McCain, as we all know, decided to attack the NC GOP for this ad.  Well, screw McCain.  First, as Sean Hackbarth asks, why is it fine for McCain to take swipes at Obama because of his relationship with crazy Rev. Wright on ABC, but the NC GOP can't take swipes at Obama and Wright in their own ad?

I hope the NC GOP sticks to their guns, tells McCain to get bent and plays that ad over and over.  I'd love for the NC GOP Chair to go on TV and tell McCain to get bent, that they're playing the ad, and try attacking a liberal for once in his life, who knows, he might like it...or not, it may feel to much like attacking himself.  Then wave a fat stack of Benjamins and say, "See this? This is donation money.  This is what happens when you don't treat your natural base of support like garbage...oh, but you wouldn't know about that.  Enjoy the federal funding and unmotivated volunteers, sucker."

Know what? We conservatives have no presidential candidate to support, so we're having fun kicking around the Democrat candidates and their nutty supporters...and a hell of a lot of fun we're having!  That we have no candidate is enough of an insult, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be denied my fun kicking around Democrats by McCain.  Particularly by McCain, it is insult enough that he's the GOP nominee.  Screw McCain.

1 Someone at work asked why I wasn't supporting McCain.  I told them it was because I was tired of being stabbed in the face.  Shit like this makes me furious.

2

Do I really want to ask what the condiments for the shit sandwich that is the McCain nomination are?

Guess I'm going back to the fishbowl to draw out two names to write in.

3 There can be only one write-in, and he stands for Optimism, Conservatism, and Braaaaains!

4 In any case, at least alexthechick and I have fairly decent candidates to get behind for Congress.

5 I dunno.  I kinda agree with Jim Geragthy's take on the issue (here and here).  

6 Then wave a fat stack of Benjamins and say, "See this? This is donation money.  This is what happens when you don't treat your natural base of support like garbage...oh, but you wouldn't know about that.  Enjoy the federal funding and unmotivated volunteers, sucker."

That was priceless and a great idea! He ticked me off yesterday with him comments in New Orleans, hitting Bush below the belt about Katrina response. It will take me a while to cool off about that. He can't even let me TRY to warm up to the idea of him, before he opens his mouth and says something stupid.

It's Vintage -  I agreed with your first Geraghty link, but not the second one. While it's nice that independent voters might find it appealing that McCain blasted the Bush administration in New Orleans in front of cameras, he just took lines from the Democrat's play book and he does NOT appeal to the conservative base who are becoming more and more apathetic. He didn't take that opportunity to rip the failure of Democrat leadership in New Orleans or Louisiana, did he? No. He threw a sitting Republican president under the bus for a chance to pander for votes. Doesn't that sound just like the rhetoric we hear from the Democrat candidates? "Vote for me. I'm not President Bush." It makes me ill.

7 The professional race-hucksters are crying foul  that BHO has his arm around a white woman, which as we all agreed at the last White Persons Meeting of America, is code for racism.  Or something.

There is a delicate line McCain must walk between being a complete wuss and irritating the perpetually aggrieved.

See Nat'l Review 04/21/08 "A Kind of Dynamite" by Byron York:
“It’s just math,” says GOP consultant Tucker Eskew. “Just look at states that are not completely reliably Republican and have substantial black populations. In a year with a climate that favors Democratic positions, this should be taken very seriously.”

I'm going with the Red State Update philosophy:  F*ck it! McCain '08

8

I don't know if we can finesse the 22nd Amendment by saying Zombie Reagan is a zombie.  Personally, I think he'd do a lot more good in the House (I would say Senate, but there are absolutely no brains there).

9

Yeah, that Katrina remark pissed me off a lot.

On the other hand, it reminded me that it's time to read my favorite absolutely true account of Shep Smith's reportage of Katrina.

 

10 I dunno.  I kinda agree with Jim Geragthy's take on the issue

Maybe, however it would work better if he didn't have a mile long track record of kicking sand in our faces.  McCain better be careful, conservatives are apathetic to begin with, if he pushes his luck, they'll move from being apathetic with mild support to being hostile and unsupportive.

11 well.... mccains is just trying to maintain the democratic and independent vote, can you blame him for trying to appease his base? thisisbunk.wordpress.com

12

I see what he is doing, but I have a feeling that he is not going to pull a double take if he actually does get the nomination and follow a more conservative line because he hasn't done so this entire time. there have been no -wink wink- moments from him when he talks about shite like this: to me he believes it.

I mean the reason that we have more than one party is because they are supposed to have differing view points and ideals, right? Side-by-side how many of McCain's are actually that different from the dem's stances, save that his are just a touch less into the excess than his democratic colleagues?

Oh yeah, forgot about his support of the military.Forgot about his support on the "War on Terror" as well. Guys, to me this whole process reeks of political pandering to anyone that will listen ON ALL SIDES and not truly representing his party. Seems to me that the only one that is actually acting like he is a real member of his party is Obama.

-Don't get me wrong, I am a conservative. I'm just a little annoyed.

 

13 I hear ya Old Iron, I just think the RINO wing of the party is making it's move, and we have to do our best to deal with it.

14 I mean the reason that we have more than one party is because they are supposed to have differing view points and ideals, right?

That's the problem isn't it? At the end of the day, the choice we have to make, isn't really a choice at all. We can "lesser of two evils" this all day long, but it doesn't change the fact that our votes have been effectively nullified.

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