Article

2008-04-02 Home Front: Politix

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Fred 2008-04-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 He, he, with luck McCain will do better than Reagan did in 1984. :-)

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-04-02 05:19|| 2008-04-02 05:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Irrelevant at this point. The election is still a long way off. Keep yer powder dry.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2008-04-02 08:16|| 2008-04-02 08:16|| Front Page Top

#3 I know it, it is still far from November and in addition there is ever a "flock coming back to stable" effect. But we can still joke about Democrats doing still worst than in 1984 (one state plus Washington DC)

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-04-02 08:53|| 2008-04-02 08:53|| Front Page Top

#4 With Clinton and Obama's baggage and negative numbers, I think McCain will do fine baring any meltdowns. As spot said, the race has only just started and there is a lot of ground to cover yet. But if the dhimocrats do fragment like I hope they will over the nomination, it should be a fairly easy victory.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-02 09:38|| 2008-04-02 09:38|| Front Page Top

#5 McCain strong in key Dem states

That's because he are one.

Posted by RD">RD 2008-04-02 11:20|| 2008-04-02 11:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Exactly, RD. Why would Republicans be happy ? They gave away their candidate slot to a non-right winger. Other than strong on military, we have little to no idea of what McCain will do.
I think McCain is more centered on himself than on a political philosophy. Through the years, McCain has often voted with the liberals in the Senate. When his name is on legislation, we rather defeat or veto the bill. Loose canon seems to describe him best, and as such would he make a good president ? I think not.
Here's a question for ya; Did McCain come up with McCain/Feingold to assure that he would always be reelected ? Would he also grant amnesty for the same reason ?

Posted by wxjames 2008-04-02 14:38|| 2008-04-02 14:38|| Front Page Top

#7 I am not American so I can only judge on external policies and the thing who matters to me is which candidate gives my daughters the best chances of remaining free and also of not being killed either by terrorists or by Ahmedinajad's nukes.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-04-02 18:20|| 2008-04-02 18:20|| Front Page Top

#8 That's about it for me too, JFM.

Posted by lotp 2008-04-02 19:40|| 2008-04-02 19:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Is there anything that you can do to help your own country reach the same conclusion, JFM?

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2008-04-02 21:20|| 2008-04-02 21:20|| Front Page Top

23:51 trailing wife
23:50 JosephMendiola
23:42 JosephMendiola
23:35 Alaska Paul in Hooper Bay, AK
23:31 twobyfour
23:29 JosephMendiola
23:25 gorb
23:23 gorb
23:21 Alaska Paul in Hooper Bay, AK
23:20 gorb
23:18 Crolusing tse Tung2745
23:13 Steve White
23:11 tu3031
23:10 Frank G
23:00 twobyfour
22:56 Broadhead6
22:54 twobyfour
22:51 twobyfour
22:51 Phil
22:46 Broadhead6
22:39 3dc
22:35 Abdominal Snowman
22:34 Abdominal Snowman
22:33 Frank G