Thread: Just what we DON'T need

John McCain's mission: A GOP makeover

Fresh from a humbling loss in last year’s presidential election, Sen. John McCain is working behind-the-scenes to reshape the Republican Party in his own center-right image.

McCain is recruiting candidates, raising money for them and hitting the campaign trail on their behalf. He’s taken sides in competitive House, Senate and gubernatorial primaries and introduced his preferred candidates to his top donors.

When the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy created a vacant Senate seat in Massachusetts, McCain went so far as to solicit former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling to run for the seat.

It’s all part of an approach that is at odds with most other recent failed presidential nominees, whose immediate response to defeat was to retreat from the electoral arena. But those familiar with McCain’s thinking say he has expressed serious concern about the direction of the party and is actively seeking out and supporting candidates who can broaden the party’s reach.

In McCain’s case, that means backing conservative pragmatists and moderates.

“I think he’s endorsed people with center-right politics because he has an understanding that the party is in trouble with certain demographics and wants to have a tone that would allow us to grow,â€

But what can you expect since he supports another jackass like Lindsay Graham.

Plain n Simple...He must be removed.

He has a hard time supporting any true conservative. What a jerk. I USED to like him but he has seriously turned me off. I guess I really only liked him because of the support for the military.

In politics, it is always one hand washing the other, i.e., you are loyal to me and I will protect you with all my power. What else is new? Palin can definitely count herself out of that group. Being a moderate is one thing, but being a traitorous fool that wants to bring this country down further by his pro-amensty legislation, the defeat of which he still hasn't learned from.