Blogs For McCain

Why McCain Changed His Mind · 30 September 2006, 10:49 CET by Charles Vermeulen “Watch out for this fellow, John McCain. He manages to be both the…

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Safe Negro Report #3 Obama stands up for Habeas Corpus September 29, 2006 Posted by skepticalbrotha in Politics, George W. Bush, Hillary, Barack…

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The Madness of King George (Part II) Click on the shirt to find out just how long George Walker Bush has had his sights set on being a totalitarian…

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Which means that it’s time for the go-to McCain post: Who Among Us Wouldn’t Torture John McCain? I would be enjoying the emergence of Hugger McCain’s…

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For all the bad, horrible, miserable, painful things that have happened to George Allen these last few weeks, you’ve gotta figure that ads like this have to hurt the most.
And Giuliani, who offered these encouraging words for the Virginia Senator:
“You can take somebody’s career and you can do all kinds of things with it, you [...]

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Think the dueling staff announcements from McCain and Romney are getting a bit ridiculous? (Even Hotline is getting a bit jaded.) Well, this press release just crossed our transom…
Eighteen [Count ‘em, Eighteen!] New Hampshire Dog Catchers Join Straight Talk America
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Eighteen New Hampshire dog catchers will join Straight Talk America, forming a [...]

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Actually, it’s my hometown newspaper the Minneapolis Star Tribune. It will be interesting to watch them struggle to provide straight-up, non-biased coverage of the Republican Party for the next two-years leading up to the RNC:
If you believe the latest polls, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani will have the best shot at raising his arms in [...]

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From an article of the same title in The Week on September 22, 2006: Warning of an imminent bloodbath in the Darfur region of Sudan, tens of thousands…

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At the rate Senator McCain and Governor Romney are picking up alliances with key Republican insiders in early caucus and primary states such as Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Michigan, isn’t it becoming increasingly clear that Mayor Giuliani and Speaker Gingrich are likely to be running populist, outsider candidacies in 2008 that eschew the [...]

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From Hotline:
Sen. John McCain rolled out two more SC endorsements today, each with a very recognizable name. Strom Thurmond, Jr. and Carroll A. Campbell, III will serve as state co-chairs of Straight Talk America. The son of the iconic ex-Senator was appointed US Atty by Pres Bush and is now in private practice. Campbell, son [...]

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Why I Watch Fake News September 28th, 2006   Why would a person who has spent most of his life as a serious broadcast journalist watch Jon Stewart and…

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In response to this Red State story entitled “Mitt Romney Lies About Abortion” I thought I would reprint an essay that, although not mainly adressing the charges against Gov. Romney, addresses the history of Republican presidential candidates in regards to abortion issues post-Roe.
So without further ado…
Addressing the Abortion Meme
When discussing the candidates for the 2008 [...]

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Fans of R4′08 know that I loathe the “R” word, which I think is used way too much these days by pundits just to sell a book or make a headline, but Michael Barone is a smart guy, and he has some compelling numbers to back up his use of that-word-which-shall-remain-unsaid.
Barone demonstrates that 2006 will be [...]

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“…We do have a good economy, a good strong healthy economy, which is important to the American people,” according to John McCain on Face the Nation…

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Saint McCain is doing his lapdog dance again….
Yahoo News :
Sen. John McCain on Sunday urged quick confirmation for John Bolton as U.N. ambassador, saying the nominee is needed to talk back to "two-bit dictators" such as Venezuela’s president.
McCain, R-Ariz., joined lawmakers from both parties in condemning Hugo Chavez’s speech last week at the United Nations [...]

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Before you assume this is a far reach, recall just how many times you’ve heard a GOP politician suggest that opposition to the war in Iraq is akin to…

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The Washington Post is reporting that John McCain has specifically named some extreme measures that would no longer be allowed under the compromise…

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 An independent research group of notable terrorism experts, The Council on Global Terrorism has issued the US a grade of D+ in it’s fight against…

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RICHMOND, Va. - Sen. George Allen on Monday denounced as “ludicrously false” claims from a former college football teammate that he frequently used a…

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That’s right; we’ve had the Geneva Conventions to refer to for decades when it comes to the…

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A new Iowa poll buried in the catacombs of the Des Moines Register presents Republicans with both news good and bad as we head into 2008, with electoral success dependent on — get this — which candidate each party nominates. 
The poll tests general election matchups between four Republicans (Rudy, McCain, Romney, Frist) and four Democrats [...]

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What methods of torture were being employed by the CIA on terr’r suspects? 495 of the 535 members of Congress, including the Senate can’t tell you…

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Broder’s last column, praised John McCain for being “independent” and standing up to the President on torture. However, in the interim between the…

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Since I’m not able to blog much during the week anymore, there’s always way too much catching up to do on the weekends. So…the magnificently…

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Americans For Torture Speak Out An e-mail I received today: Dear Friend, Today, the pro-torture movement took a major step forward. The compromise…

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R4′08er Republius, as well as reader/R4′08 commenter LJ and Eye on ‘08 blogger Soren Dayton, two of McCain’s biggest boosters in the blogosphere, reply to my organization argument. Dayton writes:
Now, GiulianiBlog has responded quite strongly to this whole line of argumentation. He argues, in essence, that all you need is issues, bio, and personality and organization doesn’t [...]

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The battle over the detainee bill and the proposed clarification of common article 3 of the Geneva…

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Some call it an “agreement”.  Others prefer the term “sellout”. Senator Sell Out Surprise, surprise. The “rebel” Republicans weren’t so rebellious…

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Screwed Again Digby evaluates the torture-bill “compromise” between the Bush Administration and McCain-Graham-Warner (via Atrios): The “compromise”…

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Senator John McCain is poised to name David Roederer, a Republican activist in Iowa and President George W. Bush’s state campaign chairman in 2004, as chairman of his Straight Talk America PAC in Iowa, according to Thomas Beaumont of the Des Moines (IA) Register.
Senator McCain already has Terry Nelson, an Iowa native and former Political [...]

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