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McCain History, Switching Political Party
It ended up not happening, but in 2001, a few weeks before Jumping Jim Jeffords killed the republican majority by changing his party affiliation to Independent, Sen. John McCain considered switching parties when John Weaver, McCain’s chief political strategist, made overtures to key democrats.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was close to leaving the Republican Party in 2001, weeks before then-Sen. Jim Jeffords (Vt.) famously announced his decision to become an Independent, according to former Democratic lawmakers who say they were involved in the discussions.
In interviews with The Hill this month, former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and ex-Rep. Tom Downey (D-N.Y.) said there were nearly two months of talks with the maverick lawmaker following an approach by John Weaver, McCain’s chief political strategist.
Sen. McCain was testing the waters in 2001, and, by his voting and legislative record, has been building that liberal ‘base’ ever since.
If you are looking for a conservative to lead the party, this is just another thing to consider, and ignored by the mainstream media, on how conservative Senator McCain really is. Switching political party does not sound like something a ‘conservative’ would even entertain.
related link: Democrats say McCain nearly abandoned GOP
Is McCain Conservative Because He Says He Is?
For weeks now, Sen. John McCain is taking every opportunity to tell anyone who will listen how he
is a political conservative. His campaign will say it. If you have to tell someone that you are conservative then you are not a conservative.
After getting the endorsement of Gov. Schwarzenegger, CNN fawns over the moderate direction of the Republican party, citing Giuliani and Schwarzenegger as evidence that McCain is attracting moderates like them.
“McCain’s gains have come primarily among liberal and moderate Republicans as well as GOP voters under the age of 50,” Holland said. “Among liberals and moderates, McCain’s support doubled from 25 percent to 50 percent in the last two weeks. McCain also gained 29 points among GOP voters under 50 years old.”
We are witness to the intentional re-branding of the republican party. Where liberal and moderate republicans are called conservative, and conservatives are the ‘far right’ and ‘out of the mainstream.’ Just a small group to be marginalized.
‘There are people out there that talk about reaching across the aisle, but he has shown the action, over and over again,’ Schwarzenegger said.
McCain does more than reach across the aisle Governor. John McCain sits in their seat on major issues most dear to conservatives. Is that what conservatives do? Do conservatives just adopt liberal ideals in order to get along or are they guided by principles much larger than any political party?
His fellow Arizonans don’t think he is conservative.
“We do not consider him a conservative at all,” says Rob Haney, a Republican Party chairman in McCain’s home district. The candidate’s bus, the Straight Talk Express, should be renamed, Haney says: “We call it the Forked Tongue Express around here. He’ll lie about anything.”
related link: Recent John McCain History
Recent John McCain History
Have you noticed how the media seems to have selected a Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain? It is also apparent that you should not know the John McCain of last year, and the year before that, and the year before that. If the media thought that it was important, they would have told you by now. This man is no conservative. And if he is the media’s choice, then that should be a clue that he is not where the republican party needs to be going.
Aside from the several McCain positions that Ann Coulter illuminates below, I can add two more things he did, and does, to her list of why I don’t want the Senator to be President. It has nothing to do with his position on the war on terror and defense, except for his position on waterboarding, Club Gitmo, and constitutional protections for the Club Gitmo enemy combatants.
One is his little coup in the Senate known as the gang of fourteen. Designed to intervene in judicial appointments, and prevent the ‘nuclear option’ concerning them. Effectively obstructing the Executive branch in judicial appointments and nominations. Politically speaking, McCain is left of Arlen Specter for crying out loud. And the other thing that turns me off about McCain is that he hardly knows the Reagan he speaks of if he is willing to subjugate conservative principles to the furtherance of liberal principles in order to ‘enlarge’ the party just to get votes. Otherwise known as the end of the republican party as we know it. And you know the media is down with that.
Ann Coulter writes . . .
John McCain is Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism and youth. Like McCain, pollsters assured us that Dole was the most “electable” Republican. Unlike McCain, Dole didn’t lie all the time while claiming to engage in Straight Talk.
Of course, I might lie constantly too, if I were seeking the Republican presidential nomination after enthusiastically promoting amnesty for illegal aliens, Social Security credit for illegal aliens, criminal trials for terrorists, stem-cell research on human embryos, crackpot global warming legislation and free speech-crushing campaign-finance laws.
I might lie too, if I had opposed the Bush tax cuts, a marriage amendment to the Constitution, waterboarding terrorists and drilling in Alaska.
I’m beginning to see why he is the media’s choice. It’s not by accident that Sen. John McCain is the democrat’s favorite republican.
link: Ann Coulter
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Not to be outdone by the Perdido Key beach mouse, the flatwoods salamander is making claim in the Holley-Navarre fire district right where a fire station is planned to be built.
According to Holley-Navarre Fire Commission Chairman James Fix, the fire district will pay an expert $1,200 to tell them where wetlands are and if specific acreage given to the fire district contains land vital to the flatwoods salamander.
Saudi blogger ‘detained’ for blogging. Free Fouad.
And for a laugh, Mad TV’s alternate ending to the Wizard of Oz. h/t to Sheri
New Orleans Sees Progress, From Within
A success story for New Orleans and the citizens in the 9th Ward. A new clinic opened up there, in a nurse’s home. The other part of this story is to illustrate the point of how people taking action to help themselves can get the job done, and get it done far quicker and cheaper than the federal government can do. Hats off to Patricia Berryhill for making change in New Orleans, and opening The Lower 9th Ward Health Clinic in what used to be her home.
related link: New Orleans Nurses Turn Home Into Clinic
NewsBusted TV 1/22/08
Topics in this episode: Democrats’ race war in ’08 primaries, Romney takes Nevada, MSNBC acknowledges moonbat Keith Olbermann’s influence, the new Rambo movie, and more!
Today’s Special
Dennis Kucinich sure sounds like he’s stuck on stupid. He wants a recount. Wrong campaign Dennis. That was 8 years ago.
Democrat Dennis Kucinich, who won less than 2 percent of the vote in the New Hampshire primary, said Thursday he wants a recount to ensure that all ballots in his party’s contest were counted. The Ohio congressman cited “serious and credible reports, allegations and rumors” about the integrity of Tuesday results.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for making sure every vote gets counted. What’s different now is, I was all for it in the 2000 election too, but his party was not! That’s why hundreds of us were in front of the court house on election night to make sure that the military overseas votes would be counted. Some say that without our involvement and Joe Scarborough, that the election would have gone the other way.
Hear and see a stirring message from the man known as the great communicator. As relevant today as it was 44 years ago.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pbp0hur9RU[/youtube]
Does the name John Burt sound familiar? He is an anti-abortion activist 
who was tied to violence at abortion centers, like one where a a few people, including an ‘abortion doctor,’ were shot and killed. Most recently though, he’s been appealing his case on ‘four counts of lewd or lascivious child molestation and one count of lewd/lascivious misconduct around . . .
a 15-year-old girl in his care at Our Fathers House, a Christian-based boarding school for pregnant teens.
Burt, sentenced in 2004 to 18 years in prison has lost his last appeal available to him.
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Sir Edmund Hillary, First Man to Conquer Mount Everest, Dies at 88.
Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century’s greatest adventurers, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday. He was 88.
Sen. Clinton has a touching story about how she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, world famous adventurer. Even though she was born way before Hillary climbed Mt. Everest. She has another touching story about how that happened.
Then there’s the advice a 911 operator had to tell a caller at the scene where a mother, who ‘didn’t know she was pregnant’, had a baby on the toilet and tried to flush it away.
Is the baby still in the toilet? YES . Take it out of the toilet.
Thankfully, the baby was revived and is OK. Thank goodness for the 911 operator, she saved a life. 911 operators often don’t get the credit they deserve for having to deal with people like that.
Ever seen a ‘fainting goat?’ A clip of a news story about a most peculiar breed of animals.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we9_CdNPuJg[/youtube]
Hillary, Polls and Lessons Learned?
Today’s New Hampshire primary election was newsworthy and educational. Imagine a presidential candidate getting a bump for coming across as ‘being human.’ You don’t need the writers guild to take that thought somewhere. Some thought Hillary’s emotional moment to be the ‘Howard Dean scream’ equivalent, however, at least for now, it turned out to be good for her. According to everyone in the media, that was a warm and fuzzy moment, not a breakdown, and it showed she is human. That’s the same thing Terry McAuliffe, among the Clintons’ closest advisers, is also saying. So everyone agrees that portraying Sen. Clinton as being human is something that was needed, and helpful.
Can we stop paying attention to POLLS? 12 hours ago, Clinton people were lowering expectations, calling less than a 10 point loss would still be good. But that’s always the story. When you win you win, and when you lose you win. Turns out she won by 3 percent. Ostensibly a 13 percent reversal. I remember the good old days when these primaries got no more media coverage than reporting who won this one and who won that one. Period. Today, it is the only news for 24/7, and it’s only January. I’m beginning to miss car chases on TV, Britney Spears, and the latest on Anna Nichole Smith.
So what did Sen. Hillary Clinton, the most experienced candidate on the planet, with a 35 year record of change and experience, have to say about her victory in New Hampshire? You will be glad to know that just last week she found her own voice. She said . . .
“Over the last week, I listened to you, and in the process I found my own voice”
That’s a start.
Washington Post: N.Y. Senator Defies Polls, Edges Obama