Still not worried about McCain?

The last several times I posted my concerns that McCain could take the White House, I got the usual "he's too old," "the fundies hate him," etc. responses. I'm just curious if there ar still folks around here that still think McCain doesn't have a good shot at the presidency.

The guy's a goober of epic proportions.

The man is REVERED by millions of Americans who believe the media-generated myth of McCain.

I've never met any.

You're not missing much, trust me.

It's mostly the pro-war/kill-em-all type Republicans around here who hump air when his name is mentioned.

I have to keep telling my wife to stop telling me about the time he jumped out of his burning plane on the tarmac...I don't want to hear it anymore.

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that's what's gonna trump his bid...left side of his face.

sorry for mixing bridge metaphors, but I'm getting lazy in a literary fashion.

'murcans have a lot of respect for him. I don't have respect for him now, after his sucking up to Bush**, Falwell. Also he cracked a filthy joke about Chelsea Clinton while Bill was president that took away any respect I had at the time (war hero, etc).

the media wants to pick the candidates and then when they mess up they won't ask the hard questions..,

He's dead in the water. That is waaaaaaay out of touch with America. He DOES know we just had an election last month, right?

Johnny Boy: America doesn't want to send MORE of its sons and daughters to Iraq, it wants to bring HOME the ones that are over there!

Bake

Just got this from kos.

"John McCain just hired the worst man in the world to run his campaign, Terry Nelson. Nelson was an unindicted co-conspirator in the TRMPAC scandal as a key point of contact between Tom Delay and the RNC. He was James Tobin's boss during the 2002 New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal, for which Tobin was convicted. He also worked at the head of opposition research for the NRCC this cycle, where robocalls from Republicans pretending to be Democrats were the norm all over the country. Nelson also produced the racist bimbo ad against Harold Ford.

This guy is pure Straight Talk Express meets campaign reform. It makes a lot of sense to put legislation through the Senate on public financing and campaign fraud, because that will put McCain on the defensive. He'll be stuck between the wingnut base which doesn't trust him on campaign finance reform, and his centrist chops.

And Terry Nelson will hang around his neck, as he should. This is a man who just breaks the law with impunity, and he's running the campaign of Saint McCain."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/12/7/125833/117

kos thinks this will come back to bite McCain on the ass. I think so too.

"Ad, what ad? I didn't see no stinkin' ad." will be the retort. All those folks down South who didn't see the ad...like the guys running all the local campaigns for the Rethugs claimed not to have see the Harold Ford ad.

Bastards...

They said if he carried their water well enough, that he'd be allowed another shot....that is until they dump the slime on his ass again like they did in 2000 and get their BFEE approved candidate into the mix, my guess is the Jebster.

Open a newspaper.

The GOP base thinks he's some kind of maverick socialist... Why? Who knows...

So I'm very, very worried. In fact he bothers me way much more than Bush. Smart evil-imagine! McCain will use the Bush precedents to take all our liberties away just to make himself more powerful. McCain should know better but he's sold his soul.

Bush has no soul to sell so it's not anywhere near the same. If it wasn't for Bush's incompetence this country would already be a fascist state.

It seems that the RW Corp Media pushes him but the RW and LW can't stand him. Will he garner the moderates of either spectrum?

With the recent about face on Roe.v.Wade just for starters. And (sorry!) but that "base" I don't think is very smart, so the fact that he changes his position on everything to get elected doesn't bother them a bit. Just promise them you will stop the Gays and stop abortion and you plan to kill all the terrorists and they are happy.

The media still paints him as a moderate. When he is nothing of the sort! They call him a "maverick" when he has done NOTHING substantive to challenge Bush or the neo-cons in any way. He wants more troops in Iraq.

So that is the propaganda. And as we know much of the country listens to the propaganda and never takes or has the time to find the truth. Any country that came that close with Bush and Kerry is not a smart country.

So if the media continue to give him a pass and he gets the extreme righties in his corner, maybe the rest of the middle will fall in as well.

He's a war hero! He's a moderate! He's a maverick! Oh yeah, then he just has to buy off all those that hate him in the Republican party. If anyone can do it-he can.

That's what I thought about Dubya back in 2000. Of course, I still don't believe he WON the election, but we all know about that debate.

McCain warrants watching, but I'm not sure that he's the right man for the GOP at this point in time. We'll have to see who else is in the running come 2008.

together lately?

I don't think he has any chance.

conscience:



Not only does it show bad judgement, it makes him look infantile.

MKJ

And it sums up how far McCain has fallen.

Corker might be a new low.

Terry Nelson -- TRMPAC and the New Hampshire phone jamming scandal

because disposing of him will be as easy as running these two pics (especially if he hooks up with Jeb):


So much for his "independent maverick" routine.


"The people of New Orleans are drowning on my birthday? Let them eat cake!"

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rocknation

He might win in some primaries. But he is a weaker national candidate than Bob Dole. I say that as someone who used to have some respect for McCain.

If 48%+ of the public is STUPID enough to vote for georgie twice, I don't put anything past them.

fhey want down our throats.

The corporate media will make sure of that.
And both of them are more worthless than *

So he has that in common with us.

But if you insist, you're right, McCain has a real shot.

Newsflash: Most Americans don't know what you know about McCain

Millions of Americans (self-professed "moderate Democrats very much inlcuded) think McCain is a moderate Republican who would unify the country.

Plus, he was a POW, so, as far as they're concerned, what he says goes.

The Republican and Media Establishment have fully embraced McCain. They're not stupid. They know he has massive appeal to both parties.

We dismiss McCain at our own peril.

HATES McCain....the ones I've talked to, would vote for Hillary over him, so from where I am, I'd prefer he did run....

McCain is widely perceived as moderate, strong on defense without being a warmonger, a clean government person (McCain-Feingold), and a sensible straight-talking independent voice. Regardless of how you and I might feel about, that's how McCain is perceived.

I agree with you -- I think McCain is probably the strongest candidate the GOP could nominate.

I do think that his age is beginning to show and be an issue. I also doubt he will get the nomination, since he is so widely reviled by the Republican base. But if he does get it, the Democratic nominee has his work cut out.

The moderate and ignorant voters think hes some kind of maverick. They think he can end the partisan bickering.

The real repub threat - Hagel.

His skeletons will come out. He won't be as glamorous as 2000 and especially after having kissed the feet of the neo-con God for the last 8 years.

... HRC or Kerry, he will win.

Most Americans think he is a "moderate", if you listen to him talk sometimes he sounds like one.

He's great at going up against Bush on "principle", as on the torture bill, and then getting nothing done but declaring victory anyway.

He will be hard to beat at a time when Americans are really sick of partisanship, even if most of it comes from his party.

I used to dismiss McCain, not the last year or so. They are grooming him for this job, and I think he'll be very difficult to defeat.

Do we have any potential Democratic candidate who is beating the pants off of him or anyone else for that matter? It's best not to get too smug and overconfident ever.

McCain has 0 chance of being elected POTUS.

a commercial with clips of him supporting *. That'll zap him -- guaranteed!

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