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McCain: I'll appoint Democrats
CNN Political Ticker ^ | 9/2/08 | CNN Poltical Ticker

Posted on 09/07/2008 8:14:48 AM PDT by God Dem American

WASHINGTON (AP) – John McCain pledges that if elected president, he'd appoint Democrats to his Cabinet.

He says there's nothing partisan about tackling the nation's toughest problems.

In an interview taped today for airing tomorrow, McCain tells CBS's "Face the Nation" he intends to have the best people in America in Cabinet.

It's believed that McCain closely considered Senator Joe Lieberman as a running mate. The Connecticut independent is a former Democrat.

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bipartisanship; cabinet; democrats; mccain; mccainlist; mccainpalin; mccaintruthfile; postpartisanship; rino; traitor
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To: TexasCajun
I'll take...

***********Palin/McCain**************

21 posted on 09/07/2008 8:33:52 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: God Dem American
I appreciate the desire to be inclusive, except! Except, if we will recall that Bush kept a lot of Dems in the CIA and they worked to destroy his presidency. I would STRONGLY suggest caution and only appoint Dems if they can put country above liberal ideology.

But of those few who can do that, look how the Dems treat them. We only have to look at Zell Miller or Joe Lieberman as examples. The Dems have repudiated these two, thus demonstrating that when Dems complain that Republicans don't “reach across the aisle”, they are really only doing so in an effort to put party over country.

22 posted on 09/07/2008 8:35:33 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush
Powell or Petraeus for Secretary of Defense

Generals don't become SecDef. There's a reason for that.

23 posted on 09/07/2008 8:37:01 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: God Dem American; calcowgirl; SierraWasp

Arnold Schwarzenegger redux


24 posted on 09/07/2008 8:37:13 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Reagan is back, and this time he's a woman.)
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To: God Dem American

Lieberman showed real guts to go to the Republican convention when a number of Republicans (where was Arnold) wouldn’t go. He’s ruined with the Democrats for good. I think this is very honorable of McCain.


25 posted on 09/07/2008 8:38:30 AM PDT by HarleyD
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To: God Dem American
I assume that's democrat--- not Democrat.

Ha!
My first thought exactly!

26 posted on 09/07/2008 8:39:34 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

Powell is a great American but he doesn’t have a conservative political ideology. (supports affirmative action, etc.) He’s also out for himself. Earlier in the Iraq war when things were not going well he tried to separate himself from the policies he and Rumsfeld had created. He now tries to pretend that his speech at the UN about the WMD never happened and that he was somehow duped.


27 posted on 09/07/2008 8:40:33 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: sasafras

We still have to win this election or didn’t you notice. He’s still trying to win over the Reagan democrats and the undecideds.

If we don’t win this election, obama picks the cabinet.


28 posted on 09/07/2008 8:40:37 AM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Vote against the dem party)
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To: Lib-Lickers 2
Yes I agree... I have read in depth things about Powell that were written by his superior officers... he does not need to be anywhere near government... he is as empty as barry hussein.

LLS

29 posted on 09/07/2008 8:40:40 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (GOD, Country, Family... except for dims!)
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To: Lib-Lickers 2

I agree, Powell is another grandee in love with himself, who wants to be loved by all the right people. For Secretary of State, to take on the permanent bureaucracy at Foggy Bottom requires someone with the courage of his convictions. If not John Bolton, then why not Joe?


30 posted on 09/07/2008 8:41:49 AM PDT by sinanju
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To: cotton1706
And Lieberman has no loyalty to the democrats now so he won’t care.

LIEberman has conned you like many others in order to play both ends against the middle.

A quote from his speech at the GOP convention Lieberman: America Needs a Leader, Not a Talker

"“What, after all, is a Democrat like me doing at a Republican convention like this?” Lieberman said."

By his own admission, albeit a slip of the tongue, he still considers himself a Democrat.
31 posted on 09/07/2008 8:42:25 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

agreed 100%....I’d love nothing more than an orthodox Jew representing America at the UN.....stick it to those anti-semites....


32 posted on 09/07/2008 8:42:59 AM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: God Dem American

Welcome to Free Republic.


33 posted on 09/07/2008 8:44:47 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (Sarah Palin: Babies, Guns, Jesus. HOT DAMN!)
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To: God Dem American

Lieberman defiantely will have a place in his cabinet.


34 posted on 09/07/2008 8:47:40 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: God luvs America

Amen... PRAISE GOD and our friend Israel... now and forever... Amen.

LLS


35 posted on 09/07/2008 8:48:24 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (GOD, Country, Family... except for dims!)
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To: Lib-Lickers 2

Agree. Powell should not be in any Administration. I liked him as a general ... as a SECDEF he woefully under impressed me.


36 posted on 09/07/2008 8:48:47 AM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: sasafras
You are crazy as a coon tick to to now use the tern “screw over” when talking about Senator McCain and the Republican base. Holy Moly, he just selected Governor Sarah Palin as his Vice President. Be satisfied, maybe even rejoice, at least for a day or two.

I have never been a great fan of Senator McCain, but I do believe that a great leader should do what he or she thinks is right. There will be times when many of us in the so called Republican base will need to work to persuade President McCain that he is wrong on an issue; but we should always understand (in fact, even appreciate him) when he does what he thinks is right, even if we think he is wrong.

37 posted on 09/07/2008 8:49:34 AM PDT by olrtex
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To: Leto

Zell Miller of Duncan Hunter for SECDEF would work fine.


38 posted on 09/07/2008 8:49:43 AM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: God Dem American

Just at the time where I didn’t have to hold my nose to vote McCain (and changed my reference of him from McKennedy), this loon goes and says this. Gads, will someone get out there and switch Sarah to president so that I can vote?


39 posted on 09/07/2008 8:50:40 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: All

Excuse me as SECSOS Powell woefully under impressed me. Sorry for the mis-typing.


40 posted on 09/07/2008 8:51:27 AM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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