Posted on 09/03/2004 4:52:04 AM PDT by kattracks
NEW YORK -- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who has pushed for more civility in this year's presidential race, is warning that the biting, angry attack on Sen. John Kerry by a fellow Democrat at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night might harm President Bush's efforts to woo swing voters.McCain said the keynote address by Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) could prove as controversial as a speech by Patrick Buchanan at the 1992 GOP convention in Houston.
"I think it backfires," McCain said of Miller's rhetorical assault on Kerry. He added that it "makes Buchanan's speech look milquetoast."
McCain made his comments to reporters at a party he held after the convention's Wednesday session ended.
Buchanan's speech, in which he declared a "culture war" was under way in America, was thought by many Republicans to have hurt the re-election bid of Bush's father, then-President George H.W. Bush. The elder Bush lost the November vote to Democrat Bill Clinton.
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Yep, I've thought that since he first started running for POTUS in 2000. He's a loose cannon, IMO, and should never hold the highest office in the land.
Everybody I've talked to thought Zell's speech was right on the money, btw. Much better than the speech he gave at my high school graduation when he was Georgia's Lt. Govenor.
Zell Miller:It is not their patriotism - it is their judgment that has been so sorely lacking.
McCain's just practicing his lying-with-a-straight-face, an essential skill necessary to join the Democrat party.
I wish McPain would pick a side and get on it, This straddling the fence is tough on the scrotum.
For a military man, McCain doesn't understand the "mission."
He's lost it.
I wont go that far, but Mc Cain will not get my vote in the 2008 primaries for sure.
John Mc Pain, one of the infamous Keating 5 along with that astro"not" John Glenn being paraded around by Hari Kerry make nice symbols don't they.
The lefty reporters think time erases memory. It doesn't. Mc Pain is a darling of the leftist press and always will be.
John McCain is bi-polar. He's clearly not a man who maintains a full psychological balance.
It's been observed and said before... McCain is vain, camera hogging vain. There's nothing complex about this. I think it's pure envy that Miller's speech got more attention than his.
IMO Mccain, is slowing turning into another KKK Byrd.....Byrd use to be somewhat a decent man when it come to common sense and values, but it seems age and hanging around liberals messed up is mind. Byrd use do act like a southern D'crat, just as Mccain use to act like a Conservative.
Maybe the truth bothers the (Song Bird.)
You're right. Miller got more attention than McCain. So McCain now does what Kerry did, stab somebody in the back.
Buchanan scared ME with that speech.
EXACTLY what I thought...McMeany was the media darling as the liberal Republican and "suddenly" he lost the limelight to a conservative Democrat...and little McMeany doesn't like sharing the limelight with someone who can BETTER articulate the REASON to vote for GW Bush. McCain is panders to the liberals...Zell is telling the liberals they have lost their minds and way...
We need to trade McCain for Zell Miller and be done with it.
Thank God Bush beat out McCain... what a wusss...
Oh please.
Do me a favor and quote one of the lines from that speech that made it so "scary."
Hmmm one Democrat attacking another hurts the Republican!!!
Don't think so-- John.
That is why is stings so badly for the RATS.
Here's a few lines from a song in the great musical 1776 that apply here, I think.
Congress:
Sit down, John! Sit down, John!
For God's sake, John, sit down!
Sit down, John! Sit down, John!
For God's sake, John, sit down!
...
Congress:
John, you're a bore; we've heard this before
Now for God's sake, John, sit down!
Click -- Click -- Click -- the sound of the metal balls rolling through John (Capt. Queeg) McCainiac's fingers as he talks! The man is certifiable!!
Nah. I'm not gonna take the time to dig into the speech. I'm just saying that was my reaction when I was hearing it live.
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