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The GOP's 800 Pound Gorilla
4/12/2008 12:46 PM
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The religous right and the hold that it has on the Republican party. They need to confront the real problems with the party. [Daily KO]
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There are two words a person can count on hearing pass through John McCain's lips as he explains where he falls on the political spectrum on the campaign trail these days: conservative Republican.
Never mind the fact that he has spent decades cultivating the image of a moderate, someone who votes their conscience and not the party line. But the New York Times is pointing a couple of other inconsistencies in McCain's new-fashioned self image: the two occasions during the first Bush presidency when McCain almost switched parties.
In 2001, when the Senate was evenly divided 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans, former Democratic Leader Tom Daschle says McCain approached him about switching parties. The negotiations became moot when another Republican made the switch, handing control of the Senate to the Democrats.
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John Kerry says in 2004, McCain staffers approached him about considering McCain for the second spot on his ticket. Kerry reports that he was wild about the idea but in the end couldn't get McCain to do it.
McCain remembers it differently, of course. Now he's the "conservative Republican" nominee for president, he obviously never considered becoming a Democrat.
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White collar crime is tough isn't it? That's what the GOP's Congressional campaign arm is learning, anyway. Christopher Ward their former treasurer, it's now being reported, transfered $1 million in campaign contributions into his own accounts over a period of a few years.
It took a while for the crime to get noticed - the GOP isn't that good with money, remember - but now that the fraud has been identified, it has left party officials feeling "deceived and betrayed."
It wouldn't make any sense to blame a whole party for the crime committed against it by a single individual. But it does seem that committing such a crime would be far easier in an organization so tolerant of greed. Greed is a virtue that is essentially encouraged by much conservative rhetoric and it's easy to see how the Republican
campaign organization could then fall victim to it itself.
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Looks like all those endorsements John McCain has picked up in the past couple of weeks come with a cost (other than losing of course), which is flip-flopping Mitt Romney weighing down his his ticket. When it comes to saying all the right things to conservatives, no one did it better this year than Mitt Romney. (No one could boast such an expensive loss, either.)
Now, President Bush and his brother Jeb are both recommending Mitt for vice president, as is another far right-winger, Bill Kristol, who even says he ran it by Karl Rove though it surprises us that Karl doesn't know better.
It's probably pointless to remind everyone that until 2005, Romney was a pro-choice, pro-civil union, universal health-care loving, free-spending liberal, and that all he's done is commit deeply to barking the crazy conservative rhetoric canonizing Reagan and so forth.
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It's true that being willing to say these things in front of the whole country would seem to demonstrate a commitment to the principles behind them, but it will be hilarious come the general election to watch Romney revert back to the center proving his one and only true allegiance: the direction of the wind at any given moment.
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When it comes to donations given straight to one of the two political parties, the New York Times is reporting that it's the RNC who has the edge over the Democrats, in very direct contrast to what's going on in the presidential race.
This stands as the latest example of America's political ambivalence about Democrats even in a year when it's supposed to be deeply committed to them. Maybe it's just because people think Howard Dean is incompetent and the DNC is inept, because he is and they are. But after 7 years of absolute Republican control, all three branches of government have proved disastrous - not just for this country, but for global stability in the 21st century.
Republican after Republican has been indicted, incriminated or humiliated in the past couple of years for all manor of ethical breaches, and still, the country isn't comfortable making a clean break from the thing it knows so well.
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Or maybe it's just a sign that Republicans, not knowing where to turn, are just cutting checks to the Party. We'll hope for the second thing. But come on. Just give up the ghost already.
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The President of the United States endorsed the man he beat for the Republican nomination in 2000 to be his successor.
John and Cindy McCain took a trip to the White House today to have lunch with George Bush followed by a public pronouncement of support.
McCain locked up the GOP nomination last night after winning enough delegates to get passed the magic 1191 number. CNN quotes Sen. Kay Baily Hutchison of Texas saying that McCain can now focus on winning the support of the party's base, the 30% of the electorate that doesn't like him and still approves of the job Bush is doing.
What a fantastic shift of positions for Bush. A man who was unfit to be president argues successfully that his opponent is the unprepared one, drives the country into the ground during his tenure in office, to only then endorse the man who he beat just eight years before.
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That's politics we suppose. But While McCain is busy trying to get the base behind him, Democrats are salivating over McCain's buddy-buddy routine with a figure as toxic as Bush. If only they didn't have the whole nomination mess still in their way, they'd be hard at work beating McCain already.
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Now that we have read story on Ms. Vicky Iseman and her alleged relationship with Senator McCain we feel that we should also make her the same offer we originally gave Mr. Larry Sinclair.
We will pay her to take a Polygraph test. $10,000 to be exact, just for taking the test, regardless of the result. She gets the money, we get to make a video of the whole thing and it's a deal.
And if Ms. Iseman happens to pass the test and it shows she did not have the alleged relationship with Senator McCain or the other items alleged in the New York Times article we'll give her ten times that amount: $100,000. We'll even pay for her airfare and two nights in a hotel.
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This should silence all the critics who questioned whether we were an Independent site not affiliated with any party. We have had allegations that we were some kind of right wing site and even controlled by the CIA.
Heck one of our owners has a company with many *sucks.com names which includes JohnMcCainsucks.com. We do not know how anyone could ever think we are not an Independent site not affiliated with any of the parties.
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During a Newt Gingrich book signing at the Conservative Political Action Committe (CPAC), a WhiteHouse.com reporter asked the former Speaker of the House what the plan were for his political future.
It was only a few months ago that Gingrich announced he would not be seeking the Republican nomination in 2008. He had previously stated that he would run if his supporters raised $30 million dollars.
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Still, there were rampant rumors that he would run or at the very least run with McCain as the Vice President. While he vetoed the idea of jumping into the race this late, he left the door wide open for a 2012 run.
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Ali-Frazier 4 is what this can be called. Hillary and Obama have as much like for each other as Ali and Frazer did when they fought each other. In this case we can also have a third man in the ring “ala wrestling” with Bill Clinton lurking in the shadows. In this case the stakes are a lot higher as a nation will watch.
John Edwards dropped out of the race for President yesterday leaving the main combatants ready to battle it out alone. After the fireworks at their last debate which set a record for most viewers to a cable television debate this should easily surpass that record.
Since that time Obama crushed Hillary in South Carolina and Hillary returned the favor in Florida by routing him there. Each side is leading in several of the states that are coming up on Super Tuesday. Unless a knockout punch is delivered tonight the Democratic nomination will remain up for grabs even after Super Tuesday.
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On the Republican side John McCain received the endorsement of Governor Schwarznegger which will be a big boost to his campaign in California. Last night's Republican debate had Romney and McCain in some heated exchanges but not anything to change the dynamics of that race where the nomination is McCain's to lose now.
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John McCain won a big victory yesterday in Florida. Only registered Republicans were allowed to vote in the Florida primary and by winning the contest McCain cemented himself as the clear frontrunner going into Super Tuesday. Mitt Romney came in second despite spending an estimated 30 million on advertising in the state which was 5 times was McCain spent. Rudy Giuliani came in a disappointing third. Mike Huckabee came in fourth and Ron Paul came in 5th.
On the Democratic site Hillary coasted to an easy victory receiving almost 300,000 more votes than Barack Obama. John Edwards came in third again. Even though on the Democratic side it was only considered a Beauty contest since no delegates were awarded, Hillary came out as the pageant queen as her campaign is using the victory to downplay Obama's lopsided victory in South Carolina.
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On the Democratic side John Edwards isleaving the race and not endorsing any of the other Democratic candidates and on the Republican side Rudy Giuliani is leaving the race and is planning on endorsing John McCain.
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Republicans and Democrats go to the polls today in Florida. The Republican side of the primary shows a dead heat between John McCain and Mitt Romney. The Democratic side which was not really contested should be going big for Hillary Clinton as she has most of the power players in Florida on her side. Obama by getting the Kennedy endorsements should get a boost among Hispanics who respect the Kennedy legacy.
McCain and Romney have been going at it for the last week on comments made by McCain about Romney’s alleged statements about withdrawing from Iraq. Rudy Giuliani who was the clear front runner up until about a month ago when he started fading fast. Different pundits have speculated that Giuliani will leave the race if he comes in third in Florida as projected. Huckabee is running in fourth place and will also be a non factor going forward if he does not improve his poll numbers. Ron Paul has not really resonated with voters in the state.
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