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Barone: John McCain (Bush's Likely Successor?)
US News & World Report ^ | September 22, 2005 | Michael Barone

Posted on 09/22/2005 5:11:53 PM PDT by RWR8189

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To: RWR8189

I'm suprised that Michael Barone was conned so completely.
McCain would be a disaster for the country. He is as phony as a three dollar bill.


121 posted on 09/22/2005 6:28:09 PM PDT by hgro (ews)
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To: hgro

I think the man is unstable at best. Can you imagine him with his finger on the red war button?


122 posted on 09/22/2005 6:28:47 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: marajade
OK. I stand corrected.

I'm defending McCain here because I believe he can beat Hillary Clinton and every other Democrat who might be nominated.

I don't yet feel the same way about Mike Pence or George Allen or whoever else might pop up.

123 posted on 09/22/2005 6:28:58 PM PDT by sinkspur (Just west of DFW Airport. We can take in four or five and two dogs.)
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To: sinkspur

I'm pulling for Guiliani. I don't agree with him on social issues like abortion but I think he'd be stable and conservative on fiscal stuff.


124 posted on 09/22/2005 6:30:08 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: bmwcyle

McCain drives me crazy, but he has always been pro-life. My fear is that we'll have to have a choice...the hildebeast or McCain...And quite frankly, NEVER Hilary.


125 posted on 09/22/2005 6:31:11 PM PDT by t2buckeye
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To: GOPGuide

"What the hell is the matter with you?"

Nastiness is tedious and only serves to undermine credibility. Enough.


126 posted on 09/22/2005 6:31:15 PM PDT by HonestConservative (Bless our Servicemen!)
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To: Jake The Goose

You are right. McCain would *not* make a good President, for reasons having nothing to do with ideology and everything to do with personality.

There are certain types that make great 'loose cannons' and bad leaders. McCain is one. Howard Dean is another.

As for Barone saying McCain's stance on immigration, being more for open-border-amnesties than the administration, and co-sponsoring a bill with Ted Kennedy ... well, he's nuts.

GOP voters want an end to illegal immigration and the border s secured.


127 posted on 09/22/2005 6:31:53 PM PDT by WOSG (http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com/)
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To: sinkspur

"LOL!! Depends who he's running against."

That's really the right answer ... right now, I can't think of a decent Conservative to support except for George Allen.

If it's a bunch of moderates and second-tier conservatives, he has a chance.


128 posted on 09/22/2005 6:34:58 PM PDT by WOSG (http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com/)
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To: marajade
What states would Hillary be able to carry that Kerry didn't?

None.

And I think she will lose between 3 and 5 states that Kerry did carry.

129 posted on 09/22/2005 6:35:05 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: HonestConservative

I give what I get. Address your comments to GOPGuide.


130 posted on 09/22/2005 6:35:08 PM PDT by sinkspur (Just west of DFW Airport. We can take in four or five and two dogs.)
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To: GOPGuide

I don't know if Richardson is an adulterer or not (that ought to help him in the Democratic primaries), but there must be something in his background that caused Gore and Kerry to pass him over for VP. He seems like such an obvious choice because he counts as Hispanic.


131 posted on 09/22/2005 6:36:01 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: sinkspur

"I don't yet feel the same way about Mike Pence or George Allen or whoever else might pop up."

Ok, now there are two I'd love to support: Mike Pence and George Allen.

Oh, and Mitt Romney in a pinch.


132 posted on 09/22/2005 6:36:33 PM PDT by WOSG (http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com/)
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To: marajade
Tell that the biggie telecom companies which he usually does great things for as Chair.

WIth telecom companies, he is usually in favor of deregulating them (one of the very very very very very few things he does right).

He isn't keen on bringing back bacon for his state, and since he is pretty safe as an incumbant (or thinks he is), he doesn't see a need to bring any pork back.

Pork might be the only thing you will ever see Senator Coburn and McCain agree on.

And Coburn is never going to bring back pork to his state.

133 posted on 09/22/2005 6:38:11 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: RWR8189

Just reading the title/headline is enough to make me gag!


134 posted on 09/22/2005 6:39:24 PM PDT by nfldgirl ("I love a good rant every now-n-then!")
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To: Sonny M

No he's not. He's the reason why I can't get the east and west coast feeds of the networks or the Denver 5. He's also all about giving them what they want... regulation in relation to digital reproduction.


135 posted on 09/22/2005 6:44:22 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: sinkspur
McCain will run and he will win.

I have opposed him since he first ran for the House. I always thought that there were better candidates. Now the situation is reversed. I don't see that better candidate.

He won reelection with 76% of the vote. He got 300,000 more votes than George Bush did in Arizona.

136 posted on 09/22/2005 6:46:42 PM PDT by MARTIAL MONK
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To: sinkspur; GOPGuide

Actually, MY APOLOGIES to you sinkspur!


Thats what I meant to do! That is, chastise the muck thrower (GOPGuide)

I responded to the wrong post. Duh.

Again, my apologies.






137 posted on 09/22/2005 6:50:16 PM PDT by HonestConservative (Bless our Servicemen!)
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To: bmwcyle
NEVER MCCAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BTTT

138 posted on 09/22/2005 6:51:08 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: bmwcyle

'Amen bro. I won't vote for Hillary, but (and I have NEVER, EVER missed an election) I will not vote for McCain. I'd sit it out.


139 posted on 09/22/2005 6:54:57 PM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news)
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To: MARTIAL MONK
don't see that better candidate.

Me either. Not yet, anyway.

140 posted on 09/22/2005 6:56:05 PM PDT by sinkspur (Just west of DFW Airport. We can take in four or five and two dogs.)
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