John McCain's mission: A GOP makeover

Politico ^ | October 2, 2009 | ALEX ISENSTADT

[southernnorthcarolina]

What this is really all about:

JOHN MCCAIN 2012 CAMPAIGN AD

The stuff of nightmares there.

[Dawgreg]

If he makes the party over in his own image, then we’re more screwed than I thought. No thanks McLame......just go home!

[Leisler]

You see this behaviour a lot in dying regimes. The Fwench Royalty had it before they were mass executed in the Revolt. So too in the events leading up to the 1917 Russian revolt and even in the later Soviet Collapse. You can see in even GM circling the drain where the upper management is one unbroken line of losers.

McCain, Romney, even GW Bush. Wishy, driftish, no or poor narrative, conflicted and all the while in a bubble of Royal Washington, a city I wish would just sink into the muck and take a million oxygen thieves( I wish that was all they stole ) with them.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

If McNuts, Grahamnesty and the other RINO’s left the party, that would be a good start for a makeover.

[skikvt]

center-right? You have to be to the left of Karl Marx to have that perspective.

[backhoe]

Cap'n, nobody campaigned harder for you than we did-- including my normally apolitical wife.

Please, just go away and pipe down...

[LibLieSlayer]

I may never vote for a repubic again... why are they intentionally turning into dims?

LLS

[MissMagnolia]

Sen. John McCain is working behind-the-scenes to reshape the Republican Party in his own center-right image.

Therein lies the problem.

[Grunthor]

“Fresh from a humbling loss in last year’s presidential election, Sen. John McCain is working behind-the-scenes to reshape the Republican Party in his own center-right image.”

He thinks that conservatives will go along with this. He really does.

[JSDude1]

Sen. John McCain is working behind-the-scenes to reshape the Republican Party in his own center-right image

BOZO, Leave the GOP alone, we rejected you, and your center image!

[Caipirabob]

I’ve recently moved back to Arizona. It will be a great pleasure of mine to vote against him in the primary. Something I was denied the last time BECAUSE NOBODY ELSE WAS ON THE BALLOT!

Right there with you.

I had delayed registering as a Republican on arrival. I've made my decision and will register again as a Republican. Voting against McCain and hopefully sending him into a comfortable retirement will be one of the first pleasures I enjoy at the voting booth here...

[arthurus]

Where do they get off calling him “center right?” He is, at best, Center left drifting lefter. His effect politically is hard left because he supports the permanent socialist truncation of the economy that is Cap&Trade and the creation of the permanent SocialDemocrat majority with Amnesty.

[Melchior]

The Politico, which has become a house organ for Democrats, mentions only Schilling and Kirk of Illinois (a RINO indeed). There was mention of a meeting when McCain introduced forty candidates to his East Coast elitist power base (he does not have a West Coast base). If I were a Republican running for office for the first time, I think it would be wise to eschew McCain and work with or begin building the local power base. Use the internet and the blogs to gain name recognition. McCain is poison.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Adios, Captain Strawberries.

[MBB1984]

Yes, his campaign for President was such a sparkling success!

[noname07718]

Go away John. Please, just go away.

[ravingnutter]

No, John...just GIVE IT BACK to those of us who are TRUE conservatives! NO MORE RINOS!

[Colvin]

My Mission, not to vote for GOP Rino’s

[dforest]

If the GOP doesn’t shut this old man and his bud Linseed up, they are going to guarantee a 3rd party and an O win again.

YOU were rejected old man, now go away.

[jnsun]

John McCain is an A-1 certified member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), as is a whole host of media moguls, Clintons, Rockefeller, Albright, Bush, Bronfman's, etc.

I wonder if I (Johnny Suntrade) can give a talk at their brand new digs?

Oh, but Sarah Palin is not a member.