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Reuters Summit-McCain says Republicans need positive agenda
Reuters ^ | 2009-10-21 | Steve Holland

Posted on 10/21/2009 11:34:13 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Republican Senator John McCain said on Wednesday his party needed a positive agenda to better attract those Americans who are disenchanted with Democratic policies.

McCain said he sensed "a lot of anger and a lot of frustration" among Americans over taxpayer-backed bailouts of banks and auto companies while they cope with a persistently high U.S. jobless rate of 9.8 percent and see bank executives get "obscene" bonuses.

McCain, who was his party's presidential nominee and lost the 2008 election to Democrat Barack Obama, spoke to a Reuters Summit in a roundtable interview with journalists.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: Delaware; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2010; castle; de2010; gopimplosion; hispandering; il2010; kirk; mcbama; mccain; mccaintruthfile; mcqueeg; rino; rinos
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To: GeronL

that just isn’t right
21 posted on 10/22/2009 3:14:57 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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To: Gurgi

That was the North Vietnamese not North Korea.


22 posted on 10/22/2009 3:20:07 AM PDT by Rearden (Deo Vindice)
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To: rabscuttle385

Hey John, Sarah Palin has a positive agenda, it’s clearly
above and beyond any thing the socdems have.

Just saying .


23 posted on 10/22/2009 3:28:07 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: rabscuttle385
McCain told of large crowds at protest rallies and town-hall meetings in his home state of Arizona.

"There's something going on out there. And I'd love to sit here and tell you that we Republicans are attracting all of those unhappy people, but we're not."They're out there kind of in the middle and they haven't found a home."

Your assessment is correct. He is hijacking the Tea Parties. It looks to me like he intends to yank the GOP even more to the left.

24 posted on 10/22/2009 3:31:10 AM PDT by maggief
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To: rabscuttle385
Hey, Juan, newsflash! Many of us are quite sick of Republican policies, too.

Just go away, Juan. Now.

25 posted on 10/22/2009 3:38:31 AM PDT by MaggieCarta (We're all Detroiters now.)
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To: TigersEye

“The GOP had better repudiate this asshat or it’s over for them.”

Thanks for your military service, John. Now get the hell out of the way.


26 posted on 10/22/2009 3:51:02 AM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: rabscuttle385

I POSITIVELY want RINO’s, LIARS (liberals impersonating as Republicans) to be replaced by CONSERVATIVE voting and acting representatives.


27 posted on 10/22/2009 4:20:07 AM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: rabscuttle385

John McCain, a/k/a the loose canon rolling around on the deck, speaks.


28 posted on 10/22/2009 4:37:36 AM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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To: rabscuttle385

Leave my Daddy alone!

29 posted on 10/22/2009 4:39:22 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: rabscuttle385

CNN+MSNBC are calling for this too. Unfortunately ‘positive agenda’ means ‘spend more money we dont have’ as McCain proposed in his campaign.

I am reminded of ‘happy face’ Jack Kemp who preached that we can cut taxes, increase spending and magic economic growth will take care of it all. Add neo-cons and two wars and nation building, all paid for by ‘economic growth’

Idiots!


30 posted on 10/22/2009 4:56:14 AM PDT by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the government spending you demand stupid")
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To: sheik yerbouty; rabscuttle385; Liz; Landru; mkjessup

“Get thee hence McCain!”

“McCain, get thee to a nunnery go”

Billy Bob Shakespeare.


31 posted on 10/22/2009 6:38:27 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; rabscuttle385
"McCain says Republicans need positive agenda"

I agree. The most positive agenda I can think of is to purge McCain, Graham, Snowe, Collins (just to name 4) and all the other scum sucking, bottom feeding RINOs OUT of the GOP and re-establish the Party of Reagan based on solid conservative principles.

Conservatives do NOT need to compromise their values and 'move to the middle' to satisfy the weak sisters and sad sack 'moderates' and 'liberals', conservatives need to stay consistent because the 0bamunist thugs and their fascist behavior are pushing those moderates to the right, and we should be standing ready to help them adjust to the political realities that we face.

To paraphrase Margaret Thatcher "this is no time to go wobbly", and conservatives have to stand firm.
32 posted on 10/22/2009 7:06:53 AM PDT by mkjessup (0bama can't appreciate for the thrill of a NASCAR race but Ronald Reagan did in '84!)
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To: rabscuttle385

Yo, McCain,

Republicans need a CONSERVATIVE freaking agenda!!!!!!!!!


33 posted on 10/22/2009 7:09:12 AM PDT by MortMan (Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
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To: mkjessup

“To paraphrase Margaret Thatcher “this is no time to go wobbly”, and conservatives have to stand firm. “

Maggie knew “wobbly” when she saw it ;-)


34 posted on 10/22/2009 7:09:22 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: MortMan
Reuters Summit-McCain says Republicans need positive agenda

I'm positive that we don't need any advice from McCain.

35 posted on 10/22/2009 7:10:13 AM PDT by TankerKC (I cannot find how to paste it into the post ?)
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To: paudio

“Positive” is spin.

“Conservative” is substance.

I say the R’s need a CONSERVATIVE agenda.


36 posted on 10/22/2009 7:10:32 AM PDT by MortMan (Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
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To: rabscuttle385

I’m positive that we could do without you are your RINO ilk, John-Boy.


37 posted on 10/22/2009 7:10:56 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Hope....Change...Bullsh*t)
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To: rabscuttle385

We do need a positive message for change.

A positive and ANGRY demand for change actually.


38 posted on 10/22/2009 9:54:44 AM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN | NO "INDIVIDUAL MANDATE"!!!!!!!)
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To: rabscuttle385

Si! Tonto go pronto...


39 posted on 10/22/2009 12:21:42 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Deficit spending, trade deficits, unsecure mortages, worthless paper... ... not a problem. Oh yeah?)
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To: rabscuttle385

Something positive: McDemocrat RETIRES!


40 posted on 10/22/2009 5:58:12 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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