Posted on 05/10/2008 8:23:34 AM PDT by FocusNexus
Two Hollywood actors who dined with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in early 2001 at actress Candice Bergen's home confirmed reports that he told the assembled group he did not vote for George W. Bush in the 2000 election, but McCain denied the claim at a news conference.
In separate phone interviews, Bradley Whitford and Richard Schiff -- both of whom starred in television's "The West Wing" -- said late Thursday night that the senator made the remarks after he spoke at length about his reservations about Bush becoming president. Liberal blogger Arianna Huffington first wrote about the incident Monday, asserting that neither McCain nor his wife Cindy backed Bush in his first presidential bid, and the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that an unidentified woman who was also at the dinner confirmed Huffington's account.
McCain's aides denied the allegations Tuesday, and yesterday McCain did so himself.
"I voted, campaigned for, worked as hard as I could for President Bush's election in 2000 and 2004," he told reporters in New Jersey. "It's nonsense."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Those Hollywood actors and Arianna Huffington were McCain's comrades.
That's right. I find that more damning than who Juan McCain voted for.
You seem to have forgotten that the Values Voters, Social Conservatives, Evangelicals, and other Religionists rigged McCrazy's win with their own phony "conservative" Mike Huckabee, who last I heard was just barely edged out with about with 25 percent of the primary vote.
That allowed McCrazy to prevail against much better conservative candidates.
Hum.... I thought some of the votes in FL counted.... on the republican side.
Excuse me for my sick sense of humor but I think it is funnier than heck after the dems cried and waved their arms and beat their chest over “let every vote count” how they not only over looked one big state like yours but another state as well.
Further proof that everything comes from the liberal left are nothing but lies and deceit. In the end, they don’t care about counting votes after all.
“That line makes me think of Jim Traficant, beam me up. I think in prison he’d make a better president than McCain or Obama.”
I agree 100%.
Has Jim, “Beam Me Up” Traficant been released? Was it 5 or 8 years he was given? He is now dabbling in watercolors as I understand...a difficult medium for painters as oppose to oils.
I miss him.
At least he was an “honest crook.” : )
I would vote for him in a nanosecond.
Huck screwed other Conservatives out of the primaries because he wanted the VP slot.
Arrogant b@st@rds, both.
I call BS.
There was no screwed Conservative. There was no Conservative with adequate stature to win.
Further, and this is how I see it without a crystal ball…so I am guessing:
If he is still in jail, he wants to stay alive until he is released.
Once he is out, he will write such a damning book against the Clintons and all their crooked/funny friends, including Janet Reno, it is going to explode like nuclear bomb.
Yep. And did you notice the timing of the thing? Just when Fred Thompson was getting ready to enter the race - all of a sudden the MSM is hyping Huckabee like crazy right out of nowhere! Every time you turned the television on - someone was yapping about how the voters were really starting to notice him - huh? The MSM pimped Huck to be a spoiler to Thompson (who in hindsight, I think did enter too late) - who they really feared as he WAS a real conservative, unlike the populist Huckabee.
Conservatives had a lot of other problems that helped to get McCain up there - I hope we've learned our lessons for the next time around. We need to stick together and not be broken into smaller groups. I do believe there was a factor of cross-over voting from dems that helped Juan too.
“Quite simply, conservative principles have been coopted by Christian and Evangelical ideals in the mind of voting public.”
I agree with everything you said in your entire post.
Thank you.
That may very well be true.
Huckster is another pro-Amnesty clone.
You might not like Romney or Thompson, but at least they didn't hang out with scumbags like Kennedy to promote the illegal alien invasion.
That alone makes them more Conservative than the pro-Amnesty candidates.
Sources:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/03/16/romneys_words_grow_hard_on_immigration/
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/08/amnesty_issue/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3rrOVPuyXU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm457Tc-Fi0&watch_response
How many of these “witnesses” were in the voting booth with him?
Have you noticed how more and more of these folks are taking over FR?
.....Romney or Thompson.....
I will accept both of those as real contenders. I voted for Romney when Fred, after taking my money, dropped out.
Romney was however beaten, not necessarily done in.
On topic, anyone who listens to or comments on Arianna Huffington is wasting time and blowing the fluff off a dandelion.
What does Huffington have to do with this?
From the article:
"McCain-Kennedy isn't the answer," Romney said in a well-received speech to conservatives in Washington this month, describing it as an amnesty plan that would reward people for breaking the law and cost taxpayers millions to provide them benefits."
Yes, and they are just like their hero and mentor McNasty.
Long on insults and short on logic.
Excellent points.
Thank you for your reply.
I really needed a friend here.
I thought I was the only one thinking the way I do.
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