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McCain Almost Left the GOP -- Twice
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| March 24, 2008
| Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 03/24/2008 9:40:28 PM PDT by Yosemitest
McCain Almost Left the GOP -- Twice
March 24, 2008 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
Senator McCain has not wrapped up the Chuck Hagel endorsement yet, and I wanted to mention this to you. Hagel was on This Week with Stephanopoulos on Sunday, and Stephanopoulos said to him,
"Senator McCain is a good friend of yours. Why haven't you endorsed him?" HAGEL: When I work for someone or commit to someone, I want to be behind that person in every way I can.
I've obviously got some differences with John on the Iraq war. That's no secret.
I want to understand a little more about foreign policy, where he would want to go.
It certainly doesn't put me in Obama or Clinton's camp, but John and I have some pretty fundamental, uh, disagreements.
Well, I'm telling you what, if a moderate independent candidate like McCain cannot get the Hagel endorsement, where are we? (sigh)
This is troubling, ladies and gentlemen. This is puzzling to me as well.
Unless, of course, Senator Hagel is holding out for a pipe dream for his own third party candidacy or independent candidacy somewhere down the line.
Speaking of Senator McCain, I'm sure you people have seen this by now in the New York Times a story by Elisabeth Bumiller:
There's a photo of the haughty John Kerry and Senator McCain sitting somewhere in deep leather chairs. McCain is slouching like he's fatigued and tired. The caption of the picture is "Senators John Kerry (L), John McCain meeting with reporters in 2002 as they discussed automobile mileage standards."
The headline of the story: "McCain Twice Flirted with the Democrat Party; Candidate Considered Leaving the Republican Party."
This is McCain, in 2001 and running with Kerry in 2004. Now, as I say, I'm sure you guys have all seen this, but it still stuns me.
(interruption) Assume what?
(interruption) Well, because... (interruption) Well, that's right. It's the New York Times. Maybe I shouldn't assume people have seen it. But it's been out there since last night. It's in the newspaper today...
(interruption) The Drive-Bys have not made it news yet, because the Drive-Bys are occupied trying to hold their own party together. The Drive-Bys are trying to get the Clinton sitcom canceled. So Snerdley may have a point. Maybe you haven't seen this.
Here's the story. It's by Elisabeth Bumiller, and here's how it opens.
"Senator John McCain never fails to call himself a conservative Republican as he campaigns as his party's presumptive presidential nominee. He often adds that he was a 'foot soldier' in the Reagan revolution and that he believes in the bedrock conservative principles of small government, low taxes and the rights of the unborn.
What Mr. McCain almost never mentions are two extraordinary moments in his political past that are at odds with the candidate of the present: His discussions in 2001 with Democrats about leaving the Republican Party, and his conversations in 2004 with Senator John Kerry,"
the haughty Senator Kerry, who served in Vietnam,
"about becoming Mr. Kerry's running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket.
There are wildly divergent versions of both episodes, depending on whether Democrats or Mr. McCain and his advisers are telling the story.
The Democrats, including Mr. Kerry, say that not only did Mr. McCain express interest but that it was his camp that initially reached out to them" a
bout being Kerry's vice president, and McCain's denying that. But the Kerry camp says,
"No, we got a call from McCain,"
and you know that Kerry very publicly, proudly said that he was considering McCain.
This 2001 business, I had forgotten that, but this is a result of how steamed he was over the South Carolina primary and losing the nomination to Bush in 2000.
Remember, he had the Straight Talk Express?
It was heading on down the highway?
The reporters on it were having the best time, and so was McCain. Then the New Hampshire primary came along, and McCain aced it, but the whole thing got derailed in South Carolina over Bob Jones University and a couple of rumors some people put out about McCain.
The point is, he was livid. He was fit to be tied. This is why some people still to this day think he's got it in for the Republican Party. That's why he crosses the aisle and makes deals with Democrats.
So these two occasions, the New York Times is writing about today. I guess McCain camp is aware. I would hope so. They better be aware what's in store for them. Once the Democrats have their nominee and so forth, this is just a little, little bitty tidbit of... (interruption)
Yeah, I know. There are stories about the Keating Five out there today, too.
This is just a little heads-up about what's coming Senator McCain's way once the Democrats iron out their stuff and Operation Chaos has come to a conclusion.
But it's still, all of this stuns me. It literally stuns me that a guy, Senator McCain, who spent years criticizing his own party and thought seriously about leaving his own party, is now the leader of it. END TRANSCRIPT
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To: Little Ray
Nope! I want the public
disgust to increase for the Democrats and
RINOs.
61
posted on
03/25/2008 6:52:33 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die.)
To: LibertyRocks
62
posted on
03/25/2008 7:00:36 AM PDT
by
Sybeck1
(It's truly bad when your Savior in November is Judas Himself.)
To: mimaw
It
wasn't Rush who:
... had his discussions in 2001 with Democrats about leaving the Republican Party, and ...[had]...his conversations in 2004 with Senator John Kerry," ... {had his discussions] ... "about becoming Mr. Kerry's running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket."
You're mad at the
wrong person.
63
posted on
03/25/2008 7:02:33 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die.)
To: normy
The Rush haters on FR are either amnesty guys or Huckabee guys.I don't like Rush because he hasn't had an original thought in 10 years. I know what he is going to say before he says it. I also don't like the fact that he doesn't live what he preaches.
64
posted on
03/25/2008 7:09:11 AM PDT
by
Soliton
(McCain couldn't even win a McCain look-alike contest)
To: Yosemitest
I'm sorry, but you are out of luck. RINOs and Socialists are the way of the future. Do you think that Hillary!’s and Obama’s platforms would have been acceptable 20 years ago? McCain's platform would have been the Democrat platform! Hillary! and Obama would have been “fringe” candidates!
Almost half the people in the country don't pay taxes - but they can vote. Guess what the vote for?
A whole bunch of people here illegally vote - and their votes ARE going to be legalized, soon. Guess how they're going to vote?
Old folks want their kids’ (and other folks' kids’...) money so that they don't have to pay for health care and can enjoy retirement. Guess how they're going to vote?
My sister is a Commie. My mom is a Commie. My brother-in-law and father-in-law are Commies. They all LOVE Obama.
Almost everyone is headed Left; being responsible and self-reliant is such a drag! Folks like us on FR are about all that are left to apply the brake. And we are not going to be able to stop it - just slow it down a bit. It won't stop until they run out people to rob and maybe not then...
65
posted on
03/25/2008 7:09:52 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(McCain: If I have to. I guess...)
To: Yosemitest
To continue...
Splitting the vote between “Left” and “Further Left” may be our last hope!
66
posted on
03/25/2008 7:11:17 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(McCain: If I have to. I guess...)
To: Soliton
You mean Rush
thought up OPERATION CHAOS over ten years ago???
67
posted on
03/25/2008 7:30:38 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die.)
To: Little Ray
Maybe it's time to feed the Liberty Tree.
68
posted on
03/25/2008 7:36:02 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die.)
To: Little Ray
And maybe it's time for Satan to rule...????
69
posted on
03/25/2008 7:38:32 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die.)
To: Yosemitest
It can’t happen until we run out of “bread and circuses.” And we are not going to run out in the near future.
70
posted on
03/25/2008 7:39:49 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(McCain: If I have to. I guess...)
To: Little Ray
I say, sit this one out and let the Left (The current GOP) and the extreme left rip each other apart.
The coming economic asteroid is headed smack dab for the middle of the Free World Economy. I Recently had my State taxes raised about 20%, (By all those new Democrats elected in ‘06) in order to create “economic prosperity, jobs and protect the Environment.” (because business and job growth has completely ceased.)
It’s only a matter time before it all comes crashing down. And they will only raise taxes again to make up for it. Liberals like McCain are NOT the answer. He will do the same thing the Democrats do.
71
posted on
03/25/2008 7:59:27 AM PDT
by
PSYCHO-FREEP
(Juan McCain....Viva El Presidente! "I'm not prejudice, I hate everybody the same.")
To: Yosemitest
No he was too stoned then
72
posted on
03/25/2008 8:57:21 AM PDT
by
Soliton
(McCain couldn't even win a McCain look-alike contest)
To: Yosemitest
what do you mean the "almost" left the GOP....????
He's an "insider". He wants and has stated that he got sent to Washington to "get things done".... which means taxes, "programs" and bullsh#t regulation to "get things done"....
I am so frickin happy we got McCain that I can barely feel the gun barrel on my teeth.
We've got a choice this year between... Moon-bat liberal, she-male liberal and crooked politician idiot liberal...
whoop de frickin doo!!!
Congress is the key my friends. Getting a Senate or house of Rep to block all these morons from "helping" us and screwing the country.
73
posted on
03/25/2008 3:40:42 PM PDT
by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
To: Yosemitest
How's this...?
74
posted on
03/25/2008 3:42:53 PM PDT
by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
To: Yosemitest
I feel the same way.
Give the liberal Obama or Hillary 2 years to run their tricycle into the ditch and take back congress..... again.
75
posted on
03/25/2008 4:45:25 PM PDT
by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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