Posted on 02/23/2008 6:56:47 AM PST by RatherBiased.com
INDIANAPOLIS — Senator John McCain declared the battle over on Friday morning, but by then his lieutenants believed he had already won the war.
Conservative radio talk show hosts who had long reviled Mr. McCain, the Republican presidential candidate from Arizona, had rallied to his defense. Bloggers on the right said that this could be the start of a new relationship. Most telling, Mr. McCain’s campaign announced Friday afternoon that it had just recorded its single-best 24 hours in online fund-raising, although it declined to provide numbers.
Both sides traced the senator’s sudden fortunes to an unusual source, The New York Times, which on Wednesday night published on its Web site an article about Mr. McCain’s close ties to a female lobbyist who did business before the senator’s committee. That evening, two of the senator’s top advisers, Mark Salter and Steve Schmidt, flew to an emergency strategy session in Toledo, Ohio, where Mr. McCain was campaigning.
By Thursday morning, when the article appeared in the print editions of The Times, the McCain campaign had begun an aggressive attack against the newspaper, calling the article a smear campaign worthy of The National Enquirer. It was a symphony to the ears of Mr. McCain’s conservative critics.
Operating on the principle that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, many conservatives who had long distrusted Mr. McCain on a variety of issues, including his peculiar fondness for talking to reporters for hours on end, rallied to see him at war with a newspaper they revile as a voice of the left. (In fact, Mr. McCain said only that he was “disappointed” with the newspaper, and left the incendiary attacks to his surrogates.)
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Even those conservatives who did not rush to embrace Mr. McCain said his campaign’s condemnations of The Times might have given him an indirect boost, although some were not yet ready to support Mr. McCain’s campaign.
“I wouldn’t say that this has turned the tables as far as McCain convincing the base to vote for him,” Matthew Sheffield, the executive editor of the conservative media-watchdog site NewsBusters, wrote to a Times reporter in an e-mail message. “However, this was a terrific opportunity to get that dialogue started. The general sentiment seems to be more of a defense of McCain against an unfair attack rather than a positive reaction to his candidacy.”
Still ain’t votin’ for the guy.
NYT disarticle and the debate between stooooopid opened lotsa purses
The ancient Chinese saying goes: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
McCain has taken a single step in the right direction. Unfortunately, he went a thousand miles in the wrong direction first, so he still has 999.99999 miles to go, before I will consider voting for him.
I say “consider.” It is especially difficult because he is an inveterate liar who enjoys betraying his friends and allies and bashing conservatives. I have seen no signs that that has changed.
Mostly, his attitude is, “It’s my turn. I’ve been betraying my friends, sucking up to the media, and making deals with the Dems for 40 years, and now they owe me one! Al Gore thought it was his turn. Well, I’m no Al Gore, and it’s my turn!”
Same here...no matter how many RINO supporters screech and wave their Hillobama-boogeyman sock puppets.
Here too.
“Same here...
Here too.
I’m voting for him. O. Hussein and his Marxist wife make me sick.
Go ahead. If you want to further enable the republican party in their leftward shift, you are certainly entitled to do so.
Better than handing the U.S. presidency over to an American-hating Marxist. It’ll be easier to shift the GOP back right than to undo the damage Obama will do (surrender in Irag, socialized medicine, Global Poverty Act, etc).
Better than handing the U.S. presidency over to an American-hating Marxist. It’ll be easier to shift the GOP back right than to undo the damage Obama will do (surrender in Irag, socialized medicine, Global Poverty Act, etc).
How are you going to do that? The intention for '08 was to shift back right after GWB, but that is not the result. If there was an option on the ballot to the effect that 'you are only getting this vote because I despise you a little less than the other evil', you might have a point. But, unfortunately, the GOP will read your affirmative vote as an approval of the leftward shift, and the next candidate will be even further left of McCain. It is not easy to see that political ground compromised is almost never regained.
Ever heard of the ancient chinese saying about ADD?
It goes...
The life of a thousand journeys ends after the first step
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