The Huffington-McCain Grudge Match

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

[tlb]

>>>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

“Reports” suddenly remembered during the political races in 2008 by sources such as Huffington and the like who hope to discredit the man who seems on track to otherwise clean their clock in November, aided and abetted on boards such as FR by DU trolls, Paulites, and the like all who have their own agendas for mischief.

The report I posted was published days after the 2004 election, when people had no need to lie or distort what happened. This was the description of what transpired re the 2004 VP slot for four years until a wedge was needed to manipulate the crackpot right. Then out of nowhere a new storyline is made.

Going by the best evidence rule, I tend not to buy the new story.

[Biblebelter]

The worry for McCain is that Huffington's claim will alienate him from core Republican voters

No need to worry about this Republican core voter. Whatever, Huffington said would have no bearing on alienating me. I was alienated a long time ago from the babble come out of both sides of the RINO relic's mouth. In fact, the words coming out of the Keating Five Guy's mouth do not amount to as much, as the fact that he gave La Raza the respect of a speaking appearance last week. The fact that McCain's campaign would worry more about the harm Huffington could do to his base, than the effects of a LaRaza appearance, speaks volumes about how out of touch the dislikable old geezer and his staff are with core of the party he claims to represent.

[penowa]

I don't intend to plow through every McCain thread on FR to find which magazines or newspapers published the reports I read on here in 2004, and again were referenced on FR since McCain became the nominee, but there was NO mention of Ariana Huffington in any of them until this thread. The articles posted on here that I read were based on reports from the 2004 election cycle when all the buzz was about McCain as a possible VP for Kerry, and McCain's being asked on the stump by a reporter since he became the putative nominee about approaching and asking to be Kerry's VP.

IMO Ariana Huffington is just about as trustworthy as McCain is. I wouldn't turn my back on either one and I don't believe anything either one says, birds of a feather, etc.