I expect McCain to change parties after he wins the general election.
Posted on 03/24/2008 9:40:28 PM PDT by Yosemitest
I can answer that.
McCain has been in the race for the Presidency since 2000 (or earlier). He knew this was his last shot, so he was in it regardless of who else was in the race and regardless of any other consideration.
Any number of bona fide conservative Republicans COULD have gotten into the race but either chickened out or bailed too early. Many listened to the likes of Sean Hannity and others and, defying all common sense, actually BELIEVED that the Presidency was Hillary's to lose. "President Hillary" was inevitable, you see....
The stupidity of such a belief is staggering. When the time comes for real Americans to enter their real polling places and vote, they are never going to elect Hillary Clinton as President of the United States. She has the highest negatives of any candidate in history for a reason. Hillary's candidacy has always been a landslide waiting to happen. Period. Experienced politicians should know this instinctively.
Anyway, I digress....
As a result of the stupidity and cowardice of so many conservative Republicans who COULD have jumped into the race and had a legitimate chance, only a few longshots bothered. Those longshots were all either too flawed or too unfamiliar to the American public. As with all elections, the ignorant chattering class casts the most votes and in this year's case, the Republican chattering class ended up going with the candidate they had at least heard of before - - you know, that "Straight Talk Express" guy.
In essence McCain is their, "He's alright I guess, what the heck, why not?", candidate.
I hope this answers your question.
FRegards,
LH
It ain’t the BUSH/Feingold act. And if you listen regularly to Rush, he didn’t give Bush a free pass on this crap.
Besides, Rush can’t win with a lot of people anyway. When he criticizes, generally half the people b1tch that he’s criticizing too much, and the other half b1tch he’s going soft.
I expect McCain to change parties after he wins the general election.
Same way we’re causing a nightmare convention for the Democrats.
BUT... I disagree... that Hillary can't win.
There are many angry conservatives out there that will NOT vote for McCain, ... NO MATTER WHAT!!!
We will simply NOT break out principles.
NOW... that said... there may be enough Democrats, disgusted with their own party, that will vote for McCain, seeing McCain as a conservative choice for the DEMOCRAT VALUES.
He joined the team when he signed the bill.
I think it's because, unfortunately, most people don't pay much attention to politics.
Rush will say anything to get into Ann Coulter’s panties
It is sad to see how simply irrelevent Rush has become.
If Rush and Ann Coulter mated, we'd have some real conservatives for the future.
How dare you say such a thing.
Without Rush Limbaugh's endless slamming of John McCain and endorsement of Fred Thompson the GOP would have been stuck with John McCain as its nominee in 2008.
Excuse me, but I seem to recall that George W. Bush had the option to Veto McCain-Feingold and elected to sign CFR.
So let’s call it McCain-Feingold-Bush.
Yes, I know. Rush definitely needs to influence more than 20 MILLION PEOPLE A DAY.
No sarcasm, but could you name the conservatives who could have gotten into the race? I was hoping for Thompson but he turned into a pilot that failed to light. I can’t come up with any names, which is a shame as we have had 8 years to coalesce around someone.
I wish Rush would run.Just as I thought. A lot of Rush sniping from people wieghted down by that chip on their shoulder cause ole Rushbo didn’t endorse their candidate of choice.
Get over it and move on.
Meanwhile, Rush creating havoc on the other side of the aisle and distancing himself from McCain seems to be working out quite nicely -— if of course ya all are cozying up to the turncoat master shoulder chip in chief wannabe, McCain. Last take, McCain is ahead of both hillary and obama by 8-10 points in polls. Let the socialists duke it out and our jumping Jim Jeffords wanna be waltzes right in in the midst of their battle. Something like 10 or 20 percent of democrats will defect to McCain if their candidate doesn’t win. Both the obama and clinton camps are hating each other, and some of us love it.
As far as irrelevant goes, some oughta look in the mirror. Scurrying around on website chatter sites thinking you have an impact or clue isn’t setting the world on fire either is it?
Tom Coburn (R-OK)
Jim DeMint (R-SC)
John Ensign (R-NV)
James Inhofe (R-OK)
John Thune (R-SD)
Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
Wayne Allard (R-CO)
Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
Richard Burr (R-NC)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Also, Rick Santorum and George Allen (although recent losses may have made these candidacies problematic).
Those names are just from the Senate. There MUST be a handful of former and current conservative House Representatives who are well-enough known to raise some enthusiasm (and money).
And similarly, There MUST be a handful of former and current conservative governors who are well-enough known to raise enthusiasm (and money).
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