After If Mccain picks Mike Huckabee as his VP, all the dissatisfied rep’s and indy’s HuckaHicks will come running back to him, all of the conservatives will go fishing in November, and he’ll lose 48 states.

SaintOlaf on June 19, 2008 at 11:37 PM

Fixed.

(I thought you banned this fuc*ing idiot, Allah?)

that would push me away even more.

BHO is evil. Down to the core. there is no other word for him. McCain he is an idiot. So my choice is vote for evil or vote for an idiot. Gee what to do.

And if the worse thing you can say about McCain is that he said oil company profits have been obscene, then that is pretty damn thin. I don’t doubt that 80% of the people in the country would agree right now.

Terrye on June 19, 2008 at 11:26 PM

First of all, since when does anyone in favor of a free market economy set limits on profits?

Secondly, I don’t care if 80% of the people in the country believe that, because it’s not true. The profit margin of the oil industry is roughly ten percent, which is average. If you only pay attention to amounts without taking revenues and costs into account, then you deserve a president as ignorant about economics and as socialist about profits as you are.

Run. Against. The. Media.

The most hated institution in the US, and the one most committed to imposing liberalism on us. Unfortunately also the one The Maverick loves to snuggle up with.

However, McCain is a lot further to the right than Obama is.

Yeah, and you can spit-shine a turd until the sun goes down, but in the light of dawn, it’s still a turd.

McCain stinks.

I think McCain cares. And I think he has tried to reach out. He has been rebuffed.

That is crazy. The conservative base has not been snookered. They had every chance to come up with a candidate. I don’t care if it is was Newt Gingrich, they had the same chance as anyone else. Now instead of facing the fact that they lost, they create conspiracies, whine, assume they were robbed and in general act as if they have been badly used.

In fact they had several good conservatives to choose from and did not get behind any of them.

I’m nervous about McCain reaching out to me because he has a habit of bending conservatives over the table and battering them with a broom handle.

Troy Rasmussen on June 19, 2008 at 6:36 PM

Heh

Considering how many Republicans don’t like the guy, even when he’s the nominee, it makes you wonder how he became the nominee in the first place.

Grayson on June 19, 2008 at 8:07 PM

Because the primary was stacked with candidates representing the various schisms in the GOP base, to split out the conservative vote. These same candidates then gave their delegates faster than you can say ‘straw dog’ to non-conservative McCain.

These dogs didn’t bother to wait for the convention where supposedly they would trade their delegates for influence on behalf of the coalitions they represented.

That was the cheesy part. The dogs felt so confident they had destroyed the enemy they didn’t bother to wait. Of course then their own naive delegates might have assumed they were there to fight for platform influence and that had to be squelched.

Had these same candidates maintained the pretense into the convention the conservative base might have been fooled into believing there were no longer enough conservatives in America to front a political party.

The conservative base has been royally suckered and is now being told to ‘Get Over It’. That is not a formula for winning people back to the fold.

When McCain agreed to off shore drilling, that was a move to the right and the reaction was to bitch about ANWR. When McCain agreed to do border security first that was a move to the right and the response was mostly to call him Juan McShamnesty and assume he is lying.

I like Bush, I would even vote for him again. But since he won his second term the right has bitched about him too, even though it hurt the party as much as it hurt him. I am beginning to think that this is just the way some people like it.

You and people like you are slandering McCain

wise_man on June 19, 2008 at 10:16 PM

McCain referred to “obscene profits”. It was documented by the NY Post, a link to which was provided, which means it is not slander. Admit you were wrong, that you slandered someone as a liar, or you are a worthless coward.

Most Americans consider McCain to be conservative. And his voting record does put him on the center right to right. His overall record is about 83% I believe.

This very post seems to disprove your assertion, but whatever.

However, McCain is a lot further to the right than Obama is.

That is not saying much..but I agree. Nevertheless, this post concerns a serious problem McCain has with his base that is unsurprising to conservatives. Yes, I do dislike him as our party’s nominee…yes I will vote for him because he better than Obamessiah…but he isn’t doing much to make it easier for a lot of his base, including me….and he acts as if he doesn’t care about any of it..that he can make it all up with indys and lefties..won’t happen! that was my point and you haven’t done anything to counter it.

He ignores anything substantive, and goes on to accuse me, and others who disagree with him, of lying, being liars, being liberals, and siding with the NY Times. And wanting Bambi to be President, etc, etc.

how funny since it was the ny times that endorsed john mccain. gee i just love reminding the mccain people of that little factoid!!

In your post you did not speak about positions, so much as dislike. You said McCain disliked conservatives. Most Americans consider McCain to be conservative. And his voting record does put him on the center right to right. His overall record is about 83% I believe.

I know that I am not going to agree with any candidate on all issues. That is just not a realistic desire. However, McCain is a lot further to the right than Obama is. He is a lot more experienced and able to handle the job of President than Obama is. It is better for the country that McCain win. That is my opinion. So what if we do not agree on all positions?

This poll said 43% were not thrilled with McCain, well what about the 57%, don’t they count?

I would say that McCain has treated a lot of people who dislike him with more respect than he has received from them. What does he have to do, grovel?

Terrye on June 19, 2008 at 10:41 PM

Huh? I’m not talking about respect, I’m talking about his actual stated positions…lot’s of people who I think are completely wrong-headed are respectful…and I reciprocate…but, that has nothing to do with the positions they support.

I would say that McCain has treated a lot of people who dislike him with more respect than he has received from them. What does he have to do, grovel?

No one who thought conservatism was important would sit back and let the Democrats win the White House with a possibility of them in a super majority in the Congress. That is not a principled stand, it is just self defeating and hypocritical.

And if they do that, then I think that Republicans should remember who the real RINOs are. Besides conservatives have no one but themselves to blame. It is not McCain’s fault he won, what is he supposed to do? Bail out and force people to accept Romney whether they want him or not? I mean, conservatives are acting as if they have been screwed just because they could not field a candidate who could win.

The fine, fine line for Maverick is thus the same here as it’s been all along: How does he hold the GOP base while pandering just enough to the left to pull some of those centrist Democrats over?

Good question. The more-truthful one, from the McCain/RNC perspective at least, is: How do they create a new center-left base while pandering just enough to the former base to not get squeezed all the way out of existence?

McCain does not dislike conservatives. He votes conservative far more often than not. The fact that he does not say how high when they say jump does not mean he dislikes them. However, many of them have made plain that they dislike him. The namecalling, the threats of abandonment, the ultimatums, the attacks on the man’s character do not exactly help create a warm relationship. The cry baby sore loser thing is tiresome after awhile. We started this primary with more than 6 candidates and McCain is the guy who won it. If conservatives are that pissed off about it maybe they should have gotten behind one of the other candidates early in the race. Instead we get bitch bitch bitch.