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McCain readies unorthodox campaign
The Politico ^ | April 17, 2008 | Jonathan Martin

Posted on 04/17/2008 5:06:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No money, no volunteer work, and no votes from my family and me. Let McCain depend on moderates and independents for such support.


41 posted on 04/17/2008 6:26:56 PM PDT by kabar
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To: arthurus

Don’t worry - he’ll be running to the left of Bush, not the right.

He should just get Shrillary to be his VP candidate and then he’d have loads of $$$ and tricks. They’re not far apart in their views.


42 posted on 04/17/2008 6:27:35 PM PDT by nicola_tesla ("Life is Tough... It's Worse When You're Stupid".... John Wayne)
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To: roamer_1
Keyes is speaks truth. He is courageous. Had he been born white, in 1740, he would have been a founding father. Sadly, we have become weak and no one listens to voices such as his.
43 posted on 04/17/2008 6:28:07 PM PDT by outofstyle (There's a rake at the gates of Hell tonight)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Too bad for him he is a moderate who has snubbed his nose at Conservatives. We could be a very vocal grassroots tool if we weren’t sitting on our hands.


44 posted on 04/17/2008 6:43:56 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: Parmenio

“The prospect of a President Obama is too frightening to contemplate,”

DITTOS ON THIS.


45 posted on 04/17/2008 6:47:00 PM PDT by WOSG (Gameplan: Obama beats Hillary, McCain beats Obama, conservatives beat RINOs)
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To: roamer_1

Yeah, me and 0.17% of other texans voted for that guy.
Alas, he helped put Obama on the map by losing so badly in 2004. Is he a secret obama admirer?

we need to stop Obama before he gets in the White House.


46 posted on 04/17/2008 6:52:13 PM PDT by WOSG (Gameplan: Obama beats Hillary, McCain beats Obama, conservatives beat RINOs)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Were you alive during the Carter administration? Can we afford that, or worse? “

I am convinced that obama as President will be as bad and worse than Carter. He has all the same flaws but is even more left-wing.

This is the biggest leftist-liberal bamboozling in our political history. Obama will be an utter and absolute disaster for the country.


47 posted on 04/17/2008 6:54:25 PM PDT by WOSG (Gameplan: Obama beats Hillary, McCain beats Obama, conservatives beat RINOs)
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To: outofstyle
[Keyes] Sadly, we have become weak and no one listens to voices such as his.

More hear him than you might imagine.

48 posted on 04/17/2008 6:55:30 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: WOSG
Then you'd best gear up for Keyes (or Barr), because McCain ain't gonna make it.
49 posted on 04/17/2008 7:00:10 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: WVNan

That makes it more difficult. I think you are stuck with answering it.


50 posted on 04/17/2008 7:05:57 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: TitansAFC; meandog; onyx; MARTIAL MONK; Kuksool; freespirited; Salvation; furquhart; mossyoaks; ...
McCain is gearing up to run a finely-tuned fall contest

The McCain List.
Common sense conservatism

51 posted on 04/17/2008 7:06:15 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m not a big fan of McCain, but do we really want President Obama? I think I have an obligation to the country to keep out a guy who will do the country a lot of damage. I owe to the country.


52 posted on 04/17/2008 7:11:53 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Unapologetically European)
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To: roamer_1

What drugs are you on? McCain is running neck and neck with Obama.

Keyes was pretty much a joke candidate as a Republican this go around and him and barr combined will get under 0.5% should they be so foolish and counterproductive as to run 3rd party/indie. Claims of anything else are 3rd party crack-pipe smoking.

What the obama liberals think and WHY THEY WANT OBAMA:

“William Ayers and his wife Bernadette are true American heroes. Thank “god” for those two. While most people in the late 60s were either futilely waving silly banners and doing things that had no impact - these two took the fight to the heart of the death machine. So what if a couple ROTC offices got bombed. That is nothing compared to what the Army did to the 10’s of thousands of unwilling dupes who got enslaved into being pawns in an unwinnable “war” - a dirty war that all involved knew was a total waste of time.
It is too bad that there aren’t any more heroes today like Ayers & Co. who have the balls to stand up to the history that is being repeated - instead we have a dumbed down nation of idiots who just believe the propaganda that gets spoon-fed to them nightly by the same jerks who ran that circus show of a “debate” in PA last night.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/16/abc-hosts-heckled-after-d_n_97124.html


53 posted on 04/17/2008 7:39:46 PM PDT by WOSG (Gameplan: Obama beats Hillary, McCain beats Obama, conservatives beat RINOs)
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To: popdonnelly

“I’m not a big fan of McCain, but do we really want President Obama? I think I have an obligation to the country to keep out a guy who will do the country a lot of damage. I owe to the country.”

You do, I do, we all do - owe it to our country. Some will do their duty, some will shirk it.

We shall see if the patriots outweigh the thumbsuckers this go around.


54 posted on 04/17/2008 7:41:33 PM PDT by WOSG (Gameplan: Obama beats Hillary, McCain beats Obama, conservatives beat RINOs)
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To: Cicero

“The media will turn against McCain the minute the Democrat winner is announced. He will get NO favorable publicity from them, only attacks.”

They have already done so, actually.


55 posted on 04/17/2008 7:42:53 PM PDT by WOSG (Gameplan: Obama beats Hillary, McCain beats Obama, conservatives beat RINOs)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“Sen. McCain believes every American should participate in the arena, and that includes people that don’t agree with him,”

LOL... Just not 60 days before the elections, as required by McCain/Feingold.

56 posted on 04/17/2008 7:55:42 PM PDT by RJL
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

By God, if the Republican party had “walked the walk” after they had “talked the talk” and taken my money, they might have some G$$ D$$$ money to work with in this campaign. B$$$$$DS!!!!!!!!!


57 posted on 04/17/2008 8:09:59 PM PDT by RatRipper
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To: billva
The weakest candidate? I don't know what little world you live in, but that is just not true.

November will tell us if enough Dems, moderates, illegals, global warming gorebots and rinos will vote to get McCain elected President. Personally, I think they will vote for the true life long liberal, not a Johnny come lately like McCain.

I became eligible to vote in 1973, this may be the very first time I just stay home on election night. My local MN state Senator and Rep are the only guys I want elected and it's almost a certainty they will be reelected without my vote.

58 posted on 04/17/2008 8:22:58 PM PDT by RJL
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To: billva
Unlike you I will state that as my opinion, not just a fact because I say so.

I didn't claim anything as fact. I didn't reference any statistics, polls, documents or anything else... like most posts here I was just thinking out loud.

59 posted on 04/17/2008 8:42:00 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
McCain aides also want to paint their guy as different from an unpopular administration that prefers secrecy to transparency and friendly crowds to unpredictable ones.

Yet he says the (audience controlled) townhall meeting is his favorite venue.

“Sen. McCain believes every American should participate in the arena, and that includes people that don’t agree with him,” Schmidt says, taking care to note that such unscripted exchanges have waned “in the last decade.”

Is that the same McCain that has thrown out attendees when they ask tough questons about amnesty?

Two areas of difference McCain will highlight: global warming and spending.

Oh, Joy! (BARF!)

60 posted on 04/17/2008 8:51:47 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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