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We will meet at the McDonalds @ 10AM CST ( Chicago Time) located at

1203 South 11th Street in NILES MICHIGAN - to give John McCain a hand.

See you There! Durkin's Buying!

John McCain: One of Us!

For months, I have been posting about John McCain in his bid to become Our President. I identify John McCain with two Great American Presidents, Andrew Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt. Like Jackson, McCain is welded to personal Honor and devotion to Country.

My Illinois Blogging Pal John Rubery the Marathon Pundit has a coda

"One man with courage makes a majority." President Andrew Jackson

That about sums up John McCain, but there is more. Teddy Roosevelt who more than any one person made the 20th Century, truly the America Century once chided an Irish Jesse Jackson-type:

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. ... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. ... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else."

My family came from County Kerry and they all consider themselves to be Americans.

Family, Country and Honor = John McCain.

Click on my post title for a Washington Post article on John McCain and the American family/

John McCain Has Them Really Scared! DNC - It seems clowns can read as well as write smear letters

Hokey Smokes! Deano's Trackers is Tracking me! Understand this - I am quits with the Democratic Party - Nationally. I still have high regard for my neighbors and friends in the local Democratic Party and they can count on my financial, moral and physical support.

But the Party kidnapped by Deano and Moveon.org; Hollywood Ninnies; Abortionists; Lefty Think-tanks and 501(c) 3s and Trotskyites pretending to be labor leaders:SEIU is no longer the Party of Al Smith,FDR, Harry Truman, JFK, LBJ, Scoop Jackson, TIP O'Neill, and Joe Lieberman.

The DNC is a Clown Opera - Opera Buffa! Evidenced in the sad attempt to solicit money with the smear of a great American - Senator John McCain. Please look at my two previous posts in this matter.

Click my post title for John McCain's exchange with Tim Russert on Meet the Press. He more than clarified his position on Iraq. The clowns are trying to add to their numbers. Americans go to circus to watch clowns, but recoil from them out of those rings - especially the political ring.


Adios, Punchinellos!

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All the money in the world can not stop an honest man!

John McCain's Meet the Press Answer to Deano's 'Trackers"

Hat tip to ColeCurtis Monitor's Miss Vicki, A John McCain Warrior!

Yesterday afternoon, I received a solicitation from the Democratic National Committee for more contributions from me - that well done dried up after Howard Dean took the tiller.

It was a smear of John McCain's off the cuff remarks on America's presence in Iraq.

Click my post title for Senator John McCain's answer to Tim Russert on those remarks.

John McCain Really Has Them Scared: DNC Smear Letter

I contributed to the Democratic National Committee - past tense. Today, I was e-mailed this insulting smear of a great American, John McCain.

My return salutation is unprintable , but I went on to say that this smear of a Great American lost a voter. That is it for me. What was a Great American Political Party is in the hands of louses and sneaks. Harry Truman would have slapped the crowd of you clowns.

Here's the disgraceful letter attempting to ask me to contribute to the slander of a fine man. By the way, I saw the original video.

Dear Patrick,

John McCain may be feeling good about his victory in New Hampshire's primary last night, but you can bet video clips like this one from the campaign trail will come back to haunt him:


Can you believe it? Just last week, one of our organizers was at a town hall meeting for John McCain in Derry, New Hampshire. When an audience member asked him what he thought about President Bush's plan to keep troops in Iraq for 50 years, McCain answered, "make it a hundred."

This is why I love my job - this video was shot by Alexis, one of our "trackers" for the Democratic Party. Every day, trackers like Alexis travel from campaign event to campaign event, quietly filming the Republican presidential candidates and posting it online.
Republicans are so dissatisfied with their field of candidates, they can't make up their mind. That means we have to spend more time covering more people than we have before. That's why I'm asking you to help keep the Democratic Party's trackers and organizers on the ground.

Will you keep the Republican candidates on the record with a donation?

http://www.democrats.org/100years

You can always see our tracking video online right here...

http://www.democrats.org/FlipperTV

During the whole course of the campaign, McCain lost ground among independents over his stubborn promise to deliver a third Bush term on the war in Iraq. On this video, McCain makes that promise again. He not only interrupted a voter's question telling him we should "make it a hundred" years in Iraq and "that would be fine with me," he told a reporter after the event that U.S. troops could be in Iraq for 'a thousand years' or 'a million years,' as far as he was concerned."

That's why we originally hired people to track candidates in Iowa - and now that the caucuses are over we thought we'd have to lay them off.

But thanks to the 50-State Strategy and support from Democrats like you, they're still hard at work, making sure we keep catching everything the Republicans say on the campaign trail.

The more donations that we receive, the more employees we can keep on staff as we head into the general election. That means more tracking videos, more doors knocked and more calls made when the election heats up.

We're getting results. Just look at last night's results. Democrats showed up 2 to 1 over Republicans in Iowa, and New Hampshire saw a shortage of ballots in some locations because so many folks were voting in the our Party's primary.

The tracker's work isn't very glamorous - but it's important. Can you help keep people like Alexis in the field?

http://www.democrats.org/100years

We know the republicans are going to do everything they can to hold on to power. They won't give up without a fight, and neither will we. With your help we're going to win.
Sincerely,

Mike Gehrke

That's what Mike did with the dollars of Loyal Democrats - hired sneaks - 'trackers' for smear work. Disgraceful!
click on my post title for the full calumny.

John McCain - Mistreated by Matthews and Olbermann in Victory Speech Split Screen Slight - Milkey and Keef - Biased Bimbos

However, Romney will not go away soon - nor will his money. Romney's ATM Machine is still dumping dough into the Wonkosphere. That can't be helped. It's run on algorithms and those lads ran over my GPA back in the late 1960's.

Too many operatives in the extreme Right Culture of the GOP ( Hannity, Pain Killer Limbaugh, the Buchanan (filius et filia) detest McCain - Romney will be encouraged to pour more of his money on McCain's bid like hot coals on the noggin.

Not until McCain wins South Carolina. Michigan will be tough, but Wolverines are like Granite Staters - folks with their heads screwed on straight. The goofs go to California to make movies or run for office out of State.

McCain captures the hearts in the Great American Middle. The Left hate McCain almost as much as the Monty Burns Plutocrats on theFar Right - Shills like Chris 'Milkey' Matthews and Keith Olbermann e.g. - last night afforded full screen coverage to each concession speech, but when it came time for McCain's Victory Speech- the winner was squeezed into a tiny window of the split screen and competed with - static updates on Obama/Hillary which were also rolled at the bottom of the screen.

This mistreatment of John McCain by MSNBC was disgraceful. The McCain Campaign should direct some analysis and follow-up against Milkey Matthews and Olbermann. They are not the worst in TV Play News - but they'll do.

Just some thoughts.

John McCain - Is Off the Deck!

McCain is off the Deck and in the Air! Thanks to the great Voters of New Hampshire and the band of bloggers behind Brad Marston, Sheridan Folger, Huntsville Alabama's Miss Vicki, Mike Schuyler, Patrick Hynes,Tony GOPrano, and so many more great people, the Man Most Suited - Flight Suited - to lead America in Time of War on Islamist Terror is in Flight to Victory!


Click my post title for the Salon Feature on New Hampshire Victory!

Well Done, Senator McCain!!!!

John McCain - Good Guy! STNG's Jennifer Hunter - πρωτο-vox et proeterea nihil

The Chicago Newspaper cork-screwing into the loam, The Chicago Sun Times has branded itself as the Paper of the Pretentious.

No one better to scare off readers than Jennifer Hunter - like clowns and jacko-lanterns to two year olds!

While searching for coverage of the New Hampshire Primary and the Victory of John McCain, I was confronted with a Jennifer Hunter treatment of the singularly 'Good Guy' candidate. Mon Dieu! Treating a Regular Guy, like John McCain, with Progressive-Prose Pretentions is like inviting George Will to Keegan's Pub for Old Styles!

Thus:

Often described as the Senate's proto-hawk for his support of Iraq and other military interventions, McCain is

( Emphasis- my own)

Jennifer - save this pap for milquetoasts and Forrest Claypool who could read it to Mike Quigley. Those Shape-Shifters appreciate Classicism in their Classism. Lay Off John McCain!

John McCain is for fans of Bull Riding; Roller Darby; & etc.! n'cest pas?

John McCain - Warrior - Mitt Romney - The Guy from 'The Office'

Byron York -my that name smacks of Breed's Hill, The Green Mountain Boys, and Ducking Stools - writes a nice contrast of America's choices: A Warrior and a To-Do Lister.

John McCain spent the final hours of the Battle for New Hampshire inspiring the troops and promising 'No Surrender on the War on Terror' and Mitt Romney told every one that Washington is Broken. 'Call our Out-source People, ASAP and have memo on this task in my Blackberry by close of the Markets!'

We have a choice - John McCain a Warrior Statesman, a 21st Century Andrew Jackson, or the Guy from the TV Show The Office.


Click on my Post Title for Byron York's article

John McCain Leads In Dixville Notch - That's the Earliest Folks!

Brad Marston and His Granite State Volunteers have scored Early! Well Done Folks!

Hat Tip to Primary Monitor Blog - click Post Title for more and updates! Go McCain!

Dixville Notch got the voting under way. The results:

John McCain 4 votes
Mitt Romney 2 votes
Rudy Giuliani 1 vote
Barack Obama 7 votes
John Edwards 2 votes
Bill Richardson 1 vote
UPDATE: In Hart's Location...

McCain 6 votes
Mike Huckabee 5 votes
Ron Paul 4 votes
Romney 1 vote
Obama 9 votes
Hillary Clinton 3 votes
Edwards 1 vote

John McCain Understands Tom Boyle in New Hampshire and Yellow Ribbons in St. Cajetan's Parish

"If I didn't vote for a Democrat," Tom Boyle said, "[McCain] is the only Republican I feel I could support."

Brother Boyle, many of us traditional Democrats - the folks the Progressives pigeonhole and calumniate in their Snob-Speak as 'close-knit, Ethnic' code for middle class Catholics and Jews - are warm to John McCain's Straight Talk and Non-Profit Patriotism.


We are the people with yellow ribbons on the trees on our blocks - tributes to the little boys and girls who played sewer-to sewer Wiffle Ball and are now wearing Kevlar in Iraq and Afghanistan; the people whom the academics and media ridicule in
newspaper 'impact series' that pick scabs of racism or the War; and we are the people paying the taxes for the entitlements and pork-spending: Pipefitters, Electricians, Stationary Engineers & etc. who also pay for the disastrous Public schools while sending our children to private schools.

I hear you Mr. Boyle. So does John McCain.

Click on my post title for more on voters like Tom Boyle flocking to John McCain.


Courtney Greve wrote a wonderful report on the St. Cajetan Parish Tribute to Heroes held in our Parish on Saturday January 5th - the night of the First McCain Debate Victory.

Read this great Courtney Greve's wonderfully poignant article from the Southtown Star about the very people whom John McCain understands and respects.


http://www.southtownstar.com/news/728174,010608soldiermass.article

John McCain: Not-for-Profit Patriot

John McCain's Kodak moment came in the discussion of whether or not a Senator would be well suited to the Office of President of the United States ( Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy seemed to do pretty well, it seems to me).

This allowed McCain to straight-talk the seminal tag- line of this Election:
( From the Guardian - click my post title forthe complete article)

The contempt felt by McCain, war hero and senator, for Romney, a multi-millionaire businessman, was manifest throughout the 90-minute debate.

Romney opted to stress his own executive experience as a businessman and governor of Massachusetts, suggesting that his rival lacked this, having spent most of his life in the senate. "I've been in the economy. I've been in the real world," Romney said.

McCain came back immediately to say that he had plenty of experience of executive power. "I led the largest squadron in the US navy, not for profit but for patriotism." He indicated the biggest problem facing the US was security, fighting two wars, and he, rather than Romney, had dedicated his life to that. ( emphasis my own)

McCain boasted that he knew how to get Osama bin Laden and, if he became president, he would get him.

Romney, witnessing the success of Obama's message in Iowa about change in Washington, portrayed himself as a Washington outsider in contrast to McCain, with his years in the senate.

McCain replied that he had succeeded in changing the US approach to the war in Iraq, being one of the advocates of last year's surge strategy that saw an extra 30,000 US troops sent to Iraq, a policy he claims has helped to reduce violence.

Earlier yesterday, Romney, front-runner in New Hampshire during almost all of last year, acknowledged doubt about the outcome in the primary. He insisted: "I'm planning on winning in New Hampshire." But he added, "It may not happen."

Although Huckabee won in Iowa, he is unlikely to repeat that victory in New Hampshire, but he said: "We're going to do better than expected."

Ron Paul was excluded from the debate by Fox News. In the USA Today/Gallup poll he recorded 8%, down from 9% last month.

All the dough in the world cannot beat an honest Man!

John McCain - Primary Source for Truth; Mitt Romney - Cliffs Notes

Mitt's Lead Blogger had this to say about John McCain's Dramatic Lead in the Polls!


I noticed that Mitt's Video Rangers are using You-Tube Video Cuts of Gottacha McCain!

Click my post title for the transcript of NBC's Meet the Press.

I was always a read the book guy over the Cliffs Notes crowd - that is why I am one of McCain's guys.

Click on my post title for John McCain on Meet the Press