McCain Adviser Brushes Off Rove’s Criticism

Just wait untill he says he is a Democrate, and Obama is a Republican.

What do you expect from someone who said he is a liberal Republican before correcting himself? This happened in a town hall meeting this year. In his head, he’s a liberal Republican and to the outside world he portrays himself as a Conservative Republican. What a joke!!!!

I will vote for a republican and populist rather than a socialist, marxist, communist, racist that Obama is. Obama certainly is not a moderate democrat. Mostly, he is just a liar.

If McCain had stuck to his moderate roots, catered to the middle-of-the-road voter by promising a moderate approach to the future in policy, appointments and ideology, he’d probably win. I don’t know why he thought he had to appeal to the conservative right (I mean, who ELSE are the right-wing-nuts going to vote for?) when the entire country is looking for a shift away from Bush’s ultraconservative policies.
But he didn’t, he won’t and in that, he lost most of the middle-of-the-road voters (like me) who, while not thrilled about Obama’s leftist ideology, know it’s definitely NOT going to be the same as Bush’s BS, which seems to be what McCain, in most part, is pushing.
Kinda sad. I was in favor of McCain in 2000.

Sure he’s a populist.
In political terms that means he says what he thinks peple want to hear.
That’s a waffler.
That’s a hypocrite.
That’s an unprincipled liar.
But it’s not Presidential.
And neither is McCain.

Mary, there will probably hundreds of others who feel as you and vote for McCain, but I suspect that we will have Barak Obama as our next president, and I wish him well. Following what Bush has done to us, I fear that he’ll have the toughest job of any American president in history.

McCain a POPULIST? It doesn’t get any stranger than that statement. Unless, of course, the new definition of “populist” is “someone who thinks he’ll become popular by saying what people want to hear”.

What’s wrong with populist? Do you want a phony who eats his words to fit his political agendas or propagandas? BhO has fooled enough people in the primaries, to earn himself a spot in the typical dems presidential nominee club, or the losers club.

Isn’t Obama a communist? He’s on more T-shirts now than Mao.

One thing that is admirable about McCain was his friendship with the late Mo Udall who died of complications of Parkinson’s disease. Mo had a number of witticisms which were both self deprecating as well as funny and probably borrowed from other politicians. One of the best was the old one about a politician giving a speech and then concluding “Those are the principles I stand for and if you don’t like them I’ll change them for you.” McCain has learned this well. Some may call it flip flopping while others call it being an astute politician. By the way, the idea of a progressive income tax has been endorsed by main line Protestant churches and the Catholic church for a long time and goes along with the principle that from those to whom much is given much is expected. Government serves the common good and that includes the good of the common and promotion of the general welfare means everyone, not just the folks at the Pentagon or GM or GE. McCain is not a Populist and Charley Black as the ultimate K Street fixer wouldn’t know a real populist is he ever met one. The GOP has never stood for Grand Old Populism and the Grand Old Party now has a three fold identity crisis as the party of Greed Over People (cut taxes for the rich and the hell with everyone else); God’s Only Party (see Dobson,Hagee, Robertson and the late Dr. Falwell) or the more traditonal monied folks from Wall Street with two last names ( Cabot Lodge, etc) , at least 5 generations at Ivy Schools commonly known as Country Club Republicans but referred to as Gold, Oil and Platinum these days with particular emphasis on oil in the Bush Cheney administration.

Hum.. creating new jobs by lowering taxes on business. isn’t this the line that we’ve been getting for 8 years. Funny how taxes are not the solution. Taxes are not the reason our economy is being outsourced. Poor trade agreements are. And the lack of a pres with a backbone to standup for america. The GOP has messed us up good. It’s time for change. We need a forward thinking person. Have you noticed how all of McCain’s ideas seem straight out of 1970?! He’s talking coal mining and nuclear and war when we need clean energy and peace. Guess I shouldn’t expect him to think too far forward when he can’t even use a computer (his words not mine — look it up). I’m so shocked by the GOP.. all I can do when I read about this guy is think.. is this guy for real?! What a lame candidate.

So George W McCain is now a “populist”.
I already forgot what his campaign said he was LAST week or the week before.
This is getting confusing…gives me a headache.

John McCain is not a populist, the only people he cares for are the same people that Bush cares for.

The last paraghaph of this article is misleading. How would that benefit the rich. What is the difference do you think $3500 means to the poor and the rich???
Don’t be wonder why jobs are going overseas because our corporate tax is the 2nd highest in the world, not to mention union demands so much. Don’t be wondering why your job in a small business lose hours, or wages or even fired because obama wants to tax businesses so much!!
These people are in businesses for profits. If there’s no profit, they will go away or find ways to keep the profit. How is that so hard for liberal to understand.
Whoever wrote this article please don’t write something that’s not true. It’s misleading. You can state it as your opinion but don’t make it sounds like a fact because it’s not!!!

McWar will say ANYTHING to be president – he doesn’t care what he’s for or against. He’s CERTAINLY not a Republican – and neither is BUSH. That lot wouldn’t know Republican if it bit them on the butt with chromium teeth! I’m still hoping that someone will pick up the flag Ron Paul carried for so long. I want to ACTUALLY return to a small government with no FBI and CIA minding my business. You’re so afraid of terrorism – go live in Iran where there IS no terrorism. Leave me in America with my Freedom – the Freedom our fathers fought to protect and our sons are fighting to destroy.

Some people are really out of touch. What difference does $3500 make between a poor and a rich? $3500? I spend an average of $10 on gas everyday. That money will put gas in my tank for a whole year. Some people may have plentiful but $3500 is still a lot of money.

That’s a waffler.
That’s a hypocrite.
That’s an unprincipled liar.
That’s Obama.

It is becoming clearer and clearer that McCain can’t win. I rarely blog because there isn’t a single person that blogs that is undecided 99% of the time. The Hillary or death crowd that think they can give the appearance of widespread anger is always interesting to see. (Go PUMA) The Republicans blogging to push people’s buttons. I doubt there was a single person whose opinion was changed today by a blogger. Yet it continues as though it will sway at least one person one way or another. Elections won’t be decided by arguments made in blogs. However, I accept that it may be cathartic for some.
Reality check Point1 – Obama’s supporters will be at the polls.
Reality check Point2- Obama will vastly outspend McCain because Obama’s supporters are self organizing and will sacrafice to ensure he has all the resources he needs to campaign in 50 states. McCain has several hundred thousand unique donors. Obama has already passed 2 million (more on that when the campaign reports are released June 20)
Reality check Point3-Republicans don’t really care whether or not McCain wins. They may not want Obama to win but fewer than 25% of Republicans are reporting they are glad McCain is their nominee. That doesn’t translate into the grassroots activism required to effectively battle Obama. You can’t build those kinds of networks in 5 months. Ironically, the most fired up McCain supporters are disgruntled Hillary supporters. They will vote for McCain and may even give $20 but they won’t actively campaign for McCain unless it is obviousl Hillary related. That undercuts their ability to sway others.
Good luck guys and gals and HELLO PRESIDENT OBAMA!

That’s a waffler.
That’s a hypocrite.
That’s an unprincipled liar.
That’s McCain.
Just check his record!

So while he’s short changing the “CHIP” program in this country, his wife is dumping $$$ in Vietnam to help foreign kids. Maybe she has an investment or two over there.

@ pt: That is McCain’s experience talking.

If you are confused about the $3,500 deduction being more valuable to high income people than low income, it works like this: A low income family with a 10% marginal tax rate would see $350 of tax savings from a $3,500 additional dependent deduction, a high income family at a 30% marginal tax rate would see a $1,050 tax savings. As the article states, it is the difference between tax credits and tax deductions.