It is a gamble at a critical time for the former front-runner for the Republican nomination, the political equivalent of a "double-down" in blackjack.
OK, I'm listening, but I won't be holding my breath.
Saturday, April 07, 2007
McCain goes Shermanesque
It is a gamble at a critical time for the former front-runner for the Republican nomination, the political equivalent of a "double-down" in blackjack.
OK, I'm listening, but I won't be holding my breath.
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Giuliani isn't exactly in the cut and run crowd.
Let's see how he responds to McCain's trying to pass on the right. Is that illegal in New Yahk?
Good question, AI. But the last time a Republican from Arizona passed on the right, we got another term of LBJ and a split party.
Sounds like very bad news and a desperate repackaging to me. The right-wingers are mad enough at the guy for McCain-Feingold. They'll be tough to woo and if he moves the party too far right or splits it, you know what will happen.
McCain is no Goldwater -- and I mean that with a lot of respect for Goldwater. Can you find fault with Barry's speech at the convention in 1964 ("Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice"?). Or Ronald Reagan's speech at the same convention? Big moments in oratory, I think. Alas, that's not what wins elections, and Goldwater got creamed, but I don't think he or any other Republican could have won in 1964, just a few months after the JFK was killed, and LBJ in the Rose Garden. He could have passed on the right, left, over the moon, stood on his head -- same result, plus or minus a few states.
Now, what does this have to do with the here and now?
Just the ffear that flanking Giuliani moves the brunto of them now way unelectably right like the Nutrots crowd moved Kerry waaaayy out left.
We don't want to push McCain and Giuliani so far right that we end up with only Huckleberrybird and Romney able to get elected natinally.
Hey, man, what happened to your spelling abilities? One too many dark brews?
As for McCain advocating getting the job finished in Iraq, what's so "far right" about it? Most Americans hate to lose to a bunch of head-hacking psychos, no? I don't count the pinko-Versaillists in there, the prospect just makes them drool uncontrollably, of course -- just the broad middle, where such electoral battles are won, or lost.
What the hell was McCain even thinking when he paired with Feingold? He seems wishy-washy (even more than politicos usually seem). I even remember threats of kicking him out of the Republican Party. Now he's the Number One Conservative Contender? Strange...
G can handle the mafia, OBL and Co., and New York City. This means he can certainly handle the Office of the President. At least I'm willing to let him have a four year shot of it.
I agree with MFT. It's time we had a Giuish president.
Dream ticket: Giuliani/Lieberman. Whoa! Where do I sign up?
I remember seeing Bush on a Twin Cities campaign stop in, oh, I think it was 2000. He said a lot of Conservative things about reducing the size of the IRS. Before Bush went on, some dude even said "We're gonna rip the IRS out by the roots!"
Again, strange...
In regards to the ticket you suggested JJ, yes, why not give it a go.
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