Thread: McCain Campaign Tanking

I stand corrected!

McCain Leads Romney in Early Returns

John and Cindy McCain visited a polling place Tuesday in Nashua, N.H. More Photos >

Published: January 8, 2008

Senator John McCain has won the Republican primary in New Hampshire, according to The Associated Press and several television networks, reviving a campaign that had been given up for dead just a few months ago and further muddying a Republican contest has now has no clear leader. He defeated the former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and the rest of the Republican field.

McCain Defeats Romney in N.H. Vote - New York Times

Having since seen McCain twice on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, I've come to like him a bit as a person. He likes laughing at politics and politicians, including himself. When Stewart took him to task for pandering to Evangelicals (something Mccain definitely isn't) in a pathetic and desperate speech at a highly conservative Christian college, McCain looked bashfully at the floor, and then started chuckling. Then Stewart and McCain and the audience all started laughing about it as well and not many candidates can pull that off.

He's less punitive with illegals than many of the other candidates, and at least his support of the Iraq war is consistent and based on his experience as a soldier (although I'm not sure what his "bring the troops home with honor" means specifically). His "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" (a la Beach Boys) joke didn't go over so well, either.

It was funny during the last Republican debate when Romney claimed to be the candidate for "change," having flip-flopped on so many issues in the past, and McCain just laughed at him, and then said mockingly "Yeah, you're the candidate of change alright." Romney looked stricken, McCain having obviously anticipated this belated and ill-advised attempt to get on the "change" bandwagon, which Obama is owning right now.

Here's a good clip of Stewart ripping into him over Iraq:

Video McCain bits from April 2007 - McCain, Republic, Presidential, Candidate, Iraq