Wherefore art thou, John McCain?

John McCain & Bill Frist are the same. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist made no
effort to stop the racist Republican ads in Tennessee. Therefore, Frist has no
influence in the Republican Party. McCain & Bill Frist are simply YES men to George
& the Republican Party. A bad apple in the barrel spoils all. The racist ads in Tennesse will keep Frist out of the White House.
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Great example of similar behavior. But I think McCain had appealed to others beyond the party structure like Frist never has. Thanks, Kathy.

2000 Republican Primary, Gov. George Bush said John McCain was unfit to be
US President because McCain had been a POW in Vietnam. 2004 Presidential
Election John McCain campaigns with Bush throughtout the U.S. The question is
not where is John McCain but where is John McCain's brain. (My Dad says McCain
was behind the door when they passed out brains).

Obviously, Republicans have a problem telling the truth, McCain tried a
political posturing stunt on Senator Obama this week but McCain's
posturing backfired. Obama confronted McCain, then Obama went public.
McCain attempted to use Obama as a bridge to Africian American voters
for 2008 elections by inviting Obama for a public "show and tell" in
McCain senate office.

McCain opposed Bush at all turns up till the 2004 campaign, then, overnight he became George's bitch. He sold his soul for Bush's support in 2008, a promise Bush will probably break. It's been sad. He capitulated on the MCA, and anything else Bush wanted him to. He did let him pass that anti torture bill, then made a signing statement that basically said Hey John, thanks for the toilet paper. It's sad to see. I used to respect him.

Ron I totally agree with you on that. I would have voted for McCain, too, but talk about whoring yourself out and to someone who tried to paint you as an adulterer who fathered his adopted mixed race child? What kind of ethics are those?

Saint Joan,
That is a burning desire to be president, that's what that is. Politicians will forever disappoint us, it's some kind of law.

McCain is a whore. A part of me has great respect for him, but his political ambitions always get the best of him. I'd vote for a dem president before I gave McCain my vote. He's disrespected Bush too many times too. Who needs that? We've got enough dems already on that wagon.

Don Hall,
Yes, there positively is no need. We already disrespect the pinhead enough....Naaahhh! The more the merrier!

If Newt runs, I might even volunteer to help the campaign. I also like Mitt, and Pataki is a good choice, but for some reason he doesn't resonate with outside of the northeast.

Kerry would be a great choice for the dems. We'd love to chew him up and spit him out again.

Don Hall ,
Poll I saw today, people preferred Guliani by a fairly significant margin. Repubs registered to vote.

Don Hall ,
I just saw that newt comment. I thought you guys avoided people that had affairs, and cheated on their wife.

Don Hall,
Oh yeah, you'd like that. Sequels are bad enough at the movies, not in my politics, thank you very much. Same poll of registered Dems said Clinton, by a ways, since Kerry shot himself in the foot (and he had to pick the one time it wasn't in his mouth, damnit!), but I can't see her getting elected, maybe I'm wrong.

I like smart politicians with good ideas. Clinton was smart, but he was full of it. Newt is just a brilliant guy, and he has some great ideas.

I just wrote a joke... let's see if you think I am creative enough for Leno:

You know the difference between a dead squirel on the side of the the road and John Kerry? The squirel was on his way to stump at a campaign.... ooooooooooooh!

Don Hall ,
If you keep making jokes like that, I won't let you kill me last, I'll demand to be bumped up the list. ;)

Now I know your full of it. That joke was the bomb!

It bombed alrighty.

That's how much you know - I'm the head writer on Letterman.

Don Hall,
No, I was full of it, but I quit being a Republican when fiscal restraint went out of fashion, and now I'm an independent supporting Dems out of self defense.

Poor Dave, he had a good run though........

ha ha....

Don Hall,
Goldwater was a republican, these days I don't have a clue what happened to my party. I know in the old days Bush would have been a democrat.

We agree there. There are so many areas where the fed just needs to get out of our biz.

Fiscally, I would love to vote Libertarian, but the current crop in that party are wacky. Today's Republican's are yesterdays DemocRats, and today's Dems are yesterdays radical left winger.

Don Hall ,
Third parties are a waste of a vote 99% of the time.......

I gotta go, the dog needs a walk, and from the way he's got his legs crossed, I better hurry.

I'm gonna hit the sack. Some of us have to get up and go to work in the morning.

Guys, your first couple of comments were good, but c'mon: Bush woulda been a Democrat "in the old days"? Not a frickin' chance, not even factoring in his family's political history!

But, it looks like everyone on this thread has been in agreement about McCain selling his soul. Que lastima!

Well, there was tax and spend. bush is no tax and spend loads, but the deficit is just an iou for taxes. It has to be paid sometime, so yeah, he's a typical tax and spend democrat, he just threw in a step, the deficit. That's what gets me about all the people that think his tax cuts were so good, the bill will come due, and then we'll be paying interest besides. It's a stupid mentality.

Well, let's use this as an opportunity to lay that "tax and spend" thing to rest. We can now see that it is simply a tendency of Congress - whichever party is in control. And, let's not forget that it is not just Bush of late - it is the ENTIRE Republican apparatus that has become a "borrow-against-future-taxes and spend" operation. As a long-time budget hawk, I fully agree with you that it is a "stupid mentality".

Election year politics. Anybody in their second term in office has had to sell their soul to stay there, doesn't matter what party. To tell you the truth, I think the new law limiting campaign commercials to "X" number of days before an election has made things worse. It's turned into "go for blood" because you don't have much time. Let alone getting back to back to back TV commercials of them all trying to cram their time in.
I think there should be term limits for Congress as well. The longer they are there, the more tangled the web becomes.

I think we all agree that Bush's spending is out of control (what else is new with the fed?), but to say the tax cuts were bad just ignores the fact that the revenues taken in by the fed increased significantly under Bush. Just from 2004 to 2005 the revenues increased 15%! Come on, that is beating inflation and even the markets. The tax cuts worked great and they need to continue. Any candidate who does not grasp that should not get your vote. Vote Republican to keep the momentum going - the dems will be far worse than Republicans.

Don: meanwhile, back at the budget deficit ranch (and the trade deficit hacienda), the Republicans' short term plan of buying votes now at the expense of our taxes and stability in the not-so-distant-future is gonna cripple us. In fact, it already is limiting our options in very real ways. Can you say "China" and "North Korea"? Our addiction to oil that the Republicans seem to think we can drill our way out of plays in very real ways on our current deficits and our future. Can you say "Iran"?

Given the very real structural challenges that our economy will be facing and that we face dealing with the rest of the world, tax cuts that add to our record deficits are irresponsible.

Y'know, it used to be more Republicans than Democrats who were cognizant of the dangers of ever-increasing budget deficits and public debts. What were you saying back then (in the 80's and early 90's), Don? (I was a deficit hawk back then, and still am.)

Y'know, it wasn't too long ago (13 years) that Republicans claimed the sky was going to fall when Congress passed the act that increased taxes for the highest-income-earners/lowered taxes for lowest-earners and small businesses/mandated a balanced budget. Were you one of the ones who then said that the economy would go into a deep recession, Don? That act helped give the economy the necessary confidence to spur a tremendous lift and give us the budget surplus that the Republicans then pissed away.

So, folks, if you're willing to sell your vote for short-term tax cut gratification at the expense of our middle-distance and long-term economy and position in the world, vote Republican. Me, I'm happy to see that more and more voters are now seeing Democrats as the more fiscally-responsible party.

Then he really damned himself by picking Sarah Palin as his running mate.