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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: Right_in_Virginia

You are asking us to act like liberal pu$$ies. The same rhetoric, just for a weasel republican.


41 posted on 02/09/2008 6:20:53 PM PST by Secret Agent Man
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To: prisoner6
Not THIS one. I'm a Maverick.

LOL no mavericks allowed on the island.
42 posted on 02/09/2008 6:21:36 PM PST by cripplecreek (Just a maverick opposed to King John)
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To: prisoner6
Not THIS one. I'm a Maverick.

LOL no mavericks allowed on the island.
43 posted on 02/09/2008 6:21:52 PM PST by cripplecreek (Just a maverick opposed to King John)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Hillary and Obama don’t go up one vote if I don’t vote for McCain. They never had my vote anyway.

BUMPED for the truth!!!

44 posted on 02/09/2008 6:23:26 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("John McCain is to conservatism what Cindy Sheehan is to the Miss Universe Pageant.")
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To: Winged Hussar
John McCain is my political idle. He is the kindest, warmest, bravest human being that ever lived. And, I want to be like him, a maverick, always putting himself before everything and everyone else. Therefore, like a good maverick, I will not be following the rest of the GOP sheeple into supporting him.

I know Johnny will understand.

45 posted on 02/09/2008 6:31:19 PM PST by E. Cartman (Huckaboob will never be Vice President.)
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To: E. Cartman
John McCain is my political idle.

...?

;)

46 posted on 02/09/2008 6:34:12 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("John McCain is to conservatism what Cindy Sheehan is to the Miss Universe Pageant.")
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To: adc

I think that’s what happens if no one gets enough delegates. McCain neets about 50% of what is left. If he falls short, then it gets figured out at the convention, or at least I think that’s how it works.


47 posted on 02/09/2008 6:34:50 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Way too soon to say. Choosing a running mate who’s acceptable to conservatives will help.

LOL, no sale!

48 posted on 02/09/2008 6:36:40 PM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: Jane Austen
Just do like John's been doing for his entire political career: Be a maverick! Tell him to sit on it, just the way he's told us all to do the last twenty-four years. He respects mavericks and has only contempt for anyone who'd be one of the sheeple and support him. No one with an ounce of self-respect is going to be drawn further into a sick relationship, albeit political, with that man. Let Johnny Boy nip off to High Anus port and beg his good friend Teddy Kennedy for support. Him he respects. His fellow conservatives he's had only contempt for.
49 posted on 02/09/2008 6:37:51 PM PST by E. Cartman (Huckaboob will never be Vice President.)
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To: COBOL2Java
OK conservatives! Are you scared now? Winged Hussar and the RINOs command you! You WILL obey! If you don't, why, they'll just continue to post worthless threads like this one and bore us to death!

BTTT

50 posted on 02/09/2008 6:39:04 PM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: CindyDawg

think tuna and catnip..... if offered, they will come


51 posted on 02/09/2008 6:41:09 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . "You can't be that way"......... Clint)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
For maximum effect, wave these frantically over your head, while continuing to shriek in an embarrassingly womanish manner: While hopping from one foot to the other and after having applied the appropriate amount of black makeup and fire-ash to your face. Some beads in your hair would also help.
52 posted on 02/09/2008 6:47:30 PM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: adc
Good info on how the process works
53 posted on 02/09/2008 6:48:57 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: COBOL2Java

Nothing brings people closer than a common enemy.


54 posted on 02/09/2008 6:58:50 PM PST by jonrick46
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To: Winged Hussar
I just had a THOUGHT: McCain is RELYING On Independents to get him through the Republican Primary (If Obama wins it on the Democratic side) they aren’t going to vote for McKerry..I mean McCain in the general election, so who is he going to rely on..(Conservatives): HE’D Better suck up big time, because he doesn’t have a constituency, and Republicans better wake up and NOT elect this guy, because he’s ~NOT~ going to win most conservatives, and therefore will loose to either Hillary or Obama.
55 posted on 02/09/2008 7:00:46 PM PST by JSDude1 (When a liberal represents the Presidential Nominee for the Republicans; THEY'RE TOAST)
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To: tear gas

Tell that to 2006. I’m going and voting write-in, but McCain will cost us down ballot.


56 posted on 02/09/2008 7:01:09 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Winged Hussar
So, if I don't vote for Hillary or Obama, I'm voting for McCain?

No thanks.

57 posted on 02/09/2008 7:01:38 PM PST by A2J (Love Jesus...hate "church.")
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To: COBOL2Java
OK conservatives! Are you scared now?

No, I'm not and I'm not going to be scared into voting for some RINO, which is nearly identical to the Democrats.

We deserve what we get and what we need to do is to regroup and kick the RINOs out of the GOP and get back to being conservative.

58 posted on 02/09/2008 7:10:09 PM PST by A2J (Love Jesus...hate "church.")
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To: Winged Hussar
Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Saturday that Democrats will have a hard time running against the "legendary record" of Republican John McCain,

While rock ribbed conservatives are dumping all over the ill-tempered RINO relic, moonbat liberals are lionizing him. Who's a fellow to believe?

59 posted on 02/09/2008 7:13:03 PM PST by Biblebelter (I will NEVER EVER vote for McCain or any other current Senator.)
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To: Winged Hussar
Advantages of a McCain Presidency
60 posted on 02/09/2008 7:13:33 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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