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Can McCain Corral Conservatives?
Wall Street Journal ^ | 2/9/08 | NICK TIMIRAOS

Posted on 02/09/2008 5:17:12 PM PST by Winged Hussar

How conservative is Mr. McCain? During his quarter century in Washington, the senator has assembled an 82% rating from the American Conservative Union, placing him 39th among senators in 2006, while drawing a 25% lifetime rating from the liberal American Civil Liberties Union. Hillary Clinton, by contrast, has a 75% ACLU lifetime rating. A scorecard by the antitax Club for Growth, a conservative political-action committee, ranked him 29th among 55 Republican senators in 2006.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; aclu; american; civil; clinton; juanmccain; liberties; mccain; mcstain; obama; ourmexicanoverlords; rino; rinostampede; thelarazacandidate; union; unity
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To: Winged Hussar
McCain will have to pry my vote from my cold dead hands!!!!!
21 posted on 02/09/2008 5:40:56 PM PST by GregB (I will crawl over broken glass to vote for FRed Thompson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: TommyDale
Nominating a RINO like McCain will elect Hillary Clinton or Barack Hussein Obama!

Do you have ANY political acumen?

22 posted on 02/09/2008 5:41:00 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: CindyDawg

Well, I can’t speak for cats, but folks some say you can tell a lot about a man by his choice of dog.

My best buddy is a Chesapeake Bay Retriever. I double dog dare anyone to try to herd even one of these guys.

Heck, once Grizz learned right from wrong, it was welded into his brain...just like me.

Grizz doesn’t know compromise, pain or fear and he sure cant be intimidated. Negation is the only thing that has a chance of working, but he has to love and respect you first or you’re probably going to get bit. ;>)

BTW..cats fear him. ;>)


23 posted on 02/09/2008 5:43:23 PM PST by Gator113 (America just traded away the possibility of a dream, for what is certain to be a nightmare.)
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To: TommyDale

But how do you really feel? ;-) (I agree, by the way).


24 posted on 02/09/2008 5:43:25 PM PST by doc1019
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To: Right_in_Virginia

If McCain picks a great VEEP like say, NEWT GINGRICH, then I believe he can pull in the conservative vote. Newt is a solid, smart conservative who would be a good VP for MCain.


25 posted on 02/09/2008 5:43:25 PM PST by princess leah
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To: TommyDale
I will not compromise my principles

Good for you! Rejoice in sending our fighting men and women, our supremacy in the WOT, our fight for fiscal responsibility and the chance to send more John Roberts' to the Supreme Court to the pit of quicksand.

Sleep well.

26 posted on 02/09/2008 5:44:31 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Winged Hussar

Ann Coulter pointed out in her “unofficial” CPAK speech that his last two terms his rating was in the 70s. He has become more liberal. That is not what conservatives need in a leader.


27 posted on 02/09/2008 5:45:28 PM PST by kittymyrib
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To: Man50D
McCain is the GOP version of Obama and Clinton

Prove it. Specifically.

28 posted on 02/09/2008 5:46:04 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Winged Hussar
And this is why Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, and so on need to shut up and sit down

My tolerance for this nonsense is wearing thin. So here is an A-1 idea for you. Take your cheesy "public domain" dimestore pictures, your bolded text, your "shut up and sit downs" and your moronic threats and go find an audience that would be more receptive to them.

Like a cage full of hamsters.

RINO seems to be a dated term nowadays. I think I'll call you people CICOs. Conservative In Claim Only.

Seriously.

APf

29 posted on 02/09/2008 5:48:36 PM PST by APFel (Regnum Nostrum Crescit)
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To: Winged Hussar
Next time, just go ahead and type out "¡Sí, Se Puede!," instead. Saves bandwidth.

Vote Anyone BUT McCain! (Jim Robinson)

30 posted on 02/09/2008 5:51:53 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("John McCain is to conservatism what Cindy Sheehan is to the Miss Universe Pageant.")
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To: Right_in_Virginia

So you want McCain? Good for you! I hope you can sleep well, since he has already spit in our faces for years. After his stint with the “Gang of 14” you would trust him to appoint a conservative justice? HAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!

You should have all thought of the consequences before “selecting” McCain. Half the country hasn’t even voted yet. What a joke. The GOP is being run by a bunch of morons.


31 posted on 02/09/2008 5:55:32 PM PST by TommyDale (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
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To: COBOL2Java

if the senators have any balls left they will fillibuster like the dems did. AND we did get harriet miers ditched.

hillary doesn’t scare me. i am not sure about obama yet.


32 posted on 02/09/2008 5:58:04 PM PST by libbylu (Ann and I will be campaigning for Hill. Still a MITTen.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

I will be Fred..just watch and see.


33 posted on 02/09/2008 5:59:27 PM PST by crz
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To: libbylu

Here’s the problem with the GOP being able to filibuster: McCain’s thorough trouncing will give the Democrats a 60+ Super Majority in the Senate to prevent any filibusters. This is the biggest problem with McCain.


34 posted on 02/09/2008 6:00:06 PM PST by TommyDale (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
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To: Winged Hussar
If you don't vote for McCain in November, you are voting for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

For maximum effect, wave these frantically over your head, while continuing to shriek in an embarrassingly womanish manner:


35 posted on 02/09/2008 6:02:54 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("John McCain is to conservatism what Cindy Sheehan is to the Miss Universe Pageant.")
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

LOL


36 posted on 02/09/2008 6:10:15 PM PST by cripplecreek (Duncan Hunter, Conservative excellence in action.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

(Romney by swooping in at the end in a brokered convention)

Is that at all plausible? I thought that a brokered convention was off the table. How could that work?


37 posted on 02/09/2008 6:10:29 PM PST by adc (Rush '08All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently oppos)
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To: Winged Hussar
Mclaim cannot win and will not win..
A vote for him is a wasted vote, wasted effort..
Many/most republicans will not vote for him under any conditions..
He is a weasle, a posuer, a fake, a shill, a snitch, a mole..
Democrats USE him but don't respect him..
Anyone with a ounce of political acumen shun him..

The main election will have a low republican turnout..
Why vote for a synthetic democrat.. or Vietnamese Candidate..

38 posted on 02/09/2008 6:12:59 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: Winged Hussar
Can McCain Corral Conservatives?

Not THIS one. I'm a Maverick.

prisoner6

39 posted on 02/09/2008 6:17:36 PM PST by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the Left fall out.)
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To: COBOL2Java

No moron. I am not voting for ANY OF THEM!!!!!

Hillary and Obama don’t go up one vote if I don’t vote for McCain. They never had my vote anyway.

Just stop being a patsy and acting like a hysterical liberal.


40 posted on 02/09/2008 6:18:13 PM PST by Secret Agent Man
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