McCain Says Bush's Numbers Hurt GOP

[RamboLiberal]

Source: ABC News/AP

Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Thursday he believes President Bush's low approval ratings are hurting the GOP yet won't affect the party's 2008 nominee.

"I don't think there's any doubt that when the president's polling numbers are low that it harms the Republican Party in general, but I think that when it comes election time that the overwhelming majority of Americans will choose their candidate on the basis of that individual candidate's qualifications, vision and record," McCain said in an interview with The Associated Press.

The president's numbers have fallen largely because of his stewardship of the Iraq war. On Tuesday, 11 moderate House Republicans met with Bush at the White House and bluntly told him that the war was unsustainable without public support and that it was damaging GOP political fortunes.

McCain, a four-term Arizona senator, said that despite what he called Bush's mismanagement of the war, "there's no doubt that, in my view, the president's not given credit for a healthy economy" or that there hasn't been another terrorist attack on the United States since Sept. 11, 2001.

"But life isn't fair," McCain said as he relaxed with a cup of coffee in the lobby of a hotel near the Gerald R. Ford International Airport. He campaigned in Michigan on Wednesday and Thursday before heading to Chicago on his way back to Washington.



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[babylonsister]

1. Any one of us could be running for prezeldent and have figured that out.

McCain's insight is...boring. And no, life isn't fair.

[ForPeace]

2. Why just the GOP?

Bush hurts us all.

[emilyg]

7. Yes sir!!!

[soothsayer]

3. He went on to say that it wouldn't affect the election, so already backtracked

within the same interview? bizarre.

[Mz Pip]

4. Qualifications, vision and record

If that really is what people will vote on, then it sure won't be a Republican that they vote for.

McCain is getting senile. He has imaginary friends who he thinks are good decent Republicans. He needs medication because they don't exist.


Mz Pip
:dem:

[StarryNite]

5. Yet he keeps kissing *'s ass.

[callous taoboy]

10. * is the man John hates to love, loves to hate... help me

[StarryNite]

12. Yeah, I looked up flip-flopper

in the dictionary and there was a picture of McCain.

[fidgeting wildly]

6. Ugh.

I am so sick of that "There hasn't been a terrorist attack on the United States since 9/11" meme. :puke: Who was president ON 9/11, eh McCain?

And I'm not even going to touch his bullshit line about the "healthy economy."

[OnyxCollie]

8. Say John, aren't you forgetting the worst bioterrorism attack on the U.S.?

Remember? That silly, old anthrax that was sent in the mail? No? Don't recall?

Maybe the reason the GOP is hurt is because they're a bunch of dumbasses being led by King Dipshit.

[ryanmuegge]

9. Well, those came from the White House...so they don't count that whole episode.

...

[TexasLawyer]

11. It's not the numbers-- it's the reasons FOR the numbers

It's the unnecessary and disastrous war, the dead soldiers, the lying, the incompetence, the cronyism, the hubris, the hypocrisy, ...

and that's just off the top of my head.