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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Whatever you like, defeatist...
Because, of course, two third of voters in republican primaries are self IDed conservatives, and they all voted for Hunter, but wicked space aliens from Diebold rigged the votes...
Leave, defeatist socialist tool...
People here are still living in denial, singing a script that was false the instant it was penned. The party simple isn't as right as you pretended it was, your issues were not the ones of greatest burning concern, and your anathemas had and have no sting whatever. Because you aren't the conservative movement nor the Republican party.
And these days, frankly, you are instead just self important whining socialist tools.
I'm voting for him, because he is at least a hawk.
And you can stick that...
Now go back to your knitting, gramps, and let those of us still in touch with reality run the bloody country...
The Rats may not have a cake walk when they get done. I realize that rats have more sheep qualities than GOP.
What the frack are you people smoking, anyway?
Buchanan? You are honestly going to sit here and pretend that Buchanan represents the present base and glorious future of the modern republican party, after a primary season in which Thompson, Hunter and Tancredo, between them, couldn't muster 10% of the republican primary vote?
Buchanan couldn't win a race for dogcatcher in the most conservative district in the country on his best day.
Then these genuises pretend to lecture men winning millions of votes on how to get elected...
Suuure you can, you old goat. Of course a liberal in his 70's can re-energize the Republican party. Get ready for 9 more months of having our intelligence insulted by such comments. Reality: Dem nominee with likley be Obama. Obama is 46 years old and full of energy. McCain will look, sound and act O-L-D compared to a youthful, charismatic foe. Obama, once he becomes the nominee of his party, will have to campaign more to the center. Our candidate - the old guy - will have to campaign for voters in his own party. I think the Democrats are very happy right now - and delighted that our nominee is so beatable.
I wish that weren't so, but it is. We destroyed president Bush as insufficiently puritanical, for example. That has consequences.
So face them already, and deal.
I have to agree. The base abandoned the leaders. Most Republicans, like most Americans, go along with what the mainstream media tells them.
The choice in the fall, essentially, will be Nixon or McGovern. I choose Nixon, the lesser of two socialists.
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