It’s still half a year until the first primary vote is cast. Anybody think John McCain can still have a bounce? As it is, things look bleak, with the Arizona Republican shedding staffers and down to $2 million in campaign money. How the GOP front runner has fallen. Is it all about Iraq? Iraq plus immigration? Or did McCain’s moment come and go, say, in 2005?
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McCain got positive press when he picked on other Republicans.When McCain started picking on Democrats, the press when cold, or even negative, on McCain.Surprised, anyone?
McCain lost all respect when his straight talk started sounding more like Bill O’Lielly’s “no spin zone”.
Both are full of it.
McCain cut his own throat when he bent over and grabbed his ankles for fat teddy on the illegal amnesty nonsense. Happy riddance to him and Brownback!
McCain’s on the wrong side of the war AND immigration. That, and his moment has passed somewhat…not a good combination,
Kissing up to Bush and siding with the religious reich didn’t pan out as well as expected did it McCain?
McCain’s on the wrong side of the war AND immigration. That, and his moment has passed somewhat…not a good combination,Posted by: delsol | July 04, 2007 at 09:08 AM
Plus he’s obviously faking it whenever he’s had to make the GOP’s POTUS candidate’s requisite Genuflection Trek to the campus of Liberty U.
Seeing McCain’s really poor Piety Look at Liberty U was as laughable as watching a porn whore’s orgasm.
McCain was beat before he started. He assumed that if he was Bush he could win it all. Pro-war religious far right does not work. America does not want another president like Bush.
McCain never had a chance. He’s an ugly person.
McCain has proven himself to be a noncontender. It has nothing to do with the liberal media as Paul Rosell might have us believe.
I just don’t trust the little troll. When McCain got cozy with Jerry Falwell, that was it for me. And I think the country has had their fill of these so-called Religious Righties who have had total control of the country.
Just thank God (or the Devil) that Jerry Falwell is no longer with us. That is one less big mouth we have to put up with in this election. But that does leave us with the rest of the phoney Christians.
Umm….correct me if I’m wrong, but when has John McCain EVER been considered the “GOP Frontrunner”? Maybe in some limited opinion poll of McCain campaign volunteers…but not the American public…
Happy Independence Day to all!!
shoveThere was no chance in Hell that you would EVER vote Republican.Why, then, is your opinion on the Republican Primary worth a hill of beans?
McCain is a great American Hero. Every VA Hospital is full of similar men.
I honor all of them, especially today.
My respect and my vote are two different things.
McCain has been in bed with the media for years. Every active Republican knows this. The Party base does not trust him. All he ever had was msm contacts and good press, because all he ever did was pick on Republicans.
That game has played out.
By the way, I told ALL of you, long ago, that McCain would NOT be the nominee. I caught hell for that one, but it looks like I was right, huh?
Paul – on one hand you praise McCain for being a hero and then on the other hand you trash him. That is what your party does to anyone they do not find ‘acceptable’.
In case you have not noticed, Paul, the election will come down to the independents and those party-affiliated voters who are willing to cross the aisle. And it looks like that group is mostly women. Women is one group that the GOP has a hard time attracting because of your ‘my way or the highway’ mentality.
So let’s not start throwing stones at anyone else and how do you know I’m not a Republican? There are alot of us Republicans that do not like the road that the Religious Right has taken the party down the last few years. It is about time the true Republicans cleaned house.
Between the immigration flap and the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act this man just does not have a chance.
That’s what’s so funny, the REpub. hopefulls sound like little bushes, going after his dwindling base, being on the wrong side of the war, and liberties. They’re done, doesn’t matter who they run.
Could it be because even Republicans have finally figured out what a two-faced opportunist McCain really is?
McCain’s chance came – and went – in 2000 when Bush stabbed him in the back. Remember the bit in S Carolina when they spread the claim that McCain had an illegitimate child?
Unfortunately McCain has subsequently brown-nosed himself with the Bushies.
Paul – I agree with you, he doesn’t have a chance. Like Dole I respect him tremendously for his service to my country; however he has comitted political suicide.
Mc Cain was a viable candidate to the moderates (Btw the majority in the Republican party) until he decide to pander to the extreme, self hating, this country would be better off with a Emperor then a President, let us build a theocracy to combat the evil forces of the devil, Neo-Con-R. R. axis of evil.
When he went so far a field from common sense and the core values of this country he lost the election and any respect. he joined the growing list of those that will have lost this country, as well as any hope that the Republicans will have a chance to have a voice for some time. No Paul it was not the MSM that has brought down the party. “We met the enemy and it is us!”. Me for riding along not paying attention to who I let be my voice and you for following so blindly.
Neither McCain, nor Giuliani, nor Romney will be the Republican nominee, because none of them can be trusted by the conservative Republican base on issues like immigration, sodomy, abortion, or useless, unethical embryonic stem cell research. Romney comes closer to trustworthiless than the others, but he is still a flip-flopping Mormon cult member.
“Mormon cult member”
parkay – what cult are YOU a member of?
Not the Sierra Club Ben :)
Probably not Nathan. Of course, I don’t consider either Sierra Club NOR Mormon to be cults. Usually I find it to be cultists who label other religions as cults.
Parkay
Elections are NOT about saving souls.
Elections are about getting souls (who agree with you) to the polls.
You are kicking people OUT of the party who Might vote your way, when you trash other religions.
I have problems with the Mormon faith, myself.
Hint: That is why I am NOT a Mormon!
However, Mormons are some of the most honest, stable, likable people I have ever met.
Ben
Appreciate your comments. I think, actually, that the Bush loyalists are upset with McCain too, however.
ShoveNever met anyone I supported 100%
Never met anyone I opposed 100%
I see both bad and good in all candidates.
There are some I would follow into battle, but would not let them balance my checkbook for me, or take care of my kids.
Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses.
I would not want McCain as President.
Never, ever, did I want McCain as President.
I do admire the man, however, even if he is a preening egomaniac at times.
Econ, in retrospect wouldn’t McCain have been better than Bush the last 7 years?
If not, why not?
McCain lost my interest and respect when he let ole Jerry Falwell stick a bible up his ass.
McCain would have been better…..not as big a filthy liar and not a draft dodging weasel.
Pau – I met Bob Dole many years ago at a Pachyderm meeting. I was very impressed. He was not ‘full of himself’ like so many politicians are. I got the feeling he “called ‘em as he seen ‘em”
He also had a sense of humor his handlers would not allow to be seen. I recall when Don Imus asked him “Since this has been asked of the other candidate (Clinton) I have to ask you: Did you serve in VietNam and why not?”
Of course, we all know the REAL answer to that question; but Dole’s response “Well, Strom Thurmond was on my draft board and he said I was too young!”
It’s too bad his humor is so rarely seen.
I disagree with Dole politically but I definitely can respect him.
It’s too bad McCain didn’t get the nod a couple of campaigns ago. I’ve always respected McCain for his Vietnam service.
He’s too old to be President now. One dottering old man was enough.
McCain is NOT a free speech advocate.McCain-Feingold is an abomination.I am upset that Bush signed it, but more upset that McCain authored it.That the SCOTUS struck down parts of it is not the point: CONGRESS is supposed to interpret and uphold the Constitution TOO. Protecting the Constitution is the duty, and right, of every citizen, not just the Supreme Court!I also think taht McCain is more prone to milk the media, not loyal to the Republican base, and a bit too hot tempered to be President. McCain was also vindictive in his attacks against Boeing and the tanker deal.
Yes, an understanding of politics is crucial to any President, I think McCain is ALWAYS tone deaf, where bush simply has trouble with certain frequencies. (To badly mangle an analogy.)
Yes, Dole can be funny as hell.
I have no idea what went wrong when he ran for President. People say it was his “handlers” but Dole has never been bashful about telling people to get out of his way, at any other time in his life!
He presented himself in a way that was very clumsy and not the easy, down to Earth, funny guy many of us knew at the time.