McCain: Focus on illegal immigration hurt GOP's image

KSWT/AP ^ | 5/5/08 | staff

[ruination]

I suspect that most real conservatives will come around and support John McCain this November.

I suspect the most real conservatives will be wondering WTH happened that McCain came to be the guy on the ballot.

[TigersEye]

Ohhhhhhhh, my eyes! (What an image!)

Where is that FR graphics dept. when you need them? lol

[calcowgirl]

Thank you! I’m a bit embarrassed that I didn’t recognize it earlier... but I did slither over to google and figure it out, LOL.

Conincidentally, I came across this photo tonight of an old Mecha flyer, right after. It struck me that there was a snake in the beak of the bird (vulture?).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2011658/posts?page=258#258

[calcowgirl]

I suspect the most real conservatives will be wondering WTH happened that McCain came to be the guy on the ballot.

I suspect folks at the RNC will be sittin' around scratching their heads saying
"I can't believe the people that said for the past two years they wouldn't vote for McCain ... didn't."

[fetal heart beats by 21st day]

Happy to oblige.

[bert]

......it had never strayed so far to the left.....

My perception is that the country is pretty well split between the left and the right. In the last election, the left prevailed and captured the legislative bodies. That indicates a shift leftward.

To win elections you must have voters. To capture the left leaning but vacillating center, a leftward shift in one is necessary. A strong, solidly presented program of Republican thought can also persuade the left of center.

When I come here on a daily basis and read the arrogant vanity comments of the ultra right I am chagrined by the inability many here to see that to govern you must first win elections.

[pissant]

Paul has some great ideas. Too bad he also has some straight out of the Lewrockwell school of leftist ‘conservatism’.

[Democrats hate too much]

"Juan McLame and his other Juan, Hernandez that is, have destroyed any vestige left of a GOP image. McCain can go to hell and take the stinking GOP with him."

-Interesting thoughts on McCain. What do you think of Hillary?

[E. Cartman]

When I come here on a daily basis and read the arrogant vanity comments of the ultra right I am chagrined by the inability many here to see that to govern you must first win elections.

But when conservatives run as conservatives, they win elections. When they run as something left of center, their supporters stay home and the democrats win the day.

[dforest]

Hillary and McCain can see each other in hell, along with the magic Barack.