Never forget this about McCain..

The republican voters thought he was LESS qualified than George Bush to be president.
The republican voters thought he would make a WORSE president than George Bush.
He was their SECOND choice to run the country behind GEORGE W. BUSH.
The Republican party looked at John McCain, his persona, his life, and his resume and overwhelmingly said "No, we don't want him. Instead we'll take this dim governer of a state where that role has next to no power or authority, and who has failed at every business venture he has undertaken and has accomplished nothing on his own in his lifetime except as Ron Reagan Jr. put it 'no longer being a drunk'. Yeah we'll take that guy instead."

If our candidates or their spokespeople or their media attack dogs had any sense they would point this out again and again and again and again and again.

----i love you satan----


oh hes a maverick, an independent. oh yes he is.

I will spend exactly one half of one second on sincere pity.

It's hard to imagine he could be worse than Bush.

Frankly, a good start for the Dems is to is repeat the mantras about 1 million + killed in Iraq, trillions of dollars which could be feeding, educating and and healing our citizens thrown away on an illegal war, a trumped up economy which included borrowing on our future and our children's futures so that we can finance the war and tax cuts for the very rich and a planet in peril. Those alone should be enough to keep MCcain or any Republican who supported this war (and continues to support this war) from winning. Let's hope we have the balls to keep the pressure and the facts out in center and stop the party from self-destructing with this stupid in-fighting during the primary period.

http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html

"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
Because her father is Janet Reno."

--straight-talkin' John McCain

The biggest problem with Saint McCain is the fawning of the corporate media. He plays 'em like a Stradavarius and they chirp how "independent" he is or what a "straight talker". It's always been a PR Con job and it seems the repugnicans aren't buying more than some Democrats.

While I don't want to run an election against boooosh, McCain opens the door wide for all his flip-flopping and ass kissing. The fact he supports an open-ended war in Iraq is enough to run on...but then you look a little further and he's got problems in virtually every key area that will determine the election. Wanna talk about the economy and the banking crisis? Then let's talk S & Ls and the Keating 5. And his sucking up to the right wing won't win him friends there and only expose his hypocrisies more.

I see Magoo like I saw Bob Dole in '96...too old, too white, too detached, too late.

want to hear--more war, fewer american jobs, we can't stop illegal immigration, etc.--even though he probably wants all those to change.

I can't emphasize this enough--he's been in Congress since just after I was able to cast my first vote and Arizonans who don't care for him all agree on one thing--McCain will do anything--and I do mean ANYTHING, including shafting his own family and abandoning any principles he has (he's already clearly done just that) to be president--and will do exactly as he's told by the powers that be once he's in there.

He's no maverick at all as his voting record under DoubleDip's administration clearly shows.

I simply have nothing but contempt for John McCain. He's pure ambition with no principles, none whatsoever; his association with Keating probably had less to do with money than with the enormous political influence the Keating family had in AZ pre-Lincoln Savings scandal.

Going in they were at a big disadvantage thanks to the mismanagement of their manchild. From being a 40 or 45% party, they've now gone so far to the right, they've marginalized themselves to 20-25% and fading. The more they try to out-militarize, out-xtianize, out-tax cut themselves, the more they not only alienate the 60% of us who know those policies are failed and need to be elimniated, but futher alienate the various special interests and factions in that inept and corrupt party...and I couldn't be happier to see it.

Yep, McCain panders like there's no tomorrow. But so does Mittens and the Huckster. They're all cons and their hypocrisies are so blatantly open you can't help but see them. It's that pandering that got Magoo in trouble with the GOOP base...when he attempted to play "Maverick" to lure Independent and "Raygun Democrats"...now he's kissing their ass and they're not buying. I suspect whomever the nominee is, the church busses won't be full on election day and you'll see a 10% or more drop-off on GOOP votes. This party is demoralized and heading for even more damage ahead. Schadenfraude doesn't even begin to describe my feelings.

Cheers...

Any one of the turds running are better than Dubya.

Heck....Nixon would be better.

Now, of course, Bush is radioactive.

Tesha