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Dirty tricks in south carolina primary with bush operatives saying mccain had drug addict wife, he cheated and might be homosexual and that his adopted kid was a negro when in fact Bangladeshi

It was not pretty but in killed McCains momentum he had going

Ironic considering Mccain had much better southern bloodlines and bonafides than mostly Yankee Bush did though Mammy Bush did have gentry kin from of all places South Carolina..rich too

Think back to August 2008. I was a supporter os John McCain due to his service to the Country. I thought that he was treated badly by the Bush Family in 2000, and I was glad to see him get his due.How did the Bushes treat McCain badly? I recall it being the other way around. 6 posted on July 4, 2011 3:45:01 AM EDT by skr

Dirty tricks in south carolina primary

That clearly was the case. I wanted McCain to lose, but Bush played dirty pool to beat him in S.C.

While I was all to aware of his troublesome habit of "reaching across the aisle", I didn't care for Romney, finding him slick and disingenuous. I can still remember him trying to show us that he was a lifelong NRA guy (Boy, who wants to go to the shooting range for a photo-op this time around? Anyone up for a challenge from Sarah?) I thought Huckabee had alot of Elmer Gantry in him. Rudy and Fred Thompson got me excited, but when they failed to light a fire, I was happy for John McCain.
The pickings, I agree, certainly were slim in '08. But not so slim as to make me look past the fact that John McCain was wrong on the issues he seemed to care about the most.

McCain-Feingold? Unconstitutional, and damaging to conservatives.
Amnesty? Reagan tried it, and it backfired on us big time.

TARP? How'd that work out for ya?

"Prisoners of War?" The only legitimate POWs we had were from fighting Saddam before he went underground, and from fighting the Taliban. The rest were people who studiously avoided any semblance of adherence to the Geneva Conventions - and accordingly had no rights under the Conventions.
Again, the whole field of declared candidates was a farce. But McCain was a parody of a conservative candidate, and I understood Rush when he mused that McCain would do almost as much damage by winning as he would by losing.

I was not very informed about what actually took place. It bothers me quite a bit when politicians pull routines like this. If I remember correctly, Cindy did have a problem with some pain killers didn’t she?

At any rate, these were disgusting ploys.

McCain had every right to be angry about it. I think Bush should have been fair game for McCain to trash at every opportunity. Where I went south on that idea, is when McCain started trashing sound policy to get back at him.

That wasn’t just hurting Bush, but also the nation.

McCain has been a crusty old ass for decades. I would far rather have had Bush be president, but you win those things by merit, not using dirty tricks.

I’m no Bush fan by any means either.

Thanks for the refresher.