"That poll is just not true," McCain said of second poll that shows him slipping into single digits

[NNN0LHI]

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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Monday dismissed polls that show him slipping into single digits, arguing that his campaign is going through the typical ups and downs and will be fine this fall.

In an interview with The Associated Press, the Arizona senator also defended his support for a bipartisan immigration bill, a stance that has undercut his bid in early voting South Carolina. snip

A recent state poll showed McCain at just 7 percent in the race with top rivals Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, and Fred Thompson close to announcing. A survey in Iowa also showed McCain in single digits.

"That poll is just not true," McCain said in the interview, referring to the South Carolina poll. With "veterans alone, we are doing much better than that."

[Nickster]

1. Heh, and it's completely safe to walk through Baghdad streets without a flock of Marines.

[liberal N proud]

2. He has been in denial for more than 6 years

From the moment the bu$h smeared him in the 2000 republican primary, he has been delusional and denying it.
He still thinks he is the anointed one to take the king bu$h's place at the throne of Darth Cheney.
Cheney has not clued him in that nothing they say is ever a promise.

[KamaAina]

3. Polls, like reality itself, have a well-known liberal bias

NOT. :nopity:

[TwilightGardener]

4. I am afraid for his mental state as this goes on. Seriously.

[acmavm]

8. What? Do you think that guy's hitting on all cylinders now?????

He's already crazy. The degree to which is the only thing in question.

[TwilightGardener]

13. I know he's kind of emotionally unstable, but since Bush/Cheney

is pulling the football away from him again like Lucy to Charlie Brown, AFTER all the years of crawling and selling his soul to reach front-runner status (and then Thompson takes it, effortlessly)--well, I can't help but be afraid for his mental health. I do have a shred of sympathy left for the guy, even as I feel ashamed for what he has become.

[NNN0LHI]

12. I began wondering about him when he went and kissed Falwell's fat ass

Hell, the distance he kept from the fundie whack jobs was the only thing he had going for him before that.

Don

[yella_dawg]

5. I thought denial didn't come...

until after the swearing-in ceremony.

[Richard Steele]

6. With McCain around, I don't miss Katherine Harris as much. He's almost as entertaining. nm

[izzie]

7. His time has come and gone by and he will not face it.

Hard to make it on your father and grand father. I just do not think he is up to those two men and I am sick to death of family names getting people into the WH. With all these second rate people in our govt. we will be a second class country. It is always hard to figure out why it seem so easy to get second rate men in a group to make a mess and so hard to get men of talent in a group to do great things. I do know Tolstoy said it better long before me but he was ever so right. McCain should give up. He is to old any how. We need some new young thinkers.

[Turbineguy]

9. Well....

As in 2000 he's the most qualified republican candidate so it should come as no surprise his numbers are in the toilet.

[Prophet 451]

10. Y'know, this always baffled me

I've seen lots of conservatives do this: When confronted with disagreeable but irrefutable facts, they simply deny that they exist. Polls show McCain slipping? "No, they don't". Science shows global warming to be a fact and largely caused by human activities? "No, it doesn't". The US has been engaging in torture? "No, we haven't". It's almost ostrich-like, this ability to not even argue with the facts but just flat-out deny they exist.

Is it possible for an entire political stance to be delusional?

[Mist]

11. Will someone please escort Gramps McCain to nursing home? nt

[fazoolius_2006]

14. I will second that motion!