McCain's pullout has GOP worried - Mich. Republicans on ballot could be affected

[Bozita]

Source: Detroit Free Press

McCain's pullout has GOP worried
Mich. Republicans on ballot could be affected
BY CHRIS CHRISTOFF • FREE PRESS LANSING BUREAU CHIEF • OCTOBER 4, 2008


Michigan Republicans scrambled Friday to stanch potential damage to their election chances after Sen. John McCain's sudden decision to halt his presidential campaign, including TV advertising, in Michigan.

Some hoped McCain would resume campaigning in the state soon.

Others were downright mad.

"I don't know what McCain was thinking," fumed Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, a leading state Republican. "He's a general who left the battlefield in the middle of the fight. "I'm disappointed in his behavior; he's thrown a lot of good Republican candidates under the bus."

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[wilt the stilt]

1. Didn't they know

that John and the republicans are all about me. so naive

[msongs]

2. maybe its a fake so Palin can ride to the rescue - makes her look in charge or something nt

[bulloney]

10. That's exactly what I wrote on another post.

I think it's a big setup to make Palin look relevant in the campaign.

[elocs]

3. All I can think of is:

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :toast:

[HopeHoops]

4. "Remain in Michigan for 50 years? Maybe 100 years."

CUT AND RUN McCAIN! If he can't fight a war in Michigan, how can he fight the real war in Afghanistan? I know that is all superficial and stupid, but it is exactly the kind of crap they throw at Obama.

[Tempest]

5. McSame never told Palin about the pullout

She found out after the fact by email.

LOFL!!!

[HopeHoops]

9. "John, I'm pregnant again." - D'oh! Didn't tell her about the pull out!

[PATRICK]

6. GOP dilemma

is the reverse in every way of Dems in a certain presidential loss. The losing Dem could always meld his brave strategy in ways that helped downticket, especially defending the Dem base which existed in large concentrations in battleground states anyway. The last stand usually helped downticket. The McCain last stand is likely to open wide gaps of vulnerability down ticket and especially shake up a base that DEPENDS on the smugness of owning the top spot. Now Dole was not that disastrous downticket because they could separate ideologically and campaign wise in the new GOP majority phenom. This time the whole party is literally owned by the Bush dynasty instead of being an open election at all and is likely to sink with his aging incompetent crony and stifled "conservative" components.

This Bush grasp of all things failed is solely based on power and fraud and all things that now nakedly babble on its behalf. Further, there are no apparent voices or acceptable leadership for even a show of feeble revolt even with this full surrender to Bush. Sure, ANY Republican would have lost without the Bush machine, but there was no one left to try. The vacuum is near total, the defeat amplifying in its absence every day. The power and fraud the entire Nixon to Bush empire depends on would have to paradoxically vanish for the mythical GOP to pretend to exist again. Either way it appears very dim for any semblance of a legitimate party.

On a lower level, candidates like in my district, show Republicanism surviving by gerrymandering only to have that Rep. serve solely the interests of his corporate, non-local masters. That is the last stage of apolitical, despotic manipulation. Its collapse will leave a traditional over-propped GOP base wasted and leaderless as it has been economically wasted and able to be permanently won over by true service of their needs.

[UpInArms]

13. from your keyboard to the universe's ears

:toast:

[Ian David]

7. McCain cut-and-run from Michigan! He's a cheese-eating surrender-monkey! n/t

[radfringe]

11. he waved a white flag of surrender

is that his exit plan for Iraq too? cut and run?

[uppityperson]

8. I wonder if this makes any of them think twice about his judgement, voting for him.

[tanyev]

12. The Straight Talk Express is leaving skid marks as it hotfoots out of town.

"I supported John McCain and all I got were these tire tracks across my body."

[DainBramaged]

14. McLame is a surrender monkey! HE LOST THAT WAR!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[kcdoug1]

15. hummm

Why are these repigs so upset...This is what John McShame has done his whole life..

[radfringe]

16. enjoy....