A new supporter for McCain
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- January
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Westchester Legislator James Maisano, a New Rochelle Republican, said today that he is backing John McCain, making him one of the first local elected officials to back the Arizona senator’s candidacy.
“Compared to other politicians, he has one of the highest degrees of integrity and honor,” Maisano, the legislature’s deputy minority leader, said about McCain.
Maisano had been a Fred Thompson supporter and had even pledged to serve as a Thompson delegate. Thompson, however, dropped out of the race this week.
A veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Maisano said he believes McCain would do the most to keep the military strong and fight international terrorism. He also respect’s McCain’s record as a fiscal conservative.
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Good for Jim. It shows he can think for himself, and is not part of the herd mentality that has caused such harm to the
GOP here in this county. Welcome to the cause.
not supporting tax cuts does not make one a fiscal conservative. sorry jim, that’s a fact.
mitt romney is the only gop candidate who can call himself a fiscal conservative. he has a record of cutting costs, slashing spending, and improving efficiency – in business (real world), at the olympics and in government.
he has the turnaround record that will make this country work again. washington is broken and our country is headed in the wrong direction. if ever we needed a turnaround, that time was now.
you can’t expect change by moving people from one chair in washington to another. we need an outsider with experience and results.
that person is mitt romney and he will the republican party’s nominee and the 44th president of the united states.
Its true Mitt Romney has the turn around record…He
has turned around on almost every issue you can think of!
McCain is a cooked goose. That’s because he’s now been
endorsed by the NY Times.
Also, Romney won last night’s debate hands-down.
It was his best showing by far.
ethan my good fellow…it is the independent voters
that will determine the general election…they read the
new york times…so do I..and I am guessing so do you
we may not agree with most of its editorializing..but
it is the newspaper of record for the country…I predict
a Mc Cain victory in Florida by not much…However even
if it is Romney by a nose, the February 5th states will
give McCain the delegates he needs..Romney would make a great VP choice except everyone in the party hates his guts
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NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll conducted by the polling organizations of Peter Hart (D) and Bill McInturff®. Jan. 20-22, 2008. Asked of Republicans, and non-Republicans who said they would vote in a Republican presidential primary (from a total sample of 1,008 adults nationwide). MoE ± 5.1.
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John McCain 28
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Mike Huckabee 20
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Mitt Romney 17
20
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Rudy Giuliani 13
20
33
30
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Fred Thompson 9
11
15
23
26
Ron Paul 4
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1
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Duncan Hunter n/a
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Tom Tancredo n/a
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Sam Brownback n/a
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Well, it is good to see that at least one elected Republican in NY State is willing to cross the NY State Republican Party, which I understand is still mandating that all County Chairs still support Giuliani, whose campaign should be over in about a week or two. His strategy was idiotic. The NYS GOP does this every four years in that it picks a candidate and forces that entire party leadership to support that candidate rather than encouraging an open and robust debate. Meanwhile, the NYS party is so weak these days it is a wonder that anyone even listens to the State GOP leadership.
Maisano always has been an independent Republican and votes his conscience, and that is how he survives in a very Democratic district, while the County GOP keeps losing other seats that are much more Republican leaning. Jim is more of a libertarian and is a fiscal conservative. The are only 3 Republicans left on County Legislature which is a crisis for the County GOP (you cannot count Bernice Spreckman who has 2 family members on Andy Spano’s payroll and is completely loyal to Dems).
McCain voted against Bush tax cuts because the budget was not balanced, which is a sound position, and he is a hawk against earmarks. I agree that Romney is also a good candidate, but I believe that McCain will emerge as the GOP candidate for President and will defeat Hillary Clinton in November 2008.
i liked mike’s suggestion about 2 more lanes on I 95. too bad he is out of touch with reality on the big picture. another republican anywhere should not be permitted.
McCain’s claim that he never put in an earmark is false. In 2006, the senator teamed up with fellow Arizona senator Jon Kyl to funnel $10 million toward the University of Arizona for an academic center named after the late Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist. Even Arizona lawmaker, Rep. Jeff Flake , said he was planning to “lean against the measure.� The National Taxpayers Union, another traditional McCain ally, questioned why the senator was making federal taxpayers foot the bill for the center.
In 2003, McCain also slipped $14.3 million into a defense appropriations bill to create a buffer zone around Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. As Roll Call reported in 2003, this project violated McCain’s own anti-pork rhetoric:
“The only problem is the project to acquire more land near the base was not requested by President Bush or fully authorized by the Senate Armed Services Committee – two of McCain’s criteria for identifying so-called ‘pork.”
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), a notorious porker, was overjoyed that McCain had joined his side. “One man’s pork is another man’s alternate white meat,� said Stevens. “If he asked for it, we put it in.�
Consultant, The NY Times in not the “newspaper
of record” for the country anymore. But it does remain the
newspaper of record for lazy and liberal media types who
take their lead from it…and that lead is always
a liberal one, as you know.
Being endorsed by the Times will not help McCain
in Republican primaries. It will have the opposite
effect. In a general election, and with Independents,
that situation may change. But McCain’s not there yet.
You folks should check out today’s NY Daily News.
Bill Clinton says he gets so nasty toward Obama
only because he is so in love with Hillary.
I guess it depends on what the definition of “love” is.
What was that Billy Paul song? Oh yeah…”Me and
Mrs. Jones.” Not to mention Monica and a string of others.
I am not willing to engage in a big debate between McCain and Romney. Both would be good presidents and vastly better for our country than the scary possible presidency of Hillary Clinton. The Clinton machine is only about accumulating power and using it to benefit their wealthy friends. I am in awe than anyone wants to return this self-righteous and dangerous bunch to the White House. Al Gore & John Kerry even seem better than Hillary Clinton. In my observation, she does not beleieve in anything, just votes and says what the polls tell her and would do anything or say anything to get and stay elected. Can someone tell me even one thing Hillary Clinton has done as a Senator for NYS besides using the seat to lay groundwork for her persidential run? She is the least accomplished Senator from NY in my lifetime. It is my view that McCain would be a better candidate in general election than Romney because of his popularity with independents.
Many of the NY State GOP Chairs are already delegates for the Other Presidential Candidates – as early as this fall these NY GOP County Chairs were lining up against Rudy.
Thus, a split was ALREADY in the works in the NY State GOP Party!
Oh by the way – Did I tell you that there is NO Republican Party in NY State. They barley made there rent on State Street last month. The staff is near zero.
and the reason is that the COnservative Party keeps dictating to the republican party who to chose as their
candidates…its the result of allowing cross endoresements
the Republican Party has been rendered toothless in this
State…but the result is that conservatives loose because
democrats keep winnning..liberal democrats…at least
if the Republican Party was a stand alone Party their
would be some alternatives..but as it stands now
that is not the case
Problem starts within the NY State GOP….Many, Many fractions.
One group of Chairs says Rudy is the Guy….Other Chairs go with McCain…Other Chairs with Huckabee….And still others with Romney..(Who by the way is close to pulling this victory off down in Florida from my understanding)..
NY State GOP should have kept everything “Open” for all leaders to discuss, interview each candidate, etc…(Moral purposes & Unity as a Party, oh I forgot there is no Party)
But, no….
A group of so called leaders, comes out for “Rudy for President” like “Tigers at Dinner” in their NY State GOP Press Release…GOP even changing the Primary rules to benefit Rudy of winner take all in delegates.
Just like they tried to shove Liberal Weld & Pirro down the throats of the State County Chairs, they will fail again. As most of the Chairs are Conservative and bank on these issues of importance to maintain their Party grass roots. (Upstate more so)
The NY State GOP will once again, have egg on their face come Wednesday morning. There will be nothing new about these State GOP news stories come Wednesday morning.
Jim you have it backwards..you start with the presumption that the REPublican Party in New York should be controlled
by the county leaders who are most conservative…and therefore toe the line of the conservative party chairman
you fail to deal with the fact that given two choices
one very liberal and one moderate, without the interference
of the conservative party, both REpublicans and Conservatives would chose the more moderate candidate
in NEw York allowing him or her to beat the democrat.
THat will never happen as long as Mike Long insists
that all statewide candidates be pro-life first…
as he did with Pirro….He announced to the world that
she would never get his support for the senate because
she was pro choice..Don’t you think that the REpublicans
ought to be able to pick their Senate Candidate without
the litmus test being imposed by a minor party…or
is this just a big game where COnservatives want to
control the agenda because if that is the case then
Republicans can never win an election in New York
FYI…
From Redstate website….Again confirming one needs Conservative Creditials to run in a Presidential Primary.
(Which is NOT Rudy….Hear this NY State GOP?)
According to latest SurveyUSA poll which includes Florida’s early voters (estimated at 29% of republican voters), McCain and Romney both received 30% of early vote with Giuliani getting 18% (so much for the myth that Giuliani’s surprise will be based on the lead he established among early voters.)
Among those about to vote, McCain leads with 30, Romney 28, Giuliani 18 …. It appears Romney benefits most from Thompson departure.
Gentlemen, Gentlemen…
The collapse of the NYS GOP came with the piggish behavior of one Governor George Elmer Pataki. In twelve years of power, he never built the party up from the local levels, using ideas, issues and patronage – he took care of his pals. Once he got tired of governing, he did nothing to protect his allies in office, leaving them to fend for themselves, facing the onslaught not of Democratic ideas, but Democratic demographics. That’s proven by Alan Hevesi winning re-election by 55-45 even though he was en route to resignation.
Second-place in the Who Killed the NY GOP goes to President George W. Bush. Once he figured he couldn’t get vote one out of any northeastern, he wrote ‘em off. No soup for you, NYS GOP. Rudy Giuliani played a selfish game, too – worried about himself first. Played with the 2000 Senate race, which was a free ride for him, and he could cuffed Hillary badly back then. Possibly beat her. But even if not, would have kept her from soaring so quickly statewide.
The answer is always the same – powerful pols who proclaim, on the way up, their commitment to party principles, but ulitmately never invest dime one in anything but their own careers. Then its see ya later, alligator, when they’re gone – unless they have a kid or spouse who wants to win for something.
Selfishness and dynasticism will be the ruination of America’s political system.
I see now that the state party is trying to manipulate the primary ballot, ostensibly to benefit Giuliani by purging it of cadidates who have dropped out. This is so typical. They are broke, they cannot recruit candidates or build the party, but they can try to manipulate the system for some transient advantage while the party continues to implode. They remind me of the South Vietnamese generals and politicians who were so busy staging coups and countercoups that they ignored the real threat, lost their country, and consigned their people to decades of persecution and suffering. Running a political party comes with a fiduciary responsibility to the electorate to present a viable alternative, and to keep an eye on the other guys. These leaders have demonstrably failed in their responsibility to the people of this state
RE: Comments by JerryO & bob cypher….
I could have not said it better…I have tried to say it different ways but you hit the nail on the head!
Putnam County will overwhelmingly support McCain, he is the candidate with true republican values. Rudy had lost all his steam and that is to bad.