Domenici: Iraq Caused McCain's Fall
Posted by Michael Link on July 31, 2007 at 09:15 AM
In a new podcast posted at the official Senate Republican Conference website, Senator Domenici speaks out about McCain's fall.
His message? That McCain is tanking because his support of the war and President Bush. Yes, it's something Democrats have known for a long time, but it's worth noting when his Republican colleagues finally start admitting it.
You can listen to the whole thing, but here are a couple excerpts:
Domenici: I think it's obvious that Senator McCain was much higher and has now come down and I think you can see it in just talking to him -- the tone of his voice, the way he appears, the way he reacts -- that things aren't going like they were a year ago.
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Caller: Do you think the fact that Senator McCain has supported the war to the point to have been so close to the president -- that that might have impacted his popularity?
Domenici: McCain's?
Caller: Yes, sir.
Domenici: Yes, I do. I think he probably he himself would sit down and go through it and would say that he dropped off by staying too close too long with the president for the war and that probably caused him to drop.
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Karl Rove hates McCain.
Bush hates McCain.
This man will never be able to mount an effective Republican campaign while these guys are running his party. Karl Rove is most likely going to be the Chairman of the RNC when Bush (finally!) steps down.
Looking forward to that?
I wrote Sen. McCain and voiced my concern that his campaign was headed south because of his vociferousness concerning Iraq and immigration. A candidate can support something that's not popular and keep it to himself. After all, there are so many other things he can talk about like getting rid of "No Child Left Behind." I told him there is a high school here in Lake Charles, Louisiana, called Lake Charles Boston, that had to shut down recently because of its overall test scores. Meanwhile, Chief Justice Roberts submitted in the recent Supreme Court school segregation case that "if you want to stop discrimination, then stop discriminating." Well, Lake Charles Boston is in the poorest part of Lake Charles and the students were primarily minorities living well below poverty. Without the means to succeed at home and at school, which kids in the wealthier parts apparently have, Lake Charles Boston didn't stand a chance under "No Child Left Behind." It is a class issue, it is a segregation issue, and I believe Sen. Obama domestic policy just right. He has a good deal of foreign policy just right for me. I'd vote for him hands down even though I'm a registered Republican. If Obama has only one thing the others candidates from both parties don't, it's tact--finesse. Finally, I urge the DNC to put its weight behind Obama. I just don't think we should tolerate -- much less to perpetuate -- the Bush 41, Clinton 42, Bush 43 Skull and Bones power exchange, culminating in a Clinton 44.
I think the Bush told McCain in 2000 if he would campaign for Bush and stay loyal to Bush that Bush would make sure he was elected President when Bush' terms are finish. I believe McCain believed him and Bush thought he could get McCain elected by sending out mail posted DO NOT FORWARD.
And putting them on a list of Not Elgible To Vote. And other tricks the Republicans have done to win elections.
Bush didn't think the Democrats were smart enough to figure their tricks out.
Nope, uh-uh, I disagree! McCan't was so far off on some distant plain on every single issue that he defeated himself.
It's really part of the shame that his country has become because he was running strongly ahead of Mr. Bush in 2000, and got chewed up literally. McCain, in 2000 was a completely different person, and I for one would like to know what really happened to him. He acts, at times, the way Yassar Arafat acting when just before he died. The past six years have been rough on John McCain.
While the U.S. government and media keep focusing on defense policies, campaign advertisement and the war in Iraq, 1.2 billion people in the world continue surviving on less than $1 dollar a day. I would like to see our current “president” and political leaders like McCain, support more international problems that affect our place in this world, such as global poverty. We should not forget the commitment made towards the U.N. Millennium Goals (a pact of ending extreme world hunger by the year 2025) in 2000. While the U.S. government and media keep focusing on defense policies and the war in Iraq, 1.2 billion people in the world continue surviving on less than $1 dollar a day. According to The Borgen Project, an annual $19 billion dollars is needed to eliminate half of the extreme poverty affecting the world by the year 2015. To my sense, it is almost unacceptable to have spent so far more than $340 billion in Iraq only, when we have more than war immunities to change the world and eliminate poverty.
McCaine caused his own downfall by first going against Bush and then second doing everything Bush ever asked. He went from Maverick to establishment. That is his fault.
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Who cares why McCain fails? As long as the fraud fails.
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