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National Review Endorses McCain in Primary
Newsmax ^ | 6/28/10 | Jim Myers

Posted on 06/28/2010 8:54:21 PM PDT by pissant

Arizona Sen. John McCain’s re-election campaign has gained an important endorsement from an influential conservative publication, National Review.

“This magazine has not always agreed with Sen. John McCain’s judgments,” the endorsement on National Review’s website notes. “But there are three considerations that militate against dumping McCain for his primary challenger, former congressman J.D. Hayworth.”

The first is that McCain has consistently voted on the conservative side on important issues — he has never supported a broad-based tax hike, voted for every conservative Supreme Court nominee, and has a long pro-life record.

Second, McCain has unmatched credibility on national security and demonstrated his leadership by encouraging the “surge” of American forces in Iraq.

Third, McCain has a better record than Hayworth on controlling federal spending. Hayworth in fact appeared in infomercials telling people how to get “free money” from the government, according to National Review, which concludes:

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; bitchflowery; mccain; mccaindirtytricks; mcnasty; mcqueeg; nationalreviewrinos; thanksnationalreview; thankyou
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To: pissant

God, I pray endorsements mean NOTHING.

I NEVER voted for anyone on the basis of an endorsement from the media or another scum sucking political hack.

Call me stupid, but I believe the voters of Arizona will make up their own minds and will never take instructions from that globalist pseudo-conservative crowd at the National Review.

McCain was for comprehensive immigration reform before he was against it, which could be said of the National Review as well.


61 posted on 06/29/2010 5:48:41 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Biblebelter

I don’t know. I ask people I know and respect who I know OUTSIDE of my political circle and they like McCain. For some reason, they have a real affinity for the guy. What can I say?


62 posted on 06/29/2010 5:51:13 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: Cyber Liberty
I haven't seen one TV commercial for JD. Not one. I must be watching the wrong channels or something.

I'm on JD's email list and he said a couple weeks back that early voting in Arizona started in late July, and that he would begin his TV advertising in early July, so you should be seeing something during the next week or two.

Neither he, nor any challenger, would have had the millions McCain had from previous fund raising. JD just topped two million and that is damned good for a challenger in a medium sized state, and he'll probably be able to raise one more million. The Scott Brown thing was a very unusual set of circumstances and few non-incumbents will ever raise the sort of money he raised.

And the two debates are July 16 and 17, so JD's campaign should be very evident from then until August 24.

63 posted on 06/29/2010 5:58:50 PM PDT by Will88
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To: pissant
Arizona Sen. John McCain’s re-election campaign has gained an important endorsement from an influential conservative publication, National Review.

I let my subscription lapse earlier this year. For many years, NR was both influential and conservative. Those days are gone.

64 posted on 06/29/2010 6:03:39 PM PDT by Interesting Times (For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: Hildy

I think McCain will win.

It has to do with respect and honor for service to country.

They want to give him the honor of leaving public life on his own terms.

But as a conservative, I wish Bob Dole, John McCain, and Daddy Bush would have taken their distinguished service records and parlayed them in some other profession than.

They fought the good and honorable fight on the foreign field of battle, but they seemed to have surrendered more often than not on the stinking swampland on which our Capitol was built.


65 posted on 06/29/2010 6:04:33 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: pissant

If I was a subscriber, I’d cancel.


66 posted on 06/29/2010 6:04:55 PM PDT by Peter W. Kessler (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: pissant

Ugh...NRO used to be on my “must read” daily reading. I haven’t been at the site in months. Girly boys, as Coulter said...


67 posted on 06/29/2010 6:06:13 PM PDT by Mamzelle (Cameras, cameras--never forget to bring your cameras)
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To: pissant

Ugh...NRO used to be on my “must read” daily reading. I haven’t been at the site in months. Girly boys, as Coulter said...


68 posted on 06/29/2010 6:06:13 PM PDT by Mamzelle (Cameras, cameras--never forget to bring your cameras)
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To: Cyber Liberty; Hildy

Hayworth doesn’t have enough money.


69 posted on 06/29/2010 6:06:53 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: pissant

if the polls are to be believed most of AZ does and that’s what matters


70 posted on 06/29/2010 6:08:11 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: Frantzie
What else would we expect from the same journal that endorsed Myth Romney and tried to sell him as a "full spectrum conservative?"

I stopped reading NR after that absurdity.

71 posted on 06/29/2010 6:21:20 PM PDT by upstanding
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To: Will88

Meanwhile, McCain is doing permanent damage that JD won’t be able to fix later. I understand the hanging on to the money part, but the damage being done in June will be impossible to fix with any amount of money spent in July.


72 posted on 06/29/2010 6:34:33 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
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To: sabe@q.com

Nobody has enough money. McCain has lotsa dough left over from the Presidential campaign he didn’t run.


73 posted on 06/29/2010 6:35:36 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Too bad for JD. He did manage to get enough donations to his campaign to pay off his prior campaign debts though.


74 posted on 06/29/2010 6:38:13 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: Hildy
I’m working hard here in AZ, but I have to tell you, there’s not chance JD is going to beat McCain.

That is more an indictment of Hayworth's campaigning than anything else, right?

I knew as much about Hayworth when he was a congressman as I do now. Nearly every thread posted on FR has been a McCain bashing thread while none or very few have touted the virtues of voting FOR Hayworth.

75 posted on 06/29/2010 6:41:17 PM PDT by upsdriver (ret.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

What damage is being done that can’t be fixed?


76 posted on 06/29/2010 6:41:38 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Mamzelle
Yuval and Coffin at NRO today
77 posted on 06/29/2010 6:41:43 PM PDT by cornelis
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To: Da Coyote
Yuval and Coffin at NRO today
78 posted on 06/29/2010 6:42:14 PM PDT by cornelis
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To: Peter W. Kessler
Yuval and Coffin at NRO today
79 posted on 06/29/2010 6:42:56 PM PDT by cornelis
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To: Ol' Sparky
Yuval and Coffin at NRO today
80 posted on 06/29/2010 6:44:17 PM PDT by cornelis
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