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AZ-Sen. 2010: Romney endorses McCain for re-election (BARF ALERT)
CNN - Political Ticker ^ | 2010-02-23 | Jeff Simon

Posted on 02/23/2010 7:04:04 AM PST by rabscuttle385

(CNN) - Mitt Romney endorsed Sen. John McCain, one of the former Massachussetts governor's main competitors for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, for re-election to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday.

"Senator McCain's record of service and sacrifice for America is honored by all," Romney said in a statement. "But I believe that it is his core values of courage, faith and honor – forged in battle and confirmed by a lifetime of service to America – that make Senator McCain's leadership in the United States Senate so necessary in these perilous times."

Romney said it is "hard to imagine the United States Senate without John McCain."

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: Massachusetts; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: 2010; aliens; amnesty; arizona; az2010; illegals; massachusetts; mccain; mcinsane; mclame; mcstain; palin; rino; rinos; rnc; romney; socializedmedicine; steele; utah; vichy
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To: DoughtyOne

“Sarah is not the person I hoped she was. If she can support a man that has at one time or another opposed everything I stand for, then I cannot support her.

I cannot express firmly enough how critical it is for John MeCain to be removed from a position of power within our own party. He will continue to short circuit Conservatism as long as he remains in the Senate, and at this crossroads, that’s an almost certain fatal blow to our nation.”

McCain is the most dangerous man in the Republican Party. We are INDEED at a crossroads, and McCain can push America over the edge. He has the media to do his dirty work for him.


121 posted on 02/23/2010 10:47:54 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINOS)
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To: AZhappy

I see you just signed up to FR today and this is your first and only post. Buckle up, because you’re in for a very rough ride.


122 posted on 02/23/2010 10:52:27 AM PST by lonevoice (If Fox News is the only outlet reporting it, did it really happen?)
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To: CharlesWayneCT; All

I’m going to take a different approach here. First of all, we know that the value of endorsements is negligible at best, nonexistent at worst. I mean..nobody votes for X on the basis of what Y says..But it’s a political blurb..makes a nice campaign moment....IMHO, the fact that McCain is placing so much stock on collecting these endorsements, and so early on in the campaign, suggests that he’s really running scared..he knows that he’s in big trouble..that the jig is up. As fara as Palin and Romney go..let’s say they felt they had no choice..because of past history with McCain they had to acceed to his pleas for endorsements..Well, when the medicine tastes bad...hold your nose and swallow it early..get it out fo they way..in a few months..after a debate or two, when JD starts talking about illegal immigration, and McCain’s poll numbers have dissappeared..no one will give a hoot who endorsed him early on.and I’ll wager that neither Sarah nor Mitt will be making any joint appearances with McCain.... and after JD wins..well..all will be forgotten..


123 posted on 02/23/2010 10:52:53 AM PST by ken5050 (Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
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To: Retired Greyhound

see post 101.


124 posted on 02/23/2010 10:55:57 AM PST by ontap
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Maybe people (even DeMint) don’t think JD has a chance against a democrat challenger? Who is running for the senate seat on the D side? Maybe they think JD would be too vulnerable and they want to protect the AZ senate seat — even if it means keeping McCain. You know JD is not the sharpest knife in the drawer afterall. They should have run someone better against McCain if they were serious.


125 posted on 02/23/2010 10:56:44 AM PST by crunk
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To: rabscuttle385

A RINO backing a RINO? What is hard to understand about that?


126 posted on 02/23/2010 10:58:25 AM PST by upchuck (The horse is in the pasture. The barn door is wide-open. Obama wants to know who made the hinges.)
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To: CaribouCrossing
She doesn’t “owe” anyone anything, and even if she did, she’s either going to stay true to her conservative roots by endorsing those candidates who best represent her views, or she’ll lose many of her supporters by becoming just another typical politician.

Maybe she is just another politician!!

127 posted on 02/23/2010 11:02:40 AM PST by ontap
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters
Romney said it is "hard to imagine the United States Senate without John McCain."

I've been imagining it for years. It may be hard to imagine, but it can be done if we all send J.D. Hayworth more money today, and keep making donations until it hurts...all the way until the primary in August. McCain now has the benefit of his own war chest, Romney's PAC money and Sarah's PAC money. That, in addition to McCain being totally plugged into the RINO big money machine, makes this sound like Don Quixote's quest. If the Tea Partiers can pull off McCain's defeat, it will be the loudest, most effective message we can send to the liberal Republicans who've almost ruined the GOP.

Click the link to donate to Hayworth NOW

128 posted on 02/23/2010 11:06:16 AM PST by lonevoice (If Fox News is the only outlet reporting it, did it really happen?)
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To: ontap

I do agree with that.

As detestable as McCain is, he did give us Sarah.


129 posted on 02/23/2010 11:19:40 AM PST by Retired Greyhound
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To: ontap

“Maybe she is just another politician!!”


I’m going to give her the benefit of the doubt mainly because I’m biased and still believe that she isn’t “just another politician”. But I’d sure like to ask her what she based her decision on. And I just had a senior moment....if I remember right, Hayworth hadn’t even announced he was running when she endorsed McCain so perhaps at the time, McCain was the only option against the AZ Dem.


130 posted on 02/23/2010 11:20:57 AM PST by CaribouCrossing
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To: CaribouCrossing

Your memory is correct.


131 posted on 02/23/2010 11:24:23 AM PST by clintonh8r (Nobody's 'bot!!)
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To: Captain Kirk; Robbin
Well Captain,
Ron Paul is life, but not as we know it. He is crazy, a nut, a wacko, a RINO and an alien and all that.
Which is why I support him and his son Rand as well. They are the lunatics I'm looking for.

He is a very rare breed, one of very few that have the audacity of nope.

He will never win but he keeps the faith.

132 posted on 02/23/2010 11:28:41 AM PST by Theophilus (Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?)
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To: monkapotamus

LOL. And my SIL just said that is going to give her nightmares, so THANK YOU. ;)


133 posted on 02/23/2010 11:29:53 AM PST by reaganaut (ex-mormon, now Christian- "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see")
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To: clintonh8r

“Your memory is correct.”


How about that?! Score one for an old fart. heh heh

See now, that would make more sense about Palin’s endorsement. If McCain was the only R in AZ running, then I could see how he’d be better than the alternative. And once she had given her endorsement, she would have been slammed for being wishy/washy if she retracted it and then endorsed JD.

I suppose she could have just stayed quiet and not endorsed anyone, but that’s water under the bridge to nowhere now.


134 posted on 02/23/2010 11:29:54 AM PST by CaribouCrossing
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Of course he does. Both are traitors.


135 posted on 02/23/2010 11:32:04 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Diogenesis
RINO LOVE
136 posted on 02/23/2010 11:42:25 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: Theophilus

Actual I support Rand, Ron is a little too weird for me. However, I would take him, or a ham sandwich over the current occupant of the white house.


137 posted on 02/23/2010 11:43:03 AM PST by Robbin (If Sarah isnÂ’t welcome, IÂ’m not welcome, itÂ’s just that simpleÂ…)
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To: rabscuttle385
I've seen many comments of late denying that the two major parties are just about the same.

It's true that big issues like nationalized health insurance and "climate change" separate the parties pretty cleanly.

However, in the really important areas like incumbent protection -- which ensures a continuing governing oligarchy -- they are virtual carbon copies (carbon paper: that would be the carbon-coated tissue paper you would insert between the original and the copy you wanted to make when you typed . . oh, forget it) of each other.

We must get over this idea that politicians of Party A are significantly different from politicians of Party B. No -- they are different only in that they are beholden to different groups of financial supporters, and because of that will cast their votes in accordance with the desires of various corporate, union, religious and PAC elements in order to gain their continuing campaign contributions.

And, more to the point of this article, when an incumbent of their own party has a challenger, they will nine times out of ten cast their lot with those already in office in order to further their own careers.

It doesn't matter, really, that Romney and McCain were rivals for the Republican presidential nomination two years ago. They each want to project to their various backers the positive image of a "team player" who can be relied on to do their bidding.

138 posted on 02/23/2010 11:46:48 AM PST by logician2u
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Maybe people (even DeMint) don’t think JD has a chance against a democrat challenger? Who is running for the senate seat on the D side? Maybe they think JD would be too vulnerable and they want to protect the AZ senate seat — even if it means keeping McCain. You know JD is not the sharpest knife in the drawer afterall. They should have run someone better against McCain if they were serious.


139 posted on 02/23/2010 11:50:33 AM PST by crunk
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To: AZhappy; rabscuttle385; darkwing104; Old Sarge; 50mm; Servant of the Cross
Not to mention that J.D. was just plain boring on his radio show.

Sounds like a n00b I just heard about, too. Predictable, boring, liberal, wrong, zottable...

IBTZ


140 posted on 02/23/2010 11:54:52 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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