In an article about lawmakers who’ve lagged in endorsing their parties’ presidential nominees, the Hill newspaper said that Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, “a strong opponent of the campaign finance law that McCain helped craft, has moved from the no endorsement category to haven’t-endorsed-but-support-the-GOP-nominee grouping.” In addition, it reported that Rep. Jerry Moran (in photo), R-Hays, “has declined to comment to the Hill on whether he endorses McCain.”
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OF COURSE they will endorse McSame. They’re the ones who voted with Bush 90% of the time as well!
Borrow and spend Republicans supporting a borrow and spend Republican? If they aren’t sure then maybe McCain can promise a third new war to perk their interest.
Of course they will. And the tanker project will go to Alabama.
It’s odd, though, that well-entrenched Republic Party incumbents are reticent to embrace the top of the ticket, isn’t it?
Is it possible that Kansans’ support of John S (for Senile) McCain the Third (for Shrub’s 3rd term) is a mile wide and an inch deep?
It wasn’t McCoot, remember, who won Kansas during the primaries. They went for Huckabee something like 2 to 1 over the Fred Mertz look-alike.
Maybe Tiahrt and Moran are waiting for Palin to show up and they’ll endorse her.
Picking the Moose-Dresser absolutely was a political ploy to get the twice-born back in the fold. And that suggests the internal polling results are much more troubling to the Republic Party than the “horse-race” results we see everyday.
It’s pretty obvious from posts by renegade Reds such as “Franklin,” the CONs don’t have any reason to vote for the codger; they must try to rally bigots to vote against Obama.
If Tiahrt and Moran are shying away from their party’s standard-bearer, things just might be starting to turn purple… even in Kansas.
pmom
Biden has probably voted with Bush 80% of the time.
Obama has probably voted with Bush 75% of the time.
Most votes are on post office names and things like that.
Ben
You have been PUSHING for the tanker deal to go to Alabama.
In fact, many of you liberals are PRAYING for Alabama to get the tanker deal.
You hate Tiahrt.
You want to run against Tiahrt on the tanker deal.
The truth is, Tiahrt has done an excellent job, supporting Boeing and Kansas jobs.
McCain and Tiahrt have had disagreements, on the tanker issue. That just shows that they are both honest. When politicians are not fighting with each other, you need to worry!
McCain will win.
Tiahrt will win.
Boeing will get to build refueling tankers.
Monkey
You are one of the worst bigots on this Blog.
You hate Christians.
You hate conservatives.
Hate is hate.
“Franklin” is a washed up Republican party functionary and has admitted that he is an agenda poster here for the Republican party.
His posts here may be regarded as commercials for the Republican party and its agenda.
Franklin has bragged that he was recruited his words “for my fighting ability” to assault people in parks.
“Ben
You have been PUSHING for the tanker deal to go to Alabama”
Paul – as usual, you are a liar. I have simply been noting that Alaba has as much right to it was Wichita does.
Predicting and observing is not the same as pushins. I predict that UCLA will lose to USC this year. But I ‘push’ for them to upset the University of Spoiled Children. There IS a difference Paul.
Of course Tiahrt supports his former employer – where his job was pork procurement.
BJ
You are getting desperate again, aren’t you?
You are a coward, BJ. I don’t see you ever standing up to a group of people, all by yourself, and telling them that they were wrong. I also don’t see you calling the police when you see something wrong, if it did not effect you directly. You even laughed once, about seeing a theft at a fireworks stand, and you did nothing about it.
Has a hooker ever asked you for a “date” and you turned her down?
Were you guilty of anything, in that instance?
Has a drug pusher ever asked you to buy drugs, and you turned him down?
Were you guilty of anything, in that instance?
That a group of thugs asked me to do something illegal and repugnant is not in dispute.
I told those people that they were sick, and I told the police about it.
You are a twisted, small hateful person.
Ben
You are a virtual cheerleader of EADS and for Alabama to get the business, you have been for a very long time.
You are not telling the truth.
“Franklin” screeches –
“Monkey
You are one of the worst bigots on this Blog.
You hate Christians.
You hate conservatives.
Hate is hate.”
I don’t hate Christians. It’s just hard these days to come across anyone who behaves in a Christ-like manner.
And I don’t hate true conservatives.
In fact, a lot of my posts to WE Blog begin with my agreement with conservatism as advocated by folks such as Barry Goldwater.
But Goldwater died thoroughly disgusted with what the Republic Party had become.
Am I “bigoted” against stupidy and lies?
Yeah.
And since CONs seem to dominate the dialog on this forum, yeah, I might be “one the worst ‘bigots’ on this Blog.”
But cut me some slack. Maybe, just possibly, I might be only 44% bigot.
;^)
Are you calling the Air Force Tanker deal “pork” Ben?
This is a vital Defense contract.
That you would call it “pork” pretty much shows your true colors.
43.5% Liar Liar Pants on Fire!
Guilt by association there Franklin.
YOU preach it all the time.
How WAS it you came to be around goons who beat up people in parks? These sort of folks are your friends?
MOST likely is you had joined your chums on some earlier fun
Admit it Franklin, if Mccain came out and stated ” I think America will be better served with an award to airbus/Noc”, you would still vote for him.
On the other hand if Obama came out and made that statement, I would not vote (still couldn’t vote for mccain).
At least be intellectually honest.
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
And since CONs seem to dominate the dialog on this forum, yeah, I might be “one the worst ‘bigots’ on this Blog.”
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You can’t be serious. LOL.
“Franklin
Posted September 14, 2008 at 10:31 am | Permalink
Ben
You are a virtual cheerleader of EADS and for Alabama to get the business, you have been for a very long time.
You are not telling the truth.”
If simply telling the truth about Boeing and their lease program constitutes cheerleading for Alabama then so be it. I realize that to a dyed-in-the-wool Boeing person that any deviation from the Boeing line looks like cheer-leading for the other side; you are incapable of being unbiased in this because of that.
“Franklin
Posted September 14, 2008 at 10:33 am | Permalink
Are you calling the Air Force Tanker deal “pork” Ben?”
I didn’t say that Paul. What I said was that Tiahrt’s job BEFORE the ill-fated lease plan blew up was Boeing procurement. And the lease program – AS CONSTITUTED – was pork.
Hey 90-percenters, spare some Change?
McCain bucked his party 19% of the time (nine senators bucked their party more) while Obama bucked his party 4% of the time. That is, McCain was more than four times more likely to stand up to his party (and their political pressure) than Obama. It may be that Obama simply agreed with his party leaders more, which suggests he is ideologically farther from the other side of the aisle, and thus, may have a harder time bringing them together.
Also note that this survey only counted “yes” or “no” votes (as opposed to “present” or “no vote”). Obama didn’t vote 228 of the 568 times (40.1%) he could have voted for during his total time in the senate.
1 week ago
Source(s):
http://www.cqpolitics.com/cq-assets/cqmu... (party/Bush unity)
http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category... (missed votes)
kia
GREAT post!
“McCain bucked his party 19% of the time”
However, that % has steadil;y decreased since 2000. I think it was in this morning’s paper (only skimmed it) that in 2008 McCain has been 100% with Bush and for the past 8 years 95%.
Ben,
Those numbers are pretty deceptive. Some of the big things Bush tried to do in his term McCain opposed.
I believe those numbers are simply looking at all the votes in the Senate no matter how mundane they are or were.
“Some of the big things Bush tried to do in his term McCain opposed.”
Such as?
It does seem odd that Moran has “declined to comment.”
The article mentioned that Tiahrt’s sore spot is the campaign finance fight. I suspect, however, that Tiahrt may not be wholly in love with McCain’s clear preference for Airbus lobbyists. Perhaps Tiahrt finds it difficult to fully endorse a presidential contender who has opposed Boeing at every turn in the tanker saga. Endorsing would almost be like saying, “Yeah, Senator, I know you smacked us around some and cost us jobs in Wichita and will continue to do the same, but, hey, here’s a glass of the bubbly to your candidacy, anyway. Please, sir, win the election, and then hose us real good a few more times come January. Stay as sweet as you are, always.”
I mean, if somebody bakes you a cake, it’s hard to thank your pal if he eats the whole thing while you’re off in the other room looking for paper plates and forks. Couldn’t he leave you some frosting at least? Sheesh!
Moran’s motivation, on the other hand, is harder to pin down.
Of course, I do have a hunch or two…
Having said that though, if you didn’t know how to trade profitably in Alabama, having the tanker deal probably wouldn’t help you as much. The tanker deal need to be cold and calculated. Pay the tanker deal to them.