Posted on 03/06/2007 8:57:41 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
John McCain's Obama- esque remarks about our "wasted" resources in Iraq weren't the only comments that landed him in hot water after a recent appearance on Late Night with David Letterman. Many of his staff were blindsided by his campaign announcement. And several aides were so outraged that they've quit, say Republican insiders.
"They're imploding—he had a game plan that had him announcing much later in the year," one top Republican aide tells Radar, adding that the campaign is "in serious trouble ... Romney's plan and Rudy's jump in the polls caused him to scrap his plans completely. When you do that, and you're not prepared for it, the staff goes crazy. Some of his coordinators in different states were pulling their hair out!"
Another insider, a guru to the conservative movement, says that McCain himself is growing increasingly desperate in the wake of his downward slide in the polls—a slip hastened by his steadfast support of the very man who savaged him and his family during the 2004 election, George W. Bush, and the president's unpopular plan for troop surge in Iraq. "One of the top aides to the Republican leadership told me that McCain has lost so much support, he's simply beside himself. He's wringing his hands. Things are sinking fast—in two or three weeks, we'll know if there is any recovery."
It didn't help any that McCain was the one leading Republican candidate who skipped last weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference. In CPAC's straw poll on Saturday, McCain came in fifth place—behind Sam Brownback. When the results were announced, attendees booed at the mention of his name.
Exactly ... he had his fifteen minutes with the liberal MSM and now it's over. He shouldn't be surprised.
He is, I'm sure, because someone who has no principles can't see motive in others.
Then he got caught red-handed taking Charles Keating's Washingtons.
His crime against the First Amendment with Russ Feingold is something Stalin and Company were unable to effect in seventy years of trying.
But the real outrage to me was his tireless advocacy of terrorist rights--at the expense of our morale and for the aid and comfort of our enemy.
His only recourse now is to hit the scuttle valve--if he'd just go down with the ship. . . .
The Caine Mutiny--what a strange read, and very apt of for the Senator from Manchuria.
That was truly an outrage. By pushing his bill he convinced the country that the Army was torturing prisoners and needed to be restrained when the truth was torture (and abuse and humiliation) were already prohibited by Army (and Navy and Air Force) regulations. He even modeled his Army-bashing bill on the Army's own regulation! And all this when torture was already a Federal felony! What a scum-bag.
I like that one, a very neat gif.
And what did the poor widdew babies at abu Ghraib endure.
Less than my college fraternity pledge class during hell week.
And he wouldn't shut up.
And what's at stake: the nation's survival in the face of the seventh-century death cult's onslaught abetted by the fifth-column media and the quisling peace democrats.
You are quite right to point out perhaps his greatest outrage--to betray his comrades in uniform.
That is likely the basement of crime.
There's a long black train comin' down the line,
Feeding off the souls that are lost and cryin'.
Rails of sin, only evil remains.
Watch out, brother, for that long black train.
Look to the heaven's, you can look to the sky.
You can find redemption staring back into your eyes.
There is protection and there's peace the same:
Burnin' your ticket for that long black train.
I'm inclined to one of three explanations why he did it. One is he is suffering from PTSD and pushed his bill to exorcise some demons. Two is he was playing an inside game to stop the CIA from waterboarding, knowing full well it isn't torture so the only way he could get at it would be by forcing CIA to adopt the DOD regulations. Three is both. Regardless, he slimed the reputation of the uniformed services in the process.
I say this is war not a teaparty for teddy bears and the likes of John McCain should stand back, stand down, stand aside or be escorted to the Yuri I. Nosenko Memorial Suite for the duration a la Lincoln's handling of peace democrats.
Yes, John McCain is a psychopath. David Condon's Manchurian Candidate (1959) and the Sinatra film (1961) indicate the unstable are manipulated for the enemy's purpose using the individual's weakness.
McCain has a panoply of weakness and is in an influential position.
Campaign finance reform and terrorist rights are two more facets of the stalinist mirror ball including multiculturalism, politically correct speech, hate crimes, tolerance, climate change et cetera.
Madeleine Albright spoke for Russia and China in lamenting the U.S. as the lone superpower.
How long can that last with the likes of the Murthas and McCains.
It has to be a continuous purification process, refining this waste out of the system.
McCain has been identified and has no sanctuary.
As far left as the GOP has marched in the last 20 years, it's not surprising at all that he thinks the shoe still fits. The distinction between liberals and the GOP really is coming down to something like this:
"The GOP; liberals without the smell."
It's wholly disgusting.
Very cute combination!!
Now we have to be nice and civil. That there was the" Straight Talk Express". Get off board!
McCain should have taken this into consideration when he was stabbing Conservatives in the back over the last years in the Senate. What did he think, the media was going to be on his side? Can you say dumba.. Don't worry, you can come back after the next election as the main media foil for your own party.
Bye Bye McPain, we hardly knew you.
Yes -
That works well -
Remember "compartmentalization"?
Remember "we weren't really alone"?
Yes, I remember devolve
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