Congrats to John McCain (Jambon - 3/19/2007 5:55:55 PM)
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Wow, it's like John McCain is doing everything he can to ensure that he does NOT win the Republican nomination for President. Here, he clubs the conservative Club for Growth. Not only that, he does it on Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. Smooth.
In the case of Club For Growth, I've got to be honest with you. Ronald Reagan taught me the 11th Commandment, and that is you don't speak ill of other Republicans. The reason why we don't have a majority in the Senate today was the attacks that Club For Growth made on Lincoln Chafee, the Senator from Rhode Island, a liberal Republican Senator, but would have voted for Mitch McConnell to be the Majority leader of the Senate. They have continuously attacked Republicans that they don't agree with. I believe in a big tent party. I believe there's room for someone from Rhode Island that may not agree with everything that I agree with, but I still want him in the Republican Party. That's not the case with the Club For Growth. So I'm not sure what the Club For Growth and I have really in common.
Ee gads, John, that's as bad as if John Edwards were to go rip labor unions or something. Who's advising you, anyway? Wow.
He's really courting those theocrats, which means he'll probably lose a lot of the moderates and Independents who saw him as a moderate maverick like them. I'm sure there are hearts breaking all over America right now. Especially the MSM, who loved his Straight Talking Express back in 2000.
On the other hand, he's really saying what a lot of Republicans are thinking. Especially the moderates in the Northeast.
The Club for Growth has done more harm than good for the Republican Party. They are actually more rigid and less willing to compromise than the so-called values voters, who were the ones that I always thought would bring down the Republican Party.
Who knew the Religious Right would be more pragmatic than ideologues like Stephen Moore and Grover Norquist?
And McCain is right - if it weren't for those two idiots, Chafee might have won and a few others might have and the Senate wouldn't have flipped Democratic.
Then again, if it wasn't for Club for Growth, Jim Dillard probably wouldn't have retired and supported Dave Marsden, and that district might not have flipped Democratic either. Let's face it, Club for Growth vowed to primary every Republican who voted for Warner's economic package, which is what drove moderate Republicans out of blue-leaning districts in NOVA. And they led Republicans to especially target Dillard for revenge. Hey, did we pay them to do this?