MSNBC’S O’Donnell To Lieberman: Is John McCain Going To Leave The GOP?

April 28th, 2009 (30) Posted By Pat Dollard.

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  • DesignR

    Celebrate Spectors leap into Obama’s arms.
    I urge McCain and his daughter to do the same.

  • mike3481

    Hey Lieberman, the problem is “Professional Politicians” like yourself who believe their job is first and foremost to get re-elected.

    I seriously doubt you give a shit about your Country or State before your career, as opposed to Pres. George W. Bush who risked everything to protect this country only to get savaged by YOUR Democratic party at every turn.

    Someday history is going will paint you and your ilk as shameful, treason cowards.

    :gun: :gun: :evil:

    • mike3481

      “…treasonous cowards.”

  • Lock and Load

    Hey McCain, I’ve said before that I respect your military service, and political service, to a point, but you have lost your way, and it is time for you to go and take your attention hungry daughter with you… :roll: :evil: One less RINO suckin’ the air out of the GOP and pushing it further down the path to disaster :???:

  • EDinTampa

    I hope Simcox can spur the old man to retirement. Come on Arizonans, make it happen!

  • Phil Byler

    Get real everyone. McCain just voted with 31 Republican Senators AGAINST the confirmation of radical pro-abortion Kathleen Sibelius for HHS Secretary. McCain has voted AGAINST every Obama budget bill, calling Obama trillion dollar deficit spending “generational theft” and being very visible in the media speaking out in opposition to Obama’s insane spending. McCain has voted AGAINST all the bailout bills Obama has proposed. McCain voted AGAINST the confirmation of Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary. In short, McCain has as good a voting record as any Republican this year!

    There is no place in the Democrat Party for a pro-life fiscal conservative who is a hawk in foreign policy and national security matters. There is in the Republican Party, and that is why McCain is and will continue to be a Republican.

    I know why there is a misperception: Rush Limbaugh is talking about McCain as if McCain is constantly defecting to vote with the Democrats. The short answer to Rush is that is false. As much as I appreciate Rush’s analysis of the Democrats and the mainstream media, Rush has an anomosity toward McCain that really is not justified by the facts and that causes the kind of attacks on McCain that are counterproductive to the GOP.

    • Kirk

      With all due respect to Senator McCain, the issue of illegal aliens was his undoing. I think Chris Simcox has struck a nerve with this issue.

    • Phil Byler

      McCain knows it; and remember George W. Bush was with McCain 100% all along on the immigration issue. After the 2007 battle, McCain was saying that the problem with the Reagan era immigration law reform was that the law enforcement provisions were not enforced and that American people had made clear that law enforcement had to come first.

    • Joe Mudd

      Look at it this way, if McCain were to go and do to the Democrats what Sphincter has done to the GOP that would be great and a real help.
      It would also clear the way for Simcox to bolster the right side of the republican party.

  • political.fish

    Still, he remains a fence-sitter on many key conservative issues and has allowed the Republic to deteriorate on his watch. I applaud his service, but we must place ourselves on a war footing, and hold our representatives to the same. Fish, or cut bait :gun:

    • Phil Byler

      What key conservative issues is McCain fence sitting at present? How has McCain allowed the Republic to deteriorate? McCain was the one who advocated the surge in Iraq before it was implemented (his military knowledge on display) and fought off Democrat efforts to lose the war in Iraq. McCain is for a larger Army and Marine Corps, but how can he alone make that happen? His son Jimmy is a Marine who has served several tours of duty in Iraq.

      Ironically, when we get into more open war (and it is coming), McCain is the guy you want on our side.

    • politicalfish

      Illegal immigration
      Border security
      McCain-Feingold
      Capitalism
      Republicanism
      The free market system

      And a general quiesence regarding the overt marxist takeover of our government and private lives.

      He should be screaming at the top of his lungs as an advocate for the constitution and the Republic. In this age, silence is implied consent.

      We need more of Reagan and less of McCain.

    • BT

      He was also on the torture band wagon. Not to mention the way he has treated Palin since the election, she has bigger balls that he does. :beer:

    • Sgsaur

      McCain wasn’t a “fence-sitter” on McCain-Feingold, he was the primary sponsor. That was the last straw for me. I voted for him in November, but I held my nose when I did it. He and Bush were both wrong on amnesty for illegals, and other than his stance on earmarks, he’s only fiscally conservative when compared to Bambi and his commie sycophants in congress & the MSM.

  • pub

    You know, screw all of you saying we need moderates, Lieberman. You’re the ones trying to take the Republicans to the left and demonize the hard-core conservatives along with the loony daughter of McCain. Hard-core conservatives is what the country needs and we’re the last big population of them on the planet. McCain can’t be too smart if he doesn’t realize the gravity of this and put a muzzle on that daughter of his.

    • Phil Byler

      I agree with you 100% about the country needing hard core conservatism and I wish someone who speak to Meghan McCain. But one of her problems is that she knows how Rush unfairly attacks her Dad and she is loyal to her Dad. She is also young, and as young people go, that she insists she will always be a Republican and is in favor of a strong military and fiscal restraint is a start and is a lot better than a large percentage of the socialist indoctrinated lefties in her age group.

      Lieberman is solid on foreign policy, but he is lefty on domestic issues. That is not moderate; that is a split personality. I would listen to Lieberman about subjects other than foreign policy if he moderated his views on domestic issues.

  • http://patdollard.com Pat Dollard

    “Moderates” don’t win us elections, they cost us them. And they certainly don’t often do us any good when it comes time to vote on legislation.

  • Kentucky Jim

    If McCain was a moderate democrat, he could reach across the aisle and support even more conservative causes than he does now.

    • pub

      Excellent point. :smile:

  • Tom in CO

    Get rid of McCain. We picked him as our candidate why again?

    • pub

      I seriously would like to know that as well. I woke up one day and they had decided McCain would be the candidate. Was it poll numbers? What was it, because I missed it. We needed Rudy Giuliani. We needed someone who could say “Islamofascist” loud and clear. We needed someone who would throw that piece of crap Arafat out of the Lincoln Center before we even knew we were in a War on Terror.

      And we needed Romney as VP for the economy. Not a gender card that hadn’t been vetted. What kind of idiot, after seeing how the media was acting, would risk putting a non-vetted VP in there??

      We needed solid experience more than ever in this election, Giuliani-Romney. There’s something very strange going on with the Republicans. Republicans followed their party and supported McCain although they didn’t like it very much. They would have done the same for Ron Paul even.

    • BT

      We didn’t pick him, the media did. He was also a member of the infamous Gang of 14. :evil:

    • Phil Byler

      McCain was the GOP nominee because he won the primaries. The media did not decide. Voters did.

    • Sgsaur

      DEMOCRAT cross-over voters did. By the time the Mississippi primary came around, my favorite conservative candidates (Hunter & Thompson) had pulled-out.

  • Don’t bitch about the heat

    I tryed to get ol’ Mac elected pres. did everthing I could. But the fact is he was piss poor at campaigning and couldn’t make up his mind where he stood on issuse. Simcox will need a lot of help to beat the old horse but it can be done. I’m going to do what ever I can to rid this state of Mc Cain.

    • Phil Byler

      There were a lot of other factors at work that hurt McCain. The McCain campaign stumbled when the election focused on economics, which is not McCain’s strong suit. Imagine if the election had focused on foreign policy, military matters and national security, which are McCain’s strong suits. Also in fairness to McCain, he did blow Obama away at Saddleback and outpointed Obama in the debates moderated by the mainstream media. But other things determined the election.

      The financial “crisis” created economic uncertainties that historically favor Democrats and very much did in 2008; the Bush bank bailout muddied the waters as to the difference perceived by the public between the two parties on economics; Bush was unpopular, albeit unfairly so; the Obama money paid for what was false Obama campaign advertising (how do you win against a 7 to 1 money advantage?); and the media bias for Obama was such that the media acted day in, day out as a propaganda machine for Obama. I mention all these factors because in the future, don’t think that a sharper conservative message alone will win elections. It is just one part of what needs to be addressed. Leftist money, ACORN operatives and media bias are not going away.

    • politicalfish

      The bottom-line is that both Bush and McCain are/were “compassionate conservatives” and appeasers of the left. We, as a group, reject this idiology. No more moderation to the left. This is politics on a war footing against a domestic enemy (democratic socialism, marxism, or ‘third-way’ globalism). Any representatives who do not consider this the case, simply do not comport with our immediate goal: Restoration/preservation of the Constitutional Republic, (a sovereign people under a limited government).

  • Lee__

    McCain also is a songbird for the ‘global warming’ movement…..we don’t need that either. As far as his daughter, if you open your yap in the public domain, expect to find people who will disagree with you…..

  • Phil Byler

    Both McCain and Newt have in the past spoken about global warming. Newt’s most recent comments show that he has drawn back from his earlier embrace of the issue. McCain does not now talk about it; he talks instead about insanely irresponsible Democrat deficit spending and natinal security errors.

    • BT

      Still does not excuse his treatment of Palin after the election! :!: