(2008-05-14) — An ebullient Sen. John McCain told a crowd of supporters today that the Republican loss of a Mississippi Congressional seat Tuesday bodes well for his presidential hopes in November.
“Travis Childers, who beat the Republican in Mississippi, ran as a conservative Democrat and will now join the liberal Democrat coalition in the House,” said the presumptive Republican nominee. “What does that signal if not the triumph of the McCain strategy?”
Sen. McCain said Mr. Childer’s wide margin of victory in a district that George Bush won decisively in 2000 and 2004 shows that “Happy days are here again for the party of Nelson Rockefeller, Lincoln Chafee, Arlen Specter and Jim Jeffords.”
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1 sparky // May 14, 2008 at 11:03 am
Well said Scott! It’s a sad day when this is the best candidate that the Republicans can field. The loss of the Mississippi seat is a indeed a triumph for McCain-ism.
I saw a bumper sticker the other day which said it pretty well: http://www.reluctantvoter.com.
2 JamesonLewis3rd // May 14, 2008 at 11:31 am
“I’m a man, but I can change…if I have to. I guess…”~~Red Green
3 da Bunny // May 14, 2008 at 11:58 am
The dhimmicrats in their normal mode of utter failure are really messing up their “primary” season, but do we Republicans have a candidate who can take full advantage of the situation? Heck no!! We have old man Johnny McShame…a liberal RINO buffoon who thinks that he’s going to win big by jumping even further to the “left.” Jumpin’ Johnny has “jumped the shark.”
4 Hawkeye // May 14, 2008 at 12:21 pm
It’s hard to ignore the 800 pound RINO in the room.
5 JamesonLewis3rd // May 14, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I am not thrilled with this opportunity to witness a debacle.
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America is in a desperate, cheerless, hopeless, miserable, morbid, forlorn, disassociated trance.
I have noticed that much of our population has seems to have stopped thinking altogether (which I find odd, considering the abundance of information available-but that’s just me, I guess).
A friend dropped the proverbial “last straw” the other day and lost a friend. She voted for BO simply because Oprah likes him.
Thank you
6 da Bunny // May 14, 2008 at 1:29 pm
JL3rd, what a shame that your friend cannot think for herself. Voting for Obama because “Oprah likes him” is proof of a “disassociated trance,” indeed. The only thing I can give Oprah Winfrey credit for is having sense enough to leave “Rev.” Jeremiah Wright’s “conflagration.”
7 Garnzo // May 14, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Maybe now we’ll see McCain try to get Oprah to like him so that he can win back JL3rd’s friend’s vote.
Suggestion to McCain: bring donuts.
8 Ms RightWing, Ink // May 14, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Pretty Boy, Breck Boy Edwards will announce his support for Obama yo Mamma in about 1/2 an hour. Hmmm, might prove interesting
WV: teapots Wallace-what, Wallace got a tempest in his teapot
9 da Bunny // May 14, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Garnzo, yes, food and lots of it would be a good bribe for McPain to use on Oprah…
10 RedPepper // May 14, 2008 at 6:21 pm
JL3 #5: It’s disheartening, all right - but still understandable.
After all , Jameson, name me anyone who “likes†St. John the Lame.
And, as da Bunny points out, Oprah has had enough sense to drop the Rev. Wrong like a tub of trans-fat …
11 camojack // May 14, 2008 at 7:53 pm
“Happy days are here again for the party of Nelson Rockefeller, Lincoln Chafee, Arlen Specter and Jim Jeffords.â€
And that just about says it a11, huh?
12 Fred Sinclair // May 14, 2008 at 9:18 pm
St. Petersburg, Fla. - the 70’s a charlatan named John, opened and ran a Rescue Mission named “John 3:16″. The mission’s posted motto, “Soup; Soap and Hope; it’s time for a change” was famous throughout St. Pete.
It turned out he was someone who was busy spending his step-son’s inheritance, he became locally ‘famous’ and ran for Mayor.
I was driving for Independent Taxi and on election day, I had a ’sweet, little old lady’ as a fare who proudly boasted she had just voted for John.
The guy was such an obvious fraud, I was shocked.
When I asked why? she said that he had spoken to her ‘Aid Society’ “and he was wearing the most beautiful lemon colored suit, and I just had to vote for him.”
Fortunately he lost in a landslide and was shortly arrested for his misuse of his stepson’s money and faded into the woodwork.
But, I can recall that he was a Caucasian version of B. Hussein Obama and those who supported him, referred to him reverently as a ‘Saviour’ of the poor, down and out, unfortunates in the mission.
Heirborn Ranger
13 JamesonLewis3rd // May 14, 2008 at 9:18 pm
I agree that such aberrant thinking is understandable-it’s been a pattern of human behavior since dirt was created-I’m not sure but I think that makes it even more abhorrent (as well as disheartening).
Scan the political evolution of the past 100 years or so; the avant garde Marxist has been tolerated and condoned for quite a while because we thought we were immune to their puerile ideological fad.
We thought they’d grow out of it; instead, they grew into it. Crawling back into the slime, as it were.
Thank you
14 Libby Gone // May 14, 2008 at 10:16 pm
JL3 #5,
“I am not thrilled with this opportunity to witness a debacle.
~~~~~
America is in a desperate, cheerless, hopeless, miserable, morbid, forlorn, disassociated trance.
I have noticed that much of our population has seems to have stopped thinking altogether (which I find odd, considering the abundance of information available–but that’s just me, I guess).”
I agree.
It’s as if the population of lemmings have been convinced that Utopia exists just under those waves.
15 Fred Sinclair // May 15, 2008 at 8:01 am
Lib-b-gone #14: You mean they don’t? Well, shucks and durn. - Waxless Fred
16 onlineanalyst // May 15, 2008 at 2:51 pm
We had better be contributing to the down-ticket conservatives of our choice and to 527s that will do the work that McCain won’t do in order to provide some sense in Congress and to secure the White House.
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