"He has a national following. He got a substantial number of votes in a very bad year" for Republicans, Mr. McConnell said...
No, moron. Palin has a national following, not the RINO McCain.
Posted on 12/12/2009 9:16:54 AM PST by rabscuttle385
After Lying Low in Wake of 2008 Presidential-Election Loss, Arizona Senator Mounts Opposition to Obama's Top Priority.
BY NAFTALI BENDAVID & GREG HITT
Sen. John McCain kept a relatively low profile for months after he lost the 2008 presidential election to Barack Obama. Those days are over.
In the health-care battle, the Arizona Republican has suddenly emerged as the John McCain of old -- a vigorous political combatant. He has publicly hammered Democratic proposals, engaged in heated exchanges on the Senate floor and lent his voice to automated telephone calls pressuring Democratic senators in Arkansas, Colorado and Nebraska on their looming health-care votes.
One of the best-known members of Congress, Mr. McCain is giving the party something it had been lacking in the Obama era: a high-profile congressional spokesman on an issue -- health care -- that has consumed Washington. His presence also offers a new potential center of gravity for a party still trying to find its way after bruising electoral defeats in 2006 and 2008.
After losing the 2008 presidential election, John McCain had been mostly silent in his return to Washington. A more-familiar, combative McCain has regained his voice to tussle with Democrats and speak up for the GOP in the Senate on health care.
"He's our best-known Republican senator," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), who tapped Mr. McCain for the role of party spokesman on health care. "He has a national following. He got a substantial number of votes in a very bad year" for Republicans, Mr. McConnell said, referring to the nearly 60 million popular votes Mr. McCain got as the losing 2008 candidate.
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"He has a national following. He got a substantial number of votes in a very bad year" for Republicans, Mr. McConnell said...
No, moron. Palin has a national following, not the RINO McCain.
Tru dat....I wouldn’t vote for that asshole for honeywagon driver, myself....John McCain, STFU and go AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
They’re going to try that McCain for President end run again. Blech!
Onward to compromise!!! Onward to self-defeat!!!
oh boy.
McCain = good loser
Watch him sell us out, again
Republicans voted for Sarah not McCain!!!! McCain is a hero as far as his service but as a politician???
My first thought too.
He needs to be put out to pasture.
No, that’s not gonna happen. Whether you realize it or not, this forum has put people, the likes of Gingrich, etc. in their place. It has made them irrelevant. McCain even moreso. Lets all keep up the vehement and nasty protest till these no-ball roaches scurry back to their hidey places.
He’ll cheerfully lead the GOP straight to
Hell as long as he can be confused with a leader.
Who wrote this? Two of his old staffers? What a crock.
All it needs to do is follow the Tea Party.
Yeah, he's for only 90% of whatever the dimocrats are ramming through the senate.
You go "Conservative John" you show them liberals your fight! /s
LLS
The pasture? No, about time he used his skills and start shoveling the barn.
I haven't seen a poll in a while, but wasn't McCain losing to a primary challenger in his 2010 Senate campaign? Doesn't seem to me like he has a local following in his own home state, much less a national following.....
AZ is in the economic dumper. What did Juan do at the National level to avoid same(Fannie and Fredie, drill here, AIG and financial derivatives regulation, illegal immigration, etc.)? Too little, too late to be “The Leader”.
They have to find the political advantage to what the tea parties are about first.
Once they find that, they all will claim to have started the tea party movement as fast as Al Gore invented the Internet!
obviously seen the poling data with JD Hayworth beating him in the 2010 primary
This is a head fake, and a rather clumsy one at that.
He’ll be running across the aisle to embrace the Dems before too long. It’s his nature, he can’t help it.
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