Is John McCain a poor candidate?

He seems terribly inept and lost most of the time to me.
He used to have a *modicum* of integrity and threw himself under his own Straight Talk bus years ago.
He's a poor public speaker with a notorious angry streak.

I find him to be a very flawed candidate.

Do you agree?

The rest of the Republican pack had no way in hell- can you seriously imagine the previously supposed front-runner, Guliani, actually winning the presidency? or Huckabee? Or Romney? Or Thompson? Come on.

PS- NEVER underestimate the Republicans. If we get too comfortable it will be our downfall.

Does it?

The Republicans should be ashamed. On the other hand, he is a perfect symbol of their party.

He lost this before he even opened his mouth. And talking doesn't help him in the slightest.

and has one of his moments of clarity...

sure, the other 99% of the time..

nope.

...sold his soul to look like Bush.

Some on reThug sights say the GOP is trying to through this election because of the similarities to Carter years.

All any Democrat has to to do is run as the "Not a Republican".

That doesn't sound very poor to me.

I think the term 'shitty candidate' works better :)

* has lowered the bar so much that a rotten banana actually has some appeal (no pun intended). In any case I strongly suggest that we Dems do not underestimate his support.

Partially because the 'No' vote wasn't getting any love. :rofl:

The question is somewhat vague. I will answer it in relative terms compared to the other major Republican candidates. McCain probably was their best hope if you consider the fact that only pro-Iraq War candidates had a legit shot at the candidacy. He has a rep as a maverick with the media. It doesn't matter if it isn't true if the media reports it that way. His war hero status makes it a little bit trickier to attack him on certain foreign policy issues than it would be to attack someone like McCain or Romney also. While he has flipflopped a lot, so had most of the other Republican candidates, especially Romney and Giuliani.

I think overall the Republican candidates were a weak crop, but McCain is one of the stronger ones out of that crop.

:D

badumpbump. I'll be here all week.

have picked from the crop that ran. He still has some tatters of the "Maverick" cloak he's been wearing for years.

who disagree with him and actually talk to them. Unlike the President to whom he sold his soul....


creepy.


I think he's a very weak candidate, but this is a very strange election cycle.

but he is indeed a piss-poor candidate.

And that's a very good thing. Especially now that Bob Barr is in the race. I'm hoping for a huge split in the 'Puke ranks, and an Obama landslide.

NOT :evilgrin:

not really anyway

Think about the last two months or so

Doesn't know shia from sunni
Doesn't know what Iran is up to
Lobbyist running the operation

Just bad. for all the caterwalling about the Dems fighting it out nothing compares to the number of people that Bush has turned off and when the light hits the "straight talk express" if the complete ineptitude doesn't make you bend over laughing his speaking style while knock you OUT for a long summer nap (he sounds just like a grandpa reading a bedtime story)...oh and don't forget that no one trusts the media anymore (let alone now that McLellan blew their doors off) so their covering for McCain (and they will) will have a negative impact on his campaign.

That being said it is going to be razor close.

:P

Remember when McCain was running his own campaign? Broke, disorganized, waaaaaay behind in the polls. Then all the sudden Rudygate broke and the powers-that-be found another lackey down on his luck and more than willing to sell.

This was the best the could find this year.

He is having trouble winning even white voters for god sakes.

The mere sight of that SOB drives me crazy...I despise him because he is such a phony, & becuase the MSM gives him a free pass...

;-)

But the GOP will be up to all of its tricks, so we have to be careful and campaign hard.

but Huckabee's presence in the race made it impossible for Romney to win.
It's a shame (not really), because McCain is a poor candidate.

independent by some so they threw him out there, but they expect to lose. They're saving their young guys for other races.

they all seem old and/or stupid to me.

Jenna Bush just married one, and her cousin George P. is another (but they are both a little too young at this point).

for his histrionic utterances & war raga's...I don't think it has near the impact it once did especially after the neocon excursion into the ME, but that is the kind of reptilian mind manipulation that both bush & McCain are & have been tapping into. Sadder still it gets any applause at all.