Posted on 12/09/2008 3:43:31 PM PST by redk
Joe Wurzelbacher lashed out at former GOP presidential nominee John McCain Tuesday, the man who made Wurzelbacher famous as “Joe the Plumber.”
Wurzelbacher told conservative radio host Glenn Beck that he felt “dirty” after “being on the campaign trail and seeing some of the things that take place.”
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oops..sorry...I was thinking of SC and you said NC...regardless, blaming a 3rd party for the GOP losing is like blaming wal-mart for a corner market going out of business...if they can’t compete and win..then they should go out of business. fearing competetion is not a conservative value. conservatives embrace competition as the fuel of capitalism and growth.
Maybe that will change. He is so irrelevant.
I often wondered WHY he didn't listen to AZ on ILLEGAL immigration. McPain boggles my mind.
That's true.
I don’t think it has anything to do with a book. That’s a liberal thing - liberals all have “a book in them”. It’s why the publishing industry’s in the tank - in fact most liberals don’t have a worthwhile book in them...
“If you let the same five to ten states pick the nominee next time, you’ll have another McCain. we need a national primary day. The opening states pick losers, even when they win.”
The opening states pick one of the media/establishment “top tier” anointed candidates. It is virtually impossible for a real conservative constitutionalist to break through.
McCain also picked Palin, and elevated her national status.
Would she have gotten on the national stage anyway? No one knows, but she is now, and we are all much better for that.
LOL, too true!
Politics is a an even dirtier business, though. My daughter and I volunteered on the Coburn campaign in OK, and we were appalled by how the whole process “worked”. First the Republican establishment tried to defeat Dr. C. in the primary, and when he became the candidate, they offered little help and lukewarm support until it became apparent that he would probably win.
During the last week of the campaign, all these weasels from out of state showed up and tried to take over - acting like they ran the place - so they could try to claim credit for the win.
It made me feel dirty, for sure. I lost my appetite for participating in political campaigns after that.
If Evangelicals want to win as republicans - it may be their only option.
The question was, given that no Mormon would win over the evangelicals, how is a Mormon supposed to win the GOP primary?
You didn’t answer the question.
Meanwhile, the Huffington Post has carried the same story which attracted 50 pages of vile comments about both Joe and Gov. Palin. It just goes to show you just how twisted these folks are. Their candidate won the election, but they are still bitter, angry, twisted people, who know that obama’s victory was pretty unspectacular. With $750 million, thousands of media cheerleaders, an opponent unpopular with his own party’s base, an unpopular sitting president, it still took a financial meltdown to put their guy over the top by just 7 percent. Any generic democrat could have won by double digits. Even McGovern or Mondale could have won with all that going for them. Heck, even I could have won for that matter.
McCain’s answers there appalled me too. He kept harping on propping up the price of peoples homes. The values were overinflated; he should have approached it (if he had to do that at all) by saying he wanted to keep people in their homes. Instead, he came across as sounding like he was only worried about investment houses.
It reminded me of his approach to lettuce picking. McCain doesn’t have a clue, but he got my vote for the same reasons: Obama is far worse, and Gov. Palin deserved my vote.
The limp-wristed girls of the RNC and McCain campaign are cut from the same leftist cloth as any large city democrats. They saw Gov. Palin as a hick too, and thought she “must” have dragged the campaign down. They were embarrassed by her. McCain was disgusting by not coming out and squelching attacks on his running mate by his own people. Ah, but he’s a senator, so he probably thought the same thing.
Excellent
A Mormon can win the GOP primary by running as himself. Evangelicals can do as they will. If they decide to tank the GOP, they will be outed as such and pay the price.
He not only didn’t listen to us, one of the few times he showed up in AZ was to travel the entire state trying to defeat our proposition that put the squeeze on illegals here in AZ... the proposition won 60/40.
If you want the democrats to rule forever like they currently do in Illinois, then keep talking third parties.... because that is what you will get... if you don’t like the GOP then work to change it to what is more palitable; don’t pick up your sticks and go home...
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