Word: mccains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Before anyone knew the name Barack Obama, there was a time when John McCain was a media darling. Though they’ve now been reduced to parody, the terms “maverick” and “straight talk” once really meant something to voters. McCain was not afraid to diverge from the Republican Party line, and he led the way in conservative support for embryonic stem cell research, gun control, and environmental causes. He gained a reputation for bipartisanship for his work on campaign finance and immigration reform. McCain represented a brand of conservatism...
...Unfortunately, in this recent election cycle John McCain himself appears to have forgotten why he ever became popular. In addition to adopting more conservative policy positions, he forwent picking one of his many moderate colleagues as his running mate—for instance, his good friend Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman—and instead picked Sarah Palin, the Governor from Alaska, who represents the rightest kind of right. Palin proved herself to be an embarrassment on the campaign trail, alienating voters as she demonstrated not only her love of unabashed oil-drilling but also her complete lack of preference...
...spent the last several weeks and months clinging onto my belief in the old John McCain, still hoping he could pull through as the change we needed. Yet as I cast my absentee ballot for the McCain-Palin ticket last week, I understood why undecided voters would find the Obama-Biden train more appealing. Somewhere along the campaign trail, John McCain lost his ability to inspire voters. I’m sad he’s lost, but I’m sadder that he played such a deliberate role in the reason for his defeat...
...virtually no part of me that is happy Obama has won. Still, the sense of hope that we progressive conservatives must now rally around is that Obama’s victory presents a chance for our own ideological rebirth. Ironically, it is to the vision of the old John McCain to which we must turn, or else we will be facing down many more disheartening election cycles like this...
...gives hope that we are on the brink of realizing this ideal. In the past eight years, Republican rule has undermined everything from America’s powerful economy to its esteemed position in the world, but the people have powerfully spoken in favor of change. While a divisive McCain campaign attempted to exploit every racial, ethnic, and class tension still extant in America, the politics of Karl Rove that succeeded in delivering the Republicans two consecutive presidential elections couldn’t be counted on for a third. Many may have believed that Barack Obama was too smart...