GrrrRRINO!
Posted on 06/02/2005 5:14:20 PM PDT by This Just In
ON THE DAY JOHN McCain engineered the "deal" that undercut Bill Frist and apparently sacrificed fine nominees to his own ambition for reputation, The New Yorker hit the stands with a lengthy profile of Arizona's senior senator. The magazine confidently predicted the senator's 2008 presidential run and quoted him as saying, "When people are in close races, I am the first Republican who is asked to come and appear for that person. I am the most sought-after of all Republicans. In this last campaign, I was the one asked by the president to travel and campaign with him....When you look at the rank and file of ordinary Republicans, I'm extremely popular-it's some of the party apparatchiks who still harbor bad feelings toward me. But it is a little hard for them to do that now, because of my strong support for Bush....Particularly since the 2004 campaign, there has been a great softening of dislike for me."
What a difference a "deal" makes.
Many center-right GOP activists had in fact begun to warm to Sen. McCain. He is without question a great American, whose example of valor and sacrifice inspires even his harshest critics, or ought to. His support of the war on terror has also been admirable.
But great Americans can be lousy senators and terrible Republicans, and once again Mr. McCain has proven to be both. He has now done for the judicial nomination and confirmation process what he did for campaign finance reform. He brought the country George Soros and the scourge of the 527s, and with his leadership on the deal that threw at least two of George Bush's nominees under the bus in exchange for the most ambiguous of promises, the senator has once again turned his back on a core constitutional value in order to advance his own agenda.
Whether this was a blunder or a plan to recover from a blunder, we won't know for years. Mr. McCain as first said he would "listen to the leadership" regarding judicial nomination procedure, only to suddenly, on an apparent impulse, declare to Chris Matthews that he would vote against ending the disfigured filibuster. The backlash against him was immediate and intense. Perhaps he thought he could undo the damage to his carefully planned political rehabilitation with a bold "compromise." The result seems just the opposite. Not only is his political house on fire, so too is that South Carolina's Lindsey Graham and Ohia's Mike DeWine.
Mr. McCain's sacrifice of good people isn't the sort of calculation that plays well in GOP presidential primaries.
Amen!
You've got that right! Been working on the likes of Kasich in OH and Thomas Ravenel in SC. My family in SC who worked hard and donated lots to Graham, are just furious and ready to move on to someone who will represent them and not McLame!
Wonder if Hillary has 8mm film (from her Vietnam buddies) of Mclaim "servicing" his captors on his kness as he becomes Hotel Hanoi's "snitch".. Would explain a lot..
Someone on another thread jokingly said he had a chip put in when he was held prisoner, and they turned it on in the 90's.
At least I think they were joking.
shield=shelf
Pardon the mistake.
Dub Taylor (http://www.dougmacaulay.com/kingspud/sel_by_actor_index_2. php?actor_first=Dub&actor_last=Taylor) was also exactly the same man in person as on the screen. Also went deep sea fishing with Lon Chaney, Jr once. Never got to know him, but he seemed a little inward and down during that particular trip. California used to be a lot different than it is today. Stars weren't the idiots they are now, they were real people, just like us.
(sorry for the stroll down memory lane)
Nam Vet
I was a monster fanatic as a kid ...knew all about Lon Chaney & son... Grew up in Texas and the closest I ever got to stars was seeing the Cartrights of Bonanza at a nearby hotel
Nam Vet
Sheesh! What a PUTZ! The guy gives me the heebie jeebies and the willies at the same time. I don't five a good god damn how much they tortured him in Viet Nam. Evidently all it did was make him feel he is entitled to do ANYTHING that enters his mind. I sincerely wish he would somehow disappear from public life. I don't care how it might happen. I just want the little crippled dwarf to go away.
one more link on Andy:
http://www.angelfire.com/ny/nyuk/devine.html
I have no idea who it will be, but if the nominee is to be a winner, it will not be a current Senator (with the possible exception of Allen as he has been a governor?)
McCain was a POW in a place that makes Gitmo look like a golfing vacation. I can't imagine the hell these men must have faced. In McCain's case, I have often thought the North Vietnamese tried to rob him of his dignity. Along the way they beat circunspection and decency out of him. These days he strikes me as like any liberal. He thinks he belongs in a position of telling others how to live. Today this manifests itself in his attempt to limit the number of judges to whom words have meaning.
What did Midnight the Cat say?
Pray for W and Our Troops
Never gonna get MY vote.
Cheers,
knews hound
http://knewshound.blogspot.com/
Nah. Froggie Gremlin was on another show. Foodini and Pin Head were on Lucky Pup. Different show entirely.
I was born in '44.
Yet there are still folks in the media who insist there was no torture, ("and if there was, it stopped in 1969"). Maybe it took a McCain (a darling of the press) to get a show on TV that told it like it was. Return with Honor & Stolen Honor had to be privately produced, privately shown. PBS came close a couple of times, but never wanted to go into turncoats or collaborators or the scope of torture. But I don't think decency was beaten out of him--he's still loyal to friends--he's simply not loyal politically.
Oops. You are right. Froggie Gremlin WAS with Andy Devine.
"Hiya Folks, hiya folks. . .awk, awk,awk,awk BOING!
However: "I'm Buster Brown.
I live in a shoe.
Here's my dog Tige.
He lives here too."
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