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McCain has the right stuff
Grant Woods

Posted on 01/03/2005 4:33:54 PM PST by hsmomx3

Since we canot post articles from the AZ Republic here is the first line and the link that follows:

Arizona Senator John McCain should be the next president of the United States of America.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/0102woods1202.html


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; backstabber; barf; barfalert; betrayal; camerahound; elections; gag; gagmewithaspoon; hebetrayedus; kissmyassmccain; loser; mccain; politics; pompousfool; thewrongstuff; woods
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To: hsmomx3

McCain is a sellout.


61 posted on 01/03/2005 5:00:15 PM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens.)
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To: SoDak

If McCain runs, I predict an implosion 6 weeks into his campaign...


62 posted on 01/03/2005 5:02:49 PM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: hsmomx3
McCainiac is a two-faced jerk and an idiot.

I wish he would dry up and blow away.
63 posted on 01/03/2005 5:03:16 PM PST by AlexW
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To: LachlanMinnesota

That very well could be, but also, remember, the MSM will be anointing him, because they know he'll do our party damage.


64 posted on 01/03/2005 5:04:48 PM PST by SoDak (Monthly Donor)
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To: Solamente

Compliments to the excellent RINO artist...and slaps upside the head to McCain mutiny.


65 posted on 01/03/2005 5:05:09 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (REMEMBER THE ALGOREAMO--relentlessly hammer on the TRUTH, like the Dems demand recounts)
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To: mombonn
I have a pet dove in the back yard that could.....
66 posted on 01/03/2005 5:05:13 PM PST by rodguy911 (rodguy911:First let's get rid of the UN and then the ACLU, or vice versa..)
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To: hsmomx3
The key to George W. Bush's presidency has been the fact that he doesn't give a happy rat's hindquarters what the media say about him.

Can anyone claim with a straight face that this is true of John McCain?

Give him two months as POTUS and he will be winning major Strange New Respect from the Old Media. He would start with Standing Up to the Christian Right on social issues, and then raise taxes. Bet on it.

67 posted on 01/03/2005 5:06:14 PM PST by Southern Federalist
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To: hsmomx3

I will NEVER vote for McCain. I don't see him as any better than a Gore or a Kerry or even a hillary. He's a Demoncrat in drag.


68 posted on 01/03/2005 5:07:55 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: tet68
I honor John McCain for his service to our nation, but I believe that no person held under communist indoctrination for YEARS has ANY place in our government.

ESPECIALLY when it turns out he got special medical/etc. and reduced torture treatment from them in exchange for his special cooperation and letting himself be used like Hanoi Jane was! Fonda-Kerry was worse but McCain is NO war hero, contrary to popular legend....
69 posted on 01/03/2005 5:08:28 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (REMEMBER THE ALGOREAMO--relentlessly hammer on the TRUTH, like the Dems demand recounts)
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To: hsmomx3

I would never vote for McCain. Period. He's an ego maniac who cares only for himself. Not to mention that he's as big of a freedom grabber as Feinstein.


70 posted on 01/03/2005 5:09:33 PM PST by Dan from Michigan ("Don't flatter yourself - peewee!" - Tango and Cash)
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To: hsmomx3
Arizona Senator John McCain should be the next president of the United States of America.

No.

71 posted on 01/03/2005 5:09:53 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: hsmomx3

You want this piece of crap to be our next President?

KEEP READING!

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John McCain is, and as such, his character can and should be examined.

What is the real story behind his days as a POW? The U.S. Veteran Dispatch had an article in June of 1996 entitled "POW Songbird McCain Wrongly Described As A Hero." It recounted numerous instances where John McCain violated the Military Coda of Conduct, which specifically orders American personnel to give the enemy no information other than name, rank, serial number, and date of birth. It requires that they accept no favors from the enemy, and to make no written or oral statement disloyal to the United States.

The fact is, in exchange for better medical treatment, McCain violated this code four days after being captured on Oct. 26, 1967. In a U.S. News and World Report interview dated May 14, 1973, two months after he was released, McCain admitted that he exchanged military information in exchange for spending six weeks in a hospital normally reserve for North Vietnamese Military officers.

U.S. government records show that less than two weeks after he was taken to the hospital, Hanoi's press began quoting specific military information, including the name of the aircraft carrier on which McCain had been based, information about the location of rescue ships and the order of which his attack was supposed to take place. The records demonstrate, according to the Dispatch article that McCain continued to collaborate with the Communists after he recovered from his injuries. He did a number of propaganda broadcasts that were aimed at destroying the moral of American servicemen fighting in the jungles of South Vietnam, On June 4, 1969, a U.S. Wire Service story reported one of McCain's broadcasts.

The service reported "Hanoi has aired a broadcast in which the pilot son of the U.S. Commander in the Pacific, Adm. John McCain purportedly admits to having bombed civilian targets in North Vietnam and praised medical treatment he has received since being taken prisoner."

McCain committed other breaches of the Code of Conduct by meeting with and giving interviews to foreign news reporters and anti American delegations.

McCain admits to talking with numerous high-ranking North Vietnamese leaders, including General Vo Nguyen Giap, their Minister of Defense.

He also did a cozy interview over coffee, oranges, and cake wish a Cuban psychiatrist, which took place in the Hanoi office of the Committee for Foreign Cultural Relations.

He failed to "evade answering questions to the utmost of his ability;" by actually conversing with his interviewer in Spanish.

Perhaps these are some of the reasons why John McCain hip been so instrumental in discounting any suggestion that live prisoners of war still languish in Southeast Asia. It certainly does explain to me why he traveled to Hanoi in May of 1993 with soon-to-be Ambassador to Vietnam Pete Peterson, and convinced the Communist leadership to agree that they would NEVER MAKE PUBLIC THEIR INTERROGATION FILES OF AMERICAN POWs.

It should have made him ineligible to sit in judgment of those men who still wait for freedom. I believe it clearly makes him morally unfit to ever lead this nation, to be the Commander of all our armed forces someday.



http://www.namvets.com/Reading/john_mccain_is_no_war_hero.htm


72 posted on 01/03/2005 5:10:31 PM PST by B4Ranch (((The lack of alcohol in my coffee forces me to see reality!)))
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To: SoDak
especially the over 50 crowd.

I'm over 50 and no way my wife or I are for McCain.

He's a phony.

We didn't know who we wanted 2 primaries ago, and he came to our town (in NH) before we heard Bush. We had no idea who we were for.

He gave a good speech and answered a few questions ok.

Then after the speechifying, my wife cornered him alone (except for me listening) and asked him what he thought about the troops being forced to take anthrax shots. (She's in the Air Guard)

He weasled all around for at least 3 minutes without actuallly answering.

She pressed him for a real answer, and he finally said in effect, tough luck, they have to take the shots.

That was the end of any interest we had in him as a candidate for anything.

Condi for President!


73 posted on 01/03/2005 5:10:33 PM PST by Mogger (Independence, better fuel eonomy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: All
Whenever I think of McCain and his Vietnam service I also think of another great American and his service, Ollie North.

Both served nobly in Viet Nam yet when North got out he continued to support the country from the President down. Even today he still goes too war at almost age 60 supporting our troops 24/7. He is my kind of Vietnam vet.

Ollie North went right, John McCain went wrong.
74 posted on 01/03/2005 5:10:35 PM PST by rodguy911 (rodguy911:First let's get rid of the UN and then the ACLU, or vice versa..)
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To: hsmomx3

They don't really want a President McCain. They just want a divided Republican party, and McCain is the man to do it.


75 posted on 01/03/2005 5:10:45 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: SoDak

Only until annointed by the pubbies, then the press will be forced to choose between Hitlary and McClame...they will find things, I am certain...


76 posted on 01/03/2005 5:11:16 PM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: SoDak

Only until annointed by the pubbies, then the press will be forced to choose between Hitlary and McClame...they will find things, I am certain...


77 posted on 01/03/2005 5:11:24 PM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: hsmomx3
The Republican nominee will be the person who puts together the best campaign organization and lets them do their job.

McCain's political chief, John Weaver, doesn't compare to Karl Rove, but he's better than someone who uses his little sister as his campaign manager.

78 posted on 01/03/2005 5:11:47 PM PST by bayourod (The states and cities with large immigrant labor pools are the prosperous ones.)
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To: Joe Bonforte
" Sorry, but there's no evidence for that. He got his a$$ handed to him by Bush in 2000"

I agree. I'm still waiting for all the McCain supporters on this site to come out of the woodwork...zzz...zzz...still waiting...zzz...

Since I don't see any, exactly who is going to finance him and vote for him in the Primaries. About the only possibility that I can come up with is a plan by the Dems to hijack our Primaries (much like they tried in 2000 with McCain) - but they've got their own Primaries to worry about in 2008, so I don't see that happening.

If the response on this thread is representative of the Republican base (which, of course, it is), then McCain is DOA.
79 posted on 01/03/2005 5:11:55 PM PST by BobL
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

I don't think we'll be stupid enough to let the Dems choose our candidate.


80 posted on 01/03/2005 5:12:42 PM PST by BobL
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