Posted on 03/20/2008 1:06:03 PM PDT by pissant
The ongoing saga of the McCain Campaign’s effort to keep the political discourse respectful added another chapter today. As reported by Jon Martin, the campaign has suspended a junior staffer, Soren Dayton, a conservative blogger/consultant who worked in McCain’s political department.
His crime: Distributing, via Twitter, a smarmy Youtube video that mashes together the words of Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, a photograph of the 1968 Olympics black power salute and a Public Enemy song, among other things. The video suggests, in a rather crude fashion, what conservative commentators have long held: That Wright’s inflammatory rhetoric is a key clue into the secret radical agenda of Obama.
But the McCain campaign still ain’t gonna playing that game. As Communications Director Jill Hazelbaker told Martin, "We have been very clear on the type of campaign we intend to run and this staffer acted in violation of our policy." Dayton’s suspension comes just a week after the McCain campaign sent reporters a opinion piece from the Wall Street Journal suggesting that Obama’s relationship with Wright showed his radical agenda. The McCain campaign later said that the article was sent out in error, and McCain told Fox News’s Sean Hannity that he does not hold Wright’s inflammatory statements against Obama. “I do know Senator Obama,” McCain said. “He does not share those views.”
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You are free to vote for McCain. I’m not stopping you.
I am sure that McCain thinks Obama and his pastor are nuts, but he would be NUTS to jump into the middle of this thing right now. Even Hillary knows not to touch it. Don't need to. Obama is doing just “fine” on is own.
McCain needs a good VP,nickel to a doughnut he won’t make it 4 years.
I think he is senile.
I am serious.
And you are free to sit back and allow Hillary or Obama to waltz into the Whitehouse. I'm not stopping you. ;-)
You have a point to which I agree.
And the GOP was free to pick a lemon like McCain who scads of conservatives won’t vote for.
Regarding McCain, conservatives should always remember: He will never fail us. That is, McCain will never fail to disappoint us. He will raise our taxes, encourage and broaden immigration, push for and grant Amnesty to illegals, strangle businesses with environmental regulations and legislative restrictions, continue to abridge our freedom of speech with ever more campaign finance reforms and nominate liberal (Souter like) judges.
This is going to be one miserable election. Gawd, this is awful!
Did the GOP pick him or the MSM? It’s a serious question. I still am not sure how he came out on top.
Who actually sits down and WRITEs this drivel?
Don't know about senile, but I've said this for some time now ... this guys elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor. McCain, as he's done so many times before, will disappoint conservatives in the months leading up to the fall election. My take on McCain, he really doesn't want the job ... he lacks the fire and the discipline (not to mention the intellect) it requires to win in November.
If he were running on the Democrat ticket, I would consider him the lesser of evils. Being on the Republican ticket, with the ability to remake the Republican party in his vision and push a liberal agenda in the name of Republicanism relatively unopposed, is a whole different dynamic. It's not black and white.
A whole bunch of Dems are gonna vote our side, because of this dust up...
With the Dems, one side is gonna lose.... we benefit either way.
I am in the energy industry so you can only imagine how I feel when McCain gobbles down that global warming crap. My skin crawls. Nothing I can do about it but hope the weather patterns continue to show a cooling trend to prove these kool-aid monkeys as the buffoons they are. But as you say, he's our only horse and we need a Commander in Chief who respects the military and who understand Islamic fascism and who is pro-life. If that's the least we can get then the rest we have to fight for by hounding our Senators and Congressmen for the next 4 years to hold McCain's feet to the fire. It's the cards we are being dealt and we have to make good on them. No time for crying hissy fits.
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