Source: AP News via Yahoo
On Thursday, John McCain uttered the obvious during a stop for the Jim Nussle (R-Iowa) campaign for governor. The message was, to be quite frank, that the country is very pissed off at the rubber-stamp Congress and lame duck White House.
The approval rating for Congress sits at 25% while GW's approval rating sits at 36% and is dropping fast.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Republican Sen. John McCain reaching out to wary conservatives, delivered some bad news to the party's core constituency on Thursday, warning that the midterm elections will be hard for the GOP.
"We Republicans are going to have a tough race in 2006 because the country is not happy with us," McCain said. "We have a 25 percent approval rating in Congress."
The potential presidential candidate, who skipped Iowa in his 2000 bid for the White House, campaigned for Republican candidates and met privately to court conservatives critical to another pursuit of the GOP nomination.
During his Iowa appearances, McCain refused to change his stand on issues that rankle both the party's establishment and conservatives, including his opposition to ethanol subsidies and a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
McCain's stands on certain issues could help or hurt him come the run for the White House in 2008.
During his Iowa appearances, McCain refused to change his stand on issues that rankle both the party's establishment and conservatives, including his opposition to ethanol subsidies and a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
"Many of our Republican supporters are not happy because we are spending money like a drunken sailor," said the former Navy man. "We risk not our base voting Democratic, but what I worry about is there being disillusions with us and (voters) staying home."
McCain faces some hurdles in Iowa, including his long-standing opposition to subsidies for ethanol production in a state that boosts the highest production of the renewable fuel in the nation.
He reiterated his opposition to a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, which the Senate is likely to vote on this summer. McCain said the only way he could support it is if the courts prohibit states from setting their own marriage laws.
"I intend to vote against it," he said. "I believe each state should decide."
I've been a loyal Democratic supporter for years, but I like McCain for several reasons.
He tells it like it is.
He's not afraid to take a stand on an issue.
He's a former P.O.W. and he would have more respect than GW does now for proper use of the military and their families.
He is a fiscal conservative, and this country needs a president willing to reign in the spending gone wild.
If the election was held tomorrow, John McCain would probably get my vote and my support, for that matter.
He's probably playing with fire right now though.
The GOP attack machine will come out in full force as one of its loyal members has committed the crime of thinking for themselves and speaking out.
I appreciate a politician that says basically that the Republicans have made this bed of absolute power and corruption, and now they must lay in it.
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