AMERICAblog: The GOP nominee, John McCain, raised $18 million.
MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel
· 1 year ago
Here's how sluggish the RNC fundraisers are: One of my kids registered Republican months ago in order to vote against Mike Huckabee in the primaries. Our area is heavily Democratic. Not a single telephone call or piece of mail solicitation has arrived in my son's name yet. And I'd know, because typically I'm home most of the time. Not one. I've gotten zillions and zillions of calls and pieces of mail from the Democrats, local and national, which makes sense since I'm a regular donor.
Not one peep from the Repubs for my son. Not that he'd give them anything. But still, not one. Amazing. And encouraging!
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
And, in KY, more than 1 in 4 Republican primary voters refused to vote for him...why can't he win over the Ron Paul libertarians and Mike Huckabee fundamentalist Christians?
AdrianBrowne
· 1 year ago
Glenn Greenwald compares two ads for a Missouri Congressional seat:
"Republicans have really turned into complete caricatures of themselves and, as they take on the desperation typically associated with cornered rats, the way they've degraded our political discourse and political arena generally becomes more apparent. "Pathetic" really is the only word for it, . . ."
dciii
· 1 year ago
According to the LA Times Hillary's campaign is now 31 million dollars in debt. That 109 million the Clintons made in the last 7 years is drying up fast.
bluestockton
· 1 year ago
I never heard if that $109 million was gross or net. If it was gross, then they've been borrowing from an after-tax income of a lot less than $109 million. You'd think this hemorrhage alone would prompt Hillary to throw in the towel, before they end up back in the (gasp!) middle class.
1billinnj2
· 1 year ago
mcCain is so corrupt it is par for the course in the republican party. obama will make a great president.
And, in KY, more than 1 in 4 Republican primary voters refused to vote for him...why can't he win over the Ron Paul libertarians and Mike Huckabee fundamentalist Christians?
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Well, for starters, he has to campaign in those states.
I think that's a mistake by Axelrod, though I can sort of see him choosing OR in the KY/OR matchup, since the states are on the other sides of the country and he only had so much time.
Should have went to WV and taken his lumps, tho.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
I meant McCain, dear B_B.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Sorry, guess you were talking about about McCrazy.
Yeah, he has even worse problems than Obama with his party's base.
jr
· 1 year ago
"maybe I can sell the drugs I steal from my non-profit to raise money for you"-Cindy to McCombover
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Has anyone but me noticed that in the red state of KY, Obama still got almost 70,000 more people to show up to vote for him in his party's primary than McCain did for his? Why can't McCain fire up the Republicans?!?! Hmmmm?
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Some more evidence McCain weak in KY: only 13 people in all of Elliott County bothered to show up to vote for him; in at least 10 counties less than 65% of the votes went for him; one in 5 in McClean County voted for Huckabee. When will he "seal the deal"? How will he win over what should be his Party's base? When will pundits ask these same questions of their beloved Maverick that they fretfully ask about Obama?
OleHippieChick
· 1 year ago
McSCAM bears the bu$h curse: everything he touches gonna turn to zhit.
DCinDC
· 1 year ago
Do not even try to play fair with McCain. He has already planned on how he will cheat the system. He wrote the rules so he knows how to cheat them. Obama, Raise as much money as you can then spend it to bury McCain. McCain will do the same to you if he could.
moreleesafer
· 1 year ago
why is he not under indictment?
falloch
· 1 year ago
McCain's lack of funding, and apparent indifference to this lack, makes me nervous. Umbilically attached to Bush, perhaps McCrazy is awaiting the October surprise - e.g. Rumsfeld's 'we need another 9/11' - or such-like. McCrazy is not only attached to Bush (an inconsequential except by association), but to Cheney, Scalia, Perle, the PNAC crowd, so perhaps the visible lack of funds is not something to really sweat about. The boys will take care of him, in their own interests of course. In fact, in view of McCain's poor grasp of issues, like Sunni?Shia?, and 'I don't know much about the economy...', I think we're looking at another GWShrub in the making: Manchurian Republican-candidate with the same old puppet masters behind him! 'Funding? We don't need our stinking funding! ' (We've got our own...)
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Not one peep from the Repubs for my son. Not that he'd give them anything. But still, not one. Amazing. And encouraging!
"Republicans have really turned into complete caricatures of themselves and, as they take on the desperation typically associated with cornered rats, the way they've degraded our political discourse and political arena generally becomes more apparent. "Pathetic" really is the only word for it, . . ."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/20/chuck-...
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Well, for starters, he has to campaign in those states.
I think that's a mistake by Axelrod, though I can sort of see him choosing OR in the KY/OR matchup, since the states are on the other sides of the country and he only had so much time.
Should have went to WV and taken his lumps, tho.
Yeah, he has even worse problems than Obama with his party's base.