McCain laughing all way to bank

Toronto Sun ^ | 2008-02-23 | Peter Worthington

[Clive]

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[crghill]

I don’t like McCain, but I hate the NY slimes. This is good news!

[kjo]

Still won’t vote for him. He’s Democrat Lite.

[sirchtruth]

The feeling among a growing number of Republicans skeptical about McCain, is that if the New York Times is so intent on wrecking his chances to be president, he can't be all bad. Maybe even worth supporting.

I want to know two things.

1:Why THIS story?
2:Why release it now?

This conservative will never support, nor vote for McPainintheass, ever. What part of fantasy land is this author from?

[TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl]

There’s no basis for the title. Campaign’s attempt to get contributions based on the NYT story does not necessarily mean that the story has caused a flood of contributions or any at all. We’ll know that when contributions are reported sometime in the future unless the campaign lets it be known sooner.
So far I don’t think the campaign has said anything in that regard one way or the other. The story broke only about two days ago after all.

[madison10]

Glenn Beck was saying this last Thursday. I don’t agree. Many people have their minds made up already, the NY Times article didn’t make a difference one way or the other, IMO.

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[glorgau]

So far Hillary has spent about $106 million "on a campaign that is spluttering."

Just think what she could do if she got a hold on the federal budget!

[arthurus]

an honourable journalistic career

Like he was always a straight arrow before.

[dforest]

The NYT did McCain a favor. Question is the timing and who benefits the most in the end?

I have my own theory on that.

[David Isaac]

Still, there is some truth in the article. I noticed a difference in tone of some of the talk-show hosts and some of their callers. McCain, more likely his handlers, know that they have to get some of the conservative vote. There may be quite a number of these “vicious” attacks (though strangely, not even the left gave the charges any credence) before November.

Glenn Beck, however, gets it. He was the first to say, “John McCain! are you kidding me!!!”

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Many people have their minds made up already

Many people haven't heard that there is an election this year, or who any of the candidates are!

[ops33]

For a newspaper to criticize another paper over inaccuracies then you would think they could get their story correct. President Bush served in the Texas Air National Guard, not the National Reserve.

[GOPJ]

It's put-up or shut-up time for the Times...

What the New York Times seems not to understand is that every day is "put-up or shut-up" - every article too. Credibility is easy to throw away...

[guinnessman]

Just wondering.

Is the National Reserve the Canadian equivalent of the National Guard?

[Diogenesis]

The McLaughlin Report last night purported that Romney’s
team peddled this to the NewYorkTimes.

Perhaps that explains why RINO-Romney’s race was
only ‘suspended’, if true.

[RepublitarianRoger2]

There’s no basis for the title. Campaign’s attempt to get contributions based on the NYT story does not necessarily mean that the story has caused a flood of contributions or any at all.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/02/23/2008-02-23_times_article_spurs_cash_surge_for_john_.html

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I caught that line too. Laughable.

[TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl]

Thanks for the link, but it proves nothing. “The aide gave no numbers,”

[Clive]

There is no equivalent to the National Guard in Canada. Reserve forces are part ot the Canadian Forces and come entirely under it for command and control and pay and allowances and is part of its T.O.

I think that Worthington just made a slip of the pen. He is a Korean War veteran (infantry officer) so ought to have gotten his terminology correct.