Posted on 02/03/2008 10:53:12 AM PST by ScratInTheHat
http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan07/mccain_myth.htm
http://www.usvetdsp.com/nov07/mccain_deceit.htm
http://www.newsmax.com/john_leboutillier/john_mccain/2007/11/19/50610.html
http://www.realchange.org/mccain.htm
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/09/mccain-dialogue-
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/14188.htmlrespect/
http://www.slate.com/id/2139775/
DITTO!
Settling = Mitt
Selling OUT just for the letter R =McPain
Bttt
Just for kicks and grins, I did a search for the posts that you have posted here and it looks to me like you are a one issue kind of guy. Your focus was entirely of John McCain.
I brought this up because I went to your first link with a whole lot of claims with a couple chosen bits out of a couple articles that try to lend at least some credibility to the rest of the stuff on that page.
I was never in any of those back rooms where McCain was supposable said or done all of that so I wouldn’t know one way or the other how true they are.
Until I get better intel from someone that I figure doesn’t have an ax to grind, I can only assume this is just a hit job by someone’s else’s lackey.
Again.... I’m not for or against McCain but I sure don’t want to be manipulated from someone with an agenda and dishonorable intentions.
I think you need to come out with something a whole lot more concrete that just throwing around filth and mud at people that seems to stand in your way.
Such smears are a low blow when they are in this site.
Incorrect. The facts in Scat's links - - are precisely McCain.
Incorrect. The facts in Scat's links - - are precisely McCain.
Bttt
The John McCain Truth Files
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 aisleadministrative assistants, press secretaries, legislative directors, and chiefs of committee staffsto 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 wasnt 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
McCains the candidate of amnesty for illegal aliens.
McCain supports embryonic stem-cell research.
McCain has said I would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade.
McCain opposed the Bush tax cuts, and refuses to sign the No New Taxes pledge.
McCain supports legislation that would increase taxes on energy.
McCain was the ring-leader of the Senate Gang of 14, which kept the then Senate Republican leadership from ending the ability of Democrats to filibuster Bushs judicial nominees.
McCain supports legislation to grant due-process rights to terrorists.
McCain sponsored the inept legislation which restricts free-speech rights of those involved
in the political process, (the McCain/Feingold bill)
McCain called evangelical-conservatives an evil influence on the Republican Party.
McCain - member of the Keating 5 that caused a bipartisan scandal during the S&L meltdown.
McCain had a recall election ran against him by the conservatives in Arizona.
McCain blocked the investigation into whether Viet Nam and the Soviets were still holding over 600 of our missing POWs in 1990.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1958293/posts?page=52#52
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Please note that our ratings do NOT amount to endorsements. Nor do they convey anything about the character, the strength or any other positions about the candidates. http://www.betterimmigration.com/candidates/2006/prez2008.html
THE McCAIN WAY - ATTACK REPUBLICANS
Defending His Amnesty Bill, Presidential hopeful John McCain - who has been dogged for years by questions about his volcanic temper - erupted in an angry, profanity-laced tirade at a fellow Republican senator, sources told The Post yesterday. In a heated dispute over immigration-law overhaul, McCain screamed, F you! at Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who had been raising concerns about the legislation. This is chickensstuff, McCain snapped at Cornyn, according to several people in the room off the Senate floor Thursday. Youve always been against this bill, and youre just trying to derail it. (Charles Hurt, Raising McCain, New York Post, 5/19/07)
In 2000, Sen. McCain Ran An Attack Ad Comparing Then-Gov. George W. Bush To Bill Clinton. SEN. MCCAIN: I guess it was bound to happen. Governor Bushs campaign is getting desperate, with a negative ad about me. The fact is, Ill use the surplus money to fix Social Security, cut your taxes and pay down the debt. Governor Bush uses all of the surplus for tax cuts, with not one new penny for Social Security or the debt. His ad twists the truth like Clinton. Were all pretty tired of that. As president, Ill be conservative and always tell you the truth. No matter what. (McCain 2000, Campaign Ad, 2/9/00; www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHoXkCprdL4)
Sen. McCain Repeatedly Called Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) nams. Why cant McCain win the votes of his own colleagues? To explain, a Republican senator tells this story: at a GOP meeting last fall, McCain erupted out of the blue at the respected Budget Committee chairman, Pete Domenici, saying, Only an ahole would put together a budget like this. Offended, Domenici stood up and gave a dignified, restrained speech about how in all his years in the Senate, through many heated debates, no one had ever called him that. Another senator might have taken the moment to check his temper. But McCain went on: I wouldnt call you an ahole unless you really were an ahole. The Republican senator witnessing the scene had considered supporting McCain for president, but changed his mind. I decided, the senator told Newsweek, I didnt want this guy anywhere near a trigger. (Evan Thomas, et al., Senator Hothead, Newsweek, 2/21/00)
Sen. McCain Had A Heated Exchange With Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) And Called Him A F*cking Jerk. Senators are not used to having their intelligence or integrity challenged by another senator. Are you calling me stupid? Sen. Chuck Grassley once inquired during a debate with McCain over the fate of the Vietnam MIAs, according to a source who was present. No, replied McCain, Im calling you a fing jerk! (Evan Thomas, et al., Senator Hothead, Newsweek, 2/21/00)
In 1995, Sen. McCain Had A Scuffle With 92-Year-Old Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC) On The Senate Floor. In January 1995, McCain was midway through an opening statement at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing when chairman Strom Thurmond asked, Is the senator about through? McCain glared at Thurmond, thanked him for his courtesy (translation: buzz off), and continued on. McCain later confronted Thurmond on the Senate floor. A scuffle ensued, and the two didnt part friends. (Harry Jaffe, Senator Hothead, The Washingtonian, 2/97)
Sen. McCain Attacked Christian Leaders And Republicans In A Blistering Speech During The 2000 Campaign. MCCAIN: Unfortunately, Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore. The political tactics of division and slander are not our values They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country. Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right. (Sen. John McCain, Remarks, Virginia Beach, VA, 2/28/00)
Celebrating His First Senate Election In 1986, Sen. McCain Screamed At And Harassed A Young Volunteer. It was election night 1986, John McCain had just been elected to the U.S. Senate for the first time. Even so, he was not in a good mood. McCain was yelling at the top of his lungs and poking the chest of a young volunteer who had set up a lectern that was too tall for the 5-foot-9 politician to be seen to advantage, according to a witness to the outburst. Here this poor guy is thinking he has done a good job, and he gets a new butt ripped because McCain didnt look good on television, Jon Hinz told a reporter Thursday. At the time, Hinz was executive director of the Arizona Republican Party. There were an awful lot of people in the room, Hinz recalled. Youd have to stick cotton in your ears not to hear it. He (McCain) was screaming at him, and he was red in the face. (Kris Mayes and Charles Kelly, Stories Surface On Senators Demeanor, The Arizona Republic, 11/5/99)
Sen. McCain Publicly Abused Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL). [McCain] noted his propensity for passion but insisted that he doesnt insult anybody or fly off the handle or anything like that. This is, quite simply, hogwash. McCain often insults people and flies off the handle . There have been the many times McCain has called reporters liars and idiots when they have had the audacity to ask him unpleasant, but pertinent, questions. (Editorial, Theres Something About McCain, The Austin American-Statesman, 1/24/07)
Is it any wonder McCain has few endorsements from his Congressional piers? http://thehill.com/endorsements-2008.html
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/
Get to the HTML sandbox, figure it out, and put in real links.
FoxNews just interviewed both McCain and Hillary. At one point puting them both on split screen asking about if it came down to the two of them in the general. MCCain started to comment that it would be friendly and Hill jumped in implying it would be a competetion. McCain backstepped implying that it would be friendly and a race. She’s looking forward to the general against him and will tear him a new you-know-what.
Excellent compilation of data, AuntB!
You can bet Henry Waxman will just need to call on congress to have some investigations on Keating 5.
One point to remember is that ALL the bad press the MSM has about John McCain just happens to be true! If McCain were to happen (don’t believe he will) to win the nomination, it will make the MSM for once tell the truth!
Bud I’m just doing a reminder on this stuff.
It’s going to come out and kill him in the general.
So you think he wasn’t in the Keating mess?
Some of his rants were on the senate floor man! Wake up and smell the coffee!
Do the research and tell me what is wrong about any of this stuff posted here!
Saying “it job” is the easy way out.
Someone’s dirty laundry will be aired if they run for President?!?!?!
The HELL you say!
Then you shouldn’t have any problem making good on your claim then.
If you can’t.... drink your kool-aid.
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