MANDATORY HILLARY-CARE: “Will Sen. Hillary Clinton garnish the wages of people who can afford health insurance but refuse to buy into her universal health care plan? On Sunday, she was asked that question three times and she didn’t rule it out.” - CNS News, 2/4/08
“Let’s be clear: A California win by Barack Obama would be a political earthquake in media circles and could change the entire dynamic of the campaign coverage.”
- John Fund or Political Diary
THE LEFT’S DREAM TEAM
“If the Republican Party really wanted to hold on to the White House in 2009…it would grit its teeth, swallow its doubts and nominate a ticket of John McCain for president and Mike Huckabee for vice president - and president-in-waiting.”
- Liberal columnist David Broder of the liberal Washington Post
IN OTHER WORDS, A HUCKSTER
“(Mike) Huckabee is a religious populist, not a conservative.”
- American Conservative Union Chairman David Keene
MCCAIN’S STALKING HORSE
“A Southerner and one-time Baptist preacher, (Mike) Huckabee hopes to perform strongly (on Super-Duper Tuesday), if not win, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Missouri to reinvigorate his campaign. In those states, Huckabee could end up helping (John) McCain — he calls him a friend — by peeling away votes and delegates from (Mitt) Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who is competing there after essentially ceding big-prize Northeast battlegrounds. Huckabee and Romney draw much of their support from the same pool of conservative voters…”
- Associated Press, 2/4/08
GOO-GOO EYES FOR BIG MAC
“(Mike) Huckabee’s presence in the race is a spoiler for Romney, and it’s, it’s a shame. We should let this be a two-man race because we’re also talking about the future of the country. But apparently this man-crush (he has for McCain) is stepping in front of–he’s not going to get out. I don’t know, he hasn’t brought one thing to the party. Not one–his record doesn’t say anything to the party. What he’s put on the table says nothing to the future of the party.”
- GOP strategist Mary Matlin on Meet the Press, 2/3/08
A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE
“Just a reminder for some of you on (John) McCain’s history with the Republican Party. Senator McCain has been there for Democrats when they needed his votes against the Bush tax cuts and he was a reliable agitator against Republicans when the Democrats sought to prevent up-or-down votes against conservative judges nominated to the federal bench. Not surprising, in view of the fact that Senator McCain once considered serving as Senator John Kerry’s running mate in 2004.”
- Sarah Pompei, Deputy Press Secretary for Regional Media, Romney for President, 2/4/08
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THIS…
“John McCain once testified under oath that a Senate colleague inappropriately used tobacco corporation donations to sway votes on legislation. He cursed out another colleague in front of 20 senators and staff members, questioning the senator’s grip on immigration legislation. And, on the Senate floor, McCain (R-Ariz.) accused another colleague of ‘egregious behavior’ for helping a defense contractor in a move he said resembled ‘corporate scandals.’
“And those were just the Republicans.”
- Washington Post, 2/4/08
POT CALLING KETTLE BLACK
“In John McCain’s America, any politician who accepts a large contribution or gift from a donor, and then takes steps consistent with the donor’s interests - even though there is no legal quid pro quo - is corrupt. Well, then, by his own standard, McCain is corrupt. McCain was one of the so-called ‘Keating Five’ senators.
“…McCain was the only Republican implicated in the Keating Five scandal, yet today he lectures his party and his president about ‘the corrupting influence’ of money in politics. He rails against the so-called ‘wealthy special interests’ and their ability to buy access to elected officials, yet this is precisely what the Keating Five scandal was all about.”
- Mark Levin of the Landmark Legal Foundation
SPINE-CHILLING NOMINEE
“The thought of (John McCain) being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.”
- Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi)
A SANDBOX BULLY
“John (McCain) was very rough in the sandbox. Everybody has a McCain story. If you work in the Senate for a while, you have a McCain story. . . . He hasn’t built up a lot of goodwill.”
- Former GOP Sen. Rick Santorum
THE ANOINTED ONE
“With most of the primary elections still to come, the media has anointed John McCain the inevitable Republican candidate. That’s understandable — McCain has been in the pocket of the mainstream media for years.”
- Columnist Joe Mariani
DONE DEAL?
“To hear John McCain talk, you’d think he already was the Republican nominee. ‘The first thing we’ve got to do after Tuesday is unite this party,’ he says repeatedly these days — as if the 21 states holding caucuses and primaries this week are simply a formality.”
- Associated Press, 2/4/08
PUTTING IT MILDLY
“The prospect of John McCain all but clinching the GOP presidential nomination in Super Tuesday’s primaries has certainly raised the anxiety level among conservative Republicans.”
- Columnist Donald Lambro
LEFT-FACE, BACKWARD MARCH
“I was watching the endorsement of Senator McCain by Governor Schwarzenegger in California. What a picture this was. And I’m looking at the picture, and I’m seeing McCain surrounding himself with the left wing of our party. These guys are Republicans, but they’re the left wing of our party. So he just got the endorsement of a big-taxing, big-spending, socialist health care, eco-extreme governor who says the Republican Party needs to follow him to the left.”
- Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh
REVOLT ON THE RIGHT
“As Super Tuesday looms — and the possibility that McCain could all but wrap up the nomination — the chattering conservative class is in an uproar. Talk show host Rush Limbaugh has warned that McCain as standard-bearer would destroy the Republican Party. Author and pundit Ann Coulter, in jaw-dropping heresy, said she would campaign for Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton if McCain wins the party nod. Commentators Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin have come out in support of McCain’s rival, Mitt Romney.”
- Associated Press, 2/4/08
PASSIONATE OPPOSITION
“I would light myself on fire, and run through a meth lab before I would vote for John McCain.”
- News & Views reader Vickie Rennie of Hendersonville,TN
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
“What can McCain do to win over conservatives? His long record of beating up his fellow Republicans to the applause of the media makes that almost impossible.”
- English First Executive Director Jim Boulet Jr
THE ONLY WAY TO UNITE THE RIGHT
“One way to try to address reservations about (John McCain’s) age and commitment to low taxes and limited government would be to name a young and credentialed conservative as vice presidential running mate. ‘McCain needs to pick a man of the right, and South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford would be the best, at many levels,’ said economic conservative Pat Toomey, president of the influential Club for Growth and former Republican congressman from Pennsylvania.
“Former Texas Republican Party Chairman Tom Pauken, popular with religious conservatives, also thinks Mr. Sanford is the ‘logical choice.’ . . . Former Reagan National Security Adviser Richard V. Allen…joins the chorus of Mr. Sanford advocates, in part because he is someone ‘who can actually serve in the Oval Office and, in the meantime, be a strong McCain supporter.’”
- Washington Times, 2/4/08
Posted on February 5th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: National
Socialism, here we come!
Ugh. I so hope Sanford doesn’t sell out to be on a McCain ticket!
On second thought… *censored so as not to get a visit from the Secret Service*
:D
Doesn’t Romney’s health plan in Taxachussets require everone to have health insurance or pay a tax to the state? This year the tax is approximately $1,000 per individual, sort of Hillary care lite.
Could it be that the Manchurian Candidate is the apparent candidate of the republicrat candidate because the other candidates, with the exception of Ron Paul, are not conservatives?
I plan to go to the county clerk’s office and change my party affiliation from republicrat to Whig. What there is no longer a Whig Party, they became irrelevant! Who would have thunk it? Could that be the faith of the republicrats?
Howard,
Cheyenne, WY