Posted on 02/01/2008 9:06:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Bumped for Truth.
This is round 3 in the electability/inevitability myth for this election season. Round 1: TootyFruityRudy. Round 2: Fred. Round 3: McCainiack. Just insert the latest “inevitable” candidate into the argument. We’ve all heard it before.
I suppose the article makes a good case that McCain may be unelectable in the General but what about the Primaries?
Put me in the camp as one of those who takes what the polls are saying about November with a grain of salt. A lot can happen in 9 months. If McCain keeps sounding the way he did Wednesday, he’ll be convincing people he should be retiring, not running for president.
read this..
The media wants him to be the GOP candidate. That is obvious. It is a sure win for Osama Obama...or Hillary.
Agreed. He’s the one easiest to take down when the field is cleared.
Even if we do hold our noses and not go as far as Coulter in [campaigning] for the Democratic candidate, McCain will still have some problems because many conservatives will sit out and the ones who do ultimately vote for McCain have vowed to refuse to donate money to him.
This is the absolute best McCain will get from many of us and that is if he is lucky. McCain has never been the man for the presidency and absolutely has never been the man to be the nominee for said position for the Republican party. I will not vote for him in the general. No convincing otherwise will be persuasive and absolutely no money and no support to getting him elected will be forthcoming.
My vote will be for Mitt Romney on Tuesday as I believe and always have that he is the man for the job and directly up against Hillary or Obama this will become apparent as we go into November to the American people.
McCain is a dangerous joke and I am not laughing.
-—It is no secret that the New York times is anti-war, why would they endorse an apparent war-monger like McCain. The Times was so against the war and came out even stronger against the surge. It is ironic that they were so willing to give their stamp of approval.-—
Odd indeed.
Mark my words. The Dims can hardly wait to “swiftboat” John McCain. This will be their favorite part of the election.
I wish there were more candidates to choose from. In a country of 300,000,000 we should have a 10 or 20 that can led us better thant the current crop! They all want to give us up to the globalists and open borders crowd.
We have three days to stop McCain and if you want to help us you don’t even have to leave your house.
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Pass this info on to as many people as possible.
McCain must be stopped! bttt
I’ve been saying this for months. There is more negative baggage on McCain, with substance, than any other candidate and the MSM will magically find it after he’s the nominee.
I know you have been saying it & I think you are right.
True...they wanted him to be the candidate because he is easiest to take down.
McCain is unhealthy is mind and body. He had to be helped off the plane by his wife.
Let us look at McCain’s conservative credentials:
-IMMIGRATION: he wrote the bill granting amnesty to illegal immigrants (co-sponsored by Ted Kennedy)
-SOCIAL SECURITY: he voted to give your social security money to illegal immigrants
-TAXES: he voted against the Bush tax cuts multiple times (he has since flip-flopped and has campaigned as a lifelong tax-cutter)
-RHETORIC: he routinely engages in Democratic class warfare against big companies in America, particularly the “evil” drug companies who research cures to debilitating diseases for a profit
-ECONOMY: as recently as December 2007 he admitted “he does not know the economy very well” and needed to get better at it
-1ST AMENDMENT: he wrote the McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill that was declared to be an unconstitutional infringement of the 1st Amendment (co-sponsored by ultra-liberal Democrat Russ Feingold)
-2ND AMENDMENT: he was called the “worst 2nd amendment candidate” by the president of the NRA
-ENERGY TAX: wrote a bill (co-sponsored by his buddy Lieberman) imposing a massive tax on energy which, according to the Department of Energy, would drastically raise the price of gasoline and put 300,000 Americans out of work
-GLOBAL WARMING: supports radical global warming legislation which involved him voting with every Democrat; think only America is responsible to take action, not other superpowers
-JUDGES: he joined forces with Democrats (Gang of 14) to block the Senate Republican’s attempt to confirm conservative, strict constructionist judges; also said Alito was too conservative for his liking
-WAR ON TERROR: fought with Hillary Clinton to demand that terrorists be given a full American trial
-GAY MARRIAGE: he joined liberals to fight against a federal marriage amendment supporting the institution of traditional marriage
-CHRISTIANS: campaigning in 2000, he famously described Christian leaders as “agents of intolerance”
-PRO-LIFE: he filed an amicus brief against pro-life advocates in Wisconsin
-BI-PARTISANSHIP: he met with leading Democrats in 2004 to discuss the possibility of being John Kerry’s Vice-President; publicly considered leaving the Republican Party in 2001 after he lost the primary
-PROFESSIONAL ETHICS: ringleader of the infamous Keating 5 ethical scandal which cost US tax payers $160 billion (Google it)
-PERSONAL ETHICS: McCain cheated on his first wife after she had a severe accident that left her partially disabled. He then divorced her and married his multi-millionaire mistress, whose daddy bought McCain a spot in the Congress
I would crawl across broken glass to vote for Mitt Romney in the general.
I would rather crawl across broken glass than vote for McCain in the general.
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