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McCain twice flirted with the Democratic Party
NYT via MSNBC.com ^ | March 24, 2008 | Elisabeth Bumiller

Posted on 03/24/2008 8:15:56 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

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To: Hildy
Actually, I'm tired of the ignorance. True Conservatives are smart, savvy, well-read, and understand the issues.

If I am defensive, maybe I love my country more than you do.

81 posted on 03/24/2008 8:24:50 PM PDT by Paige ("Facts are stubborn things." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: Content Provider

I’ll tell YOU why...because I love my country more than I hate my party...and I will do what I have to in order to make sure I do not hand it over completely to the Dems. You can huff and puff all you want, but McCain is NOT the same as Obama....and if you knowingly can cast a vote that might mean that the men and women in the military are forced to salute a Hillary Clinton or a Barack Obama as their Commander in Chief than shame on you. SHAME ON YOU.


82 posted on 03/24/2008 9:35:38 PM PDT by Hildy (Obama: "Yes, I sat in his church, but I didn't inhale.")
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To: Hildy

So you’d vote for a man who fiercely opposes all the freedoms that our military men and women put their lives on the line to preserve... out of love of country?

If you really love your country, why don’t you put your efforts into stopping McCain from getting the nomination or promoting the candidacy of a patriot?

You either have a serious case of battered wife syndrome going on, or you actually support the abomination being foisted upon us. Which is it?


83 posted on 03/24/2008 9:50:14 PM PDT by Content Provider
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To: Content Provider

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? IT’S OVER...he’s the candidate. Do you know the date and year? I’m serious..there’s something wrong with you and I do believe McCain is a patriot.. I think you’re obsessing.


84 posted on 03/24/2008 9:56:13 PM PDT by Hildy (Obama: "Yes, I sat in his church, but I didn't inhale.")
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To: Hildy

He’s simply a candidate, and he won’t be the best one on the ballot as long as there are other right-wing parties fielding candidates.

As far as him being a patriot... that’s simply insane, sorry. No elected official has worked harder in recent years to undermine the security and sovereignty of the United States. And for what? Cheap lettuce? Media approbation?


85 posted on 03/24/2008 9:59:46 PM PDT by Content Provider
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To: RussP

Re: our discussion the other day—some additional information.


86 posted on 03/24/2008 10:04:28 PM PDT by exit82 (People get the government they deserve. And they are about to get it--in spades.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia; All

From back when nobody had axes to grind, when the Times wasn’t in panic trying to derail McCain to save the floundering Obama, and when DU trolls who enrolled in January weren’t spending every post to undercut McCain with FR. When Kerry Offered McCain Co-Presidency. Kerry begged, and McCain laughed at him.

Newsweek via Outside the Beltway November 5, 2004
James Joyner

Kerry’s courtship of Senator John McCain to be his running mate was longer-standing and more intense than previously reported. As far back as August 2003, Kerry had taken McCain to breakfast to sound him out to run on a unity ticket. McCain batted away the idea as not serious, but Kerry, after he wrapped up the nomination in March, went back after McCain a half-dozen more times.

“To show just how sincere he was, he made an outlandish offer,” Newsweek’s Thomas reports. “If McCain said yes he would expand the role of vice president to include secretary of Defense and the overall control of foreign policy. McCain exclaimed, ‘You’re out of your mind. I don’t even know if it’s constitutional, and it certainly wouldn’t sell.’”

Kerry was thwarted and furious. “Why the f— didn’t he take it? After what the Bush people did to him…’”

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2004/11/newsweek_election_issue_how_he_did_it/


87 posted on 03/24/2008 11:55:09 PM PDT by tlb
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To: Cicero
McCain is the most liberal of all the Republican candidates, and a fanatical neocon on foreign policy as well.

It is no surprise the Senator has so few defenders here on FR.

88 posted on 03/25/2008 1:18:42 PM PDT by MurryMom
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re: "fanatical neocon"

Spoken like the ignorant blubbering fool that you are, MM.
89 posted on 03/25/2008 1:20:16 PM PDT by Enchante (Obama: You think Hillary's Ruthless? Hell, I'll Run Over My Own Grandmother to Get Elected!!)
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