Posted on 08/22/2004 10:40:16 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee
MCCAIN: You should be ashamed -- you should be ashamed of sponsoring an event with that man there who had attacked your own father.
BUSH: The man was not speaking for me. If you want to know my opinion about you, John, you served our country admirably and strongly, and I'm proud of your record, just like you are.
And I don't appreciate what he said about my dad, either. But let me say something, if you're going to be -- hold me responsible for what people for me say, I'm going to do the same for you. And let me give you one example.
Warren Rudman, the man who you had as your campaign man in New Hampshire, said about the Christian Coalition that they're bigots. He talked about the Christian Coalition in a way that was incredibly strong. I know you don't believe that, do you?
MCCAIN: George, he's entitled to his opinion on that issue.
BUSH: Well, so is this man.
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I still think it's possible Kerry promised McCain SecDef if McCain would not attack him. But for McCain to appear in one of Kerry's ads is just beyond the pale.
What do you mean "is turning into a real jerk"? He's been one for years and years!
Kerry wanted him for V.P.,so a Sec Def offer would NOT surprise me at all.But this stuff,allowed to hang out there,just prior to the GOP convention,does NOT ensure a rousing welcome for McCrazy next week...quite the opposite.
Yes, I'm waiting for some explanation of why he's in the Kerry ad. If he did not give permission for them to use his picture .. and for that matter .. they use the President's picture .. how can they do that without permission.
So what do you think is in it for buchanan and his latest book? The Ambassadorship to Palestine?
Well .. I've never been able to figure out Buchannan, and therefore I would never read his books. My impression is Buchannan would put a fence around America and tell the rest of the world to go to hell. That's just too unrealistic for me.
Okay .. if you say so .. and I agree McCain has some 'splainin' to do.
I say so.........believe me,I know this stuff.And yes,McCain REALLY has a whole LOT of 'splainin to do.
For what it's worth, the New York Post is reporting that McCain has asked Kerry to drop the ad featuring him.
And one other thing: did you know that one of the POWs the Dems are smearing for being in the second SVFT ad was McCain's Virginia campaign co-chairman?
He is according to the New York Post, you can always count on Old Media to never report that.
Nice editing in the commercial; the Kerry campaign must have hired Jabba the Hut (i.e. Michael Moore) as a consultant. I wonder how many burgers per hour Moore charges?
Confront lefties with the fact that there's no way to tie the single veteran McCain complains about to Bush personally, and that veteran attacking Bush's father rather makes it improbable, and eventually they'll claim that there's also a vicious "ad" that Bush threw against McCain. Not a campaign heckler, not a push poll, but an "ad". They never give any greater detail than that it happened in South Carolina. Exactly that happens on this thread at the Charlie Rose board:
http://boards.charlierose.com/board/topic.asp?ti=8028
Now, in the transcript, McCain informs us of the only "ad" that -he- ever found to be offensive.
MCCAIN: Well, let me tell you what happened. There was an ad run against me, we ran a counter-ad in New Hampshire, Governor Bush took the ad down. And then I was beat up very badly by all of his surrogates, called Clinton, called Clinton-lite, called every -- a hypocrite. I mean, you've seen...
KING: In New Hampshire?
MCCAIN: No, here in South Carolina. You've seen it -- turn on the radio, turn on the television, and unfortunately now pick up the telephone and you'll hear a negative attack against John McCain.
Let's all pause for a moment and appreciate the irony here: The -vicious- South Carolina "smear ad" that McCain charged Bush with, and that Democrats regularly decry as an outrage... was that he compared McCain to Bill Clinton. An incredible outrage!! A vicious smear!! How dare he smear McCain by likening him to our favorite President?!?!?
I think we can all understand why a Republican during a Republican primary would consider being called "Clinton-lite" to be a smear. But why Democrats are telling us that "Clinton-lite" is a vicious smear is absolutely beyond me. You'd think in their eyes, it would be a compliment.
Is there any real question as to -why- Democrats constantly repeat McCain's claim that he was "smeared" in an ad, without telling us the details?
I'm going to be laughing about this for a week. I couldn't make stuff like this up if I tried.
Qwinn
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