McCain Can't Rally His Own Party 4 Votes

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McCain Can't Rally His Own Party 4 Votes
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Mon, 09-29-2008 - 4:24pm

McCain's own party doesn't listen to him. How is he supposed to "reach" across the aisle and "work" for the American people? Barack got 2/3 support. Which one has more clout? And once the American people vote out the GOP dead weight, more responsible GoP leadership should come. All McCain wants to do is point fingers, mark down names, and blame, blame, blame.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/14088.html

McCain takes credit for bill before it loses

By MIKE ALLEN | 9/29/08 3:37 PM EDT

“I've never been afraid of stepping in to solve problems for the American people, and I'm not going to stop now,” John McCain told a rally in Columbus, Ohio.
Photo: AP




Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and his top aides took credit for building a winning bailout coalition – hours before the vote failed and stocks tanked.

The rush to claim he had engineered a victory now looks like a strategic blunder that will prolong the McCain’s campaign’s difficulty in finding a winning message on the economy.

Shortly before the vote, McCain had bragged about his involvement and mocked Sen. Barack Obama for staying on the sidelines.

“I've never been afraid of stepping in to solve problems for the American people, and I'm not going to stop now,” McCain told a rally in Columbus, Ohio. “Sen. Obama took a very different approach to the crisis our country faced. At first he didn't want to get involved. Then he was monitoring the situation.”
McCain, grinning, flashed a sarcastic thumbs up.

“That's not leadership. That's watching from the sidelines,” he added to cheers and applause.

Wisely, in retrospect, McCain initially had been more modest. On Sunday, he said on ABC’s “This Week” that congressional negotiators deserve “great credit” for the bipartisan deal. “"It wasn’t because of me,” McCain said. “They did it themselves.”

But at almost the same time, McCain senior adviser Steve Schmidt was saying on NBC’s “Meet the Press”: “What Sen. McCain was able to do … was to help get all of the parties to the table. There had been announcements by Senate leaders saying that a deal had been reached earlier in the week. There were no votes for that deal.

“Sen. McCain knew time was short and he came back, he listened and he helped put together the framework of getting everybody to the table, which was necessary to produce a package to avoid a financial catastrophe for this country.”

On Monday morning, McCain campaign communications director Jill Hazelbaker said on Fox News that the deal would not have happened “without Sen. McCain.”

“Sen. McCain interrupted his campaign, suspended his campaign activity to come back to Washington to get Republicans around a table,” Hazelbaker said. “Without Sen. McCain, House Republicans would not have appointed a negotiator, which would not have moved this bill forward.

“It’s really Sen. McCain who got all parties around a table to hammer out a deal that hopefully is in the best interests of the American taxpayer.”

After the vote, commentators were harsh. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews said: “He’s like a cavalry commander who said ‘Charge!’ and the Republicans went into retreat.”




Edited 9/29/2008 4:59 pm ET by niteowl08

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Registered: 04-02-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 9:13pm

Why now?

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-02-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 9:15pm

Is Ron Paul still around?


Weasels those other men.


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Registered: 04-02-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 9:19pm

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Registered: 04-02-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 9:22pm
I have been buying as well.
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Registered: 07-15-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 9:24pm
And I know this sounds self-serving, but I think that buying is an overall help.
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Registered: 01-28-2004
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 9:59pm
Plenty of Dems voted no too. (95) Probably everyone up for re election voted no.
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Registered: 09-08-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 10:03pm

((Maybe just maybe Nancy didn't have to say anything either. Then maybe it would have passed))

What are they 9 yrs old? They need to Man up and Woman up to get the job done.

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Registered: 03-25-2007
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 10:22pm

<Plenty of Dems voted no too. (95) Probably everyone up for re election voted no. >


Not exactly.

Sopal

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Registered: 04-02-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 10:27pm

to apologize is silly, buy stocks now or in January it's a basement sale.

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Registered: 09-26-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 11:00pm

>>> McCain's own party doesn't listen to him.

Of course they do, but he's not the King of the Republican party, so naturally, they also take the best interests of their constituents into consideration as well.

>>> How is he supposed to "reach" across the aisle and "work" for the American people?

Um...by reaching across the aisle and working for the American people? McCain has a strong record on this...Obama has none.

>>> Barack got 2/3 support. Which one has more clout?

Obama did nothing. He was "nominated" as the de facto head of the party during the White House meeting. He babbled his usual rhetoric but has done NOTHING since. But since you think Obama has so much clout, and if he feels this deal is so important, and the Dems have enough votes themselves to pass it, then why didn't it pass? It's failure just shows how inconsequential Obama really is. He told them to call him if they needed him...I guess they didn't need him.

>>> And once the American people vote out the GOP dead weight, more responsible GoP leadership should come.

They will come...and they'll be sitting in the seats formerly occupied by the corrupt, incompetent, do-nothing Democrats.

>>> All McCain wants to do is point fingers, mark down names, and blame, blame, blame.

Sounds like an Obama campaign slogan. LOL!

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