Thanks for the keys Dad. I'll drive next time ok.
Posted on 03/26/2009 11:02:38 AM PDT by redk
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Former Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has no illusions about the 2008 White House race.
"God bless them," McCain said Thursday at the Heritage Foundation when reminded of the tens of millions of people who voted for him last year.
"Over 50 million people voted for me and Sarah Palin - mostly for Sarah Palin," McCain said to an eruption of laughter. But "there was a sizable majority of the other party returned to Congress. And, elections have consequences. Elections have consequences. And these consequences we are seeing now in full display."
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Thanks for the keys Dad. I'll drive next time ok.
"Say it ain't so daddy!"
Remind me again: why was McCain the Republican nominee last year? Oh yeah. Because it was “his turn.”
*Palin certainly wasn’t ready to become commander in chief from day 1.*
Being COC of her states National Guard, having been to the Middle East, etc.
She has more background inexecutive trade , economy, energy issues
then other possible candidates she will face in 2012
You made a good point. I agreed with you completely before Bush was elected President. I tried to warn people. But then I gave Bush the benefit of the doubt. Now it turns out that all Bush did was run a war, he forgot that he had a country to run and to not allow it to be run into the ground financially. Bush highlighted the fact that we shouldn’t be making excuses for our political leaders. No one owes anyone and it is up to those would be leaders to prove themselves worthy.
*all Bush did was run a war, he forgot that he had a country to run*
aw, another paleocon, 3,000 Americans are killed in New York, DC and Pa 11 Sept , and what the Hell lets just
move along, like we did when the Trade Center was hit in “93 and the USS Cole in 2000.
Get Real!
Doubtful that it was an epiphany. When McCain & Sarah Palin came to speak in Colorado Springs, my understanding is that her speech was SRO, but that people started leaving after she left the stage (but before he took the stage).
There were pictures around the time of their visit that seemed to back this up. Additionally, there were so many reports during the campaign of in-fighting between the McCain & Palin camps that seemed to flow from his side being angry that he was being eclipsed.
A war hero you were long ago. A mediocre politician you are today.
I supported and would have voted for him in 2000. But by this last election, things had changed. McCain never seemed to want to fight for anything, but seemed to think that he deserved it anyway. He was disengaged, nonchalant. The sense I got was that McCain thought it was finally his turn, and that it really didn't matter what he did or said, the presidency was going to be his.
McCain was wrong, but he's much too insulated from the lives of average Americans to know or care about is actions affect the rest of us.
After October's financial shocks no Republican could have won.
Obama could have lost the election on his own, but the media wouldn't allow that either.
“Being COC of her states National Guard, having been to the Middle East, etc.”
She didn’t even have a passport until a few years ago.
Most freepers are more informed on the issues than Gov Palin. She reminded me of a female version of Bush: another candidate who was great with the folks, great conservative instincts but didn’t really think about what was going on with the world. She was really banking on McCain’s vast wealth of experience just as Bush depended on Cheney.
The ‘deal’ was for McCain to win and she would pick it up as his VP and then maybe she would have what it takes to be president 4 years from now.
Juan McLame did everything possible to LOSE the election.
Right. I kept wondering when he was going to start running right up to the time he announced Palin as his running mate.
Without Palin I was not going to vote for McCain. Then the way he muffled her was a crime.
McCain needs to get mugged in downtown Scottsdale in broad daylight, by an illegal to wake him up.
Nope, it was a vote for Juan McCain. Palin was only window dressing.
I didn’t vote for either — if Palin was good enough for Juan McCain, she wasn’t good enough for me.
Yes, it was tragic that McCain spent all those years in a North Vietnamese prison camp.
However, it is no excuse for sedition or treason
McCain has been one of the prime movers in the loss of National Soverignty. His support of illegal aliens over American citizens is sickening....and his valuing of Free Trade/Globalism over the American economy is totally destructive
His immigration bill proposed the elimination of the US as we know it...by promoting the North American Union...and was also involved in doing away with the US currency...replacing it with the “Amero” (It was all in the McCain-Kennedy Amnesty Bill)
I have problems with someone who, after spending years in a communist prison camp....supported by the Communist Chinese (who were active in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War)...would be so active to promote and support wealth-redistributing trade deals with the same Communist Chinese who held him captive for so long
If you think she isn’t ready
You must think Lincoln should have had training wheels
as Pres. as he had less of a background and he saved the Union
you can’t really compare the Lincoln-Douglas debates to the Palin-Biden debate.
Biden had such a long record on being WRONG on every single foreign policy issue and she didn’t even touch him. Iran...there is a reason why Biden is known as Tehran’s favorite senator.
I hate to say this way, but think about it.
How does a POW survive? By playing the game. By making himself useful to his captors. By being, doing & saying whatever he has to stay alive. Ethics and ideals have nothing to do with it.
How does a politician "survive"? By playing the game. By making himself useful to his paymasters. By being, doing, and saying whatever he has to "stay alive" with the people who stuff his campaign war chest & with the voters. Ethics and ideals have nothing to do with it.
Many men gave their lives for this country and they are real heroes even when if we don't know their names. But whatever "heroism" John McCain may once have been capable of, simply by surviving when so many didn't, he cashed in on long ago to create a political career for himself.
Yes, and it’s Romney’s “turn” in 2012.
None of them could have gotten past the open primaries. Remember, neither Obama nor Hillary campaigned in Florida because they were supposed to not be seated, remember. That left all the dems free to vote in OUR primary and vote they did.
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