McCain Warns of Rough Going for GOP

[deadparrot]

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Republican Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), reaching out to wary conservatives, delivered some bad news to the party's core constituency on Thursday, warning that the midterm elections will be hard for the GOP.

"We Republicans are going to have a tough race in 2006 because the country is not happy with us," McCain said. "We have a 25 percent approval rating in Congress."

The potential presidential candidate, who skipped Iowa in his 2000 bid for the White House, campaigned for Republican candidates and met privately to court conservatives critical to another pursuit of the GOP nomination.

During his Iowa appearances, McCain refused to change his stand on issues that rankle both the party's establishment and conservatives, including his opposition to ethanol subsidies and a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/mccain_gop_woes

[saigon68]

1. Rough Going for McCain

APPARENTLY HE LIKES TO BE RIDDEN ROUGHLY

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. Chimp's perspiration sponge.

:rofl:

[Cronus Protagonist]

30. STOP! You're making my cough come back from laughing!

Damit *cough* hahah *cough* hahahaha *cough*

[graywarrior]

15. Whores think bitch slapping means their pimps care.

Being abused is normal for him.

[Patchuli]

37. That seems to be the case!

Now let that ducky gooooooooooooooooo! Ya ol' meany! Duck abuse, duck abuse!!!! Quaaaaaaaaack!!!

[colorado_ufo]

19. Every time I see that picture, I want to puke.

[shanti]

28. and put away wet!!

;)

[0007]

38. Oh, How I do love this photo.

McCain does think he was once one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders on San Juan Hill in another life.

[wtmusic]

2. "the country is not happy with us"...ya think?

You haven't seen the beginning of it, John.

[CottonBear]

4. That's an understatement. n/t

[aden_nak]

3. So. . . it's hard to get votes when you oppose the will of the people?

Thanks, John, I'll make a note of that.

[CottonBear]

6. John is a fool. n/t

[mikeytherat]

33. Not a fool, a TOOL.

Much, much worse than a fool.

mikey_the_rat

[av8tor05]

5. Very hard.

[saltpoint]

7. How does a presidential candidate win support in the Iowa caucuses if

he opposes subsidies for ethanol? There are more pigs and corn in Iowa than votes for McCain, I believe.

And McCain, by all counts, is in a happy second marriage. Plenty of younguns all over the place, and one much-loved adopted daughter, too. What's it to him if two women or two men want to marry? He endured physical torture in a Vietnamese prison camp for years but he can't stand up to a pack of slobbering neanderthal fundies in his own party?

I don't want this guy to be president.

[cliss]

21. Your wish

is granted.

Actually, John McCain has a snowball's chance to become president. The main reason is that he is not in good health. He has recurring cancer (of the face)? There is some kind of cancer which keeps coming back on his cheek. He's gotten it operated (see the scar on the photo where he's hugging Bush). In some photos, he looks like a hamster with his cheeks stuffed with food.

Not gonna happen.

[saltpoint]

22. Hi to you cliss. I'm glad you are in a position to grant me my wish on

McCain.

Not a Republican, I could understand why New Hampshire voters preferred him to Dubya in the 2000 primary there -- and by a large percentage, too -- but since then there's been a marked deteriation in his "maverick" profile, destroyed completely by the stumping he did for Bush on the campaign trail against John Kerry.

McCain is smart enough by far to know that Kerry would have made the better president for the nation, but he opted instead for the route he felt would put him in the White House more easily.

Yuck.

Enjoyed your post & say thanks. Oregon rocks!

[cliss]

26. LOL. Thanks, Crusoe.

I agree. This is going to be a tough one..

[xultar]

8. I see the early replies to this thread don't see what JMc is doing.

First of all he's setting himself up to be the voice of the party. Second, he's setting himself up to be a truth teller which is what people want after BushCo. Meanwhile he's just as big of a liar and asshole...

Watch his statements in the next few months....you'll see. It is'nt as much about what he's saying as it is about why he's saying it and what his angle is and what he will gain from it.

[mitchum]

13. You are absolutely correct, xultar

he is positioning himself as the gop "reformer"

[paparush]

34. He's f*cking pandering to the hard-core righties...

no more 'anti-establishment' in McCain's message these days....he's feeding from the hate trough like a good lil brownshirt.

[Raine]

39. On target

that is EXACTLY what is going on.

[EST]

9. His grasp of the obvious is underwhelming.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

10. "We Republicans...

...are going to have a tough race in 2006 because the country is not happy with us."

But Diebold, ESS, Triad, and Sequoia ARE happy with you, Johnny Boy, and that's (or THEY, rather) is/are what COUNTS.

[cassiepriam]

11. Don't worry, you own the voting machines..... nt

[mvd]

12. But then he goes along with them at every turn

He's no solution to making the Repuke Party less radical.

[tulsakatz]

18. that's what I thought was incredible about this!

He knows they're moving in the wrong direction and yet he's unwilling to change anything!!

That doesn't seem like a reformer to me......

[tulsakatz]

16. they just now figured out that

we don't like the way they spend our money?

What took them so long? It only took about 6 yrs!!!

[pearl]

17. It's hard out here for a Pimp

and it's hard out here for a Chimp. Fuck You JOHN MCCAIN

[stanwyck]

36. great idea for his theme song n/t

[cboy4]

20. Must be why he's trying so hard to kiss Falwell's ass all of a sudden...

gotta get those fundy haters to come out and vote!

I am sooooooo disappointed in McCain. To think at one point, I actually respected him.

[cyr330]

23. Poor Asshole

That shit head just can't pander and whore around enough. First, he's wagging it around Liberty University, and then he's touting *'s tax cuts. I can't wait to see him go down in flames.

On edit: I NEVER respected him. I have always loathed him and now it's becoming clear what a fucking loser whore he is. . . .

[TheCowsCameHome]

24. And who's fault is that, John? Maybe it's the F-ups in your party.

[hatrack]

25. Gosh, you sure can't say that John McCain doesn't have his finger . . .

. . . on the political pulse of America!

You can say that he's a whore and a waffler and a flip-flopper and a shameless crusted cat turd who'll say anything, ANYTHING to become president and a Falwell ass-kisser and Bush's butt-boy.

But you sure can't say he doesn't know what's going on in politics!!!

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[lovuian]

27. Thats an understatement...

Lets hope all of you get you butts out of there you corrupt hacks!!!

[eauclaireliberal]

29. He must be taking a break from his daily fellating of W

nt

[No Exit]

31. Senator Obvious strikes again.

Would somebody please shut this asshole UP?

[judaspriestess]

32. All McCain wants to do is say he

ran for President at whatever cost. He apparently has sold his soul to the devil to have this opportunity and he is paying a dear, dear price. I find him rather sad.

[hogwyld]

35. Made my day!

I'm glad the pukes are going to get their asses handed to them. The only way it would be better is if the thug party joins the whigs and the bull moose party in relevance.