how much will this effect john McCain candidacy for president?

Angry Boeing supporters are vowing revenge against Republican presidential candidate John McCain over Chicago-based Boeing's loss of a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract to the parent company of European plane maker Airbus.

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1. I think it's going to hurt him a lot. I just read that article a few minutes ago. Not going to be good at all.
2. Very little if any, the people that will vote for McCain overwhelmingly don't pay any attention to issues, they just hate the democrats.
3. Not at all. In truth, he did the right thing and saved the US tax payer 6 Billion dollars. Boeing can only look to themselves for the loss of this contract.
4. It shouldn't just be Boeing's people, it should be every working American ticked off. I am A Rep. And I will NEVER cast a vote for this man.
5. What goes around, comes around! This will be big in the debates , when they happen later this year and John McCain has a big problem. He will cite cost factors, but it is better for America and the American tax-payers to have Boeing or another American company and pay a little bit more, because all the money payed keeps America working and the money goes into America's economy, instead of into a foreign country providing jobs for Foreign nation workers! This is another example of where John McCain is alot like George W. Bush, he cannot see the forrest, for the tree's! John McCain is directly at fault for losing these jobs to a foreign country and at a time when America needs every job it can get and keep, he is helping another country and their workers! In this case, European plane maker, Airbus! Should John McCain keep making these blunders, he may short-circuit and undermine his own chances at winning the presidency! Airbus, gets government subsides to beat Boeing for these type of contracts so do not say the bidding was fair as it is not! Only a fool or a person getting paid-off would say, John McCain was just trying to save the American tax-payers tax dollars! When you bid against foreign countries that subsidize their countries industries and workers, it is unfair competition! Just like NAFTA was and is, it puts the American worker and jobs at peril! Airbus is one of the worst, that unfairly subsidize, then say they do not...there is no way to tell as any other nation must take their word as proof, although they have a history of doing it! This contract could add up to a $100 billion dollars over the next 30 years! John McCain 's foolishness of praising George W. Bush and his failed policies are coming home to roost, before the Democrat-Republican debates even get scheduled in 2008, he may already be in big trouble as the economy is the number one issue at this time with the American voters! There is no such thing as fair bidding with companies of foreign countries anymore, subsidies can come in so may forms to off-set the real costs, it is impossible to know who is getting them and how much they actually save that company and allow them to under-bid another countries industry and workers! Airbus will receive substancial subsidizes on this project, thus Europeans are the benefitter's and the American workers and Boeing, the big loser! Thanks, directly to John McCain, the George W. Bush clone!
6. who cares about Boeing? They are the only American company capable of supplying the Air Force with what they need. They knew it, and tried to take advantage of that. Mr. McCain did the right thing. Next question.
7. John McCain abhors sweetheart deals. This just shows...once again...that he is willing to take a principled, though unpopular, stand. Stark, stark contrast with the panderers in the Democratic party (and for that matter Mitt Romney). I think it plays to his strengths. Anyone who's upset about Boeing's loss of that contract, should point their fingers at the now incarcerated Boeing executives who tried to defraud the American taxpayer. And don't forget that Northrop Grumman is an American company.
8. Too bad it happened after the primary in Illinois. Well, they can still vote for Ron Paul in November, even if they may have to write him in, if he doesn't run as an independent.