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The F-Word

McCain adjusts to his new status as the GOP front runner.

By Holly Bailey | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Jan 30, 2008 | Updated: 3:40  p.m. ET Jan 30, 2008

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  • Posted By: lillea @ 02/11/2008 11:25:46 AM

    Comment: The raise in joblessness was caused by the Democrat majority in both houses when they insisted on increasing the minimum wage. They need a lesson in economics...when you increase the minimum wage for entry level positions, all of the positions with wages above that level systematically increase proportionately. Many businesses couldn't afford the increase and were forced to lay employees off. So what then follows is fewer dollars being spent by consumers. This mess was created by sensless politicians who acted before they thought. NOW they are correcting it with a stimulus package. What a bunch of goobers!! We need to be sure our elected officials are educated in economics before voting them into office. I'm sorry, but having a law degree can't make up for the learning curve.

  • Posted By: mdonato @ 02/11/2008 11:21:16 AM

    Comment: Too bad McCain has no chance in a general election. Promising more wars and less jobs will not stand up to Obama's mantra of ambiguous "change". Having "W" stump for him on the campaign trail ought to be what drives the nail in the coffin for his Presidential bid, ensuring that a Dem takes the Whitehouse in 2008. It's kind of funny to watch the GOP commit political suicide.

  • Posted By: mdonato @ 02/11/2008 11:18:32 AM

    Comment: Too bad McCain has no shot in the general election. Promising more wars and less jobs will not stand up to Obama's mantra of ambiguous change. Having "W" stumping for him on the campaign trail will ensure 4 years of a Dem in the Whitehouse. It's kind of funny to watch the G.O.P. commit political suicide.

  • Posted By: lillea @ 02/11/2008 11:17:10 AM

    Comment: You have to wonder what affect Obama's new miltary stance on Iraq will have on his die hard antiwar supporters. I think they have been dooped!!

  • Posted By: lillea @ 02/11/2008 11:15:31 AM

    Comment: So now according to Barack Obama's interview on 60 Minutes, he DOESN"T plan to pull all troops out of Iraq as soon as he is elected. Interesting....His plan now is to pull them out systematically so as not to endanger them or the Iraqis. This sounds like the Bush/Chaney/Petraus/Gates (not to mention McCain, Huckabee, Romney, Thompson and Guliani) plan. I guess he has discovered that he can give a good motivaional speech, but was showing that he lacked courage and backbone.

  • Posted By: Meccaguy @ 02/11/2008 9:34:40 AM

    Comment: Political Dichotomy
    I hope the political excitement being generated among voters during the primaries continues on through to November. This should bring out more voters than in the past 30 years. The diversity in candidates is refreshing considering the non-choices voters have been offered in the past. The two front-runners in the Democratic party are great for Republicans. The prospect of John McCain running against either a woman carrying tons of political baggage, including B?ll or an unproven black contender named Osama makes my mouth water for the taste of a Republican victory in the Fall.

  • Posted By: JohnGaltlaketahoe @ 02/11/2008 2:06:08 AM

    Comment: MSNBC has joined the ranks of the enemies of America. MSNBC is waging war against political speech in America. MSNBC is the enemy of poltical speech. Boycott all things MSNBC, DISNEY and GE. Write letters that intimidate the Executives of MSNBC as they pursue a war on Americans this election year. MSNBC is waging war against the American electorate as it succesfully creates an iron curtain of information and a war against poltical speech in America.

  • Posted By: Mancha de Platano @ 02/10/2008 11:40:40 PM

    Comment: Bush should have shut the hell up, but since he didn't, many will not vote for MaCain, he should have known better. Go Go Go Obama! Just like Clinton, its a Ah O, which is worse than ops...............

  • Posted By: ac2cape @ 02/10/2008 7:54:47 PM

    Comment: dont be fooled by huk's populist rhetoric. he will blur the lines between church and state and dangerously. his willingnes to alter the conststuition to more reflect the bible makes him a "de facto" enemy of the country. Be afraid of the man of one book.

  • Posted By: haffaja @ 02/10/2008 5:02:07 PM

    Comment: When did it become appropriate for presidential candidates to campaign from the pulpit? This is no place to run a campaign nor is a church an appropriate place to go to vote. Any church that allows this to occur should lose their tax exempt status. It isn't right to put a candidate's agenda ahead of God's agenda. But at this time, we have watched Huckabee, Obama and Clinton campaigning from church pulpits of numerous faiths pandering to their faithful while making a mockery of the church institution. I for one will never vote for any candidate I see standing on a church pulpit talking about campaign goals. This is just not the place to do this.

  • Posted By: Utah54 @ 02/10/2008 4:26:51 PM

    Comment: Never mind if Huckabee is the nominee. He will lose badly because of a thing called the electoral college. The last two elections have been close in the electoral college. Which means he must carry every state that has previously gone red and not lose any of them plus hope he gets two of the big three of Ohio,PA, or Florida.. I can tell you while he will still have the South he has lost a lot of support in the Intermountain West and if the nominee. He would have tough time winning Utah,Idaho,Nevada,Colorado, and Arizona. Combined those states together have electoral votes that =an Ohio or Florida. The GOP loses in those areas you have Democrat for President and the GOP gets to try again in four years. The positive side of a Mike Huckabee nomination is drive home the point that when you choose to play the religion card against another faith it can cost you a Presidential election..

  • Posted By: TET68 @ 02/10/2008 10:59:29 AM

    Comment: McCain is a fine representative of a career politician and politics as usual. Weak on immigration, would support amnesty. McCain supported Donald Rumsfeld and others who would have done well with prison sentences.

  • Posted By: TET68 @ 02/10/2008 10:56:48 AM

    Comment: McCain is a fine representative of a career politician and politics as usual. He supported Donald Rumsfeld and others who would have done well with a prison sentence!

  • Posted By: philadelphialights @ 02/10/2008 10:12:09 AM

    Comment: next time, be from the state,. Propaganda sickens me. Next time you comment... make sure it is Arkansas, not Alaska. Do I support the death of little innocent children, no. Yeah, there is nothing getting done about them... because they die even before they can speak. He isn't scared of anyone (Huckabee), and yeah he supports marriage being between one man and one woman.... how do babies get conceived? Not from two men. Oh yeah! Go Clinton '08!

  • Posted By: philadelphialights @ 02/10/2008 10:10:24 AM

    Comment: There were never pulpits in the White House, never will be. By the way, thanks for supporting the death of innocent little children... science has proved that babies still in the womb are living. Oh yeah, it is AR, not AK (Alaksa?!)... next time, be from the state,. Propaganda sickens me. Next time you comment... make sure it is Arkansas, not Alaska. Do I support the death of little innocent children? no! Yeah, there is nothing getting done about them... because they die even before they can speak. He isn't scared of anyone (Huckabee), and yeah he supports marriage being between one man and one woman.... how do babies get conceived? Not from two men. Oh yeah! Go Clinton '08! and by the way, even though I support the democrats, if you are a democrat... stop slinging mud at the republicans. Can we be done with trying to trash someone's name? I get it, you do not support them. Hey, I do not support a lot of people, but it doesn't mean that I am going to try to ruin their reputation. We can now leave H.S.

  • Posted By: philadelphialights @ 02/10/2008 9:57:42 AM

    Comment: Think about the child being killed. Where are the provisions for rape victims anyway?? There are still majority of abortion cases that are 99.9% none rape.... science proves that you are killing the child. By the way... it is AR not... AK (Alaska)

  • Posted By: marclinden @ 02/10/2008 9:26:17 AM

    Comment: No more hate & pulpits in the White House. Huckabee is working his own agenda. One we have seen only the tip of the last eight years. Do we really want a man for President who would make an innocent teen rape victim bear the rapists child? Think about that being your daughter.....

  • Posted By: twall10107 @ 02/10/2008 8:34:02 AM

    Comment: Mike takes credit for the fiscal result in AK, of tax increases that he DIDN'T support; thus, his "success" is a fraud. He DOES hold the extreme social positions of his core supporters: he's more scared of gay Americans than he is of Islamic terrorists, and he would not hesitate to run your sex life for you, and your sons' and your daughters' too. If that sounds GOOD to you, Mike is your man. On Iraq, he's like the rest of the conservative establishment: God forbid that the US should admit it's mistake, and get outta there. "They wouldn't let us take their oil with us, would they?" These, then, are his principals. You want him, you got him!

    • Posted By: redhorserider2 @ 02/10/2008 13:31:23

      Comment: I think you'be been drinking some pretty strong koolaid. If you want to speak intelligently about Mike Huckabee, go to his website and read everything you can, then make your comments. At least you'll know what you're talking about . Think for yourself, man, sheeeesh!

  • Posted By: LevinLevin @ 02/10/2008 5:19:13 AM

    Comment: McCain speaks more truth than any other candidate out there at this time. Check it out! What this country needs right now more than anything is an individual who will give give us honest answers and rational of what is really going on in our world today. Tax rebates, religious values and party politics must take a back seat for the next several years; at least until we can straighten out the messes we/our government has gotten us into these last six years, He may leave his mark on making the world a better place, but let us all hope that he makes this great nation of ours' his first priority. For any candidate should make the United States' evolution, growth, prosperity and peace their utmost priority in this vastly diverse global community we all face today.

  • Posted By: terrymbj @ 02/10/2008 2:10:42 AM

    Comment: McCain will never be able to withstand the Clinton Machine or Obama Mike Huckabee has proven himself with the C Machine---succcessfully I might add. He is clear on his issues and stands proud for what republicans should stand for!!!! msnbc there is a section to rate the canadates on Mike Huckabees profile it never mentions anything about him being a Governor only a minister. Give Mike some credit he was a very Successful Governor..

  • Posted By: terrymbj @ 02/10/2008 2:04:16 AM

    Comment: BEWARE McCain will never be able to withstand the Clinton Machine or Obama Boy Mike Huckabee isn't a stranger to the Clinton Machine- and if it were Obama Mike would bring the issues that we Reupblicans stand for.

  • Posted By: Tommypie @ 02/10/2008 1:14:26 AM

    Comment: John McCain is not a true conservative. He is trying to "make nice" to get the far right onto his side, but he will not be an successful attempt. As a far right conservative, I would have to hold my nose voting for him. He is such a phony, temperamenal , and lying individual. I am so sorry that the Republicans don't have a better choice. We have one in Mr. Huckabee but, of course, the media is treating Mr. Huckabee as a backwoodsy moron who just fell of the turnip truck. And, he is a former Baptist minister to boot, which is an anathema to the elite, know-it-allish media.

  • Posted By: Wangalambusi @ 02/09/2008 7:51:48 PM

    Comment: Obama has no experience? What experience does Hilary have? First lady? we are talking about American president!

  • Posted By: roxanna @ 02/09/2008 6:30:45 PM

    Comment: Greetings,
    Ralph Waldo Emerson???s Concord Hymn was published in 1837 about the "Shot heard round the world" that began the American Revolution. Those words described something very crucial that happened in our country???s history; that shot heard around the world proved to be important and changed our future. Our future???..

    I would like to introduce my choice for president by directing you to his website www.tommillican.com. He has dubbed his election effort as a ???Return to Excellence.??? He received inspiration for his election effort from the phrase ???American Exceptionalism???. Historically it refers to a belief, as is his belief; America differs ???qualitatively??? from all nations.

    We believe America has an exceptional position among countries and America should not be bound by ???International Law.??? Yet, there are those who want to see America under the control and legalities. As you will hear in his video our forefathers and I believe God chose America to be that ???beacon on the hill??? to serve as an example to the world. He further believes America is so blessed and these blessings provide America to be independent as its leader should be. So fire another ???Shot heard round the World.??? Elect Tom Millican president in 2008.

  • Posted By: peace and love @ 02/06/2008 12:14:32 PM

    Comment: elleneyegreen

    From your report, it sounds like Mr. McCain has the credentials that the GOP endorses - right down to the media blackout. They like to control those kinds of things. It's urgent that we go and vote for the Democrat who is running against the GOP.

  • Posted By: barblze @ 02/05/2008 9:34:05 AM

    Comment: McCain as president will have one effect..a civil war again in this country. This time it will be to the death of this country if another republican is elected. Look what Bush has done, McCain will be another Bush. Kiss the country goodbye.

  • Posted By: Conservative Dan @ 02/04/2008 11:59:58 AM

    Comment: Let us look at McCain???s conservative credentials:

    -IMMIGRATION: he wrote the bill granting amnesty to illegal immigrants
    -TAXES: he voted against the Bush tax cuts multiple times (he has since flip-flopped and has campaigned as a lifelong tax-cutter)
    -PROFESSIONAL ETHICS: ringleader of the infamous Keating 5 ethical scandal which cost US tax payers $160 billion (Google it)
    -PERSONAL ETHICS: McCain cheated on his first wife after she had a severe accident that left her partially disabled. He then divorced her and married his multi-millionaire mistress, whose daddy bought McCain a spot in the Congress

  • Posted By: Newzaroo @ 02/03/2008 4:41:19 PM

    Comment: There is no excuse for John McCain... Period. Unacceptable... End of story.

    DRUDGE REPORT: Breaking News...

    **POLL: Romney leads McCain by 37-34 in CA...

    RASMUSSEN POLL:

    CA: Obama 45% Clinton 44%
    McCain 38% Romney 38%

    GA: McCain 31% Romney 29% Huck 28%
    Obama 52% Clinton 37%

    ***Insiders Tip: Rush Limbaugh to endorse Romney on Monday's show after weekend talks!

  • Posted By: elleneyegreen @ 02/03/2008 12:54:51 PM

    Comment: The world must know....
    HOW DID IT HAPPEN HERE ?
    Native Americans: Navaho Indians are the targets of brutal genocide right here
    in Arizona, USA ...by Sen. John McCain & the help of a few greedy Senators

    SYNOPSIS: A Massachusetts / West Virginia coal company working directly with John McCain displaced thousands of Navaho onto a Nuclear Waste Dump to live after brutalizing them for two decades. McCain assembled (Navaho Resettlement Act and Navaho Accommodation Agreement) illegal enactments designed to force Native American Navaho of the Dineh Band off their Arizona lands, moving them onto Church's Hill in Nevada, depriving them of lands they've owned since 1500 AD. so that a Coal Company can exploit their lands for personal gain. In exchange, three Presidential runs by McCain have been backed by that company and its Nevada Casino clients, and McCain's wife has been granted huge Beer distribution contracts at her company.
    Click Here to enter site... Holocaust of the Native Americans by the Johns: McCain - Kerry - Rockefeller and Teddy Kennedy / Bill Clinton / Al Gore. The Navaho Resettlement led to the deaths of thousands of elders and mass radiation based deformities among newborn Navaho children and youngsters. The accompanying thuggery and theft of property, fencing out of rangelands, cattle seizures, water well cappings and beatings and other indignity has led to the death of thousands of elder grandfathers and mothers of the Navaho Di'neh Nation, a birth defect rate twice the national average has led to UN & EU condemnations! Navaho are full US citizens!
    Over the past decade, McCain's illegal activities against the Dineh Navaho led to the issuance of the very first UN Human Rights condemnation of the USA: an official condemnation that held John McCain and his peers responsible for spearheading this illegal land seizure, coal seizure without payment of licensing rights, and rape of the land. A very hypocritical group of Senators, Reed, Rockefeller, Kennedy, Kerry and others along with Bill Clinton were also investigated. However, McCain was cited as the principal party responsible for the Human Rights Violations! A paid media blackout followed that prevented coverage of the events that displaced and killed the Dineh Navaho by the US Press! We must keep this story alive!

  • Posted By: almanojodo @ 02/02/2008 2:29:22 AM

    Comment: Our household has voted Republican for 50 years, but we will NOT vote for John McCain. He speaks with a politician's forked tongue and is not trustworthy. A significant number of our Republican friends agree. Gov. Mitt Romney is our favorite. Our nation needs HELP and Gov. Romney is who we trust most to deliver the efficiency, spending control and fiscal management so desperately needed. But it is up to the voters. Either we elect a good man like Gov. Romney or we all suffer the consequences. .

    • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 02/02/2008 16:31:03

      Comment: Romney has never stuck to his values or agenda. NEVER. He switches on major issues such as abortion. gays, socialized health ins. etc., and to top it off, he is prominent in a satanic cult. And you call him a good man.

  • Posted By: Peaceful Warrior @ 02/01/2008 11:41:01 PM

    Comment: Though John McCain was a POW from 1967--1973, sadly having survived that experience does not mean that he "deserves" to be President. He has no more "right" to that position than any of the other candidates. The ads that John McCain is presently running on TV are just not quite true. The ads state "While a POW in Viet Nam, John McCain was inspired by the Reagan revolution........ One then hears John McCain say how proud he is to have been one of the foot solderis for Ronald Reagan. OK---let's check the facts.----Ronald Reagan ran for the presidency in 1980 ( seven years after John McCain's return)---so it would have been impossible for that POW to have been inspired by Reagan at the time of his captivity and that is what the ad is stating. Further, Mr. McCain did not go to Washington, DC until 1983 as an elected member of the House of Representatives. So, what exactly is a "foot soldier" for Ronald Reagan?? Did he work on his campaign??? Hmmm.......maybe for Ronald Reagan's second term??? The information being put out before the American people is distorted and just plain not true. Seems like Mr. McCain is a master of not only distorting Mitt Romney's record, but has a knack of distorting his own! Kind of makes you wonder, huh???

  • Posted By: danVW @ 02/01/2008 11:05:05 PM

    Comment: McCain does not seem to fit the definition of a true conservative. Aside from being extremely pro-war he's very liberal with everything else. I'm voting for Ron Paul on Tuesday.

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 02/01/2008 6:40:54 PM

    Comment: McCain is past the point of "frontrunner". He is the likely nominee. Romney is down to the Mormon vote and not much else. After Tues. maybe the Mormons can put him in charge of the "baptize a dead Jew" program.

  • Posted By: djonesss @ 02/01/2008 4:21:32 PM

    Comment: John McCain -
    Founding Member of the Keating Five
    Back in the old days, defendants in famous trials got numbers -- the Chicago Eight, the Gang of Four, the Dave Clark Five, the Daytona 500. McCain was one of the "Keating Five," congressmen investigated on ethics charges for strenuously helping convicted racketeer Charles Keating after he gave them large campaign contributions and vacation trips.
    Charles Keating was convicted of racketeering and fraud in both state and federal court after his Lincoln Savings & Loan collapsed, costing the taxpayers $3.4 billion. His convictions were overturned on technicalities; for example, the federal conviction was overturned because jurors had heard about his state conviction, and his state charges because Judge Lance Ito (yes, that judge) screwed up jury instructions. Neither court cleared him, and he faces new trials in both courts.)

    Though he was not convicted of anything, McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating after Keating gave McCain at least $112,00 in contributions. In the mid-1980s, McCain made at least 9 trips on Keating's airplanes, and 3 of those were to Keating's luxurious retreat in the Bahamas. McCain's wife and father-in-law also were the largest investors (at $350,000) in a Keating shopping center; the Phoenix New Times called it a "sweetheart deal."


    Mafia ties:
    In 1995, McCain sent birthday regards, and regrets for not attending, to Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonano, the head of the New York Bonano crime family, who had retired to Arizona. Another politician to send regrets was Governor Fife Symington, who has since been kicked out of office and convicted of 7 felonies relating to fraud and extortion.

    Family Problems
    McCain has a reputation as a politician who has difficulty keeping his pants zipped, according to Republican sources. He acknowledges that his adultery broke up his first marriage. His second wife Cindy, the daughter of a wealthy Budweiser beer distributor, was addicted to prescription narcotics and even stole hard drugs from a medical charity that she ran. McCain acknowledges that she didn't want him to run, and only agreed once he promised that she doesn't have to go to New Hampshire or Iowa.

  • Posted By: lovejusticepeace @ 01/31/2008 7:29:23 PM

    Comment: Cain murdered Abel.
    McCain murdered Viets ?

  • Posted By: lovejusticepeace @ 01/31/2008 7:28:18 PM

    Comment: Cain ? The name forebodes murder .

  • Posted By: bigbrewhaha @ 01/31/2008 5:45:26 PM

    Comment: Comment: The last thing we need in this country is another confused disconnected old guy from the vietnam era making decisions about how we should guide this country into the future. Guys like mccain and bush are always trying to figure out how to go backwards rather than forwards i.e. the last 8 years.... We have to have a young progressive thinker, i'm sick of wars, stop with the warring you freakin' old people, us young people have found better things to do with our time, like solve the problems you old idiots keep creating. WE DON'T CARE YOU WERE IN VIETNAM. What the hell does anything have to do with vietnam man! -Lebowski

  • Posted By: sjbrock80 @ 01/31/2008 4:29:30 PM

    Comment: God Bless America!

  • Posted By: nate31 @ 01/31/2008 2:28:03 PM

    Comment: The media (as well as many prominant Republican) are eagerly pushing McCain, because he is the only candidate left who has any shot in an election against Obama. The only way a Republican can take office this year is if he can win moderates as well as some Democrats. McCain has shown he is that candidate, and if you are Republican you better jump on the bandwagon, because he is as conservative as it gets this election!

  • Posted By: hyoung1480 @ 01/31/2008 2:14:59 PM

    Comment: Why is it that the republican voters can not see that this guy is still mentally affected by his war past. He constantly expresses his love for the continuation of the Iraq war. Simply because he has been brainwashed from the days of his p.o.w. affair. The world needs to open their eyes and ears to this guy. He is not what we need as a President. He is entirely to paraniod. Why am I the only one listening? God help us please!

  • Posted By: JohnGaltlaketahoe @ 01/31/2008 12:57:50 PM

    Comment: Comment: With US military presence in the Middle East for our freedoms, the US Presidential primary's are ensuring that the US American electorate is held hostage in Iraq for years to come. Hostage to war, oil, Israel..you name it.

    The American electorate is held hostage in Iraq because of the same bipartisanship in Congress we are seeing now in the bipartisan front runners of presidential campaigns.

  • Posted By: Dan Maloy @ 01/31/2008 12:38:59 PM

    Comment: Why is the media so quick to label McCain the absolute front runner? When Romney was leading McCain and the rest of the GOP-contender crowd, he was leading by MORE delegate votes than McCain's lead now and yet all the media could say was "there is no front-runner". It's McCain's endorsements, you say? Nice try, but endorsements don't equate to delegates. Delagates win the nomination, not endorsements. You're biased nature against Romney is disturbingly evident to anyone who looks beyond the fluff you put out.

  • Posted By: JohnGaltlaketahoe @ 01/31/2008 12:34:01 PM

    Comment: With US military presence in the Middle East for our freedoms, the US Presidential primary's are ensuring that the US American electorate is held hostage in Iraq for years to come. Hostage to war, oil, Israel..you name it.

    The American electorate is held hostage in Iraq because of the same bipartisanship in Congress we are seeing now in the bipartisan front runners of presidential campaigns.

  • Posted By: htachtac @ 01/31/2008 12:25:43 PM

    Comment: Might as well take down the borders now. I'm sure they are thrilled to hear that they will be getting great rewards for breaking the law and entering the country illegally. Now all of our kids and everyone else can pay for it. Thanks a lot Florida, all of the liberal media (which is pretty much all of you), and everyone else who would rather pay out of their pocketbook then vote for a "mormon". Great job folks!!!

  • Posted By: paprovost @ 01/30/2008 10:55:16 PM

    Comment: If John McCain is elected our next president, I believe that he will be rated by future historians as the right president at the right time. Yes the economy is very important because it is so evident. How we settle the terorists threat is really the most vital of the vital. Can you imagine how this country would re-act if the terrorist used a 'dirty' atomic weapon in one of our major cities that would leave such radiation that it would be like chernoble (sp?) in Russia and not habitable for thousands of years? I have served in the Marine Corps and was Fire Direction Officer when atomic bombs were in their infancy after WWII. I attended ABC schools (Atomic,Biological, and Chemical threats). Every other isssue is a far second. I am in my seventies but I want to feel that the youth of this country will enjoy their life safely and be willing to take and RECOGNIZE what seems invisible to some.

    • Posted By: hyoung1480 @ 01/31/2008 14:34:54

      Comment: I feel for you brother! WHY? Because you believe that crop of *** that we are being attacked on every hand. I love America but America is not at war, BUSH and his cohorts(money loveing, oil chasing thugs)are the ones supporting this war. And sad to say but people like you are so snowed by these pack of lies it is heartbreaking. I wish I could show you the truth to let you see that this is not about our freedom but their pockets. It is a known fact that we have a history of conquerring land(including this one from the Indians) and this situation is no different. Will you beleive that? Yes you beleive it but you are so white american you would not admit it! God don't like ugly and proof is in the pudding, our economy is just the begining.

  • Posted By: gonzalez13 @ 01/30/2008 9:28:37 PM

    Comment: There seems to be some kind of ganging up against McCain from the small republican oposition, based on mostly one premise: "Immigration". Those who despise McCain for being his own man and not a puppet, try to pin him up against the whole republican base for thinking, saying and doing what he believes in. Since when being compasionate toward other more vulnerable race became a reason to despise the one who could be the only one capable of reaching, independents, latinos, minorities other than latinos, republicans, and yes even democrats?

  • Posted By: Paul Douglas @ 01/30/2008 6:48:40 PM

    Comment: When independents and moderates examine Senator McCain's voting record over the past quarter century, they will see that John McCain was, is and always will be a conservative Republican, with all the values that appertain thereto! More tax breaks for America's wealthiest citizens while the rest of us struggle to fill our gas tanks. More death and destruction in Iraq while we remain in denial, refusing to understand that the "surge" only works as long as we stay there. More caving in to the Religious Right on issues like stem cell research, abortion, birth control, Federal support for religious charities and schools and a whole host of issues too numerous to go into. THAT is what Senator McCain is all about. As Lincoln said so eloquently, "You can fool all of the people some of the time and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." Let's hope this wisdom extends to the 2008 Presidential election.

  • Posted By: arizzo @ 01/30/2008 6:46:07 PM

    Comment: Mitt Romney is the only intelligent and honest candidate running for president. McCain is a lying piece of trash. The only reason why he won Florida was because he attacked Romney with a blatant lie. Even the liberl New York Times said McCain was dishonest in his attack on Romney. I will NEVER vote for someone who lies to Americans to get ahead. What else is this man capable of?

    I am voting Mitt Romney! if McCain gets the nomination I am voting for Hillary. I will NEVER let my vote go to McCain. That would condone his lying attack of Romney.

    • Posted By: gonzalez13 @ 01/30/2008 21:37:02

      Comment: Romney was born on a wealthy house, he didn't have to fight for anything since his childhood, He does not know about serving in the mlitary, being torture, being hungry, or jobless. He is one of the few in this country that represent wealth only. A person out of touch with the realities of life can never be a good president!

      • Posted By: Dan Maloy @ 01/30/2008 23:16:51

        Comment: In reference to his claim that Romney wanted "timetables" to leave Iraq, MCCAIN COMPLETELY AND REPEATEDLY IGNORES THE CONTEXT OF ROMNEY'S ENTIRE QUOTE AND THEREFORE THE TRUE INTENT OF ROMNEY'S STATEMENT. Romney said he thought that Pres. Bush and the Iraqi government should have secret "benchmarks" (in other words, "goals") that would lead to the U.S. finally getting out of Iraq. Who doesn't want to get out of Iraq at some point? Even McCain wants out eventually. How in the heck does anyone think that they can successfully get from point A to point B without goals? Get real!, you don't even go to the bathrooom without "goals". First, you get up off the couch. Next, you walk to the kitchen. After that, you pass through the laundry room and into the bathroom. ANY leader of ANY organization HAS to have benchmarks or goals to be successful. The U.S military already had "benchmarks" in place BEFORE they dropped the first bomb in Iraq in 2003. And.....McCain knows full well as a former U.S. Navy officer that one of the very FIRST things he'll do if elected President is sit down with his Secretary of Defense, the military Joint Chiefs of Staff and the top U.S. military officer in Iraq and discuss the "benchmarks" in Iraq, as in, "Gen Paetreus, how the heck are we doing on our goals in Iraq?" That stinks to high heaven of hypocrisy by McCain. Beside those points, McCain completely ignored the second part of Romney's "benchmark" comment! Which is, IMMEDIATELY after Romney spoke about having benchmarks he was asked if he were elected President would he veto a bill that proposed a "get out of Iraq date" AND ROMNEY UNEQUIVOCABLY SAID "YES!" How are both parts of Romney's answer compatible with each other? Because all he was saying was "let's set some goals (secret ones, he said, so that the enemy would not know our steps) to get out of Iraq but if the goals prove to be unrealistic, we'll have to set new ones and STAY UNTIL THE JOB IS DONE!" McCain knows this but is so desperate that he'll smear a man's reputation to get elected. As an active duty U.S. Air Force pilot I admire McCain's military service but his integrity and class have been severely diminished by the lie that he is whole-heartedly perpetuating. Is that the kind of man you want leading YOUR country?

  • Posted By: misterharban @ 01/30/2008 5:30:27 PM

    Comment: Note To True Conservatives: Is there a way that you could more explicit about your disdain for moderates than to simply denigrate every candidate who might garner their votes? Every election cycle you rely on moderate votes for your margins of victory, much the way the Democrats rely on the Black community. At least the Democrats refrain from using the time between elections to tell that constituency how stupid they are. I cannot remember a cycle where you all have been so loud and bold in declaring that the views of moderates were misguided and unimportant. Your demands for conservative purity have seemed to rise as the quality of you ideas and candidates have fallen.

    Why don???t you do away with pretense and simply tell everyone straightaway that you know that moderates are so incredibly ignorant that they will share their votes with you even as you abuse them?

    Incredible. Who is crazy here?

  • Posted By: babau @ 01/30/2008 4:54:36 PM

    Comment: The Real McCain :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl6gCcG0ntg
    http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com

  • Posted By: babau @ 01/30/2008 4:54:13 PM

    Comment: The Real McCain :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl6gCcG0ntg
    http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com

  • Posted By: JDLonestar @ 01/30/2008 4:51:03 PM

    Comment: iT HAS BEEN BEAT TO DEATH, BUT WHY CAN'T WE FORGET ALL THIS "PARTY" STUFF, AND HAVE THGE FREEDOM TO VOTE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL WE MOST IDENTIFY WITH....REGARDLESS OF HIS AFFILIATION WITH A POLITICAL PARTY

  • Posted By: AdirondackAl @ 01/30/2008 4:27:20 PM

    Comment: Every democrat's favorite Republican is about to pass his "best if used by date". This is a watershed election and we cannot put up another Bob Dole against their Bill Clinton (Barack Obama). America is a big country, not just the edges of the left but an entire legitimate nation between the coast and ignored by the msm. Mike Huckabee is our candidate and he will win in November.

    • Posted By: babau @ 01/30/2008 16:55:29

      Comment: The Real McCain :

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl6gCcG0ntg
      http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com

      • Posted By: nire @ 02/09/2008 22:19:31

        Comment: http://www.nationalexpositor.com/News/840.html Mike Huckabee is a globalist. Why dont Americans want to be free?????

  • Posted By: Saltydog_0 @ 01/30/2008 4:01:56 PM

    Comment: How can you consider McCain the frontrunner? Last I checked, he was a republican.

 
 
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