McCain is being...well...McCain
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No wonder more and more polls show him falling behind. His latest backstab of President Bush for the benefit of the MSM is yet another example of his "maverickness"
John McCain has always thrived as an outsider, a maverick. He is at his best when he is back-stabbing fellow Republicans and earning kudoos from an admiring press. Can he survive, let alone function as GOP Frontrunner/Nominee and Party leader? I don't think so.
I'm not too excited about Rudy Giuliani, but save for that snub of Pataki, he has been a fairly loyal Republican. (If anyone knows different, let me know.) Newt Gingrich is a firebrand and loves to throw firebombs, but I don't recall his party or his President being the targets of any of those. Romney, Allen and the rest have proven to be loyal Republicans, as well.
I remember the 1976 GOP Convention -- Gerald Ford vs. Ronald Reagan. Ford won, but Reagan came close. When Reagan lost, he became a strong supporter of Ford, and so did his supporters. I remember watching TV as delegates wearing Reagan buttons and with tears streaming down their faces grabbed Ford signs and began to wave them wildly. Even the MSM commentators remarked on it. Do you see McCain ever doing that? I don't think so. His history suggests instead that he would follow Ted Kennedy's path of the very same year.
Teddy lost to Jimmy Carter at the 1976 Democratic convention. When called up to the stand to stand next to Carter to try to consolidate the party, he responded by coming to the platform, all right; but then he turned his back to Carter and snubbed him on Prime-time TV. The commentators remarked about that, as well.
Speaking of Jimmy Carter, do you recall who the last President was who came to town thinking he could govern independent from his party? That's right, James Earl Carter, Jr. That didn't work out too well, did it?
Do we really want to go there again? I don't.
I think "long, hard slog" is just another way of saying "day at the beach."
I'm just angry that I've been led to believe there are jobs offering $50 an hour for Americans to pick lettuce... now I am disappointed to find out there really aren't.
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"I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more I have of it." -- Thomas Jefferson
Newt Gingrich is a firebrand and loves to throw firebombs, but I don't recall his party or his President being the targets of any of those.
Gingrich led the charge against the first President Bush after the latter reneged on his "read my lips; no new taxes" pledge. He once called Bob Dole "the tax collector for the welfare state."
Comparing and constrasting the utterances of these two men might be an interesting exercise.
an apt comparison.
McCain is not a Republican. Nor is he a conservative. Or an independent. He is a McCain. Period.
Just like Carter, he cares about himself and nothing else. And like Carter he is more than willing to throw mud at a sitting President in a time of war, with statements that are just nothing more than meaningless drivel.
McCain offers critical statements and nothing whatsoever of substance. He's an empty suit, but that is fairly common for a Senator. He's also probably the only prominent candidate that Hillary CAN beat, polls aside.
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If "pro" is the opposite of "con", what is the opposite of "progress"?