Posted on 05/31/2005 12:21:53 PM PDT by anita
You obviously are thinking of someone else. Subject here is J-O-H-N M-c-C-A-I-N. If he's a Republican in his heart, then I'm Queen Victoria.
I don't blame Hugh all THAT much, it's a convoluted situation.
Well .. I can't either. But just because he may have suffered in a POW camp - that does not excuse all his actions thereafter.
McCain is a RINO. He would sell out his mother to get on TV. I think the "I served my country" as a cover for putting the screws to the country was old when Kerry tried it.
The 2nd Coming of Richard Nixon.
While it's true that conservative republicans were responsible for the George Bush electoral victory, that doesn't mean conservative republicans are the only "true" republcans
Unbelievable is all you can say. Can anyone name the year John McCain went completely and totally insane?
I don't hate John McCain, but neither do I hold him in the high esteem you do. I appreciate his service to his country as a navy pilot and as a POW. I deplore his service to the nation while serving as a Senator. He may have campaigned for the President, but he also tried to help his friend John Kerry at the same time! He insulted the Swiftboat Veterans and as much as called them liars. Many of these men were heroes as much John McCain was, and their words were more honorable than his! You can bet John McCain is always looking out for what he thinks will help him. He says he's for John Bolton and for a lot of other things, but he manages to be an expert in the art of appeasement. He managed to appease the Democrats with the right to filibuster, and he stabbed Frist in the back while doing it. Check out how many times he has co sponsored bills with the most liberal of Democrats, and also the most corrupt! By this I am referring to Ted Kennedy.
McCain came to SC in 2000 and launched one of the nastiest attacks on George Bush for speaking at Bob Jones University. What a hypocrite McCain proved to be! We found out he had asked Lindsey Graham to make an appointment for him to appear at the school, but when he found out Bush already had a date; he decided to smear Bush and the school. That is not the act of an honorable man, but rather a deceitful and vain man! I still do not hate him, but I surely don't respect or trust him!!
I don't listen to Rush Limbaugh everyday, but I know people who would/could argue that he provides a service to the nation by giving them something to think about, because whether you agree with him or not, he is informed. You sound, IMHO, as if you hate Rush Limbaugh.
Rush is one of the few that paints McCain for who he really is. Too many kiss mcCain's butt or are afraid to speak out against him. Similiar to the treatment Hillary is given.
Rush is influential, he speaks for the base in our majority opinion of the Maverick. He doesn't fear McCain. This makes Rush a threat to McCain and his groupies that wish the White House. So the LIBERAL response is to attempt to tear Rush down to elevate McCain. To their coming dismay, real grassroot conservative activists are not easily intimidated either and no way in hell is McCain stepping foot on Penn Ave. as anything other than a Guest. Even that makes me cringe.
McCain is an unprincipled opportunist that would sell out anyone if he believed it would elevate him. I don't trust him, I won't vote for him. However, I'm certain in the coming years McCain will send out his tiny vocal minority (some Democrats) to try and convince people McCain is our way to salvation. They'll be on this board, on talk radio, over cable....it'll be nauseating.
* Sen. McCain made keynoted the GOP convention endorsing the president. "Picture me as your candidate in 2008!"
* Sen. McCain has maintained a respectable conservative voting record. He's pro-abortion, he sponsored the so-called campaign finance reform act, and he just betrayed President Bush over judicial nominees.
As far as his campaign for the presidency is concerned, stick a fork in him--he's done.
McCain being against sensible tax-cuts for ALL Americans is foolishness...based solely on trying to stake out a position that would give him better MSM coverage - the list could go on and on about McCain and how he behaves when he wants coverage from the MSM (there is no honor in that! - period).
So no one posted the fact he's got his former campaign manager a cushy job as a think tanker until he runs again.
Agree. And he is a "soft target" in many ways.
I don't know about that... Hilary needs someone to be a third candidate like her hubby did in order to get elected... Couldn't you just see McCain in that role?
I will fight tooth and nail for the defeat of your beloved megalomaniac.
IMHO) a decent man who served his country with honor
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Yeah, but he was a crappy pilot who lost not one, but two fighter planes. He was also front and center on the flight deck when the carrier went up in flames and was almost lost.
Bad luck follows this guy around. IMO
Sen. McCain made keynoted the GOP convention endorsing the president?
Pat Buchanan did the same thing.
* Sen. McCain has maintained a respectable conservative voting record?
Compared to some. Not compared to the rest of the Arizona federal officeholders. Maybe Jim Kolbe.
* Sen. McCain is solidly behind John Bolton, the president's U.N. Ambassador choice?
So solidly he made sure the filibuster would still be in place so that Bolton would miss appointment.
* Sen. McCain is solidly behind the Global War on Terror...including more troops in Iraq?
Well, frame that and put it on a wall--so is John Kerry, this week.
And by the way,
* Benedict Arnold was wounded in action twice serving his country.
* Benedict Arnold served as governor of Philadelphia and commander of West Point.
* Benedict Arnold was no mere colonel, but a GENERAL in the Revolutionary Army.
* Benedict Arnold was crippled in the assault on Fort Ticonderoga and by a shot to the same leg at Freeman's Farm.
* Benedict Arnold was 100% behind the American Revolution... once.
Good post. Ping to 57.
* Sen. McCain campaigned for the president.
* Sen. McCain made keynoted the GOP convention endorsing the president.
* Sen. McCain has maintained a respectable conservative voting record.
* Sen. McCain is solidly behind John Bolton, the president's U.N. Ambassador choice.
* Sen. McCain is solidly behind the Global War on Terror...including more troops in Iraq.
NOT GOOD ENOUGH
Brownstein has disgraced his profession.... mmmm, on the other hand, I guess that's pretty tough to do.
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