Posted on 02/04/2008 6:03:56 AM PST by GQuagmire
Welcome to Boston, Sen. McAmnesty. How ’bout them Patriots Er, I mean, never mind.
It’s odd that on the eve of Super Tuesday, the 71-year-old Republican front-runner would be here, in his top challenger’s home state, where he’s running a mere 32 points behind.
Why isn’t he stumping in California, the nation’s biggest state? Out there he’s running neck and neck, or just a little behind, Mitt Romney ahead. If Mitt somehow pulls out a victory in the Golden State tomorrow, he stays alive.
McCain’s already wrapped up the three big winner-take-all states on the East Coast - New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. He shouldn’t be within three time zones of here. He ought to be out in L.A. trying to give Mitt a headshot, rather than kicking him in the groin back here in Boston.
Especially when the local team was playing in the Super Bowl. Did McCain think he was going to get a big ride on the 11 o’clock news last night?
Pre-Super Bowl, it was a disconcerting day for any Republican with a listed phone number. Robo calls were coming in all afternoon from politicians who’ve been MIA most of this century.
“Do you know what it’s like to pick up your phone and hear, ‘Hi, I’m Jane Swift,’ ” one still-shaken registered Republican told me. “And before that it was Bill Weld, and Paul Cellucci, and Barbara Anderson.”
McCain’s plane touched down at 3:45 and then the schedule said “downtime.”
Or, as they say at Marian Manor, a nap.
Then, off to the Green Dragon Tavern in the Quincy Market district. That was appropriate - one of the oldest bars in Boston, visited by one of the oldest men in America. And it’s right near Faneuil Hall, where McCain will be having a rally this morning.
You may not have heard, but McCain picked up some big Republican endorsements here over the weekend. In addition to Cellucci, he acquired ex-Treasurer Joe Malone on waivers from the Rudy Giuliani campaign. The rest of McCain’s endorsees read like a roll-call of the forgotten-but-not-gone brigade - Jim Rappaport, who couldn’t beat Muffy, and ex-state reps Brian Cresta, Andrew Natsios and Bill Ryan, who doesn’t turn 70 until July.
They were going to have a press conference but they couldn’t find a hall that could accommodate all the walkers. Suffice to say, McCain’s over-the-hill gang agreed on one thing: This Mitt Romney whippersnapper, he’s no Christian Herter.
The only reason McCain is here this morning is to rub Mitt’s nose in the fact that he, not Mitt, is winning. He resents Romney, because in the Dreaded Private Sector, Mitt was a runaway success, while McCain’s only experience was in the son-in-law business.
When he got out of the Navy, his second wife Cindy’s father, a fabulously rich Budweiser beer distributor in Arizona, put McCain to work in “public relations.”
Hey, Cindy was the old man’s only child. So what if she’s 18 years younger than McCain? It was a storybook marriage.
When McCain first ran for Congress, according to The New York Times [NYT], “His wife’s fortune allowed him to lend $167,000 to the campaign.” How dare Mitt finance his own campaign? That’s not nearly as ethical as using your second wife’s father’s money to bankroll you. No wonder McCain and John Kerry and Ted Kennedy all get along so swimmingly. They look down their noses at people who made their own money.
See ya, Sen. McAmnesty. Better hope you don’t lose California because you had to give Mitt one final kick while he was down. What goes around comes around
Howie Carr ping(Special Monday column)
Excellent article.
McCain’s going to look silly for this on Wednesday after his ‘inevitable’ status is shattered.
Didn't McAmnesty dump his first wife after she was in a bad car accdident?
The one who waited for him during the Hanoi Hilton years?
McCain is a general of the Vast Liberal Right Wing.
Watch his handler threaten a woman asking about illegals raping children.
Watch McCain stand on stage and say nothing when they tell one of his constituents to "shut up!".
McCain running in Mass. is the attempt of a totally broke campaign to garner some free media. Thankfully, most of the MSM haven’t taken the bait. That is except for CBS Radio, who has blasted this on top of the hour radio news for the past 12 hours.
They say something like, “McCain, so confident of his nomination is trying to lock up Mass.” One even mentioned that he was now leading in Mass. RCP shows him down by 23 with no movement as a result of the “campaigning”
Meanwhile, Mitt is also campaigning in Arizona where this morning Rasmuessen shows him -8. and showing significant gains as he covers the CA media. The media coverage of this news - nothing. Media coverage of Mitts favorable polling in California - nothing.
BASE to Sen. McAmnesty,
GO AWAY and take all your “MY FRIENDS” with you.
“He ought to be out in L.A. trying to give Mitt a headshot, rather than kicking him in the groin back here in Boston.”
This is how McCain operates. For all his whining about what was done to him in 2000, he has gotten into the gutter 100 times more than was given to him. McCain has been in full payback mode since 2000. He hates conservatives and anyone that’s going to get in the way of his rightful throne. The guy makes me sick.
PASS THE WORD FAR AND WIDE: Rooty’s kick-conservatives-to-the-curb crowd are now backing McCain. Rooty’s campaign strategy revolved around his backers’ obsession with religious cleansing of the Repub party and dumping so/cons off the party flotilla.
Now that’s he’s out of the race, Rooty’s backers are square behind McCain. These people will accept nothing else than amnesty, abortion-worshipping and gun grabbbing.
ACT NOW Get the word out far and wide.
Back when Newt's star was on the rise, mainstream reporters threw a hissy fit over the way he broke up with his first wife, allegedly serving her with divorce papers as she lay in a hospital bed recuperating from a cancer operation.
Turns out, the candidate whose character has reporters labeling him the anti-Clinton began to run around on his wife of 14 years almost from the moment he got back from a Vietnam POW camp.
McCain had married Carol Shepp, a tall slender model from Philadelphia, in 1965. And when he was shot down over Vietnam, she became the epitome of the loyal POW wife, keeping the homefires burning while McCain launguished away for five-plus years in a Hanoi prison. Writing in the May 1999 issue of The New Republic, David Grann compared Carol to "a kind of a modern day Penelope to McCain's Odysseus."
But two years later, fate dealt Carol McCain an even harsher blow. Grann reported:
"On Christmas Eve in 1969, she suffered even more tragedy; she skidded off the road into a telephone pole, her body thrown through the windshield onto the snow, both legs and one arm broken, her spleen ruptured. After nearly losing her left leg and enduring more than a dozen operations, she emerged four inches shorter than before the accident."
Robert Timberg, author of the McCain bio The Nightingale's Song, told C-Span's Brian Lamb in 1995, "Carol McCain nearly died, was in a wheelchair, had 23 operations....And this was in 1969. John McCain didn't get out of prison till 1973."
Despite her own physical devastation, Mrs. McCain put her husband's welfare first. Timber told Lamb, "About the first thing Carol McCain said to her doctors when she could speak again was, 'I don't want John to know about this. He's got enough problems of his own. You know, we'll deal with it when he gets home."
And just how did McCain deal with his wife's ordeal when his own was over? TNR's Grann reports:
"Despite such devotion, McCain soon began to chase other women when he returned from Vietnam, just as he had at the Naval Academy, where he ran around with strippers and stewardesses......His marriage to Carol soon ended in divorce."
McCain acts like an a-hole, through and through.
From that report McCain is more of an as$ than Clinton.
I’m voting Romney tomorrow.
Your post is but another straw....
The endorsers are a Who’s Who of embarrassing RINOs
Howie was on the Phantom Gourmet yesterday. He looks great.
thanks for posting—I didn’t realize he had a column today.
Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain
McCain's Out-of-Control Anger: Does He Have the Temperament to Be President?
It sure is nice that the Romney supporters are running such a positive campaign. This would be really nasty, if they were really nasty.
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