Mama McCain: Son Has No Support From Base

[kpete]

Mama McCain: Son Has No Support From Base
Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Transcript of Roberta McCain on C-SPANSteve Scully: This is a political question in terms of how he gets the nomination, but just from what you have seen, how much support do you think he has among the base of the Republican Party?

Roberta McCain: I don’t think he has any. I don’t know what the base of the Repub–maybe I don’t know enough about it, but I’ve not seen any help whatsoever.

Scully: So can he then go on and become the nominee of this party?

McCain: Yes, I think holding their nose they’re going to have to take him.

Scully: Can you explain?

McCain: Well, everything they’ve done and said. … Now I’m really popping off, but he worked like a dog to get Bush re-elected. …He’s backed Bush in everything except Rumsfeld. Have you heard other senators and congressmen backing Bush over eight years? Find me it–give me a name. I’ve not seen any public recognition of the work that he’s done for the Republican party.

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[patrice]

1. We CAN kick this guy's ass!

Did you hear what he said about China last night?

It was basically, "We should bend over, and . . . ."

Also, did you hear how many supporters Ron Paul had there last night? They weren't supposed to cheer, but they did anyway ("God" BLESS them!) and, as objectively as I can, I'd guess they were at least a quarter of that audience.

[MiniMe]

2. "he worked like a dog to get Bush re-elected"

Perhaps you have answered your own question. That and 100 years in Iraq.

[Ganja Ninja]

3. Wait, his mother is still alive?!!!

Did she ever meet Lincoln?

[MonkeyFunk]

4. I think she was his babysitter.

[Captain Hilts]

13. My parents knew McCain's parents in Norfolk Submarine Flotilla Six. "Junior" McCain...

was a great guy. I have issues with his son....

[GodlessBiker]

14. Maybe it's really his older sister pretending to be his mother.

[saltpoint]

5. I think this woman gets it. Her son is not much loved by the Republican

base -- they think he's a "maverick" even as we think he stepped out of some pre-WWII poster.

I guess if he wins Florida he'll be their "frontrunner" but it hardly feels inevitable. He sounds tired. He looks tired. He's carrying around a far-right life-time voting record, and he's as pro-Surge as they come with an iffy Keating-5 finance skeleton rattling in the closet.

Romney has more cash and may use it to eventually grind McCain down.

Huckabee's star seems to have dimmed, at least for now, hopefully for good, and should be sufficiently weakened to be much easier after Florida to subdue with Haldol hauled back to a locked ward where he can be assessed by a treatment team.

[polichick]

7. Tom Delay said this week that a McCain nomination would destroy the party...

I think it was on Hardball.

[saltpoint]

8. Yes. The far-right fundies would howl to have a "maverick" like McCain lead

their ticket, although one question I have is why MSNBC's producers have a slimeball like DeLay on their programs in the first place.

[polichick]

9. I wondered the same thing - and he even looked slimey...

...with a sick grin on his face.

Someone after the debate last night said there are really three Republican parties ~ the fiscal conservatives (few and far between these days), the strong defense/neocon faction, and the social conservatives. It's interesting how their candidates fit into one category but not necessarily into another ~ they're about as united as we are!

[saltpoint]

11. Good read, polichick, and may the division and confusion in the GOP

continue to tear them limb from limb between now and November.

[patrice]

10. How smart do you think Romney is?

He appears to be a policy wonk, but you can trip folks like that up if they aren't smart enough to have thought their issues through DEEPLY enough. I'm thinking he's kind of shallow in the intelligence suit and got to where he is in life with others filling in his lack of depth.

[saltpoint]

12. Very possible. He's not a very warm kind of guy. And there's that eeriness

and creepiness -- that droid quality -- that coats everything he says.

On the other hand, if he wins in Florida, it puts McCain up against the wall a bit. Huckabible seems to be drifting away in the polling, unless the fundie nutbags rally to his defense in FL and push him ahead of Rudy.

[polichick]

6. Besides working to get Bush elected and supporting everything he's done...

McCain is clueless when it comes to the way people feel about the war ~ if our candidate can't beat this guy, we might as well go back to the drawing board!