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Ex-McCain adviser bashes 'right-wing nutballs'
MSNBC Online / Washington Post ^ | 9/12/09 | By Dan Eggen and Perry Bacon Jr.

Posted on 09/13/2009 5:51:32 AM PDT by mazda77

. . . Mark McKinnon, a former adviser to Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and other Republicans, said there is an "opportunity for Republicans" to tap into legitimate fears about an overreaching federal government. But he said that "right-wing nutballs are aligning themselves with these movements" and are dominating media coverage.

"It's bad for Republicans because in the absence of any real leadership, the freaks fill the void and define the party," McKinnon said. . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mccain; mccainantigop; mccainantipalin; mcopportunist; opportunism; opportunist; romney
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To: mazda77

Well, one only can hope this fellow, Mark M, is running Juan’s re-election effort. When, hopefully, Juan loses, maybe Mark can get Juan to hire him as a personal assistant paid for with Juan’s second wealthy wife’s inheritance.


21 posted on 09/13/2009 6:10:37 AM PDT by MarkT
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To: Paladin2

Stay out the McCain!


22 posted on 09/13/2009 6:10:51 AM PDT by discomatic
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To: Paladin2
JUANnabies... name of the year!!!! It stings as well today as it did yesterday!

LLS

23 posted on 09/13/2009 6:10:56 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: mazda77
This guy sounds like Megan McCain!

Hey, Mark!!!!! Take a hike!

24 posted on 09/13/2009 6:10:58 AM PDT by moondoggie
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To: Tarpon

The ‘sour grapes crowd’ from the sorry excuse for a campaign for McCain should start their own party and call it the RINO PARTY!


25 posted on 09/13/2009 6:12:43 AM PDT by moondoggie
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To: mazda77
This guy is the epitome of what EXACTLY is wrong with the republican party!

Worse the any dem I know, why? You can fight with much vigor your enemies outside and external, but it's a completely arduous and enormous task to try and rid those enemies from within!

This is what the conservative republican party is facing and if conservative's do not regain power from these rino prix and totally reinforce conservative viewpoints, the repubs will remain a minority party!

26 posted on 09/13/2009 6:13:21 AM PDT by sirchtruth (Gravity Of The Situation...)
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To: FunkyZero

“digging your own political grave... one shovel-full at a time.”

One of the shovel-ready projects obama promised? :)


27 posted on 09/13/2009 6:13:56 AM PDT by ElayneJ
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To: All

Yes we are nutballs enough to think that the Constitution and believing in America still matters.

...and if the RNC wants to keep the primaries open and assist another RINO like McCain or any other mealey mouthed POS....by God and country I swear I will stay home and let that Socialist punk Obama have four more years.

Conservative or bust.


28 posted on 09/13/2009 6:13:59 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (...I only vote for conservatives...all Republicans are not conservatives...)
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To: mazda77

This is an essential part of the entire RINO line now, and certainly in the immediate past, like the previous campaign, AND the Election, and it is ENTIRELY the mindset that got them defeated. It could NOT HELP BUT get them defeated! The ONLY thing the McCain camp did of any value was give us Sarah Palin, but the way it gave us Sarah Palin was to introduce her and then ‘neuter’ her, doing exactly HALF the work the Democrats were ready to do. This is another way of “extending your hand across the aisle” I suppose. At this point it DEFINES exactly what has been wrong with the Republican Party and the man it chose last time to represent it, John McCain. I REPEAT: SARAH PALIN was chosen by them and exploited in the most cynical way, because they knew it would get McCain votes. IT DID.
His ticket lost anyway,and would have lost WORSE if Palin was not the Veep choice. I hold Mc Cain and his campaign accountable and responsible for exploiting her , manipulating her, and eventually attempting to render her into the same non-entity status that McCain has now achieved. And, where, oh where, has this most pathetic of “opposition candidates” been since the beginning of this disastrous Presidency, except hovering in the background letting his daughter and Mark McKinnon make these inane statements to the Press?


29 posted on 09/13/2009 6:15:19 AM PDT by supremedoctrine (Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn.)
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To: mazda77

Let’s see he an ex-advisor to one of the more pitifully run campaigns on record.

I am really going to clear out my day’s activities just to pay close attention to this “sage”-—not.


30 posted on 09/13/2009 6:16:01 AM PDT by rod1
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To: moondoggie

You have to understand the subtext, “Palin cannot win”. Nor can she be found to have been right during the campaign.

Sarah could easily step in and lead the Tea Party Patriots, Juan cannot lead a bathroom brigade. Juan has tried several times in recent months to be the party leader and failed miserably. We just aren’t going to be led by McCain .


31 posted on 09/13/2009 6:16:05 AM PDT by Tarpon (The Joker's plan -- Slavery by debt so large it can never be repaid...)
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To: Tarpon

Look at what Network he is on. This is not about Democrats, it is about corruption and cronyism. McCain fits in well with cronyism. He needs to go with all the rest.

We are dealing with a failed government not a problem with capitalism.


32 posted on 09/13/2009 6:17:24 AM PDT by paguch
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To: DieHard the Hunter

And don’t forget: “eschew” is pronounced “es-keeyoo”, NOT
“es-chew”, as in “chew gum”.


33 posted on 09/13/2009 6:18:05 AM PDT by supremedoctrine (Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn.)
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To: mazda77
But top Republican strategists and many party observers also worry about the impact that the most extreme protesters might have on the party's image, including those who carry swastika signs or obsess over the veracity of Obama's Hawaiian birth.

If anyone associated with the McCain campaign is considered a top Republican strategist, then future candidates need to purge the old party strategists and find some new ones.

34 posted on 09/13/2009 6:21:26 AM PDT by Will88
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To: mazda77
But he said that "right-wing nutballs are aligning themselves with these movements" and are dominating media coverage.

Where are all these moderates speaking out against big government???

35 posted on 09/13/2009 6:24:25 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: mazda77
McNuts and his minions speak.

Silence, sometimes could, and would, be golden from these idiots.

36 posted on 09/13/2009 6:24:25 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! The "other" Jim Thompson)
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To: paguch

I don’t think Juan is corrupt, he has enough of his wife’s money to not need anymore ... But I do think he is a crony, as much as anybody is, of the pointed headed elites who are trying to collapse our civil society.

Good point — yes the station ID is all you need to know.


37 posted on 09/13/2009 6:25:08 AM PDT by Tarpon (The Joker's plan -- Slavery by debt so large it can never be repaid...)
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To: angkor
Two Democrats who perversely choose to put (Republican) next to their names, and showing why the GOP is such an unmitigated disaster:

2010 et.seq. The year of the PURGE!

38 posted on 09/13/2009 6:25:40 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Tarpon

Maybe someone with the untold story of the Keating 5 scandal will finally spill the beans before next October insuring the ouster of Juan.


39 posted on 09/13/2009 6:26:34 AM PDT by mazda77 (Rubio for US Senate)
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To: Will88
If anyone associated with the McCain campaign is considered a top Republican strategist, then future candidates need to purge the old party strategists and find some new ones.

Good point. McKinnon and the "Forehead" are running neck and neck for advising losers!

40 posted on 09/13/2009 6:26:46 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! The "other" Jim Thompson)
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