McCain Reactivates His Straight Talk America Political Action Committee

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB5XD8ZNBE.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. John McCain, often mentioned as a possible GOP presidential candidate in 2008, has reactivated his political action committee, known as Straight Talk America.

"He's inundated with invitations and requests from candidates at all levels of the ballot as well as state and local party committees," a McCain political adviser, John Weaver, said Wednesday.

The committee will help pay for McCain's travel when he gives speeches and allow him to contribute to candidates and party committees.

Weaver said McCain's committee was reactivated in mid-July.

[Upfront]

1. So---

who cares?

[montanacowboy]

2. So who gives a big rat's ass?

Screw this asshole

[AlGore-08.com]

3. The "so" is he has a huge amount of support among moderates & some Dems

If he wins the nomination, he will be very, very, very difficult to beat.

[Bumblebee]

16. Not any more. He has been playing a dubious game

of cozying up to the GOP base who will never accept him anyway, losing, in the meantime, some Dems or Independents who would otherwise consider voting for him. I think he blew it. I would have never voted for him anyway -- but I did have some respect for him which is no longer there.

[AlGore-08.com]

18. Zogby did a poll last month - - McCain against Dem challengers

He stomped HRC 54% to 35% and beat Kerry by over 10 points as well.

The poll had McCain doing very well in the blue states, leading in every category of voter except young people - - where he was tied.

Believe what you want, that's the facts.

[Vincardog]

20. Zogby polls republican up by about 10% in every poll.

SO if you take 54% - 10% = 44%
then take 35% + 10% = 45%
hardly stomping her. I think HRC is the wrong choice we need a REAL Democrat. How About Barbara BOXER? McCain lost all credibility when he started sucking *'s dick

[0rganism]

21. A reasonable weighting change, considering his fubar from 2004

Call it whatever you like, but Zogby underpolled the republicans in the last election.

[Vincardog]

24. Do you mean when ZOGBY showed it a close race and the exit polls

showed Kerry won by 10%? 2000 was judicial theft. 2004 was corporate theft by Diebold and ES&S. The corporate media does these fake polls to try to maintain the illusion of legitimacy. I am calling BULLSHIT on their lies. If you check the real stats Zogby over polled the Republicans constantly in the last election. Call it whatever you like I enjoy living in fact based reality.

[0rganism]

28. Call it whatever you want to call it

Yeah, maybe it's all bullshit. Maybe the Ohio SOS rigged the voting machines. Or maybe the exit polls overpolled Democrats, republicans showed up late, and Diebold/ES&S are 100% accurate. Either way, Mr. Zogby has to take that disparity into account when predicting an election outcome. His CORPORATE CUSTOMERS demand no less.

Since you "enjoy living in fact based reality", maybe you should face the facts:

* We don't have a VNS to do independent non-partisan exit polling anymore.

* We don't have a non-corporate media to handle accurate reporting of such exit polls even when they exist.

* We don't have public oversight of the companies who make election machines.

* Republicans are highly unlikely to re-regulate and de-corporatize the very system they've so effectively rigged to give them their victories, legitimate or otherwise.

Zogby's not doing anything wild or far-fetched by re-calibrating his poll weights to match what he's observed over the last five years. So maybe he's measuring "fixed data", big deal. Maybe the exit polls were right, but John Kerry isn't the president today and Zogby will be made to look like a dumbass if he says Kerry won. That fixed data is all he has to work with, and unless we do something drastic and equally system-aware on the level of what the republicans have done, it's an accurate prediction of the results for the next election, the one after that, and all the elections for the foreseeable future until we figure out how the game is played.

So far, I've seen no indication of anything like from the incumbant Democrats. Our unwillingness to play by their rules is going to be our downfall.

[Vincardog]

30. Funny I thought the Polls were to reflect public opinion not

Corporate Corruption. If we have to adjust reality to fit in with the Fascist corporatist we are lost. Why not just give up? I agree the current crop of 'elected representatives' are sadly lacking in spine.

[Richard Steele]

23. SO? My grandma would beat HRC, and she farts DUST!

McCain will be ripped to pieces by his own party, because he
was LATE to suck-up to the NeoCon Cabal, and they will NEVER
fully support him...

2008 is OURS to Lose...and the only CERTAIN way to lose it is to nominate Hillary.

B*shCo has FUCKED UP our nation WORSE than it has ever been;
And voters are catching on to that.
LIES can only drown out everyday life for so long...
And Joe Six-Pack is waking up to find out that all
the pro-Blivet flag-waving didn't do a DAMN thing
to make his life easier.

While JOE was waving his little FLAG:
B*sh made it easier for his boss to outsource his job at the plant..
B*sh cut funding for our Volunteer Firefighters...
B*sh started a WAR that maimed 20 THOUSAND Troops...and then CUT funds for the VA hospitals.

JOE SIX-PACK isn't STUPID, he's just not very INTERESTED.
JOE is a BUSY man; politics are an interest he NORMALLY doesn't make time for.
It takes a lot to get him riled up.
And B*sh has actually managed to do it.

[ShockediSay]

35. Grandma needs to drink more.

Beer Works.*

*actually quite a respectable, if not fun, operation out of Boston ...
(no disrespect to dusty grandma)

[annerevere]

4. The new John isn't the old John

He supports Bolton and doesn't give much of a hoot about Plame's outing, except for reading Bush's talking points.

Very disappointing to find that he is just another pol.

[DemsUnite]

5. Running, as if there was doubt n/t

[stray cat]

6. Great! Bush will hate it if McCain is more popular than him

Hopefully McCain will really talk straight. Straight talk and honesty is always a refreshing change in politics - especially now. I don't care if it is from a republican or a democrat as long as it is honest.

[Lecky]

7. I don't understand how any Democrat can still respect this asshole

"Straight Talk" America...riiiight, that's cute McCain.

[bunny planet]

8. How special.

Who gives a flying f*ck.

[wicket]

9. I supported McCain in 2000

Who'd thought that 5 years later I would be a ragin' liberal- thanks George W. Bush! :D

[garthranzz]

34. I also supported McCain in 2000 but...

After what he did in 2004, I've lost all respect for him. I think, though, he may have had his arm twisted by the Bush Mafia - let's not forget that Rove and Cheney are, at bottom, two-bit thugs.

[OKthatsIT]

36. If he promised to end private campaign funding?

it would shift the focus back to a more socially conscious govt. Allow our politicians to do real work for The People.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

10. When's he going to activate the "straight talk" part?

[wicket]

11. he won't

He backed the same people in 2004 who smeared his family in 2000. His "straight talk" expired the moment he backed these criminals.

[movonne]

12. I agree with you !!

[La Coliniere]

14. LOL!

He's part of the up is down, wrong is right, straight is curve crowd, no matter what he says or tries to project. He's one of them, through and through.

[shantipriya]

13. MCCAin

An unprincipled ASS-HOLE.No self respect SOB!!!

[gkhouston]

15. think this is a hint to blivet**

that he will not provide ass-covering when the indictments come raining down?

[Guaranteed]

17. Somehow I don't think he's talking as straight as he used to.

Dean should give him a few tips on how it's done.

[nine30]

26. Anyone whom Rush strongly opposes is a good candidate.

[Cha]

32. I know..I was thinking the

other day about how Dean has captured The Straight Talk Express.

[oasis]

19. John McCain can go "straight" to hell.

:thumbsdown:

[Zorra]

22. In 2008, McCain will be about as old as Reagan during his 2nd term!

McCain should hang it up now. That is way too old to begin a Presidency.

We need a stronger, younger, sharp-minded President to get us past the devastation of the Bu*h years.

Remember when Reagan would fall asleep at meetings during his second term?

McCain is a huge risk simply because of his age.

[brentspeak]

25. Straight talk, no action

McCain blasted Bush on tons of occasions, and yet always supports him in the end. He wants the public to think that he's some kind of independent "maverick", but he votes with the Republicans every single time.

[Burried News]

27. John McCain the Manchurian Candidate is done for.

And it pains me to say so. I was fooled.

[zara]

29. He's changing the name to "Bush Toady" PAC to help get...

tghe neocons on board, for recognizing his loyal buttlicking of our turd blossom in chief.

[Cha]

31. Ya better rename that straight talk..

to the Bullshit Express! Ya coward jackinhammer!

[Malikshah]

33. damn straight! He's pissed his honor away by bending over

repeatedly for the Bushchists.

Hey McCain-- too bad you shat upon the faith your fathers had in you. What a loser.

[ShockediSay]

37. How many homeless vets died in Phoenix ...

How many homeless vets died in Phoenix in the recent heat wave?

Straight talk me on that Mr Arizona Congressman!

[robertarctor]

38. "Straight talk"?

Yeah, right, Johnny. More like the "Revisionist Quisling Licks the Collective Bush Family Nutsack Express." McCain lost his credibility for good when he rolled over for Karl Rove in South Carolina in 2000. A real warrior wouldn't have taken that out-of-control bullshit without a fight.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

39. he endorsed bush, after he and rove ATTACKED HIS ADOPTED DAUGHTER in SC

the straight talk eneded after the 2000 primaries-and his failure to stand up to the chimp in 2004 (and his ridiculous distortion of michael moore at the convention) proved that he's a spineless opportunist

still, i don't see much difference between mccain and hillary on many issues and will probaly gp third party if the media picks these two as the nominees in '08