the left...
Really? Exactly what is a true conservative...If you back McCain with glee you can not be one...based on McCain’s voting record and continuous betrayal of conservatives while a Senator.
Even if McCain is elected, conservatives still lose, the borders become even more open, talk radio is squashed, globalism is entrenched, both the 1st and 2nd amendments are thrown out the window and we'll have liberal judges appointed to the court.
Uphill battle my ass. This surrender is already a done deal no matter who wins the election.
It will be a very cold day in hell before I vote for any of these 3 "front runners"
You know...I think the GOP foisted a really bad candidate on the electorate. He can not win. I already feel bad...first time I won’t be voting for the Repub presidential candidate. Thank you GOP-you stink.
**McCain: “Winning in the fall will be ‘uphill battle’ **
But it can happen!
Party leaders are sellouts most of the time. I have no doubt they will rally to McCain, however, I do not know if they can deliver the base.
McCain did not support extending the Bush tax cuts so why should I believe he will cut taxes or even maintain the Bush tax cuts?
By the way I did not call you names. I think you are an enthusiastic McCain supporter-good for you. However, I maintain that McCain is a very bad choice for the Repub nominee and will surely lose.
Bush pere was a squish of the same variety. And Ford. And Nixon. And Eisenhower. And Hoover. The only real conservative in the white house since Calvin Coolidge was Reagan, and he had liberal congresses that kept his accomplishments to exactly the same combination of lower taxes and hawkish foreign policy, that all the others managed to accomplish.
You are living in a delusion about how conservative the country and the party have actually been in the past. McCain is square in the middle of what we have actually settled for my entire life. Reagan fought for more, he and Newt are about the only ones who did, and both failed to get anything more than the Bushes etc. Both depended, even to get the chance, on immediately prior liberal overreaching and disasterous policy, and neither could enact a full conservative agenda.
And there have been all of two such occasions in literally 80 years. If you walk away from US politics whenever you don't get that, you might as well give it up for good, and take up knitting.
I saw Obama in Wisconsin. I hate to tell you this, but he is very charismatic. I believe you will see even Repubs voting for Obama in the end. McCain is going to lose big-stupid GOP!
The Democrats might be raising, among other controversies, the "Manchurian Candidate" buzz about him in the general election. Nearly two weeks ago when I googled "McCain" and "Manchurian Candidate," I received 39,100 hits. By this morning it had grown to 897,000 hits
I voted for Pres. Bush...he was not the perfect candidate, but I felt comfortable voting for him. McCain is different. He is an atrocious candidate. He is the one Republican I could never vote for.
McCain made a name for himself by screwing Pres. Bush. He almost switched parties twice. He is the mainstream media’s favorite RINO. McCain has a liberal voting record. This is a fact he can not escape. You are deluding yourself. You might believe McCain is the best the GOP can do. I do not. I will not settle for McCain. He is detestable and unfit for command.
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