The Huffington-McCain Grudge Match

U.S. News 7 World Report ^ | 5/7/8 | Lucia Graves

[kc8ukw]

I’m not really sure what the attack was supposed to accomplish. Republicans don’t care because they don’t trust the source of the information. Independents don’t like Bush, so this probably makes them more likely to vote for McCain. And liberals weren’t going to vote for him anyways.

[Blackyce]

"Now, Huffington, who has since migrated leftward, says McCain has changed fundamentally, abandoning his core principles to embrace Bush in what last night she called a "classic Faustian bargain."

Has a darker pot ever, in the entire multi-millenial history of pots, EVER, tried to call a kettle black? 

[mrsmel]

How did ignorant bimbos (and entertainers) ever get credibility in this country for political acumen??? It'd be laughable if too many celebrity-struck people didn't give them credence and attention.

[dangerdoc]

On one side, we have a woman that said she was a conservative when it fit her needs and then changed teams, her husband also switched teams.

On the other side we have a Senator that has always said he was a conservative but his record was hit and miss.

[Yankee]

Ariana?

I would not believe a word out of that opportunistic bitch’s mouth.

[KevinDavis]

I still contend that her husband was straight until he married her..

[Old North State]

How did ignorant bimbos (and entertainers) ever get credibility in this country for political acumen???

Good question, I know some bimbos are celebrities because of movies, songs, etc., but Huffington? just a blank. I thought maybe she screwed her way into the limelight, but yeesch...

[presidio9]

I still contend that her husband was straight until he married her..

He was straight after he married with her. It took spending some time with her to turn him gay.

[Sooth2222]

Being married to Arianna Huffington could make any sane man consider alternative lifestyles.

[penowa]

"On one side, we have a woman that said she was a conservative when it fit her needs and then changed teams, her husband also switched teams."

"On the other side we have a Senator that has always said he was a conservative but his record was hit and miss."

You left out the part about McCain WANTING to switch teams just like the Huffingtons, but Jeffords beat him to it and the Democrats no longer wanted him. I really can't decide who I find more despicable, Huffington or McCain. I guess it's a draw.

I plan to do to McCain in November exactly what Huffington says the McCains did to Bush - write in someone's name for President that I think is more deserving of holding the office, and I suspect I won't be alone.

[Grunthor]

“The Huffington-McCain Grudge Match”

Ooh fun, I love it when liberals fight.

[Antonio C]

Huffington is nothing but a drama queen and a liar.

[Antonio C]

I think she and Bill Maher had something going at one time. Not a pretty thought.

[tlb]

>>>”we have a Senator that has always said he was a conservative but his record was hit and miss.”

American Conservative Union Ratings for the Likely 2008 Presidential Candidates

Senator John McCain (AZ)
83 Lifetime

80 2005

Senator Hillary Clinton (NY)
9 Lifetime

12 2005

Former Vice President Al Gore (TN)
9 Lifetime

N/A

Senator Barack Obama (IL)
8 Lifetime

8 2005

Senator John Kerry (MA)
5 Lifetime

8 2005

http://www.conservative.org/archive2/2008potus.asp

Looks like he hit a bit more then he missed.

>>>You left out the part about McCain WANTING to switch teams just like the Huffingtons, but Jeffords beat him to it and the Democrats no longer wanted him.

They “no longer wanted him” so much they begged him to become Kerry’s VP, offering him the sun and moon if would say “yes”.

Newsweek via Outside the Beltway November 5, 2004
James Joyner

Kerry’s courtship of Senator John McCain to be his running mate was longer-standing and more intense than previously reported. As far back as August 2003, Kerry had taken McCain to breakfast to sound him out to run on a unity ticket. McCain batted away the idea as not serious, but Kerry, after he wrapped up the nomination in March, went back after McCain a half-dozen more times.

“To show just how sincere he was, he made an outlandish offer,” Newsweek’s Thomas reports. “If McCain said yes he would expand the role of vice president to include secretary of Defense and the overall control of foreign policy. McCain exclaimed, ‘You’re out of your mind. I don’t even know if it’s constitutional, and it certainly wouldn’t sell.’”

Kerry was thwarted and furious. “Why the f— didn’t he take it? After what the Bush people did to him…’”

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2004/11/newsweek_election_issue_how_he_did_it/

but whatever.

[Sybeck1]

What was Johnny Mac’s 2006 rating?

[dangerdoc]

I’ll vote McCain. Either he or Obama will be president. McCain will at least fight the WOT.

He’s old, cranky and a little crazy, the Muzzies may be afraid of him.

[penowa]

"They 'no longer wanted him' so much they begged him to become Kerry’s VP, offering him the sun and moon if would say 'yes'."

There are reports that this worked the other way around - McCain approaching Kerry, wanting Kerry to put him on the ticket, trying to convince Kerry how he could help him get elected, not Kerry "begging" McCain to become his VP. When asked by a reporter while campaigning recently about whether he asked Kerry, McCain did not deny it, and would only say that he was "too conservative" for Kerry, NOT who did the asking.

[penowa]

"He’s old, cranky and a little crazy, the Muzzies may be afraid of him."

The Muzzies aren't the only ones who may be "afraid of him." He scares me as much as Obama does so I'll be voting for neither. I have believed for a LONG time that McCain is not only unstable, but a crook as well, not to mention just another sock puppet of Soros, et.al.

[mware]

BOR was commenting on the huffington post last night.

Some sweetheart of a blogger mentioned he can't wait until the general campaign starts so people can see the real John McCain. Who the blogger claims was not tortured while in the hands of the NV. The blogger also said the McCain worked openly with the North Vietnamese.

I think the blogger is confused with John Kerry and his 3 purple hearts, and meetings with the North Vietnamese in Paris.