Comments on: Mac is Back

By: Let the King Reign « Submitted to a Candid World

Let the King Reign « Submitted to a Candid World — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:13:23 +0000

[...] McCain embraced his opponent and acknowledged the President-Elect’s mandate for change… to a chorus of boos. Since then, it’s fair to say that congressional Republicans, and presidential candidates, [...]

By: The Republican Party as a Shakespearean Anti-Hero « Submitted to a Candid World

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:27:07 +0000

[...] McCain, undone by his own impetuousness, and for failing to realize that the Republican Party was no longer a place for statesmen. To that, let’s add another one — though it doesn’t have to happen, a chain of [...]

By: Mitch Daniels Wades Into the Muck, Following McCain’s Now-Cold Tracks « Submitted to a Candid World

Tue, 03 May 2011 12:32:49 +0000

[...] Daniels will do nothing more than reprise John McCain’s tragic role: that of the good man, who loses himself to lose an election. The American public has rejected extremist Republicanism, time-and-time again. 2010 is not to the [...]

By: Choosing the Villain « Submitted to a Candid World

Choosing the Villain « Submitted to a Candid World — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:32:47 +0000

[...] That’s fine, but it ignores the evidence: McCain’s impressive leadership before and immediately after the campaign, and the numerous insiders who insisted, even then, that the pick was forced on him. [...]

By: george.wiman

george.wiman — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:57:08 +0000

How is it any excuse that he was constrained by handlers and party? The president is supposed to be a leader.

The ‘real’ John McCain told a repulsive joke about the president’s daughter, who was only 18 at the time. If I were Bill Clinton, they’d have had to pull me off of him. The real John McCain has always shot from the hip, navigated with his gut – by his own admission – gambled with high stakes. He never was presidential material.

By: Ames

Ames — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:39:03 +0000

True fact Kris… I think that’s exactly it. If McCain had picked Lieberman or Ridge – and MAYBE even Romney – and gone the moderate route, he would’ve had a VERY close race against Obama. But, McCain and co. were held hostage to the conservative Republicans…. and so it goes.

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:04:02 +0000

I think he could have won, too. He lost this election with the moderates, obviously. People like my dad and stepmother. They’re somewhat ecnomically conservative – though certainly not “taxes bad” zombies like my mother – and are socially liberal on some issues and more socially conservative on others. They’re in that tax bracket that “should” have voted for McCain, but according to exit polls, broke for Obama anyway. Maybe that’s because they’re in another demographic that went solidly Obama – those with post-graduate educations.

As the primaires were winding down, my dad told me he probably wouldn’t vote for Hillary, but that if Obama won the nomination, he would really think about voting for him over McCain. In the end, my dad and my stepmother voted for Obama, the final factors being the tone and message of his nomination acceptance speech and McCain’s choice of Palin.

By: Ames

Ames — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:35:24 +0000

By the way, do you guys think the real John McCain could’ve won? I do.