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Advisers Say Conservative Ire Pushed McCain Away From Picking Lieberman
New York Times ^ | August 30, 2008 | Elisabeth Bumiller and Michael Cooper

Posted on 08/31/2008 5:23:53 AM PDT by reaganaut1

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To: JohnLongIsland
Actually the Enquirer has more cred than the Slimes. They broke the Edwards story and several other major things this year. They have been on top of the anthrax thing (probably cause they got hit). All in All I'll that the NE over the slimes on most stories!!!
41 posted on 08/31/2008 6:15:48 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.)
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To: paudio

One of the most remarkable aspects of this story is my sneaking suspicion that — behind the scenes — the GOP had selected Palin as the VP candidate even before McCain had secured the nomination.


42 posted on 08/31/2008 6:17:10 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: Vinnie
Still Palin was not much of a surprise to FR!!
43 posted on 08/31/2008 6:17:47 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.)
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To: reaganaut1

The New York Times at it again drawing their own conlusions as if they were a fly on the wall and passing it on as fact. These veiled attempts to attack conservative support & excitement over the Palin selection is as transparent as anything these liberals have tried and done.


44 posted on 08/31/2008 6:19:07 AM PDT by eaglestar
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To: reaganaut1
RINOs get pissed off at us Conservatives here on FR, but what they fail to realize is that without us, all the pressure goes off Scarface and his inner, GOP-establishment, Country Club RINO circle. It is good cop- bad cop. You lose your bad cop and you will get nothing done.

Our days and days of bellyaching and politically threatening McShamnesty here on FR and elsewhere can indeed yield some modest results.

Should we stop now and drink the RINO2008 Kool-Aid and let the pneumatic door of RINOism in the McCain camp swing back to CLOSED right on Conservatives faces, or should we keep up the pressure on that little guy whom we ALL know in our hearts (except the doctrinaire GOP-bots here among us) is no true friend to conservatives and will sell us out from 2009 at the drop of a sombrero??

45 posted on 08/31/2008 6:19:45 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Writing in "PALIN FOR PRESIDENT 2008!!!" You Go Girl. That RINO McCain gets nowhere near my vote)
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To: reaganaut1

I would think common sense pushed McCain away from selecting Lieberman, not that I would expect that Lieberman would ever have accepted in the first place.


46 posted on 08/31/2008 6:21:06 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: reaganaut1

Not sure why anyone would take comfort in slamming the NYT on this story, whether or not it is accurate. The mere fact that a Republican nominee even considered picking a very liberal Dem. as a running mate should inform every conservative once again what a dangerous, self-absorbed and unpredictable personality John McCain is.

Just because he finally made a good decision on the VP doesn’t mean he’s suddenly a reliable, Ronald Reagan conservative (in spite of having been a courageous foot soldier in the Reagan revolution. Ha, ha.).

Just think where’s we’d be if he’d chosen Lieberman, then he died or became incapacitated and we had President Lieberman. That McCain even seriously considered Lieberman for one minute... We’d have had Algore’s chosen VP as president!


47 posted on 08/31/2008 6:26:08 AM PDT by Will88 (.)
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To: Mr. Lucky

No kidding!

I have more trust in the National Enquirer than the NYT.


48 posted on 08/31/2008 6:26:28 AM PDT by maggief (Hockey moms for PALIN. Puck Obama!)
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To: Pravious
"...Of course he does. They all move quickly out of his way to avoid having to talk to him...."

Ooooh. That's good!


49 posted on 08/31/2008 6:29:33 AM PDT by rlmorel (Clinging bitterly to Guns and God in Massachusetts...:)
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To: nobama08

I guarantee if McCain had picked Lieberman, he would not have gotten $7 million in online donations Friday!

Whats the total since Palin was announced? I put in $100.00 yesterday. Never would have done that if Lieberman had been picked. I don’t dislike Lieberman, I just think Palin was a terrific pick.


50 posted on 08/31/2008 6:31:11 AM PDT by chainsaw ( No racist radical Muslims in the WH)
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To: eaglestar

BTW I never saw the NYT analysis of why Obama selected Biden over Hillary and her 18 million voters. Did I miss something here?


51 posted on 08/31/2008 6:31:35 AM PDT by eaglestar
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To: Bernard

One full term? I’ll take 2 years and 1 day, so President Sarah can serve out the balance of that term, and run twice for election in her own name.

Easy boy. Your making the Clintons sick with envy.


52 posted on 08/31/2008 6:33:28 AM PDT by chainsaw ( No racist radical Muslims in the WH)
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To: mad_as_he$$

We.. are always ahead of the curve. :^)

We have analysts around here the MSM only dreams about.


53 posted on 08/31/2008 6:41:57 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: reaganaut1
One of Mr. McCain’s closest friends, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, weighed in as well, pushing so hard for Mr. Lieberman — Mr. McCain, Mr. Graham and Mr. Lieberman are longtime traveling companions — that he vexed some of the other advisers.

Hopefully Goober's last gasp!

54 posted on 08/31/2008 6:42:44 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: Mr. Lucky

The New York Times is writing itself into oblivion...


55 posted on 08/31/2008 6:53:27 AM PDT by FrankR (Liberalism is Communism by the drink - P.J. O'Roarke)
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To: reaganaut1

Unnamed advisors ‘close’ the campaign.

enough said.


56 posted on 08/31/2008 7:00:04 AM PDT by ilgipper
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To: reaganaut1

Baloney. Liebermann was a Democrat and as old as McCain - he needed a younger partner. This should be obvious even to the Rats in the Media.


57 posted on 08/31/2008 7:02:49 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: reaganaut1

“Advisers Say Conservative Ire Pushed McCain Away From Picking Lieberman”

Well I friggin’ HOPE SO!


58 posted on 08/31/2008 7:22:12 AM PDT by Grunthor (I'd rather be forced to watch Helen Thomas porn than see Obama in the White House.)
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To: reaganaut1

from “last nail in his own coffin” to “Reagan round 2”, what a comeback story (his second, don’tcha know) you’ll never read about in the MSM!


59 posted on 08/31/2008 7:22:21 AM PDT by CRBDeuce (an armed society is a polite society)
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To: reaganaut1

“It shouldn’t take “conservative ire” to get the Republican nominee to choose a Republican running mate.”

It shouldn’t take “conservative ire” to get the Republican president to choose a demonstrably conservative supreme court nominee either. However looking back, it gave us one fine justice.


60 posted on 08/31/2008 7:38:21 AM PDT by FreeInWV
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