What I think Limpball, Coulter, Shammity, et al are up to with McCain..

I think these people are up to two things:

The first is they are of course trying to pull McCain their way to show their importance to the Repthuglican Party and to try to impress upon McCain that he can't win without them. The second, and what I think is the more important issue, is that these people might just be willing to lose the presidential election this time around so that in the future anyone who dares run as a Republican must kiss their rings.

Because it seems to me that these folks all ready sort of believe that a Democrat is going to have a hard time undoing eight years of Bush and four years to wait for further entrenched power isn't too hard for them to deal with.

so it is a bad strategy.

I think they really hate him, because he is not to the right of Himmler, and doesn't belong to Opus Dei.

like they all are.

McCain's very existance places a frame around the core chickenhawk leadership & propagandists of the republicon homelanders...Shame on them all...

If the Repubs know they can't win statistically, then the people who are warning them about McCain will be the next "kingmakers" in the party.

In addition, they will have the added benefit of re-establishing the primacy of the Conservative (nutjob) wing of the party as being the true Republican party...

and, of course,

being "right" about McCain will translate into $$$$ from higher ratings, more book sales, personal appearances etc for the nutjobs. This is what I think motivates Limpballs the most.

if a republican gets elected they know things in Iraq and the economy will only get worse. They'd rather have a democrat to kick around. They are quite nostalgic and have missed that. Its easier to hate a dem then to pretend you respect bush.

or should I say cult followers.

If a Dem wins, they spend the next four years trashing them. If McCain wins, the country is going to continue straight down the toilet, so they can blame McCain for not being "conservative" enough. They'll spend the next four years saying "see, we told you so".

Maybe they know already that no Repub candidate is going to be able to win this time, given the Bush years and the collapse of the GOP. So they are throwing McCain overboard and when he loses, it will be, "See, we told you that our party didn't want him!" And all the blame for the failure will be scape-goated onto McCain. In other words, whichever candidate became the frontrunner wouldn't be good enough, either.

Meanwhile they will have a great time bashing our Dem president at every turn. Great for ratings.

to make McCain look more palatable to moderates and left-leaning independents. Why do you think they claim to prefer Hillary? If McCain wins the nomination, he drops his "independent maverick" act, picks a hardliner VP, and the GOP falls in love with him all over again. And If McCain loses the general election, the Rethugs can control Hillary through the DLC.

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rocknation

...but they'll do just fine, whoever takes the Oval Office. The RW media bottom-feeders are working to secure their own fortunes, first, last and always.