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Thats really going to hurt Mel Martinez, he isn't that popular her. And his two sons work for Thompson and Romney.

..and dismissive and nasty BEFORE the nomination, think of what he will be like if he gets the nomination. You bigots weren't necessary anyway and he wont have to "build the G--D-- fence anymore.

Immigration and taxes is about all the republicans have going for them in this election. Unless McCain is nominated. Then all he has is his support for the war. There goes his new base of independents.

Pray for Thompson.

I have not heard either rumor from the campaign, but from other internet sources.
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If this is true, McCain is pathetic. His whole campaign against Romney in New Hampshire was based on being truthful and not pandering. He's the worse because he does flip-flop and he does pander, but he is also a hypocrite for being so self-righteous.

He's the one playing semantics with amnesty. I'm really starting to not like the man. Conservatives will take him to the wood shed if he comes out of his amnesty closet.

I often read and hear glowing reviews of John McCain in the press. Most often, he is cited for his independence and courage. McCain is praised because he is not afraid to break with his party; because he stakes out independent positions; and because he is willing to support unpopular positions without concern for the political ramifications.

However, if John McCain is a conservative and he is truly independent, why doesn’t he ever stake out positions to the Right of the mainstream establishment GOP. I suppose an argument can be made for his support of the surge, but other than that, in twenty years, how often he broke with his party; staked out an independent position; or supported an unpopular position without concern for political ramifications because the position to far too conservative.

John McCain has staked out a claim in the GOP and displays his independence and maverick tendencies by moving to the Left and only to the Left. In his twenty years in the Senate, has he ever acted like a maverick for any hardcore conservative issue? If you are conservative and you are independent, wouldn't logic dictate that you may stray from your party once in a while because it isn’t acting conservative enough?

With McCain, he always feints Right and moves Left. He rarely deviates from the Republican status quo because he is too conservative. You may not necessarily agree with such conservative positions, but they do exist and you would think a twenty year career in the Senate as an alleged conservative and an alleged maverick may lead you to support such a position once in a while. He never does.

The truth is that McCain is not a conservative or a maverick at all. He has some predictable traditional Republican positions and some liberal positions. He is a status quo Republican unless he decides to move the party Left. He’s very predictable. He's not very independent. He’s not very conservative. And he’s certainly not a maverick.