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To: i-node who wrote (428450)	10/20/2008 11:09:59 AM
From: Alighieri	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570743

The Republican Party is more moderate today than at any time I can remember, and certainly, McCain as a candidate is. The GOP is anything but moderate today and the fact that Mccain has had to radicalize himself to get to this point is ample proof. Let's not forget that in the early days of the mccain campaign, the radical right was strongly against him. Icons of the radical right such as rush and coulter and other radio "personalities" were going as far as to advocate campaigning for clinton to setup a win in 2012 for a more extreme GOP candidate. Al

To: i-node who wrote (428450)	10/20/2008 11:39:29 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570743

The Republican Party is more moderate today than at any time I can remember, and certainly, McCain as a candidate is. Yet, he complains about the party having moved to the Right? Furthermore, the Democrat's candidate is the most extreme I can remember. And he signs on with Obama? Wherever McCain is, and frankly, I don't know where McCain sits these days, your party has moved right just as Americans are moving left. Look at electoral maps for the past twenty years for presidential elections......if anything, the country is becoming more blue, not red. I cannot help but think he was influenced by factors that aren't really bubbling up to the top. Almost for sure there is a racial component -- which is something I can understand. But there is more to it. You need to take what he said literally instead of spinning it in a way that makes you feel comfortable, and eventually, will allow you to repudiate what he said.

To: i-node who wrote (428450)	10/20/2008 12:54:55 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570743

David, I have several problems with Powell's remarks, but my main disagreement is this. If he thinks McCain's campaign has taken a negative tone, then what does he think about Joe Biden, the Dick Cheney of Obama, serving as Obama's attack dog? And does Powell approve of Obama's colleagues in the Senate basically playing the race card to avoid their responsibility in the current financial mess? How about the shameless attacks on Joe the Plumber, who asked a very valid question and got crushed by the media for doing so? Powell may like Obama personally, probably because of his roots as a community organizer. But how exactly is Obama going to change the tone of Washington when it's that very same tone that is getting Obama elected in the first place? Tenchusatsu