McCainiacs Rejoice
By Juliet Eilperin
MIAMI -- Thirty-five-year-old Charlie Delano has been a self-proclaimed "McCainiac" since 1999. Tonight, finally, he felt like a winner.
"Whoo-hoo!" Delano hooted as the television screens in the Hilton Miami Airport's International Ballroom displayed Arizona Sen. John McCain's win. "I've been in the bag for him for a decade, and this is the best night for any McCainiac."
Delano lives in Jersey City and works on Wall Street in a foreign exchange firm; last week he came down to Florida to volunteer for the campaign. As a former Massachusetts resident, he actually attended the 2000 GOP convention as a McCain delegate, since that year the senator beat George W. Bush handily in Massachusetts.
This year Delano doesn't intend to be a delegate, but he doesn't mind if people like Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) take center stage: "We've got the establishment this time, so all these big guns will be the delegates."
More important, he said, is that his candidate of choice -- who first impressed him nearly a decade ago with his handling of the conflict with Kosovo -- had won in a Republican-only primary.
"For years we've been told we can't win with Republicans, we can't win with conservatives," Delano said. "To come out and prove all of that wrong is just the sweetest feeling in the world."
Posted at 9:34 PM ET on Jan 29, 2008
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Posted by: jdossett | January 29, 2008 10:40 PM
THE MCCAIN WAY - ATTACK REPUBLICANS
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http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/news/presidential_briefing/?p=161
Posted by: buzzm1 | January 29, 2008 10:15 PM
Anyone who supports the Born Again, Faith Based, Pro Life Lying War Criminal Mass Murderer Serial Killer in Chief and the VP of Torture should never be in the WH. Anyone who supports wasting a couple of trillion dollars of taxpayers funds in Illegal Invasions of Sovereign States should never be our leader. If one had any courage, one would call for the Axis of Evil to be indicted for War Crimes. People who support Mission Accomplished is equally guilty in the thousands of murders. These Killers need to face Justice at the International Criminal Court. There is no Statue of Limitations on War Crimes.
Who Would Jesus Kill?
All of these Religious Psychos are Frauds. Only Ignorant Idiots would believe any of them.
http://www.un.org/law/icc/statute/99_corr/2.htm
Posted by: mawt | January 29, 2008 10:11 PM
Sorry. If Billary gets the D nomination, this democrat will likely vote for McCain. I'm tired of the Clintons.
Posted by: wohesq | January 29, 2008 10:05 PM
My comments are addressed not to the "true conservative" crowd, but to those I call McCain Democrats. I've heard many Democrats witter on about McCain's "integrity", and some even go support him in GOP primaries. Others, mostly Clinton supporters but some Obama ones too, threaten to vote for him in Nov if their candidate doesn't get nominated.
Stop it. You are like turkeys who vote for Thanksgiving.
Use your brains, Democrats. McCain is dangerous, he is your enemy, he is the GOP's stealth ticket to a totally unmerited third term in the White House...he is also the candidate of the military-industrial complex, of patriotism as a political bludgeon, of endless war. With no interest or knowledge of economics, McCain has thrived and can only thrive in a climate of fear. He is a worse fearmonger than Bush, he's up in Cheney's league.
McCain knows his career depends on keeping America in a state of permanent fake national security emergency founded on constant threatmongering. Moreover, he seems to be getting rapidly more irresponsible and cynical about it. At this rate he's going, he'll soon be issuing threats and ultimatums to foreign countries from his Senate Office.
Americans say they are embarrassed by GW Bush ... yet the same people think a man who sings "bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" to the tune of "Barbara-Ann" has presidential gravitas that will restore America's relations?
These Democrats who say nice things about McCain are the same idiots who gave GWB his 85% approval ratings after 911, the same idiots who made up the nearly-half of the Democratic party that thought invading Iraq would be really clever. You enabled the Iraq war and now - even while smitten with buyer's remorse over Iraq - you want to enable the Iran war.
Go join the GOP if you like McCain so much, dunces. Better yet, go join the Army...cos they're gonna be needing you if he gets his hands on power.
Posted by: kevrobb | January 29, 2008 9:49 PM
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I have worked with Senator McCain on a number of issues, and I genuinely like the guy. But, I worry about his fondness for war. If I must, I will vote for either Clinton or Obama, because our country really needs to take a long break from bombing other countries.