So, in other words, conservatives are so upset that McCain criticized Cunningham for his speech about Obama, a man presumedly they do not want to become president, that they will stay home on election day to the point where they will allow Obama to win anyway?
They are upset about betrayal.
Better the enemy you know than the traitor who pretends to be your friend.
Yes.
Well when you put it like that it does sound silly . . .
Problem is McCain attacked a popular conservative radio talk show host in Ohio, so he started a personal feud with a guy whose own business interest is to have controversy and self-promotion. I hope the talk show host ends up being the bigger man. The problem is when you have a Presidential candidate who needs radio talk show hosts to be bigger men than he is.
Maybe they were willing to hold their noses and vote for McCain. Now they may not even do that.
But, But, But he used Baarack’s middle name Huesein which is something he should not have done. His Majesty’s middle name is not to be used.
I don't think you remotely understand the depth of betrayal that some life long Republicans (1st vote 1963) like me feel toward the Republican Party.
That about somes it up...Cut off nose, spite face
You just don’t get it pal!
I have to admit that I only hear him on Sunday nites in the old Drudge time-slot, but am not that impressed with him.
“So, in other words, conservatives are so upset that McCain criticized Cunningham for his speech about Obama, a man presumedly they do not want to become president, that they will stay home on election day to the point where they will allow Obama to win anyway?”
Bizarre aint it?
But not a bizarre as getting a guy on board your campaign and then the first moment he speaks on your behalf running to the same press that smeared you a few days before and apologizing for comments towards a candidate who have gotten overly favorable press treatment, over comments almost nobody would know about if McCain himself hadnt made a stink about it.
McCain has, once again, shown exactly why conservatives distrust him. He is meaner to us than he is to the most liberal member of the US Senate. Did he have to be so derogatory towards Bill Cunningham? Cunningham went out of his way to reach out to McCain, and McCain slaps him down?!?
Perhaps McCain could have distanced himself from specific comments without being so over-the-top in his language. Perhaps he could have avoided making a big deal of it. Lots of stuff is said on campaigns. Hillary is doing 10X more than this guy did.
If he dismisses supporting conservatives, yet wont abide a ‘disparagement’ of Obama, one is left wondering what exactly he wants us to do. Stay home on election day?
I said this about Fred Thompson in the fall: I cannot want this man to be President any more than he wants himself to be President. If McCain wants to be President, he has to go after Obama and he has to be comfortable with conservative allies who do the same in their own way. Nothing Cunningham said was beyond the pale, and for McCain to suggest it was leaves us .... where?
“they will allow Obama to win anyway?”
The question is: Will McCain allow Obama to win through his failure to rally the base by talking down to it and his attempt to take off the table the real questions about Barack Hussein Obama and his record, marxist pals, Muslim roots, left-liberal views, distorted bio and non-accomplishments? In other words the ‘peeling the bark’ that Cunningham spoke of, does McCain want to lose to Obama due to the fact that he doesnt want that peeling done?
Succinct, clear and to the point. Good post.