Reconsidering John McCain [Trib-Review owner slaps McCain for being too cozy with Ted Kennedy]

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | 2009-09-06 | Dick Scaife

[rabscuttle385]

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Listening to Sen. McCain's elegy, however, I found myself increasingly bothered.

"We disagreed on most issues," McCain said at one point, "but I admired his passion for his convictions ... ."

Really?

Kennedy was the farthest-left liberal during nearly five decades in the U.S. Senate. McCain, just one year ago, campaigned for president, proclaiming his conservative convictions. And without doubt, Kennedy's wholehearted support of Barack Obama helped to torpedo McCain's campaign.

Perhaps one moment disturbed me most:

"When we worked together on the immigration issue," McCain recalled, "we had a daily morning meeting with other interested senators. He and I would meet for a few minutes in advance" to decide which other senators "needed a little special encouragement or ... a little straight talk."

That ill-conceived and doomed immigration plan on which McCain so proudly recalled working with Kennedy did more than any other issue to divide at every level -- and ultimately conquer -- the Republican Party in 2006 and 2008.

Yes, politics makes strange bedfellows. And, yes, sometimes senators must go along to get along and thus get things done.

Yet, listening to McCain's eulogy, I found myself wondering if he truly felt such common cause with Kennedy -- and if so, how he reconciles that with the conservative convictions on which he campaigned for president and on which his own party is based.

It left me questioning if my support for John McCain in the 2008 election might have been misplaced.

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Yet, listening to McCain's eulogy, I found myself wondering if he truly felt such common cause with Kennedy -- and if so, how he reconciles that with the conservative convictions on which he campaigned for president and on which his own party is based...It left me questioning if my support for John McCain in the 2008 election might have been misplaced.

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[rabscuttle385]

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[marron]

No one who paid any attention to what McCain does could possibly mistake him for a conservative. “Cranky Uncle Harry” is not conservatism. And McCain is no conservative.

The only reason every conservative didn’t sit this one out was Palin. Soros had all angles covered in that race. Palin was the wild card.

[Secret Agent Man]

Realspeak feature on:

“We disagreed on most issues,” McCain said at one point, “but we agreed on more than we disagreed on.”

There ya go John, fixed it for ya.

[ansel12]

Something is wrong with John McCain.

[Frantzie]

Juan McCain has to go. How many times has he stabbed conservatives in the back. He is/was a stooge for Kennedy and Obama.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I don’t know how McCain can breathe with all that brown stuff on his nose!

[wastedyears]

Like I’ve said before, McCain’s most deeply held belief while in office is compromise.

[org.whodat]

It left me questioning if my support for John McCain in the 2008 election might have been misplaced.

DUH!!!

"My moma said stupid is as stupid does"

[martin_fierro]

Me, in 2008.

[Grizzled Bear]

That ill-conceived and doomed immigration plan on which McCain so proudly recalled working with Kennedy did more than any other issue to divide at every level -- and ultimately conquer -- the Republican Party in 2006 and 2008.

The problem is McCain's positions mirrors GOP leadership. We need a new party!

[Grizzled Bear]

Something is wrong with John McCain the GOP.

John McCain was the GOP candidate. Maybe the GOP can run that Van Jones guy in 2012. I heard he's looking for a job.

We need a new party.

[ansel12]

The GOP is not an individual, it is whatever people make it, we already have 51 parties, which one do you recommend?

[Chunga]

Something is wrong with...the GOP Grizzled Bear.

Open primaries gave us John McCain.

The GOP needs a closed primary system so a conservative like Hunter or Palin can be nominated.

New "conservative" parties elect Democrats.

No thanks.

[SaraJohnson]

McCain and the chip off his block do a much better job attacking Republicans than they do socialists like Kennedy. They are natural born back stabbers. McCain put the stupid in the Republican party.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“That ill-conceived and doomed immigration plan on which McCain so proudly recalled working with Kennedy did more than any other issue to divide at every level — and ultimately conquer — the Republican Party in 2006 and 2008.”

Right on the money!

[Mamzelle]

When McCain bites the bucket and kicks the dust, he thinks he'll get the hysterical Kennedy Funeral treatment? No a chance, JM. You alienated everybody.

AZ, please knock him out in the primaries!

[AuntB]

"That ill-conceived and doomed immigration plan on which McCain so proudly recalled working with Kennedy did more than any other issue to divide at every level -- and ultimately conquer -- the Republican Party in 2006 and 2008."

And every indication is they're going to keep up this nonsense! I swear the GOP IS the democrats trojan horse!

[rabscuttle385]

When McCain bites the bucket and kicks the dust, he thinks he'll get the hysterical Kennedy Funeral treatment?

Hell no!