Why John McCain Just Announced His Opposition To Bernanke

The Business Insider ^ | 2010-01-25 | Joe Wiesenthal

[Ann Archy]

Hey Dirtboy.....NAME IT!! If you can’t, then apologize.

[dirtboy]

Just calling them as I see them, Jim. The mood in the electorage is anti-establishment, and JD went down in 2006 for his ties to Abramoff. If you don't think that will be a major albatross around his neck in 2010, the Dems will beg to differ.

Scott Brown won as a state senator. There has got to be someone clean in the state legisltature that can step forward.

[my right]

Anybody is better than McCain.

[TigersEye]

Thanks a lot, db. The link you gave started some script that began to take over my browser.

All: Avoid the link in #19.

[dirtboy]

Check post 19. Denying the problems represented by the Abramoff scandal was a big reason the GOP lost in 2006. Don’t make the same mistake in 2010 - the mood of the electorate is anti-establishment, and I don’t see how you take down an establishment incumbent like McCain with a guy who lost for his establishment lobbyist ties in 2006. Just doesn’t make sense - don’t let your zeal to take down McCain (which I share) blind you to the baggage Hayworth brings to the show.

[Jim Robinson]

Damn the nattering nabobs of negativity!! Full steam ahead, J.D.!!

Down with McStain!!

Go LIBERTY!!

[dirtboy]

Bullcrap, I have McAfee loaded on my laptop, and 19 gave me no problems, it is a MSM article.

If you want to live in denial about Hayworth's Abramoff problems, that's your choice. But folks really should not just pretend that isn't a major problem when Abramoff cost Hayworth (and the larger GOP) big-time in 2006. In a way, the GOP was almost as tone-deaf then as the Dems are now, don't go back to that.

[Jim Robinson]

You need a rest.

[dirtboy]

Pretending Abramoff and other scandals wasn’t a big deal is precisely what cost the GOP and Hayworth in 2006 - corruption polled ahead of the Iraq War as to concerns of anti-GOP voters in exit polling. I’d hope we could learn from mistakes instead of rushing headfirst to repeat them.

[Jim Robinson]

GTH.

[hedgie]

Has been. The Abramoff and Mark Foley scandals led to the Republican party purge of 2006. In my opinion, that was the first wave of what is still continuing now. If you want to try someone to the right of McCain, find someone else.

Staging a primary fight to McCain is probably counter-productive anyway. I know, I know, McCain is a RINO, Bush is a RINO, Scott Brown is a RINO, Ronald Reagan was a RINO, Barry Goldwater was a RINO, Robert A. Taft was a RINO. RINO, RINO, RINO. It’s gotten a little ridiculous. Can we pick on left-liberals for a change?

[Tuxedo]

The Abramoff scandal won't be a big deal in the primary (think Keating), but in the general, that is a different story. While I doubt very much that JD will outpoll McCain, I am hopeful that he puts enough of a scare in McCain that he lurches back to the right. But that will only suffice until the day after election day. McCain (a true American hero many years ago) is all over the place politically.

I am more focused on taking away Dem seats with as Conservative a candidate as we can find. In some states, we know we can only get so far (CA, NY, VT, CT, WA, DE). McCain ought to just retire. Some of these guys need to go back to private life. How much value is WV getting out of Sheets these days?

[wiggen]

messed with mine too. wtf.

[dirtboy]

The Abramoff scandal won't be a big deal in the primary (think Keating), but in the general, that is a different story.

Exactly mine as well.

[TigersEye]

No bullcrap. I have had no problems like that since I started using Firefox 3-4 years ago. I run AVG, ZoneAlarm and AdAware. Occasionally my browser locks up when opening a PDF or some HTML heavy website. But the instant I opened that page popups began, windows began minimizing, windows began switching from one to the other. It stopped the instant I got that site closed, which was not easy chasing things around to click on them.

I don't have an explanation for it but that is what happened.

[okie01]

I really don't understand how anyone can think Hayworth, with his Abramoff history, and having been booted out for such in 2006, is going to fare well in the anti-establishment mood of 2010.

The Abramoff connection was a smear and Hayworth fought to clear his name...and succeeded.

Hayworth is openly and honestly conservative -- no reservations, no cutting corners. And he's a thinker, with good ideas.

My read is that, in Arizona, Hayworth is viewed as firmly anti-establishment. So, an anti-establishment mood within the electorate would only favor him.

[nesnah]

Jim, you need to really quit beating around the bush and tell us how you really feel.

[TigersEye]

Thank you. I knew it wasn’t a glitch in my software.

[Ann Archy]

Oh yeah....JD stopped the Congress from TAXING a SOVEREIGN NATION, which is what the INDIAN TRIBES have been set up as!!! SCANDAL MY ARSE.

[Tuxedo]

I like JD - but McCain is very entrenched. No better excuse for Term Limits than that guy.