Posted on 02/01/2008 9:24:51 AM PST by Rameumptom
McCain Entertained Idea Of Being Kerry's VP (You Tube - Blast from the Past)
A Blast from the past where McCain admits on an ABC interview that he would consider being Kerry's VP.
Also a link to Romney's ad highlighting this origianl interview, plus all McCain's other liberal DEM endorsers.
Democrats' Favorite Republican
Ping to Romney ad!!
What makes it worse is the fact that Kerry gave the idea consideration.
Kerry and the RATs have been pretty clear how they feel about Reagan...let’s just say it’s not the way they feel about McCain.
I ain’t all that thrilled about Romney; he has become a conservative only recently.
But I will never vote for McLame.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Rather a convert than a “novert”
But he didn’t accept when offered, and he went on to give a great 2004 convention speech and helped Bush alot on the trail.
How does a Republican vote for John McCain?
There is something childish about all the stupid name games — e.g. “McLame”, “Hitlery”, etc. etc. Sorry to single you out when so many others are also guilty of it, but it gets tiring. Just make your point like an adult.
‘Tis a cryin’ shame how Washington can take a good military guy and completely turn his mind to ....Clinton. Hero - past. Creep - present. I loathe the guy. He is the baseline from which all integrity should be measured.
I would rather have a candidate whose political philosophy is shifting towards the right (Romney) than one whose philosophy is shifting towards the left (McCain).
Not that happy with Romney but McAmnesty makes him look good!
Screw you...you may not like my sarcasm but until you join the Defeatocratic party and pass some law against it, I will stand behind my first amendment right to call McLame anything I want to.
I would too if I wanted the nomination in 08. McCain knew he was gonna run again.
The fact that Kerry—a man who’s spent more time with McCain than anybody here—considered him as a running mate, that’s all I need to know.
Capitol Hill staffers rate their bosses. McCain got no glory from those who work with him.
“Every election year we survey top aides on both sides of the aisle—administrative assistants, press secretaries, legislative directors, and chiefs of committee staffs—to get their up-close and personal, and anonymous, views. While there may be lots of partisan backbiting among congress members, their staffers seem far more capable of putting politics aside and making honest judgments. It wasn’t unusual for aides in both parties to name one of their own as “spineless” or give the “workhorse” nod to someone across the aisle. “
Worst Follower 2. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
Show Horse 2. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
Hottest Temper 2. John McCain (R-Ariz.) , known to snap at staff when the cameras are off
http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/mediapolitics/1666.html
http://www.nrlc.org/Election2000/mccain/prolife_case_against_mccain.html
The Pro-Life Case Against John McCain:
McCain Has Denigrated the Pro-Life Issue Elsewhere,
[snip] When Rudman retired from the Senate in 1992, he loudly bemoaned the important role of Christian conservatives in the Republican Party. He wrote, “Politically speaking, the Republican Party is making a terrible mistake if it appears to ally itself with the Christian right” — a group that he identified as rife with “antiabortion zealots,” among other undesirables.
Yet in the South Carolina primary, McCain now says he deserves the support of those same Christian conservatives and other pro-life voters. It won’t wash.
McCain quite recently (on the Don Imus radio show, on November 23) ridiculed citizens who decide which candidate to vote for on the basis of the right-to-life issue – he referred to them as “otherwise intelligent people.” We suspect that the pro-life voters of South Carolina are quite intelligent enough to see through McCain’s current attempt to play them for suckers.
From a 2000 NYT article:
In the end, Mr. McCain decided not to run for Congress in 1976, but after Jacksonville he got an assignment that put him in the center of the political world anyway: he was appointed Navy liaison to the Senate. Normally, the liaison officers are glorified travel agents for senators making overseas trips — “baggage carriers,” they are snidely called — but Mr. McCain’s personality and renown as a war hero made his cramped office a magnet for key senators.
“He was a fascinating character,” recalled Gary Hart, then a liberal young senator who often dropped by Mr. McCain’s office. “He was current on the issues and could engage on every level. And he was very funny.”
One of the attractions for some liberals was that Mr. McCain held no grudge against the antiwar movement. William B. Bader, then a Senate committee staff member, remembers sitting next to Mr. McCain on an airplane as they accompanied a delegation of senators on an overseas trip.
“One senator after another came back to talk to John,” Mr. Bader said. “The senators who came back were the biggest doves, and I think psychologically they wanted to make their peace with the war.”
Mr. McCain became particularly close to William S. Cohen, then a senator from Maine, John Tower, then a senator from Texas, and Mr. Hart.
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/022700wh-gop-mccain.html
Even before he was a “foot soldier for the Reagan Revolution” he was a friend of the liberals.
Oh, come on, you’re no fun. Acting childish sometimes keeps us all young!
As a liberal, when will the Regan foot soldier hyphenate his name McCain-Kennedy-Finegold
That line is getting so tired and old...kinda like he is.
Maybe the first 10,000 times, but its no longer fun. Granted, it makes it easier to read threads, because you can just automatically skip over any posts that have stupid nicknames included, knowing that there will be nothing insightful therein.
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