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appealing to the past will not help win this election. This election has its own issues, its own dynamic, and its own personalities. Fortunately, we McCainiacs have the BEST of these. Every time I watch John McCain on C-Span I am more and more impressed with his candor, his wit, his debating strength AND -- now more than ever - his ability to discuss economic issues with the same understanding of what ordinary people want & need that he has always brought to military matters.
The campaign he is running is for ordinary people facing extraordinary times -- a little bit populist, quite a bit Western, and classic Republican in its balanced budget, tax trimmed, small spending emphasis. Hawk, it works for me!
His statement that he is running for the presidency not because he feels a need to save the country but to give back as much as he can because the country saved him -- brought tears to my eyes.
I AM troubled by his praise for Judge Alito -- you would think that an Arizonan would praise Sandra Day O'Connor -- but here, I suppose, is some "red meat" for the "conservatives"...
No, I am not working for the campaign -- I would probably embarrass it !! - but yes I am a solid supporter, personally and via my webcast.
By the way, the polls show that our guy is doing pretty well against either opponent. It works for me, mate!
LOL well I don't know if you work for the McCain campaign in any capacity but if you do, you're completely off the reservation, here...at this point in time, McCain is trying to convince conservatives to vote for him...he's not telling them "go screw yourself...vote third party if you want...we don't need you"...I think that McCain thinks he needs the conservatives for him to win in November...I guess you don't think that way...so we'll see what happens...ever since the inception of the modern conservative movement in 1955, no Republican has won without them...if McCain loses in November...I'll have a big "I told you so"...the Republicans will have thrown the election by nominating him...if he actually wins without conservative support, he'll have a tough time getting legislation through...
to the previous commenter: that sounds like Ron Paul, mate...
If there needs be a 3rd party candidate, so be it. This is about winning a general election with 110 million people voting, most of whom rarely think about politics at all.
Those who respond to politics as passionately as you have simply do not count in a general election's OCEAN of NEAR-INDIFFERENCE.
So...I am afraid you will not like the result. Me, I intend to LIKE the result. John McCain is as good politically as it gets in the REAL world..!!
don't jump on the whole "change" thing...he'll sound like a Johnny-come-lately..."change" is dumb...what kind of change? THAT'S what matters...not change just for change's sake...yes I like McCain's stance on this whole subprime mess, it's as good as you're going to get from any politician...and the earmarks thing...I'm with him on that...if he tries to foist another McCain/Kennedy on us again...that will ascertain for us how quick a learner he is...if McCain goes with Bloomberg, all he'll do is win votes for third party candidates like Keyes and Barr...not smart...he needs a rock-ribbed Reaganite to bring out the base...I'd recommend Haley Barbour, Fred Thompson, or if he REALLY wants to get people on board, Duncan Hunter...idk what you mean by an "agenda"...my economic agenda is NO agenda...it is gov't hands off the economy...gov't only makes things worse...they ruin everything they get their grimy little paws on...
Country has changed. John McCain represents CHANGE and does so more credibly than his likely rival. I understand Thomas Sowell's point of view and agree that for economic issues John McCain is still a work in progress; nonetheless, he is sounding stronger and speaking more pointedly on these matters every day. He appears to be a very quick learner -- no surprise -- and I find his small-government, anti-earmark, hands off the bailout position (a bail out in extremis but not, never, as everybody's economic aspirin) accord well both with the American public's attitude as well as with common economic sense. I think that John McCain is going to do just fine on economic issues: and if he chooses Michael Bloomberg (the current thought) as his running mate it'll be a slam dunk. Of course the "conservatives" will not like that at all; but the Nation has changed, tremendously. It really now IS "the economy, stupid." And where the economy is concerned, good old American pragmatism is still the best approach rather than a pre-existing agenda.
...it's one thing to talk about how horrible things will be if Democrats get into office...who knows? In a sense, it took a total disaster like Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan...Thomas Sowell said that if he votes for McCain, he won't really be voting FOR McCain, but against Hillera or Osama. Is that what you want? McCain IS different from the Democrats, in terms of his dedication to this country and a few other issues...in his recent speeches, he's copied the Democrats' "global test" rhetorical and more recently the whole class-envy rhetoric that the Democrats' kookish base sops up. He needs to stop this and sound more like Reagan if he doesn't want conservatives to stay at home in November.
Not 100 % confident ? Of course not. This will NOT be easy. The other side controls most of the media as you well know. Still, I like John McCain's campaign by understatement. Understated where the Democrats are Drama Queens; plain spoken where the Democrats sound like an embroidered ball gown; simple where the Democrats sound like 565-page Policy Manuals; Transparent, where the Democrats obfuscate all day long. As any military person knows, The Simple Plan Works Best. Steady as he goes... By September I THINK we'll see just how wise his course is, compared especially to Barack Obama's conceited, elaborate, petulant flights of hypocrisy...
...the whole Jerry Falwell/Pat Robertson false boogeyman thing is way overdone...the attacks on them is often just thinly-vieled anti-Christianism...those two guys wouldn't hurt a fly and they abide by the rules of a secular democracy such as our own...but when we are approached by the genuine article...the Islamic fascists...people who REALLY ARE all those awful things that are alleged about "Christian fundamentalists"...for some reason we can't mention anything...this "lifestyle police" thing is a false argument...the government is CONSTANTLY telling us what we have to do and what we can't do...the law books are a zillion pages thick...an all of this environmentalist crap will make it worse...they attacked Bush the same way...over and over...and now all you have to do is say "McCain will be Bush 3" and people freak out...the left was quite successful in making George Bush into Satan himself...don't underestimate them...they'll do the same thing to McCain...not saying it will work...but it might...the modern incarnation of this screechy, vicious, personal-attack M.O. by the libs started with Judge Bork in 1987...caught us by surprise... ...I think you underestimate the Democrats and their ability to dig up dirt and make McCain look bad...I think McCain will win but I'm not 100% sure...it's not good to be overconfidant...
Ha...you have a point about the "lifestyle fundamentalists," but my point is still alive too. NOBODY has the right to tell me how to live my life or to make my own private, family decisions. No evangelist, no "fundamentalist," no BODY.
THAT was the sort of conservatism that Barry Goldwater stood for!
Now back to the campaign: About attack talk -- the only talk that Democrats know how to speak -- I have a theory. The sillier the Democrat attacks on John McCain -- and they are so silly and so untenable they make The Three Stooges look erudite -- the solider John McCain's stature becomes. The Democrats think that you have to attack, all the time and on any issue no matter how small, because of the Swift Boat thing from 2004. Unhappily for them, the Democrats ALWAYS get it wrong. By the time October comes around, if they keep this up, the public will be (1) utterly bored by the Democrat thing and (2) laughing hard.
in modern day America, the biggest "lifestyle fundamentalists" are the environmentalist hoaxers and their demands that we all change our lifestyle to suit some unproven "global warming" notions of theirs...
Karl Rove isn't so great...with his help, Bush LOST the popular vote in 2000 and he just barely scraped by against a phoney and a waste of life like Kerry in '04...you can take a page from Hillary and Obama and start calling conservatives all sorts of childish names that the liberals will soon be calling McCain, all you want...if you think McCain can win without the votes of conservatives, then go for it...but if McCain continues to alienate conservatives he will only have himself to blame if he loses to Obama or Hillera...
Well...I'm not troubled that he is not a conservative favorite. I have lots of bones to pick with the new phase of "conservatives," who have utterly forgotten what "conservative" meant to the man who gave the term political presence: Barry Goldwater, whose Senate seat John McCain holds. By the way: I heard John McCain brilliantly defended last night by Karl Rove, on C-Span. Frankly, I'll take Karl Rove in my corner over the present "conservatives" (immigration nativists & bigots and lifestyle fundamentalists included) any day, OK ?
P.S. Karl Rove also brilliantly exposed Mr. Obama as the utter political hypocrite that he is. More of this is much needed.....
Senator McCain needs to think hard about what he says...he's not been the conservative favorite, but a lot of us have been willing to give him a chance because Osama Obama and Hillera would be such disasters for the country...expressing sympathy for the low life scum in their cages in Gitmo is not the best way to do it...and again, suggesting that we put the U.N. in charge of our foreign policy...will not win him a lot of friends...
PLEASE have John take a look at Dick Armey's Column in today's RealClearPolitics. It's the best suggestion for a John McCain economic agenda that I've read yet. (Dick Armey is the former House Majority Leader and one of the STRONGEST voices for free market economies. )
From today's Financial Times in London: "We cannot torture or treat inhumanely the suspected terrorists that we have captured. We must close the detention facility at Guantánamo and come to a common international understanding on the disposition of dangerous detainees under our control." Let there be no mistake. John McCain is NOT the third term of George Bush. If Americans want CHANGE, John McCain is that change. The other two are...more of the usual suspects if you ask me
THanx that we have a photo on this site now! GOOD NEWS for OUR FIRST COMMENT POSTING: Zogby poll today: McCain 46 Obama 40; McCain 48 Clinton 40. Add Zogby to Rasmussen and things are looking good. Hopefully it stays that way..
