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[Syncro]

'STRAIGHT TALK' EXPRESS TAKES SCENIC ROUTE TO TRUTH
January 23, 2008


John McCain is Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism and youth. Like McCain, pollsters assured us that Dole was the most "electable" Republican. Unlike McCain, Dole didn't lie all the time while claiming to engage in Straight Talk.

Of course, I might lie constantly too, if I were seeking the Republican presidential nomination after enthusiastically promoting amnesty for illegal aliens, Social Security credit for illegal aliens, criminal trials for terrorists, stem-cell research on human embryos, crackpot global warming legislation and free speech-crushing campaign-finance laws.

I might lie too, if I had opposed the Bush tax cuts, a marriage amendment to the Constitution, waterboarding terrorists and drilling in Alaska.

And I might lie if I had called the ads of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth "dishonest and dishonorable."

McCain angrily denounces the suggestion that his "comprehensive immigration reform" constituted "amnesty" -- on the ludicrous grounds that it included a small fine. Even the guy who graduated fifth from the bottom of his class at the U.S. Naval Academy didn't fall for this a few years ago.

In 2003, McCain told The Tucson Citizen that "amnesty has to be an important part" of any immigration reform. He also rolled out the old chestnut about America's need for illegals, who do "jobs that American workers simply won't do."

McCain's amnesty bill would have immediately granted millions of newly legalized immigrants Social Security benefits. He even supported allowing work performed as an illegal to count toward Social Security benefits as recently as a vote in 2006 -- now adamantly denied by Mr. Straight Talk.

McCain keeps boasting that he was "the only one" of the Republican presidential candidates who supported the surge in Iraq.

What is he talking about? All Republicans supported the surge -- including Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. The only ones who didn't support it were McCain pals like Sen. Chuck Hagel. Indeed, the surge is the first part of the war on terrorism that caused McCain to break from Hagel in order to support the president.

True, McCain voted for the war. So did Hillary Clinton. Like her, he then immediately started attacking every other aspect of the war on terrorism. (The only difference was, he threw in frequent references to his experience as a POW, which currently outnumber John Kerry's references to being a Vietnam vet.)

Thus, McCain joined with the Democrats in demanding O.J. trials for terrorists at Guantanamo, including his demand that the terrorists have full access to the intelligence files being used to prosecute them.

These days, McCain gives swashbuckling speeches about the terrorists who "will follow us home." But he still opposes dripping water down their noses. He was a POW, you know. Also a member of the Keating 5 scandal, which you probably don't know, and won't -- until he becomes the Republican nominee.

Though McCain was far from the only Republican to support the surge, he does have the distinction of being the only Republican who voted against the Bush tax cuts. (Also the little lamented Sen. Lincoln Chafee, who later left the Republican Party.) Now McCain claims he opposed the tax cuts because they didn't include enough spending cuts. But that wasn't what he said at the time.

To the contrary, in 2001, McCain said he was voting against Bush's tax cuts based on the idiotic talking point of the Democrats. "I cannot in good conscience," McCain said, "support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans who need tax relief."

McCain started and fanned the vicious anti-Bush myth that, before the 2000 South Carolina primary, the Bush campaign made phone calls to voters calling McCain a "liar, cheat and a fraud" and accusing him of having an illegitimate black child.

On the thin reed of a hearsay account, McCain immediately blamed the calls on Bush. "I'm calling on my good friend George Bush," McCain said, "to stop this now. He comes from a better family. He knows better than this."

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[Syncro]

Read the rest of her column at AnnCoulter.Com

[bmwcyle]

It has all been said before about McCain so I will say, McCain Sucks.

[AZFolks]

I agree with Ann. I have problems electing him.

[xtinct]

[bmwcyle]

I can’t vote for him.

[Syncro]

Coulter Weekly Column.

I tried to put in parenthesis (McCain Attacks) but it looks like there was only room for the (

Ann, leave room for my comments in the title, OK? LOL

[AndyTheBear]

Sigh, it takes someone like McCain to make Romney look good. How I miss Fred.

[Syncro]

Sigh, it takes someone like McCain to make Romney look good.

Yea that lesser of two evils thingy is the pits.

Slick doesn't do it any more than grouchy.

[Rummyfan]

[Syncro]

*phew*

I though for sure you were going to say this belongs in chat.

[Rummyfan]

[bmwcyle]

Remind me to slap you next time I see you.

[Rummyfan]

Of course, I might lie constantly too, if I were seeking the Republican presidential nomination after enthusiastically promoting amnesty for illegal aliens, Social Security credit for illegal aliens, criminal trials for terrorists, stem-cell research on human embryos, crackpot global warming legislation and free speech-crushing campaign-finance laws.

I might lie too, if I had opposed the Bush tax cuts, a marriage amendment to the Constitution, waterboarding terrorists and drilling in Alaska.

And I might lie if I had called the ads of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth "dishonest and dishonorable."

John McCain in a nutshell!

[PeterFinn]

Ditto that in spades.

[Syncro]

Bump to that!

Great comments those

[Syncro]

It’s hard to get a good swing from the floor, but give it your best shot.

[Ol' Sparky]

If Ann is very concerned about the truth, why did she endorse the biggest liar and flip-flopper in the race -- Willard Romney? Ann has a lot of gall supporting that RINO and acting as if he is somehow better than the other RINOs.

Ann really owes an apology to Bill Clinton if she is going to support someone that is just as bigger a liar and flip-flopper.

[Syncro]

someone that is just as bigger a liar and flip-flopper.

You should hire a grammaratician

[rmlew]

And who should she support?

[Hacklehead]

“Remind me to slap you next time I see you.”

And the same goes for anyone who suggests that Ann should “eat a hamburger or something”.