Former senator predicts McCain presidential campaign will 'fade'

[Terri]

By Jim Brown
AgapePress
March 28, 2007

(AgapePress) -- A former Republican senator predicts Arizona Senator John McCain's presidential campaign is destined to collapse because he has alienated conservative voters.

A new Rasmussen poll shows former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani leading Senator McCain by 18 points in the race for the GOP presidential nomination. Giuliani now attracts support from 33 percent of those likely to vote in the Republican primary. McCain is supported by just 15 percent of those surveyed, while former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich -- even though he has not officially announced he is running -- is backed by 13 percent.

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[Amawalk John]

From what little I see of McCain, it seems the only people who are promoting his candidacy are liberals who, presumably, will vote for the Democrat nominee and thus want someone with fragmented support among the Republicans generally and virtually none among its bedrock constituencies. His liberal supporters among the electorate and in the press will likely have deserted him when election day rolls around.

McCain's campaign slogan should be "Let me be the one to lose the election to Hillary." Forgive me, but I don't think many will rally enthusiastically under that banner. I know I won't.

[jack virtus]

Amawalk i agree with you, the press (liberals) is still enamored with McCain, but assuming he got the republican nomination (which i see as nearly impossible) the same adoring press would turn on McCain like hungry jackals once he was against either Hillary or Obama head to head. To win the republican nomination you need the conservatives and McCain has done nothing but thumb his nose at us. If i were one of your opponents i'd keep showing those pictures of McCain and Ted (i'll have another drink) Kennedy.

[l1m89]

According to the former senator, McCain -- who has been a member of Congress since 1982 -- actively recruits and votes in a manner that moves the country away from conservative principles.

"That's not someone who's going to go out and then claim the conservative banner, as he's trying to do in this election," Santorum says of McCain. "So he's created a vacuum -- and as a result of that, Rudy's been able to assert himself."

Yea, Rudy's been able to assert himself
in a vacuum. While the successful former
Mayor is a most capable leader and savvy
politician he's still a liberal Republican.

While he's far better than anyone running
in the DemocRats Party Of Treason, he'll
be leading to the left and away from
conservative values.

To win the republican nomination you need the conservatives and McCain has done nothing but thumb his nose at us. If i were one of your opponents i'd keep showing those pictures of you and Ted (i'll have another drink) Kennedy.

I'll drink to that, later.

[papamac]

No McCain,No pompous liberal even further left Guiliani, No Romney the Kerry of 2007, who knows what he is really for. Soon the elites of our current WIMP party wll begin to see the light, No rino's, no more wimps. The nomination has to be between Hunter,Gingrich,Thom pson and Brownback, real Conservatives. To vote for any of the top three the elites(rino's) think they are going to ram down our throats will be no different than voting for babama or hilarious. It ain't going to happen. Don't waste our money donating to the rino's, save it for the Conservatives.

[Luckyme]

I certainly agree with the article. I'm hoping Hunter will get more recognition and Thompson will decide to run.

We need good choices; not what the msm pushes on us.

[MamaG]

Mention John McCain's name out here in the "boonies" and all you hear are snorts and groans, hisses and boos!! Between McCain-Feingold Election Reform and his alliance with the old Kennedy goat over what is rumored to be an immigration bill, and he is definitely not the choice anyone out here wants.

[rangerrebew]

McLame worked so hard to make sure terrorists had all the rights of Americans, then the Iranis shove it up his dark recesses, via the Brits, and show him what THEY think of the Geneva Convention. How would anyone like him dealing with terrorists he's tried to appease?