Comments on: McCain Almost Left GOP

By: pacatrue

pacatrue — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:16:57 +0000

As a former Tennessee resident, Thompson v Gore would be intriguing. But considering how Frist turned out….

By: kritter

kritter — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:32:41 +0000

Pyst- That would be interesting- I’m a huge Gore fan myself . Who should we nominate for VP- Obama, Dodd, or Richardson? Thompson is getting in a little late in the game, what did he accomplish in the Senate?

By: Pyst

Pyst — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:18:36 +0000

My final pairing includes none of the current canidates……Thompson vs. Gore is what I’d like to see happen.

By: Michael van der Galien

Michael van der Galien — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:30:49 +0000

Before Dems start celebrating… Keep an eye on Thompson (and on Giuliani of course).

By: superdestroyer

superdestroyer — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:25:13 +0000

kritter,

Giuliani is a disaster waiting to happen. Giuliani has more hidden issues than McCain.

I am not a big fan of the timing issue because that implies more control than really exist. Who knows why Daschle and Downey are doing this know excpept to settle some old score.

By: kritter

kritter — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:51:01 +0000

But SD, if that were true, why would this have come out now? The timing might not help McCain with Republican primary voters, but it will help Romney and Giuliani. Giuliani, in particular, would present more of a threat in the general election than McCain, whose support among the GOP has diminished severely since last year.

By: superdestroyer

superdestroyer — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:16:29 +0000

this basically shows why the Republicans are going to lose in a rout. All of their candidates have many hidden issues. The Democrats have learned how to use them. If Senators Obama or Clinton are nominated, no Republican has a chance because those are the two candidates that will be immune to “October Surprises.”

By: kritter

kritter — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:43:51 +0000

Assuming this is true, it would devastate the McCain campaign now, which is already lagging in the polls and in meeting its own fundraising goals. It certainly would only help Democrats in the event that he wins the GOP nomination- releasing it at this moment does them no good politically. If you remember how devastating Bush’s personal attacks on his opponent and his family were in the South Carolina primary were, it makes this seem more credible.

What is truly mindbending is that McCain could move on from that point in totally the opposite direction. How does one go from considering a conversion to the Democratic party to taking on the most conservative positions in the Republican party in six years? It just tells me that McCain is too blinded by his own presidential ambitions to have even a shred of political integrity left. That is a regrettable evolution of a man I formerly admired greatly, even if I disagreed with him on some issues.