Let the media swoon begin:
After a year of campaigning with no votes actually being cast, only one candidate in either party is now viewed favorably by more than half the nation’s voters. Stunningly, especially given the status of his campaign six months ago, that candidate is John McCain.
Give it a couple of days for it to be spread around that today Rush Limbaugh said that both Huckabee AND McCain were "not conservative".
Posted by: Cory | Wednesday, January 02, 2008 at 09:40 PM
Hey, at this point let's just be glad it's a Republican.
Posted by: Scared of the Beast | Wednesday, January 02, 2008 at 09:43 PM
The second McCain becomes the Republican candidate, he'll become a Christofacist, torturing, brown-person killings misanthrope in the eyes of Democrats. All these Dems that said the one Republican I can support is John McCain will develop amnesia.
Posted by: IreneFingIrene | Wednesday, January 02, 2008 at 10:07 PM
McCain is simply the beneficiary of respect and appreciation for his actions 40 years ago. I admire his conduct in uniform but I would NEVER EVER vote for him (unless I was a Democrat).
Posted by: James | Wednesday, January 02, 2008 at 10:37 PM
I was a HUGE McCain fan back in 2000. I even ran out and bought his ghost written book.
All that changed when he was unable to give a true OPINION of his feelings about the South Carolina flag. This guy was traveling around the country on "The Straight Talk Express" and couldn't even be straight with his own opinion.
We went back and forth and then finally decided that he deserved praise for telling it like it was (or wasn't depending on the day). Then there was campaign finance and shamnesty...
What a joke.
Posted by: What's Going On Here? | Wednesday, January 02, 2008 at 11:27 PM
yea,yea.. whatever..
Go Rudy!
Posted by: Im Calling BS | Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 03:43 AM
Fred's the man. McPain no way, Jose.
Posted by: Geo | Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 06:07 AM
Yeah, this has got to hurt all you Fred supporters...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/7682.html
Posted by: TheSpartan | Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 07:10 AM
"at this point let's just be glad it's a Republican."
McCain, moderate democrat, he is.
Posted by: Yoda | Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 07:41 AM
Great, then we can expect a bunch of new citizens from Mexico right after the election? You must be kidding?
Posted by: deadbackpacker | Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 08:07 AM
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Did anyone think for even a silly second that it might be Hillary the Clinton? Nah, didn't think so.
*bert
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Posted by: BERT CONVY | Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 08:20 AM
Jeeze, how much credit are we supposed to give the guy for getting shot down over Viet Nam and surviving without disgracing himself?? That is really his only accomplishment, unless you count his success at subverting the constitution.
If his finance reform doesn't already make you sick, his support for public financing of politics should make you want to pick up a musket, tri-cornered hat and march on Washington. Much of Europe's troubles these days come from semi-tyrannical states controlling who can and cannot receive funding.
Posted by: Smarty | Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 08:30 AM
He does seem to have his head straight on the war at least. Not sure the same can be said of Mitt and Huck.
Posted by: Fred Beloit | Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 09:23 AM
"Much of Europe's troubles these days come from semi-tyrannical states controlling who can and cannot receive funding."
I must have missed all the trouble Europe keeps finding itself in. As the poster child for everything that is wrong with Wester Civilization, Europe continues to fall short of expectations. I don't know anybody who wants to visit Topeka or St. Paul more than they want to visit Paris or Brussels, despite the continent being such a giant hell hole.
As for McCain, I could have voted for him in 2000, when he was playing the straight-talking fiscal moderate. He'd have made a better Bush Sr Part II than Bush Jr by a long shot. But after completely selling out time and time again to every Evangelical or corporate lobbyist to grease his palm, he's totally lost my respect. McCain is just Mittens Redux with less money and fewer verbal gaffs.
Posted by: IslamoLlama | Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 10:49 AM
"--- Yeah, this has got to hurt all you Fred supporters...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/7682.html ---"
Fred's not dead yet... despite the MSM lies and rumours to the contrary.
The Politico, IMHO, is now nothing but a shill for the Dhimmicrats and their stooge, McCain.
Posted by: seekeronos | Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 11:03 AM
"I don't know anybody who wants to visit Topeka or St. Paul more than they want to visit Paris or Brussels"
Who the hell wants to visit calm, peaceful places where nothing goes on? That's where you want to *live*.
How many -- and who -- want to go **live** in Brussels or Paris? And especially Paris...
Posted by: rwilymz | Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 02:44 PM
If you have got to go to France, visit somewhere actually worth spending the over-priced euro like Straßburg or Metz, or some of those other nice cities in French-occupied Elsaß-Lothringen.
Oops, I meant "Strasbourg" in Alsace-Lorraine. :P
As for Paris, it is largely a magnet for filthy criminals and Islamist emigrés from failed post-French colonial states in L'Afrique, and is today little more than a fetid pit toilet, full with the moldy and as yet unflushed remains of Chiraquien socialism. Hopefully, Monsieur Sarkozy will be effective in changing this most miserable "état d'affairs" of that nasty city.
Posted by: seekeronos | Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 04:06 PM