Comments on: Surging McCain Faces Conservative Skeptics

CBSNews.com Reports: Despite Early Wins, Conservative Establishment Has Yet To Embrace Republican Presidential Hopeful

[michaellitz2]

As soon as republican voters MEMORIES are jogged and they remember how John McCain pushed for the Illegal Immigration AMNESTY bill he will return to the kind of support that he deserves as a Presidential candidate - very little. Even after seeing and hearing the OUTRAGE of the American people regarding amnesty for Illegals he STILL SUPPORTS IT!!!!!!!!!!!

[bill1fj]

Why would anyone vote for mccain?
We all know that if he is elected president he will give amnesty to the over 20 million ILLEGAL aliens in this country.
NO AMNESTY
NO mccain.

From: A former mccain supporter.

[todd_i-2009]

I like McCain better after this article. I do admire someone who will stand up to his opposition.

With that said, I%u2019m still voting for Romney. He is also a man of conviction, however, he usually convinces others to agree with him. If he%u2019s wrong he changes his mind. That is one of his best traits. He generally surrounds himself with well educated people and he looks at a problem from various angles and through multiple advisors%u2019 eyes before he decides on a course of action. Washington needs this type of think (and more importantly%u2014doing).

[davidlar2]

I find the Republican position on immigration strange. The Republicans are supposed to be the small government party that favors a free market. At the same time, they want the government to tell employers they can''t hire the person they want to hire because of his nationality.

On another note, I have no problem with Romney being Mormon. The reason I won''t vote for him is that he seems to have the personality of a used car salesman- no offense to used car salesmen.

[one_american]

It''s pretty obvious that McCain is surging, but ONLY in the minds of the liberal press.

McCain will definately NOT do well in Florida, as Independents and Democrats (his only possible supporters) will not be allowed to vote in the Republican primary.

Republicans don''t want an open-borders, no-economic- expertise, Washington-insider, two-faced nincompoop as a nominee.

[joelbuckley2]

In 2000, when he lost to George Bush, John McCain got 237,000 votes in South Carolina.
In 2008, he received only 143,000 votes, only 60% of his 2000 total.
South Carolina voters like McCain even less now than in 2000.
He just managed to eke out a victory with only 33% support because there were so many other candidates.

He''s not another Ronald Reagan.
He''s another Bob Dole. An OLD war hero who''s been in the Senate too long, lacking in ideas, and likely to lose to Clinton in the general election.

[cbk14]

Surging? Since the latest polls show Romney surging in Florida, taking the lead over McCain, looks like the press is hyping their more liberal candidate McCain.

[kansas1946]

I would think that Tom DeLay and Rich Santorum being against you would be a good thing. And who the h e l l cares what Rush Limbaugh thinks?? He needs to just go back to his drugs and stay our of the big boy games.

[marcodele]

The conservatives had their way, and their poster boy, for eight years. It''s time for anybody BUT a conservative neocon hypocrite.

[rmonroe401]

I think I know what it is other Repugs don''t like about McCain. He has a conscience. He puts people ahead of politics, and I bet he doesn''t like conservatives very much. Can''t really blame him there!