Comments on: Why McCain has a Republican problem

By: Hunter

Hunter — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:41:07 +0000

Ron Paul is great on everything except foreign policy. He has a naive view of foreign policy which would be dangerous for this country which, in my opinion, disqualifies him to be president. That’s unfortunate because his domestic policies are great.

Regarding JD vs. McCain, McCain’s money and willingness to ruthlessly use it to smear JD would be a formidable obstacle for JD to overcome. On the other hand, the money buys a message, but it does not necessarily translate to votes. Plus, most primary voters already know enough about both of these guys to not be too heavily influenced by attack ads. In a Republican Primary, it will boil down to who turns out to vote. Will it be more liberal Republicans and Independents or conservative Republicans and Independents?

The main factor in JD’s favor is that many will be voting against McCain. JD’s loss to Mitchell is troubling, but, since the main race is the Republican Primary rather than the General Election, JD has a reasonable chance.

By: Rosco P Coltrane

Rosco P Coltrane — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:56:32 +0000

Ron Paul for president 2012. The only candidate who knows anything about economics and predicted all of this fallout WAY before it happened. The only one to vote unequivocally AGAINST big government, amnesty, death care, tax hikes, gun control… EVERYTHING a so-called “conservative” espouses. He has never broken principle.

By: MrC

MrC — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:25:07 +0000

I think a lot of you are forgetting that JD Hayworth was part of the Republican House leadership that lost its way after having been in power for 12 years. He talked conservative but actually supported big government and gigantic deficit spending in his votes. He was on the Ways and Means committee voting in favor of huge amounts of pork and bragging about the earmarks (like federal spending on the light rail line) he was putting into bills. He supported the very things that ruined the Republican revolution in Congress. JD Hayworth is NOT a conservative.

And JD losing a safe Republican seat to Harry Mitchell was a grade A disaster.

So I don’t quite get why JD Hayworth is seen as some kind of conservative savior all of the sudden.

By: Phx Phil

Phx Phil — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:28:07 +0000

Sean, One issue?? McCain/Feingold, McCain/Kyl/Kennedy, Close our gun show liberty (McCain calls it a loophole), remove the Sanctity of Life Plank from the platform, Crafted the $700 Billion TARP,negotiate on health care bill, etc., etc. One issue? The only times McStain has ever been right it required a flip-flop.

By: wanumba

wanumba — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:17:36 +0000

McCain picked Palin to be his “battle-buddy.” But when the campaign went into high gear, McCain didn’t have Palin’s back. End of it.

By: Sheridan Folger

Sheridan Folger — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:07:18 +0000

Good Article.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:34:38 +0000

Phx Phil, you can’t claim that one issue defines whether a politician is a “RINO” or not (I personally hate that word). If so, Regan’s tax hikes and enormous government growth immediately discredit all of the good he did.

By: ron

ron — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:28:13 +0000

Any senator who calls the governor of the state represents and screams at her is suspect in my book… pyschologically unfit, indeed!

By: RonB

RonB — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:10:43 +0000

Excellent points. I don’t trust him either. He’s good on about 75% of the issues, but the other 25% are HUGE: including McCain-Feingold, illegal immigration (amnesty), and others you mentioned. Add to that, McCain’s habit of slamming conservatives who disagree with him or who attack liberals in a way he doesn’t approve and not criticizing liberals, is just too much “Let’s reach across the aisle” crapola. But now that he sees the polls and he’s running to save his Senate seat, he needs to shore up his conservative credentials, so he’s become a Democrat-basher on some important issues. If he had been this agressive during the ’08 presidential election, we might be calling him “Mr. President.”

By: Phx Phil

Phx Phil — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:48:03 +0000

McCain’s membership on the Council of Foreign Relations explains a lot. This panderer to La Raza is no conservative. He’s the living definition of Republican In Name Only. He’s negatively impacted the Republican Party to the same extent Reagan affected it positively.

Anybody But McCain.

By: johnny

johnny — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:18:32 +0000

Main issue for any challenger… MONEY. Mccain has 12 mil in the bank. No else can come close to that. That to me is why he is the over whelming favorite still.

This is especially true because jd has not and will not jump in the race. Every day he waits is another day he is not raising money.