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For McCain, a Dual Role, Center Stage [in the middle of the aisle]
The New York Times ^
| 2009-03-06
| David M. Herszenhorn
Posted on 03/06/2009 7:35:06 PM PST by rabscuttle385
WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain is rewriting the part of presidential loser.
Unwilling to vanish into retirement like Bob Dole, or retreat into academia like Al Gore, or even quietly convalesce like John Kerry, Mr. McCain has quickly reclaimed a place on center stage in Washington, some days skewering President Obama and the Democratic Party, and on other days standing by their side.
“I’m the, as I said, loyal opposition,” Mr. McCain, Republican of Arizona, proclaimed this week. “And both words, I think, are operative.”
If anyone wondered which John McCain would return to the Senate — the coalition-building dealmaker or the gloves-off bruiser from the campaign trail — the answer is now clear: both.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho2009; bho44; bipartisanship; erratic; mcbama; mccain; mccaintruthfile; mcqueeg; rino; senate; senile; ussenate
Professor Baker added, “His support will come at times and places of his choosing.”
Go to hell, Queeg.
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posted on
03/06/2009 7:35:46 PM PST
by
rabscuttle385
("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
To: rabscuttle385
Back in his usual role of screwing conervatives.
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posted on
03/06/2009 7:40:38 PM PST
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(The inmates are now officially running the asylum.)
That’s because there is a complete vacuum right now with pubbie leadership.
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posted on
03/06/2009 7:41:30 PM PST
by
evad
(.!.)
To: rabscuttle385
Wow! This is just like the article the NYTs wrote about John Kerry rewriting the part of Presidential loser!
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posted on
03/06/2009 7:41:45 PM PST
by
digger48
To: digger48
quietly convalescing....
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posted on
03/06/2009 7:43:37 PM PST
by
digger48
To: rabscuttle385
McCain’s back in his favorite role of playing the incredible inflatable road kill.
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posted on
03/06/2009 8:10:46 PM PST
by
Post Toasties
(Conservatives allow the guilty to be executed but Lefties insist that the innocent be executed.)
To: rabscuttle385
Awwwwww; does the sweet wittle Noo Yock Times wuv the wittle Johnny again? Awwwwww. Isn’t that sweeeet?
Pox on all houses involved in this little sashay.
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posted on
03/06/2009 8:26:16 PM PST
by
Migraine
(Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
To: rabscuttle385
McCain will soon lose his balance and fall to the left, AGAIN!
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posted on
03/06/2009 8:43:54 PM PST
by
txnativegop
(God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
To: txnativegop
...and again...and again...and again...
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posted on
03/06/2009 8:45:54 PM PST
by
rabscuttle385
("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
To: rabscuttle385
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posted on
03/06/2009 8:46:43 PM PST
by
txnativegop
(God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
To: rabscuttle385
The only person I want to hear less of than McCain is Obama.
Becki
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posted on
03/06/2009 10:02:37 PM PST
by
Becki
(It's the Socialism, stupid!)
To: rabscuttle385
McCain is loyal to the democrats in opposing the conservatives.
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posted on
03/06/2009 10:14:41 PM PST
by
GreyMountainReagan
(Liberals do not view the book 1984 as a warning but as a guideline.)
To: rabscuttle385
He’s become his own cartoon caricature of himself. It’s pathetic.
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posted on
03/06/2009 10:16:54 PM PST
by
TADSLOS
( Join the Conservative Revolution! http://falconparty.com/)
To: rabscuttle385
If anyone wondered which John McCain would return to the Senate — the coalition-building dealmaker or the gloves-off bruiser from the campaign trail — the answer is now clear: both.
Both descriptions are out and out lies and distortions of the truth.
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posted on
03/06/2009 10:23:10 PM PST
by
SoConPubbie
(GOP: If you reward bad behavior all you get is more bad behavior.)
To: rabscuttle385
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posted on
03/07/2009 9:40:41 AM PST
by
MaggieCarta
(We're all Detroiters now.)
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