Has John McCain acknowledged reality and all but thrown in the towel on his run for the Republican presidential nomination? An editorial in today's Boston Globe might make you think so. In McCain's fighting stance, an ode to McCain's position on immigration, the Globe mentions that "McCain, an Arizona Republican, spoke about the immigration bill's chances in a meeting with Globe editors on Monday." For the record, the Globe editorial predictably praises McCain for his "principled stand" against "an ugly nativist streak in his own party."
Let's think about that. Massachusetts is not the site of a significant Republican primary. And no Republican, including McCain, stands any chance of carrying the super-blue Bay State in the general election. So why would someone ostensibly seeking the Republican nomination make the pilgrimmage to the land of Ted Kennedy to curry favor and support for his amnesty-based immigration bill? In GOP circles, the Globe's imprimatur is but one more nail in the coffin of his already-moribund candidacy.Could it be that McCain has taken a long, hard look at the polls -- and at his dwindling campaign coffers -- and decided that his run is effectively over? Is his démarche to Massachusetts a victory lap among liberal friends in a race he realizes he can't win? Has McCain decided that, rather than the presidency, this wrong-headed immigration bill will be his final legacy?
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Historically, it's way-earl
June 21, 2007 - 06:32 ET by sarcasmoHistorically, it's way-early for anyone to be throwing in the towel, because it's really early for anyone to be running for President this time, fer heavensakes! I think this may well be an outreach to one of the front-running Democrats, though, if he thinks he can't make it in the Republican party. I'm still finding it ironic, if not amusing, that ABC News is less-biased than groups which have repeatedly accused the news media of bias, so it's quite likely I'll be having some fun with that today...Like it or not! :^)
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"an ugly nativist stre
June 21, 2007 - 07:02 ET by motherbelt"an ugly nativist streak"
When I read crap like that I just want to scream! That's not an argument; it's a deflection. It says "let's not talk about illegal immigration; let's make these opposers prove they're not bigots and racists." (and how do you do that? Why, by accepting the bill, of course!) It's the "Why do you hate Mexicans?" question from the debate all over again.
Considering the fact that a huge majority of Americans are opposed to illegal immigration and amnesty, that has to include a lot of Democrats as well. That means the ugly nativist streak runs through the entire country. Way to go, Boston Globe...insult the vast majority of Americans!
Exactly, MB!
June 21, 2007 - 07:05 ET by dahliatraversExactly, MB!
Fortunately, MB, each day the
June 21, 2007 - 07:12 ET by ThisnThatFortunately, MB, each day the Boston Globe gets to insult fewer and fewer Americans directly, with its ever-decreasing readership.
ugly nativist streak in his o
June 21, 2007 - 07:04 ET by dahliatraversugly nativist streak in his own party
1.) Opposition to illegal immigration crosses party lines, as amply reflected in polls. It is only a small group of I-know-better, blind elitists which refuse to acknowledge that, or the danger of the position they have taken on this issue.
2.) To stipulate their erroneous characterization for one minute, why is every other country on the planet allowed to be "ugly nativist" except us?
Buh Bye McCain!
June 21, 2007 - 07:17 ET by Six String SpiffHey McCain. Adios Amigo!! LOL!
Islam should have it's religious status revoked until it can prove it's not a hate group.
Mc Cain, Don’t worry if so
June 21, 2007 - 07:35 ET by USA4freedomMc Cain,
Don’t worry if some how we can defeat your AMSITY bill you can always get work as a Coyote.
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc.
Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day
}}----> One down
June 21, 2007 - 07:57 ET by Cool ArrowCan't these of vultures thin out faster than this?
From American hero to American sellout. McCain's spiral has been sad to watch.
Rino hunting season comming u
June 21, 2007 - 08:08 ET by USA4freedomRino hunting season comming up!
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc.
Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day
}}----> Tell me USA
June 21, 2007 - 08:16 ET by Cool ArrowWhen you bag a RINO, who takes their place? The representation isn't any better on the other side of the fence.
Have to go after them in the
June 21, 2007 - 08:36 ET by USA4freedomHave to go after them in the primary.
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc.
Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day
I totally understand where ev
June 21, 2007 - 08:39 ET by USA4freedomI totally understand where every one is thinking on this. You cratch our heads and wonder, are these people reading our fax’s, e-mail, phone calls, and blogs!
That old line: I’m pissed and I’m not going to take it anymore!
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc.
Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day
}}----> Howard Beale
June 21, 2007 - 08:46 ET by Cool ArrowWould that the third party candidate were a Howard Beale. It would at least be a fun campaign.
Hell at this point Mickey Mou
June 21, 2007 - 09:14 ET by USA4freedomHell at this point Mickey Mouse could do a better job. Mickey would not totally piss off the base and call them names. And.. complain about the only voice we have –talk radio-.
In the words of Val Kilmer in Tombstone: hypocrisy knows no bounds.
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc.
Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day
}}----> Mickey for Prez?
June 21, 2007 - 09:26 ET by Cool ArrowI remember in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, Mickey visited scientific installations all over America teaching lab rats how to engage in sodomy. The result was a scientific consensus that we could live with the epidemic.
McCain is McGone
June 21, 2007 - 11:35 ET by Lame CherrySenator Conman McCain has been mcgone in this race since the day he did 2 things:
1. He ran his pout fest as the first traitor in trying to bring down President Bush after 43 kicked his keester in the primaries. McCain did everything he could to screw up Bush and it ruined a great many Conservative tracks which really ticked allot of Conservatives off.
2. When McCain decided he was a big boy and could take on Rush Limbaugh belitting him. All that did was tick off several million very Patriotic Americans who not only vote, but talk daily non stop debating issues at home, work, school and coffee convincing others what a powder puff patrician McCain is.
McCain was billed as the heir to that titan Barry Goldwater and what the nation got was a lying, manipulating moderate who was funded by the mafia gaming funds where McCain's loyalty still lies.
There is nothing wrong with Tom Tancredo, Ron Paul is wrong on Iraq, but is a Patriot, but they do not have the following to win a national election. Fred Thompson is the reason McCain is fading hard in the polls due to his illegal love fest (he is for illegals as that is the payoff from the Bush Administration for backing him). Thompson though will continue to sponge all the Conservatives and Tancredo and Paul will fade this summer too.
Rudy will swealter under the Thompson summer inferno and dry up like a raisin and light weight Mitt will blow away in a solar wind as Thompson has the old Reagan corp behind him and some of the biggest elephants in the poltical forest who are the real deal Conservatives. Dick Cheney's daughter being one of those titans who can in a Washington sea of liberals send them fleeing.
I say a good bye to McCain. Let him totter about when Thompson is elected President as some ambassador over seas so Arizona can have a real Goldwater in that office. Then history can remember the better angels of a John McCain past when he was a real hero in Vietnam suffering real torture. That is when McCain was the real man he should be remembered as.
He should now though be an elder diplomat can let his past catch up with him and his present fade.
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LC, your suggestion of McCain
June 21, 2007 - 12:49 ET by MikeBLC, your suggestion of McCain as an ambassador somewhere is a good one. Might I suggest he might make a great ambassador to Chad or the Sudan? I suggest these two places only because the United States does not have an embassy on the Antarctic continent.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
MCCAIN IS FINISHED.PS. THE GL
June 21, 2007 - 12:20 ET by TOEMCCAIN IS FINISHED.
PS. THE GLOBE IS RACIALISTICLY OBSESSED.
MCCAIN IS FINISHED.PS. THE GL
June 21, 2007 - 12:20 ET by TOEMCCAIN IS FINISHED.
PS. THE GLOBE IS RACIALISTICLY OBSESSED.
McCain knows it is over.He di
June 21, 2007 - 16:21 ET by bigtimerMcCain knows it is over.
He did it to himself.
People don't forget about his votes or Amendments/Bills that have his name on them over a period of time.
Stick a fork in it McCain...you are done.
Thompson/Hunter '08