tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post5192191940881548598..comments2024-02-24T00:37:43.087-05:00Comments on The Other McCain: The mysterious 'we'Robert Stacy McCainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03084541621503669804noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-18440475211522407902008-06-06T14:37:00.000-04:002008-06-06T14:37:00.000-04:00Talking about the Barr effect is more a parlor gam...Talking about the Barr effect is more a parlor game than anything. It's up to Sen. McCain to earn the votes of those tempted to check off the box for Barr.<BR/><BR/>One point about wanting a GOP leader to call for the repeal of NCLB, McCain-Feingold, and the drug benefit. Back in the Gingrich days Congressional GOP leaders shouldn't get enough of their caucus on board. Conservatives didn't do enough to convince more Congressmen to have the strength to back shutting down swaths of cabinet departments. Then when they lost the government shut down battle with Clinton they calculated the public wasn't as anti-government as they thought. Thus the rise of "compassionate conservative" George W. Bush.<BR/><BR/>The lesson to be learned is to fight to the death to never let big new programs come into existence since they're impossible to repeal.Sean Hackbarthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01006807330066437355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-74832597512266939332008-06-06T09:16:00.000-04:002008-06-06T09:16:00.000-04:00Right on RSM! If McCain can't build his own suppo...Right on RSM! If McCain can't build his own support in Nov, then maybe the republicans should have picked a stronger candidate. Of course, it's easier for them to blame someone else, like Ron Paulers or the Bob Barriers for not joining the fold.<BR/><BR/>Maybe the GOP folks should be out there energizing their crowd, rather than picking scape goats to blame for their failure.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785815875118444489noreply@blogger.com