Posted on 01/29/2008 12:50:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
THE MCCAIN WAY: ATTACK REPUBLICANS
A Top 10 List
1. Defending His Amnesty Bill, Sen. McCain Lost His Temper And Screamed, F*ck You! At Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). Presidential hopeful John McCain - who has been dogged for years by questions about his volcanic temper - erupted in an angry, profanity-laced tirade at a fellow Republican senator, sources told The Post yesterday. In a heated dispute over immigration-law overhaul, McCain screamed, F you! at Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who had been raising concerns about the legislation. This is chickensstuff, McCain snapped at Cornyn, according to several people in the room off the Senate floor Thursday. Youve always been against this bill, and youre just trying to derail it. (Charles Hurt, Raising McCain,New York Post, 5/19/07)
2. In 2000, Sen. McCain Ran An Attack Ad Comparing Then-Gov. George W. Bush To Bill Clinton. SEN. MCCAIN: I guess it was bound to happen. Governor Bushs campaign is getting desperate, with a negative ad about me. The fact is, Ill use the surplus money to fix Social Security, cut your taxes and pay down the debt. Governor Bush uses all of the surplus for tax cuts, with not one new penny for Social Security or the debt. His ad twists the truth like Clinton. Were all pretty tired of that. As president, Ill be conservative and always tell you the truth. No matter what. (McCain 2000, Campaign Ad, 2/9/00)
3. Sen. McCain Repeatedly Called Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) An A**hole, Causing A Fellow GOP Senator To Say, I Didnt Want This Guy Anywhere Near A Trigger. Why cant McCain win the votes of his own colleagues? To explain, a Republican senator tells this story: at a GOP meeting last fall, McCain erupted out of the blue at the respected Budget Committee chairman, Pete Domenici, saying, Only an ahole would put together a budget like this. Offended, Domenici stood up and gave a dignified, restrained speech about how in all his years in the Senate, through many heated debates, no one had ever called him that. Another senator might have taken the moment to check his temper. But McCain went on: I wouldnt call you an ahole unless you really were an ahole. The Republican senator witnessing the scene had considered supporting McCain for president, but changed his mind. I decided, the senator told Newsweek, I didnt want this guy anywhere near a trigger. (Evan Thomas, et al., Senator Hothead, Newsweek, 2/21/00)
4. Sen. McCain Had A Heated Exchange With Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) And Called Him A F*cking Jerk. Senators are not used to having their intelligence or integrity challenged by another senator. Are you calling me stupid? Sen. Chuck Grassley once inquired during a debate with McCain over the fate of the Vietnam MIAs, according to a source who was present. No, replied McCain, Im calling you a fing jerk! (Grassley and McCain had no comment.) (Evan Thomas, et al., Senator Hothead, Newsweek, 2/21/00)
5. In 1995, Sen. McCain Had A Scuffle With 92-Year-Old Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC) On The Senate Floor. In January 1995, McCain was midway through an opening statement at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing when chairman Strom Thurmond asked, Is the senator about through? McCain glared at Thurmond, thanked him for his courtesy (translation: buzz off), and continued on. McCain later confronted Thurmond on the Senate floor. A scuffle ensued, and the two didnt part friends. (Harry Jaffe, Senator Hothead, The Washingtonian, 2/97)
6. Sen. McCain Accused Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Of The Most Egregious Incident Of Corruption He Had Seen In The Senate. It escalated when McCain reiterated the charges Oct. 10 in a cross-examination, calling McConnells actions the most egregious incident demonstrating the appearance of corruption he has ever seen in his Senate career. (Amy Keller, Attacks Escalate In Depositions, Roll Call, 10/21/02)
7. Sen. McCain Attacked Christian Leaders And Republicans In A Blistering Speech During The 2000 Campaign. MCCAIN: Unfortunately, Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore. The political tactics of division and slander are not our values They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country. Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right. (Sen. John McCain, Remarks, Virginia Beach, VA, 2/28/00)
8. Sen. McCain Attacked Vice President Cheney. MCCAIN: The president listened too much to the Vice President . . . Of course, the president bears the ultimate responsibility, but he was very badly served by both the Vice President and, most of all, the Secretary of Defense. (Roger Simon, McCain Bashes Cheney Over Iraq Policy, The Politico, 1/24/07)
9. Celebrating His First Senate Election In 1986, Sen. McCain Screamed At And Harassed A Young Republican Volunteer. It was election night 1986, and John McCain had just been elected to the U.S. Senate for the first time. Even so, he was not in a good mood. McCain was yelling at the top of his lungs and poking the chest of a young Republican volunteer who had set up a lectern that was too tall for the 5-foot-9 politician to be seen to advantage, according to a witness to the outburst. Here this poor guy is thinking he has done a good job, and he gets a new butt ripped because McCain didnt look good on television, Jon Hinz told a reporter Thursday. At the time, Hinz was executive director of the Arizona Republican Party. Hinz said McCains treatment of the young campaign worker in 1986 troubled him for years. There were an awful lot of people in the room, Hinz recalled. Youd have to stick cotton in your ears not to hear it. He (McCain) was screaming at him, and he was red in the face. It wasnt right, and I was very upset at him. (Kris Mayes and Charles Kelly, Stories Surface On Senators Demeanor, The Arizona Republic, 11/5/99)
10. Sen. McCain Publicly Abused Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL). [McCain] noted his propensity for passion but insisted that he doesnt insult anybody or fly off the handle or anything like that. This is, quite simply, hogwash. McCain often insults people and flies off the handle
. There have been the many times McCain has called reporters liars and idiots when they have had the audacity to ask him unpleasant, but pertinent, questions. McCain once
publicly abused Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama. (Editorial, Theres Something About McCain, The Austin American-Statesman, 1/24/07)
very troublesome indeed.
I don’t want hot head McCain anywhere near a trigger.
I can deal with that. - It was the totality of McCain’s recent political history that ultimately caused me not to vote for him today.
And 4 years ago, I was one of his supporters and thought that he should run in 08.
Sorry John, I couldn’t do it for you.
Good luck in your future endeavors.
My mom met him in 2000 and we were talking last night and she said he was very cold, unapproachable and seemed angry the whole time. She said she would never vote for him.
Bump for Floridah!
This guy is one sick puppy.
In my view the gravest damage McCain has caused is McCain-Feingold a broadside against our First Amendment right of freedom of speech.A broadside is where a naval vessel of old turned its side to the enemy and fired all its cannons at once in a deadly salvo intended to sink the enemy.
John McCain is descended from honorable men and he is a disgrace for this outrage if for nothing more.
My dad served on USS Saratoga (CV-3) and it was one thing when the fanatic kamikaze pilots put on their bandanas and flew into that ship and others.
It is something else entirely when McCain sets out to cause the most severe damage to our two-hundred-year-old First Amendment in the history of the Republic.
Freedom of speech means freedom for political speech critical of those who govern.
McCain's arrogance is a vile thing, driven by madness and unbridled ego, and he has directed his platform against the mother ship, America.
He's got more chain than he can carry and his vector is negative.
For many reasons McCain is not suited to be President. Then add in all his other negatives on things he has done, voted NO on and votes yes on that he never should have, and also the illegals and what he wants to do for them.
He is not what I would want for President.
While I regret some of you may be annoyed by what you feel is spamming this message on campaign threads, it is an important message on a key vote which needs to get out. Therefore, I've got to go with the overwhelming majority who is supportive.
It’s coming...
Tick Tick Tick...
KABOOOOOM!!!!!
Depends.
If my choice is to hand it off to Hillary, I'll take McCain.
Keep posting this important reality check.
the media have been helping Mc Cain to get the nomination now for some time, I only hope the people out there see through this arrogant phony, powertripping liberal and vote against him.
Mc Cain ,Obama are the media darlings and it is so pathetic to see the likes of sheperd smith from Fox name calling Romney to his own son Tag Romney.
The more attention he gets the better...
The pressure builds...
These 100 million illegals will vote for socialism/Democrats and the United States will be on the road to becoming a socialist state. The Soviet Union collapsed because of Socialism and so will the U.S. and we will all be starving but McCain and Hillary , Huckabee will have absolute power like Stalin did.
McCain has fought for over a decade for Amnesty for illegal aliens. He is a liberal/Marxist and he has fought for all these new voters to take away our right to vote him out of office.
McCain also with Soros’ groups fought to take away our freedom of speech with McCain-Feingold.
McCain is a Marxist/liberal and has always fought against conservatives and against the interests of conservatism,against the Republican party and against the interests of America. The liberal media hides his liberal record like they hide Hillary’s. Any Republican and any American has to be nuts or totally uninformed to vote for this Stalinist named McCain.
John McCain...
Keating Five
McCain-Feingold
Gang of Fourteen
Comprehensive Immigration Reform (shamnesty)
Global Warming Alarmist
Mentally unstable
No thanks.
The fact that were even talking about John McCain in the context of presidential primaries perplexes me: This is the same John McCain that tried to ram amnesty down our throat about six months ago. This is the same John McCain that keeps conservatives from using their first amendment rights. This is the same John McCain that derailed numerous conservative judges. This is the same John McCain that was censored by the Congress in the Keating Five scandal. This is the same John McCain that was nearly recalled by the voters of Arizona not that long ago. This is the same John McCain that graduated fifth from the bottom at the Naval Academy and just admitted that he doesnt know anything about economics. This is the same John McCain that has a violent temper, an elitist attitude and is hated by fellow senators and staffers, alike.
Um, hum. let me look...
Same crazy eyes...
Same lame stances...
Same back stabbing of the base...
Yup, it’s the same McCain...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.