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Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

JeffLindsay — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:20:32 -0000

ROMNEY WON THE DEBATE BY FAR AMONG REPUBLICANS
Fox News' Frank Luntz: FOX NEWS' FRANK LUNTZ: "First off, who won the debate tonight? I always begin that way." VOTER: "Romney." LUNTZ: "Who says John McCain won the debate tonight raise your hands, 3, only 4 of you. Who says Mitt Romney, about half of you." (Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes," 1/30/08)

Watch The Luntz Post-Debate Focus Group: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZO...

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

JeffLindsay — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:36:12 -0000

McCain is weak on national security and weak on judicial nominations. A man who wants to give constitutional rights to terrorists (due process, criminal trials for every one at Guantanamo), and take away free speech (McCain Feingold), understands neither the Constitution nor the War on Terror.

McCain doesn't need fundraising. Media gives it to him free. McCain lies about Romney 3 days before Florida primary with willing accomplices in the press. So what hypocrisy to deny regular Americans the right to produce attack ads within 30 days of an election (McCain Feingold)! So much for free speech!

Senator McCain cannot win General Election any more than Senator Dole in 1996. Even though all early media polls during Primary Season showed Dole winning handily, Clinton CRUSHED Dole in the General. Wasn't pretty. Dole was life-long Senator and decorated war hero too. Bush Sr also lost as a war hero, and so did John Kerry. Time to quit the 'we have to have a war hero' bandwagon, it hasn't worked for other moderates, and it won't for McCain.

No difference between Hilary and McCain. Both voted for War in Iraq, and both later attacked Rumsfeld. McCain is also against the Federal Marriage Protection Act to the U.S. Constitution, was one of only two Republicans who voted against Bush tax cuts (now he is for them!), and wants constitutional rights and trials given to unlawful enemy combatants! This man wouldn't know a strict constructionist judge from a terrorist!
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"Many McCain supporters insist he is the only Republican who can beat Hillary Clinton or Barak Obama. And they point to certain polls. The polls are meaningless this far from November. Six months ago, the polls had Rudy winning the Republican nomination. In October 1980, the polls had Jimmy Carter defeating Ronald Reagan. This is no more than spin." (Rally for RomneyConservatives need to act now, before it is too late. By Mark R. Levin - Endorsement)
http://blog.electromneyin20...

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

Herstad — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:11:35 -0000

There is no doubt that one can criticize McCain’s credentials, but you rants again McCain in a way that you don’t do against the other contenders in the republican race although they have quite the same liberal history!

<blockqute>As for "hate," you must be a lib because no conservatives I know use such the lame thought police term. </blockqute>

Oh my! Well I guess you are doing just what you accused me of, name calling, how pathetic. I’m a lib All right a LIBERTARIAN that is! But you really give yourself up here:

<blockqute>[…] has such a record of betrayal of his party as John McCain.</blockqute>

You are simply a partisan that happens to be conservative! But let me tell you something your party is pretty far from being conservative these days.

Bush has been so fiscal irresponsible that he’s the Republican version of Carter. The war in Iraq—which was a war of necessity not of choice—has been mismanage so gravely one can only wonder how stupid the people in charge are! The only really positive thing to say about Bush is that the US hasn’t been attacked since 9/11.

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

SwabJockey05 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:30:59 -0000

logic?

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

MikeyJ — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:29:42 -0000

"And McCain is not a one issue man."

No, of course not. He's screwed up a whole bunch of issues!!

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

Ali A. Akbar — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:28:41 -0000

John McCain will soon wrap this up:

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Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

SwabJockey05 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:12:16 -0000

AD. I may be in the same boat....too many years of sea time and bad coffee have put my “pearly whites” (not!) in a bad way. No movie star smile here...that’s why it pains me so much when I have to pick up the teeth knocked out from Sen McCain kicking me in the mouth (I’m one of the “conservatives” he called a stupid racist).

Lesser of two evils may sometimes work with me…but not when I spend half my time ducking to avoid the flailing wingtips…can’t afford to have the molars dislodged…as a lowly swabbie, I’m on a “government dental plan”…

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

Guest — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:47:08 -0000

Dumbo, I´m not naive about McCain (and I´m still pulling for Romney) but it´s not all or nothing for me. He will arguably be a better president than any Democrat on a whole range of issues. Your argument is seductive. I wish I could believe that the Dems will use their chance to screw up and conservatism will be vindicated. But that´s not what is best for the country and it will probably not happen that way. Winning matters, or we would not have a Clinton (!) running for president again.

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

Guest — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:30:11 -0000

That´s right. Because digging a 50 foot long man-size tunnel under a double fence is not conspicuous. Besides, did it ever occur to you that it´s harder to get tens of thousands of people through a couple of tunnels than across 1000 miles of open country?

But they could always use a helicopter or a hot air balloon, so we better give up trying to have a border just like any other country. Stunning logic.

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

SaipanDrunkenSailor — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:12:26 -0000

I consider myself to be the Republican base and no way in hell am I staying home.

Brave Americans died for my right to vote. I always vote.

If so-called "conservatives" want to sit at home with their little panties in a wad because they don't get their ideal little candidate, then that's their choice. I can't control that.

But any "conservative" with a brain can see that a Democrat President would be a national security disaster.

Looking forward to voting for John McCain in the Virginia Primary. I've consistently despised Democrats, now I'm starting to to get fed up with so-called "conservatives as well.

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

jharp — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:03:33 -0000

"Sorry, you're not worth my time"

I'm OK with that. It's your time and I respect your decision.

I still plan on calling you out when you make a nonsensical claim.

It's not to get even or make you look bad. Its just to give everyone the whole story. They can read what I post and judge for themselves. It kind of what America is all about.

And for the record I don't hate George Bush though I do hate quite a few of his policies.

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

Dennis — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:55:34 -0000

Pardon your zinger, but you've missed the point entirely.

McCain's support is largely based on the idea that the polls in January say only he can beat Clinton in November. His support shown the Super Tuesday polls you refer to are also based largely on this mantra... "Only he can win." And that mantra is based solely on the January polls & media support. It's a lot of hot air.

I'm actually saying that it's not wise to look at the polls in January & say "gee he's the only one who can win in November." If you are looking at January polls that say McCain wins by 1-5% in an election in November, and telling us THAT is the reason we need to shut up & get behind a guy that does not support much of anything we believe in... well, it's just wrong headed.

Like I said In January 2004, polls said Kerry would beat Bush by 3-8%... You remember how that turned out 9 months later, right?

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

Del_Dolemonte — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:25:25 -0000

Sorry, you're not worth my time. Like Rush and Hannity, Maya Angelou never graduated from college, neither did Bill Gates or Paul Allen of Microsoft.

Robert Redford, an icon on your side of the aisle, was tossed out of college for being a drunk. Zillionaire leftist David Geffen worked his way up from mail boy. Steve Jobs. likewise.

But the final nail in your coffin? The idiot you love to hate, George Dubyah Bush, not only had higher college grades at Yale than John Kerry, but also got a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard.

Spin that!

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

Squid_Shark — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:11:41 -0000

"and you can probably count on one hand all the mainstream outlets that endorsed him. "

In 2004:
* 33 newspapers endorsed George W. Bush

* 38 newspapers endorsed John Kerry.

* 28 newspapers did not endorse a candidate.

In 2000:
* 43 newspapers endorsed George W. Bush.

* 36 newspapers endorsed Al Gore.

* 20 newspapers did not endorse a candidate.

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

jharp — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:01:18 -0000

"I told you several days ago that I did in fact graduate."

I don't think you did but if I missed it I apologize. I thought you were intentionally being vague.

"I've never accused you of never graduating from college. "

No you didn't. Maybe that's because I was explicit the first time you asked.

A fence IS a one time investment, at least for the primary structure. As others have pointed out, "fence" doesn't necessarily refer to a chain-link fence that you install to keep your neighbor's kids out of your yard.

It would of course require regular maintenance, but said maintenance would be well less than the money required to create that extra layer of taxpayer-funded bureaucrats that your way would require.

It's interesting to note that here in New Hampshire, we still have fences in excellent condition that were built 200+ years ago by our first settlers. We call them stone walls. You can find fences that have survived even longer in Ireland and Scotland.

And when you are talking about fences along our southern border, how much maintenance would you really need? Much of the fence would be along the southern California and southern Arizona borders, where humidity and rain are almost non-existent. Heck, our military and many airlines send their old airplanes to southern Arizona for storage, because it's the one place in the country they won't rust out.

They would have to be painted every few years, due to pitting from wind-blown sand, but that's about it. Combined with an effective system of underground sensors (which is what we've used up here in New Hampshire along our border with Canada for decades), a continuous fence would be much more effective than an army of people shuffling papers in an office trying to legally slow people down.

So, is it to be fence or a wall?

Let's quit taking jabs at each other a find out just what does it cost. I know to fence in my yard is at least 25 dollars a foot. That's for a 5 foot high wooden fence that can't keep the neighborhood 10 year olds out.

Do the math. About $125,000 per mile for something you could high jump over.

"Your views remind me a lot of two other well know dropouts.

Limbaugh and Hannity."

Pretty funny. How much money do you make compared to them?

Not even close. Kind of tickles me that the folks getting fleeced hold up their icons with the "you don't make as much so they must be right".

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

gaffo — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:56:13 -0000

thank you!

and to you and yours also!

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

gaffo — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:53:40 -0000

never heard of a tunnel before I guess.

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

gaffo — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:51:50 -0000

whats sad is AFTER the election Dole went on all these talk shows and late nigh shows and was totally LIKABLE!!

no longer that "grumpy old man".....damn I though he was OLD - then I understood that you really are as old as you act.

Dole acted OLD during the campain - then acted like a likeable yougn fella AFTER he lost the election.

I think in reality he did'nt really want to be President (alot like Gore).

Dole just seemed (and seems) Happier now.

I always had alot of Respect for Dole - one of the good "old school" conservatives before the mean ones showed up on Newts watch.

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

Del_Dolemonte — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:36:31 -0000

Ask any 50+ year old private pilot who has been flying out of the southern Arizona airports like Yuma and Tucson for years-the Border Patrol has been trying to bust them since the 1970s.

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

Del_Dolemonte — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:27:59 -0000

"And I'll ask you again.

You ever graduate from college?"

LOL! The correct English language format for your question is "DID you ever graduate from college?".

Normally I don't call you leftists out on grammar or spelling, but when you try to call someone dumb by using the language poorly yourself, you will get called out.

Please don't be so condescending, especially since I told you several days ago that I did in fact graduate and was an honor roll student. Is your memory as short as Hillary Clinton's?

I've never accused you of never graduating from college. Weak, very weak.

Once again, students, we are seeing classic Saul Alinsky tactics on display-when you are losing the argument, insult your opponent and call them stupid. Works every time for the party of Bill Clinton.

It would of course require regular maintenance, but said maintenance would be well less than the money required to create that extra layer of taxpayer-funded bureaucrats that your way would require.

"Your views remind me a lot of two other well know dropouts.

Limbaugh and Hannity."

Pretty funny. How much money do you make compared to them?

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

jharp — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:15:25 -0000

Hell, good health to everyone and their families.

Should have included all.

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

jharp — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:13:44 -0000

Thank you kindly, runawayyy.

I really am a decent and thoughtful guy whose simply pissed about the past 5-6 years.

Good health to you and your family.

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

newton — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:06:32 -0000

Addendum: Have you guys heard that little phrase of his at the debate tonight? "For Patriotism, Not for Profit"...?!?

I guess I answered my own question...

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

newton — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:59:54 -0000

Hey guys: do you remember what happened back in 2000, when McCain made a stop in Southern VA and flatly condemned Pat Robertson and the whole Christian Coalition crowd - in their own home turf?

Well, that worked nicely then... or did it?

Will he make the same petulant mistake after CPAC?

Stay tuned...

Re: Rasmussen: McCain Ascendant

runawayyyy — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:42:54 -0000

We've tried to crack down on illegals for decades? Which decades? Certainly not any recent ones. Cut off the jobs, they will stay home.