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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:04 PM Original message |
Here's my fear...I think we're under-estimating McCain WHY? because |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
1. I think McCain will be the GOP nominee as well. They're embarrassed by Huck and Mitt and really |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:06 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Exactly! |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
2. I think the GOP will eventually fall in behind him, if he wins another state. |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:07 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. They'll never pick Rudy, too much of a libiality. The right winger won't swallow that one! plus |
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Egnever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
4. I don't |
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Thrill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
6. "We need to be in Iraq for 100 yrs" |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:10 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. What are you saying... yah or nay on the GOP swallowing McCain's GOP flaws? |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:10 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. That'll work with the GOP base, but will doom him in the general, even if Iraq is still |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:11 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. No but if you read my post, the "terror" factor might change that for some people |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:23 PM Response to Reply #6 |
23. Yup, he suddenly became unelectable with that one idiotic statement..n/t |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 01:01 PM Response to Reply #23 |
34. Fear is a weird thing though, you don't know what's in the pipeline |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 01:21 PM Response to Reply #23 |
44. That idiotic statement will go down the memory hole in another couple |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 01:59 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. There's a record, you can go on youtube and watch it.. |
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BleedingHeartPatriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
9. As per my sigline, I pretty much agree. He's got that milquetoast thing going, which is far |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:12 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. He would have gotten the nomination if it wasn't for the Bush cartel stepping |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 01:10 PM Response to Reply #9 |
40. Yeh, but Obama has that milquetoast thing going also. |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:11 PM Original message |
McCain doesn't have a problem |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
16. The fear of losing will make them put forward the most palatable candidate, and with a potential |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 01:08 PM Response to Reply #16 |
36. A "terror stunt" would be a pretty difficult thing to pull off.. |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 01:18 PM Response to Reply #36 |
42. I wouldn't put it past them either, that's the point! |
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Justitia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
11. I'm wondering when we'll see his lovely comments about Asians again. |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:14 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Maybe not such a huge voting block? I'm not sure on that one |
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Justitia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:17 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Maybe not, but it does reveal a certain nasty mindset & how breezily racial epithets come to him. |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:20 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Sure, but many might give him a break because of the POW issue. Remember |
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Imagevision (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
12. Actually you're underestimating Bloomberg. |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:18 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. Maybe, but "if" he enters it won't be until after the conventions and in the meantime |
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Perky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
13. I am not sure he is physically up for the the sprint. that the GE portends |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:19 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. True, sofar he seems to up to the job. As a POW there is the willpower! |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:24 PM Response to Reply #13 |
24. Agreed, he often looks quite ill.. |
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fightindonkey (674 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
18. ABSOLUTELY! Obama's Experience Will Be A Hugest Issue RatherThan His Race |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
22. Indies aren't monolithic. |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:28 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. I'm talking mostly about Indies leaning GOP or DEM and there |
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DrFunkenstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
26. Whistling Past The Graveyard in Baghdad? Old Man McCain? |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:38 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. You're not reading my post. It's about the Indies leaning GOP or Dem |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 01:10 PM Response to Reply #27 |
41. People are more concerned about their own pocket books right now.. |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 01:21 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. Not if something happens and that's what I worry about |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
28. Absolutely, The NHampshirites took this very seriously |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:55 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. I understand that it's very temping to jump on the "change" band wagon, |
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Egnever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
30. oops double post |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:58 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. Don't forget after 911, the majority wanted to bomb bomb bomb Iraq, remember? |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 01:06 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. The multiple lies that were told to sway the public.. |
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Egnever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
31. bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran |
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GoldenOldie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 01:09 PM Response to Reply #31 |
38. GOP in 2000 shot McCain down themselves |
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GoldenOldie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 01:09 PM Response to Reply #31 |
39. GOP in 2000 shot McCain down themselves |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 02:54 PM Response to Reply #39 |
48. I know, but they patched things didn't they, and now they need him |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
33. agreed. McCain would be the repubs strongest candidate |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
37. Hillary loses to McCain. |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
45. I have a friend who runs a political consulting firm in DC. Most |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 02:59 PM Response to Reply #45 |
50. See!! I'm not the only one even the insiders are suspecting the same thing, It's really ours to lose |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
47. if he wins the nod i think this election will be like Clinton Vs. Dole circa 1996. |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 02:58 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. No I don't don't think so. We did not have the terror elements then plus |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
51. It's definately OURS TO LOSE! |
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