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May 24, 2005
Senator McCain Seals Bid to Lose 2008 Presidential Primary
The pomp and circustance surrounding this deal stinks. Unlike W. Bush landing on the aircraft carrier, the "McCain Accord" on judges--in a blatant subversion of he majority of Republicans--only postpones the filibuster vote, but the media treated McCain like he was Christ returning to earth to bring order back to the universe.
This is naked media whoring. McCain, so high no himself, sealed his doom in the Republican primary for 2008 with this deal.
I will join any republican effort to ensure his loss in 2008.
More optimistic posts here:
I still suspect that the "compromising senators" will realize their mistake tomorrow by about noon once Rush and his callers vent.
Posted by Aaron at May 24, 2005 12:19 AM
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The (D)emocrats are being allowed to bounce qualified judicial nominees without the politically damaging 'exposure' of a filibuster in the name of 'compromise'.
For a promise...
Considering the record... a 'compromise' based on (D) promises... should be called the NorthKorean Nuclear option because we are giving to them what they don't have just like Clinton(D) gave the North Koreans exactly what they didn't have, for a promise only an idiot could believe they would keep.
Today... John McCain(R-INO) is that treacherous idiot and he demonstrates his how unfit he is for higher office.
Posted by: DANEgerus at May 24, 2005 01:16 AM
McCain's not going anywhere, I agree on that. We'll see what happens on the next set of nominees. Let's not forget that we're getting promises from (D)'s like Lieberman and Salazar and Nelson, not from ones like Kerry & Kennedy. This could work out okay for us, the two discarded nominees obviously excepted.
For now it tastes like defeat.
Posted by: Pat Curley at May 24, 2005 01:31 AM
I am just waiting for McCain to go down in flames...or, in the off chance that he gets elected as president, I would like to see the GOP block all of his judicial nominees.
Posted by: Aaron Matthew Arnwine at May 24, 2005 09:11 AM
McCain won't the the bane of the Democrats in '08 because Republicans like to shot selve in foot.
Posted by: paul at May 24, 2005 12:25 PM
Rush is talking about the 1,000's of e-mails he's gotten from seething Repubs. He said that the RINOS think/hoping we Repubs will forget by '08 ... but we won't.
Posted by: kitty at May 24, 2005 12:27 PM
Add to the list McCain's support for Kyoto and Kyoto-style restrictions on the U.S. Economy. I almost feel like Sen. Joe Lieberman could be more easily convinced of the "bad science" of this stand than McCain.
Hasn't he been soft on some Second Amendment issues too?
Posted by: joe-6-pack at May 24, 2005 10:44 PM
In some ways I prefer McCain to Lieberman, myself.
Posted by: paul at May 25, 2005 03:59 PM