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The McCain Coalition
By Ken Blackwell
Thursday, May 1, 2008

http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/KenBlackwell/2008/05/01/the_mccain_coalition
In May, Senator McCain will give a much-anticipated speech on judicial nominations and will speak to the members of the National Rifle Association on May 6 and 16, respectively.

These two speeches are smart moves.

Republican US presidential candidate Senator John McCain listens to questions during a news conference at the Miami’s Children Hospital in Miami, Florida April 28, 2008. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)
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The Supreme Court is the single most-important issue for millions of conservative voters. A candidate’s choice of judges can seal the deal or be a deal-breaker.

And the Second Amendment is a critical issue in this presidential election. Millions of swing voters are solid Second Amendment supporters. When a pro-Second Amendment Republican is up against an anti-gun Democrat, that issue can decide the outcome of a close election. It certainly did in 2000 when President Bush beat Al Gore.

I used to think John McCain was an honest guy but when he approved of the Pentagon awarding the Tanker deal to Airbus, while McCain’s own campaign plane happens to be an Airbus, smacks of dishonesty.

John McCain will do anything to become president and that wife of his is just too much to even stomach. She reeks of elitism and just exactly how would releasing her tax returns compromise her children? Wasn’t that the reason she gave for now releasing her income tax return? Sounds like a cover-up to me.

The choice is clear this year – if Clinton and McCain gets in – there will still be war but we will be in Iran next. The only question will be – how long and how many more billions will be wasted?

Let’s face it people – too fat cats are getting wealthy off the war and these fat cats own the politicians.

The war was never about freedom or democracy – it is about the control of the oil. And let’s not forget that China has the USA over those oil barrels and can call in their notes at anhtime they choose.

So, really between McCain or Clinton – there is no choice. Only that McCain will take us to the brink of disaster faster.

heh CF. Too bad Dennis’ supporters inside the Democratic Party cant do the same thing!

Good questions all Linda.

“If he hadn’t disagreed with us, he wouldn’t have a chance of being president,” said Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., about John McCain and his opposition to the GOP on several issues. “He is the one guy who can be the candidate for us this cycle.”

Gee, that’s one of the most interesting (and possibly most telling) quotes of this whole campaign. If he truly disagrees with them on key issues, how can he be their candidate, except as a RINO, and how could they begin to accept that? Might he be running as a stealth neo-con, the way the evangelicals were doing? It would certainly explain some of his appearances at extreme right-wing functions lately, and some of his votes in the Senate.

The GOP since the 1994 takeover of Congress and then the White House in 2000 has been responsible for the most destructive period of American foreign and domestic relations in history. The domestic state of affairs for the working class Americans is a shambles and they should be held accountable for all they have done to this once great country and should be deposed in November.

“GOP needs to disown itself to win.”

And I thought that McCain, with his reputation of being a maverick, would fulfill the necessity that Phantom adroitly posits. I thought McCain was the non-republican, republican candidate.

But as McCain’s voting record in the senate reveals, he is a republican, republican.

Anybody else remembering, the “I’m a uniter, not a divider” BS? The “maverick” nonsense is this election cycle’s version of that bogus crap.

ROTFL, so to qualify to be the Republican candidate you must not be a Republican! Kind of like, “ I would not belong to any club whom would have me as a member!”. Crap, am one whom is sane would not want to belong to either party! They would never understand the By-laws!

McCain might think he can run against his own party of decades but the Democrats are not going to let him get away with that. I can tell you now- especially if the economy tanks or the war goes bad, McCain and Bush are going to be in every TV commercial aired. And they will be referred to as “The Republicans”.

The point is that McCain was villified during the primary season by the right for all the times he went astray of party orthodoxy and voted or worked with Democrats over the years across the aisle. Now that he’s going to be the nominee, of course, it’s time for partisan Democrats to villify him as we can see right here on this blog. I agree he’s the only Republican who would have had much of a chance to win this year, because he can, in fact, attract Independents and Hispanics. The rest, with their sharp partisan edge, and anti-immigrant hostility, would have had little opportunity for outreach to those two key groups.