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Subscribe to RSSAs expected, Sen. John McCain won the Republican nomination in Arizona over former congressman J.D. Hayworth. With 28% in, McCain was up 58%-30%.
McCain saw the threat from the right coming early. He started campaigning for re-election almost immediately after his loss to Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign and dropped $20 million on this race. McCain painted Hayworth as unsuitable for office, criticizing him in a television ad for having once appeared in a get-free-government-money infomercial.
The McCain campaign blunted much of the Tea Party opposition early on with an endorsement from vice-presidential running mate Sarah Palin, and McCain tacked to the right on immigration in particular, going up with a hard-line ad calling for the federal government to "complete the danged fence." He has also drawn the ire of the conservative base for his position on campaign finance. He delivered a tepid statement critical of the Citizens United ruling.
As we wrote in First Read this morning, we'll see which McCain returns to Washington.
Brewer wins GOP nod
Also in Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer, who was assumed office after Democrat Janet Napolitano left to become Secretary of Homeland Security, won her GOP primary. She was facing token opposition. The Arizona governor's race was expected to be a close race six months ago. But after Brewer signed into law the controversial immigration bill, her numbers improved markedly.
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Will McCain ever have enough insight to be bothered by what he had to do to win that nomination? Will it bother him that he had to be a right wing nut job? If it does bother him, will he ever admit it? Or did he just show us who he has been all along...another two bit politician on the make?
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*sigh* I imagine you are right jomama72.
Limba, Baeck, Hannady, Ingrem, luvin , just to mention a few are Republicans hired by Republicans at over
$500/hr for a job that any person picked from the street can do; (the job of abusing/insulting the President of The United States of America)
Qualifications for their jobs include:
These people get paid a lot of money just to abuse/insult the president of the USA.
They wake up every morning knowing that their daily job is to abuse/insult the President the whole day and then go back home thinking they have worked hard to build the Nation and then wait for their mega pay come end of the month.
It is the first time in the history of this country that some people would be waking up every morning to
go to work and that work they are hired to do is to abuse/insult the President.
These people have the courage of calling the President of The United States of America an Idiot!!!!
Only a mad person can call the President of USA an Idiot.
A mad person can easily pull a crowd by taking off his clothes in a public place but that does not mean that his crowd that he has pulled is happy with him.
When we listen to or watch some of these TV or radio channels, it does not mean that we like them. We are only laughing at them.
Sam, so sad but you are spot on unfortunately.
the president is a lieing idiot,he does nothing that the majority wants done, he plays golf more than he works, he makes promises that he has no intension of fulfilling,his party is in disarey and getting as far from obuma as possible.he,s an admitted crack user,he had no buss. running for president .he plays the blame game for everything that goe wrong.unemployment is above his 8 % and is not showing any signs of comeing down at least not while he in and out of whitehouse.he puts nine thousand people out of work in the gulf just because he cant get his cap @trade passed so GE can make millions which will keep n NBC going which will make Obuma a lot of money.he puts muslims above americans,and apoligizes to other countries for for america. he is weak and has no buss. being president.
Doesn't it do your heart good Sam when you post something as above then someone like carlyss man comes along and posts a rebuttal that proves everything you just posted. Just how stupid can these teabagging republicans get.
BTW: carlyss man your one of those $7.00 per hour mad people, not the $500.00 per hour. Your checks not in the mail.
MO...... Ill promise you i make a hell of lot more money than you do even though Im retired.you just can;t stand for someone to tell the truth about your annoited one,why dont you dispute that obuma us a crack head,you see its a proven fact that once a crack head always a crack head .instead of preaching,prove it wrong. obuma is spending more money in eighteen mths than bush spent in four years.then preach about why obuma is in the forties app, even tax cheat rangle wants a peice of him.Reid is running from him.youve lost it.
Every day I'm glad McCain lost the presidency. He has no principles beyond indulging his own ego. He would have made a terrible President, although his approval rating at this point would have been higher than Obama's. He wouldn't have defended freedom of religion in the NYC case, and he and McChrystal would have drunk lime Budewisers together and been great friends.
Dont worry folks all this money these canadates spent they will double when there back in office...thats why were broke and you continue to support politics as usual........
The John McCain that ran for President in 2000 would not have voted for the John McCain that ran for President in 2008 and he would not have voted for the John McCain running for re-election this year.
Sure he would have. There was nothing particularly special about the McCain from 2000. He managed to get a bunch of sympathy from the left because the Bush campaigns were asses to him and engaged in a bunch of campaign sleaze. They even went so far as to trash his adopted daughter and insinuated that he'd had a black baby out of wedlock. So John came out the whole thing with this image as a heroic figure, who was unsullied by the slime and steadfast in his beliefs.
So then in 2004, what does John do? He gets into bed with the very SAME people that trashed the legitimacy of his family and engaged in the sleaze. That basically told me everything I needed to know about the kind of guy he really was. John McCain is a politician, nothing more, nothing less. He's a guy who got shot down over Vietnam and went into a P.O.W. camp and came out of it a lot better than a lot of other guys who went into P.O.W. camps.
However getting your plane shot down and suffering are not qualifications to hold public office. And they aren't really commentaries on the kind of guy you actually are. They are just the circumstances you happen to find yourself in at the time. What you do when you have a choice is what defines your character.
John McCain had a chance to define his character in 2004 when he had the opportunity to say 'screw you' to the people that dragged his family through the mud 4 years before and he didn't. Instead he caved, so that he could have his turn.
That is the kind of guy he is.
Michael..... what did obuma do except be a comm organizer in bed with crooks and american haters that want to blow americans up. he has to be dumb if he sat in a church for twenty years and didn;t hear nothing. what was he doing playing with himself. I would bet you would not last a day as a pow.I mean look how you whine on this page.you would piss your pants. what did obuma ever do to searve his so said country.
Sam- you rail against Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc. Let's be fair and all inclusive. Maddow, Olbermann, Schultz- any of those left wingers ring a bell? How about the rest of the media? Nobody at CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC or CBS has the balls to call the President and the Dems out for a crappy job but they sure were quick to jump all over W, weren't they? And let's be real frank- W was not the ideal President towards the end but apparently all the ills of the world are his fault even though Obama has been in office for over 18 months. Obama ran on hope, change and a different way of leading- I'm still waiting. His administration has been one of secrecy instead of transparency, bullying instead of bi-partisanship and a devastating combination of arrogance and ineptitude. The Republicans deserved to lose Congress and the Presidency but America didn't vote for this bill of goods- they (I sure as hell didn't vote for him) were hoodwinked. November 2012 can't come soon enough.
I disagree with two things you ranted about above Matt, one is CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC or CBS didn't jump all over "W" they went along with everything he did that's why were where we are today. the second thing is your wright November can't come quick enough but for a totally different reason than you are looking forward to.
Sam , Of all the Republican talk show hosts, TV host and what have you, the only one that gets on the raw , losing nerves of the Demoncrats Beckistan. Yep. That's the one. Can anyone tell me why? The Demoncrats and Liberals when they sit at home and watch Beckistan , they squirm and squawk in their seats. They can't the simple civic lessons that the Beckistan is giving the Americans, young and old, infirm and able, rich and poor, good and bad, innocent and guilty, high and mighty and they wish they could have grab hold of him through the screen. Beckistan is doing an invaluable job of teaching and learning the American people the TRUE history of their country and is turning most of the Dems diehard to other sources for their political philosophy. Especially, this brilliant assessment of the early American Presidents who try to impose their will with social engineering on the American people intead of the will of the wishes of the people. The truth is breaking through the mists of time and things the American people were not aware of are opening up in a class room manner that reaches American households. We are now viewing the true nature of the Democratic Party in their age old quest to socialize America with their communist creed trying to distribute the wealth of the Americans , now being formulated by our latter day Zerobama. Thank God he has failed.