Posted on 07/05/2010 11:37:17 PM PDT by tlb
First, it was Sarah Palin. Then it was Arizona Right to Life and the National Rifle Association. Most recently, the revered National Review gave its imprimatur to McCain.
When Hayworth entered the race in January, McCain was at his most vulnerable point in decades. Polling showed McCain had a lead within the margin of error and was struggling to redefine himself as a Republican loyalist. But polls now show McCain with a solid lead.
Baker said the McCain campaign may have engineered a sort of domino effect: Each endorsement shows the next group that backing McCain is a safer bet than it may have first appeared, and Republican voters seem to be following the same trend.
McCain has focused Hayworth’s reputation in Congress as a pork-barrel spender, a serious offense to many conservatives. And the senator has run an undeniably negative campaign against Hayworth, openly mocking him and attacking his credibility.
The McCain campaign has posted videos online poking fun at Hayworth for questioning the authenticity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, suggesting that allowing gay marriage could pave the way for men to wed horses, and especially for appearing in a 2007 infomercial urging people to take advantage of “free money” from government grants.
The infomercial for the National Grants Conferences has been the most damning revelation yet, combining the promotion of government spending with a host of informercial stereotypes. It prompted the popular FOX News personality Glenn Beck to declare that Hayworth’s campaign is over.
If McCain had a more conservative challenger, National Review wrote, the endorsement might have gone elsewhere. But while Hayworth’s record is conservative, the article read, it isn’t conservative enough to make a compelling case against McCain.
“He may not be Marco Rubio, but he’s not Arlen Specter either,” the editorial said of McCain.
(Excerpt) Read more at azcapitoltimes.com ...
Then, look for a democrat senator from AZ in 2011. The nasty campaigning McCain is doing will cause more than one conservative to vote down ticket or stay home.
Thanks Jim.
OK if I copy that post and repost parts or all of it?
Oh wow, thanks for the ping GreyFox39!
The Palin appearance for McCain, I believe, disproves the level of hype that the Palinophiles/Palinites here exhibited. I realize that it is probably a case of “I know him...” but it undermines the ‘Ultra-Marine’ Conservative brush that they paint her with. IMHO, the Palinites are the ‘conservative’ equivalent of the obots and creepily like a cult of personality.
I need to know the best way to let people know. I want as many people as possible at this thing. He has important things he wants to say.
Yes, he was in Havasu yesterday afternoon.
Anything I post on this forum is public domain as far as I am concerned. I put it out there for the widest possible airing, so re-posting suits me just fine.
What about a plan for reforming how we deal with illegal immigrants, I wrote one up to make a military solution seem more palatable:
A Solution to the Illegal Immigration Problems… A Final Solution
Jim Robinson: Look, if you’re going to support amnesty you’re on the wrong website. You might try WAnkers for McCain.
Mr. Robinson, I'd like your permission to post the above-linked article. I did once but it was removed by an Admin, presumably because of the title (which is meta-humor at the reactions such a proposal would generate among the vocal; after-all they did call the AZ law Nazi-like).
Aristotle once said, "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." and I think that you, sir, do qualify.
What about a plan for reforming how we deal with illegal immigrants, I wrote one up to make a military solution seem more palatable:
A Solution to the Illegal Immigration Problems… A Final Solution
Jim Robinson: Look, if you’re going to support amnesty you’re on the wrong website. You might try WAnkers for McCain.
Mr. Robinson, I'd like your permission to post the above-linked article. I did once but it was removed by an Admin, presumably because of the title (which is meta-humor at the reactions such a proposal would generate among the vocal; after-all they did call the AZ law Nazi-like).
Aristotle once said, "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." and I think that you, sir, do qualify.
Question: Would a Hayworth ad/commercial a)owning up to the aforementioned infomercial, b) apologizing, and c) admitting he’s not perfect and does, from time to time, make mistakes (i.e. being real) help?
The Bill of Rights includes a right to a competent defense, Amendment 6 IIRC, and the man does have people to feed (himself at the least).
So I’ll take that he defended a human trafficker with a little salt.
Uh ... nobody else was brave enough to step forward.
This is a disaster. We have a bunch of RINO co-enablers. We need to STOP enabling this kind of nonsense.
We dont NEED John McCain in the party anymore.
Anyone who endorsed him has lost my respect - Palin, NR, etc.
Why? McCain has been a bane to the conservative and Republican causes both.
McCain hates conservatives, this election proves it more than anything else, because he attacks conservatives more viciously than he ever went after Obama.
This is my criticism of trucons in a nutshell.
Rule or ruin.
Not strong enough to elect one of their own, but strong enough to defeat RINOs, giving rise to RAT majorities.
NY-23 was lesson #1. This year - a year when the people are ready to dismiss the Democrats - will be lessons #2-x.
Trucons cannot elect their own (Until they show me different). They CAn defeat McCain, Fiorina, Whitman, etc - but to what end?
“I shall vote for a homeless drunk before considering voting for a treasonous RINO like McShame!”
That’s the correct attitude. A homeless drunk does less damage than a guy who writes bills with Sen Ted Kennedy.
I can’t believe AZ voters are falling for this crap: McCain has been single-handedly the WORST influence on the Republican party this decade, undercutting conservatives on issue after issue. See below.
And yet McCain throws bogus slime around and makes that the issue. Pathetic really. Pathetic that voters are falling for it.
You say: “ JD is a great man.”
Well, mcCain is a frickin’ train wreck for our party and the country, and we need to forgive JD’s smaller errors and NOT FORGIVE McCain’s repeated stabbing conservatives in the back on issue after issue.
McCain-Feingold — the most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley v. Valeo.
McCain-Kennedy — the most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.
McCain-Lieberman — the most onerous and intrusive attack on American industry — through reporting, regulating, and taxing authority of greenhouse gases — in American history.
McCain-Kennedy-Edwards — the biggest boon to the trial bar since the tobacco settlement, under the rubric of a patients’ bill of rights.
McCain-Reimportation of Drugs — a significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety (hey Rudy, pay attention, see link).
And McCain’s stated opposition to the Bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts was largely based on socialist, class-warfare rhetoric — tax cuts for the rich, not for the middle class. The public record is full of these statements. Today, he recalls only his insistence on accompanying spending cuts.
As chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, McCain was consistently hostile to American enterprise, from media and pharmaceutical companies to technology and energy companies.
McCain also led the Gang of 14, which prevented the Republican leadership in the Senate from mounting a rule change that would have ended the systematic use (actual and threatened) of the filibuster to prevent majority approval of judicial nominees.
And then there’s the McCain defense record.
His supporters point to essentially one policy strength, McCain’s early support for a surge and counterinsurgency. It has now evolved into McCain taking credit for forcing the president to adopt General David Petreaus’s strategy. Where’s the evidence to support such a claim?
Moreover, Iraq is an important battle in our war against the Islamo-fascist threat. But the war is a global war, and it most certainly includes the continental United States, which, after all, was struck on 9/11. How doesMcCain fare in that regard?
McCain-ACLU — the unprecedented granting of due-process rights to unlawful enemy combatants (terrorists).
McCain has repeatedly called for the immediate closing of Guantanamo Bay and the introduction of al-Qaeda terrorists into our own prisons — despite the legal rights they would immediately gain and the burdens of managing such a dangerous population.
We need to lay off calling people “traitor”, but ...
Being a POW 40 years ago does NOT excuse being a bad legislator who will sell US down the river in multiple ways.
We need to stop using his long-ago service as a crutch.
McCain is bad for conservatives, he needs to go.
“What I’ve noticed is that the Palin Platoon are the ones supporting McCain. Since Palin endorsed McStupid none of the PP’s can bring themselves to go against her. “
Another point in Palin’s disfavor ... I find her supporters “brittle”, they can’t handle the fact that maybe Palin is doing something wrong/unsavory/mistaken. Failure to admit mistakes and course-correct is how REALLY BIG mistakes happen.
Yup, believe it. Palin aint perfect.
Palin’s my pick, but she’s dead wrong on McCain, here’s the order ...
God, Family, Country, Rats, Lawyers, Rino’s ...
If McCain is the Republican nominee for AZ US Senate, are you going to support him?
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