Couric & Co.
March 24, 2008 5:04 PM

Katie Couric's Notebook: John McCain's Critics

Now that John McCain is the presumptive Republican nominee, some of his toughest critics are not on his left, but on his right. Prominent conservatives are criticizing his "ideological impurity."

But since when is it a weakness to cooperate with other parties?

For more from my Notebook, click on the monitor.
Tags:
katie couric ,
john mccain ,
notebook
Topics:
Katie Couric's Notebook
Add a Comment
by davidbthelen March 25, 2008 10:50 AM EDT
I changed parties and voted for John McCain. My wife and two sons voted for Obama and Edwards. However, I feel Hillary Clinton could also make a good president.
The real test of the leading presidential candidates is to bring this country together. We need to concentrate on solutions and not on mudslinging.
Baby boomers are aging. We spend more on type 2 diabetes care vs. Afghanistan and Iraq Wars combined.
Small businesses are the main engine that creates jobs in this country. Ever increasing health care costs is what is slowing the job creation in this country.
Many emergency rooms are completely filled. It should be a national priority to keep emergency rooms clear in case of a really big emergency.
Many homes are in foreclosure. Gas prices are too high.
Just like requiring the right chemo (or medicine) to cure a cancer (or disease.) This country needs unity and the right economic formula to reduce health care costs and repair our economic woes.
The Reagan economic tax cuts may not be the exact economic formula to repair our economic cancer; however, unity of all Americans may be part of the answer.
Good luck to all the leading presidential candidates and God bless.

Reply to this comment
by frb01 March 25, 2008 12:21 AM EDT
Rush Limbaugh lost my respect when he attacked Michael J. Fox for supposedly embellishing his illness, and Ann Coulter never had my respect. John McCain is a true hero, his time in a POW camp enforces that. He is also a politician with backbone willing to stand by his convictions, even if they are unpopular. Those that wrote him off, need to think again.
Reply to this comment
by petersemkiw March 24, 2008 11:19 PM EDT
"You can please some of the people all of the time,
You can please all of the people some of the time,
But you can''t please all of the people all of the time!"

John Lydgate, Poet, 1370 - 1450
Reply to this comment

Exclusive Webshow

Best-selling author Mitch Albom on his first nonfiction work since "Tuesdays with Morrie." Watch Now

About Couric & Co.

Go for a look behind the scenes at The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric for stuff we like and for surprises. It's also a place for you to post comments and join our conversation about the news.

Add to your favorite news reader
google
yahoo
msn