McCain Sends 'Chill Down Spine,' Reid Cites Cochran

cnsnews.com ^ | February 6, 2008 | Josiah Ryan

[dinoparty]

On the Spot (CNSNews.com) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said the possibility of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) becoming president "sends a cold chill down my spine."

Reid made his remarks Tuesday outside the Senate chambers when a reporter asked him about McCain, who is running for the Republican Party nomination for president.

Pulling out his wallet and removing a white piece of paper, Reid told the reporter: "All I have to say about that is this. I have it right here, and you can put it in your little recording devices."

Then, reading aloud, and quoting Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) from an interview last Friday, Reid said: "The thought of him [McCain] being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper, and he worries me."

[K-oneTexas]

Maybe it’s part of the Master Plan to get him in the Oval Office.

[Dante3]

For once I agree with Reid. McCain is creepy, uncouth, and has mental issues.

[normy]

Would that be the chill of fear or the chill of excitement, like before Christmas?

[TheThinker]

McCain gave him that to read. Republicans hate Reid. If Reid hates McCain, that is supposed to be a reason to support McCain. No thanks. I’ll pass.

[hoe_cake]

“”He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper, and he worries me.”
Take out the ‘he’ part and you could easily be describing Hillary.”

You’ve made a very good point there.

[MittFan08]

Thad Cochran is known as one of the most diplomatic and courtly Senators - if not THE most. He’s the furthest thing from a bomb-thrower. He is very well respected and made Newsweek’s “Top 10 Senators” list.

I’ve NEVER heard him make those kind of remarks about anyone- if he has that opinion of John McCain then that speaks very poorly of McCain.

[LaurenD]

“Maybe he’d scare the Iranians and Norks too”.

Oh please! The whole world now knows that we think we can win a war by not doing things to our enemies as mild as water-boarding. Yea, we’re more of a paper tiger than ever. Our enemies can walk across our borders at will, and we welcome them with open arms while they plan and plot to kill us. Terrorists networks aren’t stupid enough to risk giving up their positions to pull off a small attack on American soil. They aren’t going to risk giving up their positions until they can pull off another big one.

[Mad Dawgg]

"McCain gave him that to read. Republicans hate Reid. If Reid hates McCain, that is supposed to be a reason to support McCain. No thanks. I’ll pass."

Well I am not sure about all the conspiracies and such.

All I can say is I hate Reid and I hate McCain. And, neither gets my vote for anything.

[G.Mason]

Are you referring to Sen. Cochran?

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

You guys are missing the point.

Now that McCain has the nomination wrapped up, all of his old friends on The Left are beginning to turn on him [as was predicted].

This is the first salvo in the battle to destroy John "The Maverick" McCain.

[samtheman]

This is the MSM strategy. First build McCain up to the stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid members of the Republican Party, securing his nomination.

Then tear him down, and make him unelectable in the general election, by pounding in this charge of erratic and out of control.

(Did I mention the Republicans are stupid?)

[dinoparty]

I doubt it. It goes to his temperment more than to his views, and having a Republican Senator saying it means that this will become a rallying cry for Democrats. We will hear Cochran’s words a million times before November, bank on it.

I realize some of you want to see McCain go down, but perhaps an appeal to his Senate/House coattails will convince you that we don’t want the Republican candidate to be completely decimated in the process.

[Hacklehead]

It’s a pain, not a chill, and its not in the spine.

[dinoparty]

Based on this, my vote for stupidest Republican is Cochran.

[dinoparty]

The MSM did not force Cochran to say it.

[MittFan08]

“Now that McCain has the nomination wrapped up, all of his old friends on The Left are beginning to turn on him [as was predicted].”

Thad Cochran isn’t a liberal- he’s a solid conservative - he consistently voted against amnesty, for example. He also is extremely well respected- his words about McCain deserve to be heard.

At first, I was dismissing the notion of not voting for McCain if he’s the nominee. But now I’m starting to think Rush is right- a Democrat is better than destroying our party in the hopes of winning one election.

[editor-surveyor]

I can’t see why it should bother Ried; the two of them are nearly carbon copies.

[John Jorsett]

Oh please! The whole world now knows that we think we can win a war by not doing things to our enemies as mild as water-boarding.

That depends on the opposition assuming the president isn't short-fused, vindictive, and maybe vain/nuts enough to do the unthinkable.

[wideawake]

He actually took a piece of paper out of his wallet to theatrically read a quote by someone else about McCain.

People like that usually don't live through high school.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

The MSM did not force Cochran to say it.

No, but the point is that the MSM will suppress it until they are assured that McCain is the nominee, then they will broadcast it 24 X 7 until election day, at which point the American people will have become convinced that the guy should be committed to an insane asylum.

I.e. the MSM strategy is unfolding exactly as was predicted.