Friday, March 09, 2007
Rick Santorum: Anybody But McCain in 2008
Former Sen. Rick Santorum said he would support whoever wins the Republican nomination for president in 2008, with one exception: John McCain.
Santorum, who lost his Senate seat to Democrat Bob Casey in Pennsylvania’s November election, said it’s too early for him to endorse any GOP candidate. But he told politico.com: "The only one I wouldn’t endorse is McCain. I don’t agree with him on hardly any issues. I don’t think he has the temperament and leadership ability to move the country in the right direction.”
Over the years, Santorum said he and McCain have disagreed on campaign finance reform, environmental policy, tax cuts, immigration and other issues, and he feels the Arizona Senator isn’t as strongly anti-abortion as he would like.
Conservative stalwart Santorum’s negative stance on McCain’s White House candidacy is one more blow to his floundering campaign. As NewsMax revealed earlier this week, political strategist Dick Morris observed that McCain’s campaign is "fading badly” and "may be dying before our eyes.”
Santorum, for his part, has signed a contract as a Fox News contributor and is writing a book and producing a movie about the threat of radical Islam.
Former Sen. Rick Santorum said he would support whoever wins the Republican nomination for president in 2008, with one exception: John McCain.
Santorum, who lost his Senate seat to Democrat Bob Casey in Pennsylvania’s November election, said it’s too early for him to endorse any GOP candidate. But he told politico.com: "The only one I wouldn’t endorse is McCain. I don’t agree with him on hardly any issues. I don’t think he has the temperament and leadership ability to move the country in the right direction.”
Over the years, Santorum said he and McCain have disagreed on campaign finance reform, environmental policy, tax cuts, immigration and other issues, and he feels the Arizona Senator isn’t as strongly anti-abortion as he would like.
Conservative stalwart Santorum’s negative stance on McCain’s White House candidacy is one more blow to his floundering campaign. As NewsMax revealed earlier this week, political strategist Dick Morris observed that McCain’s campaign is "fading badly” and "may be dying before our eyes.”
Santorum, for his part, has signed a contract as a Fox News contributor and is writing a book and producing a movie about the threat of radical Islam.
# posted by Charles @ 9:49 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
McCain would lose to Hillary
A new poll from Newsweek has some interesting data on Hillary Clinton’s electability. According to the poll, Hillary beats John McCain 50 to 43 percent, squeaks by Rudy Giuliani 48 to 47 percent and trounces Mitt Romney, 58 to 32 percent. Her presumptive rival, Barack Obama, narrowly loses to McCain and Giuliani but thumps Romney as well, 55 to 25 percent.
That said, Hillary’s lead over McCain is interesting because of what it says about him. In previous polls the Senator from Arizona has handily defeated his Democratic opponents. But in recent months his numbers have begun to fall. Among independent voters, he’s slipped 15 points since March.
A new poll from Newsweek has some interesting data on Hillary Clinton’s electability. According to the poll, Hillary beats John McCain 50 to 43 percent, squeaks by Rudy Giuliani 48 to 47 percent and trounces Mitt Romney, 58 to 32 percent. Her presumptive rival, Barack Obama, narrowly loses to McCain and Giuliani but thumps Romney as well, 55 to 25 percent.
That said, Hillary’s lead over McCain is interesting because of what it says about him. In previous polls the Senator from Arizona has handily defeated his Democratic opponents. But in recent months his numbers have begun to fall. Among independent voters, he’s slipped 15 points since March.
# posted by Charles @ 10:11 AM
Thursday, March 01, 2007
GOP Blog Incensed at McCain Net Bill
Further fallout from the story mentioned here the other day about John McCain and Internet regulation…
RedState is angry at a new bill the Senator John McCain is pushing. While the left and the right blogospheres disagree on almost anything, one thing that binds them together is a hatred of ill-informed internet regulation. McCain’s bill simply does not make sense from a small-blog owner’s perspective. RedState reports:
Through a vaguely written last-minute piece of legislation, scrawled on a napkin by a staffer who could’ve used an extra Red Bull, McCain would solve the problem of online child pornography by regulating the heck out of the internet in the form of massive fines for sites that allow any obscenity to slip through. The target area includes everything from message boards to MySpace to (if the smart lawyers who don’t work for McCain are right) Redstate and other membership-based blogs.
The more you dig out of this piece of legislation, the more frightening it becomes. Bloggers could be forced to pay fines for not regulating the amount of spam on their blog – any links that make it through the obscenity filters could spark regulation and punishment – and in addition, according to the smart folks at the Center for Democracy & Technology, any membership-based site that allowed a sexual predator to register could be subject to penalties:
There is absolutely nothing wrong with protecting children from predators. This bill, however, does nothing substantive to reduce that risk and poses a threat to small blogs and websites.
The real question here is whether McCain knows anything at all about the ramifications of the bill. In other words: Is McCain just senile, or is he blatantly malicious towards the internet?
Further fallout from the story mentioned here the other day about John McCain and Internet regulation…
RedState is angry at a new bill the Senator John McCain is pushing. While the left and the right blogospheres disagree on almost anything, one thing that binds them together is a hatred of ill-informed internet regulation. McCain’s bill simply does not make sense from a small-blog owner’s perspective. RedState reports:
Through a vaguely written last-minute piece of legislation, scrawled on a napkin by a staffer who could’ve used an extra Red Bull, McCain would solve the problem of online child pornography by regulating the heck out of the internet in the form of massive fines for sites that allow any obscenity to slip through. The target area includes everything from message boards to MySpace to (if the smart lawyers who don’t work for McCain are right) Redstate and other membership-based blogs.
The more you dig out of this piece of legislation, the more frightening it becomes. Bloggers could be forced to pay fines for not regulating the amount of spam on their blog – any links that make it through the obscenity filters could spark regulation and punishment – and in addition, according to the smart folks at the Center for Democracy & Technology, any membership-based site that allowed a sexual predator to register could be subject to penalties:
There is absolutely nothing wrong with protecting children from predators. This bill, however, does nothing substantive to reduce that risk and poses a threat to small blogs and websites.
The real question here is whether McCain knows anything at all about the ramifications of the bill. In other words: Is McCain just senile, or is he blatantly malicious towards the internet?
# posted by Charles @ 10:16 AM
