{"id":4631,"date":"2008-02-05T17:48:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T17:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/so-this-is-how-he-intends-to-u.html"},"modified":"2008-02-05T17:48:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T17:48:40","slug":"so-this-is-how-he-intends-to-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/so-this-is-how-he-intends-to-u.html","title":{"rendered":"So, this is how he intends to unite conservatives behind him?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/campaign-2008\/mccain-attacks-senate-gop-critics-2008-02-05.html\">McCain is demonstrating<\/a> his greatest weaknesses he lacks the discipline to hold his tongue and he&#8217;s too thin-skinned (sounds like Huckabee, doesn&#8217;t it?):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) took a swipe Tuesday at GOP senators who have criticized him during the presidential campaign, saying they \u201care not the most respected members of the United States Senate.\u201d<br \/>\nMcCain, who is the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination heading into the Super Tuesday primaries, was referring to comments made by five-term Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran and former Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.).<br \/>\n\u201cThe thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine,\u201d Cochran had told The Boston Globe after his endorsement of McCain\u2019s main rival, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. \u201cHe is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like he nailed McCain, doesn&#8217;t it?<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/1965486\/posts\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCain is demonstrating his greatest weaknesses he lacks the discipline to hold his tongue and he&#8217;s too thin-skinned (sounds like Huckabee, doesn&#8217;t it?): Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) took a swipe Tuesday at GOP senators who have criticized him during the presidential campaign, saying they \u201care not the most respected members of the United States Senate.\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>So, this is how he intends to unite conservatives behind him? - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/so-this-is-how-he-intends-to-u.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"So, this is how he intends to unite conservatives behind him? - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"McCain is demonstrating his greatest weaknesses he lacks the discipline to hold his tongue and he&#8217;s too thin-skinned (sounds like Huckabee, doesn&#8217;t it?): Sen. 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