Posted on 02/28/2010 9:45:27 AM PST by rabscuttle385
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His loathing for McCain has a long history. “I don’t like him,” Tancredo said. “He is not a very pleasant person. He is nasty, mean; the skin of an onion would look deep compared to his. He has a short fuse, he is almost peculiarly unstable.”
He still remembers his first encounter with the senator from Arizona. In 1999, Tancredo was elected to the House with 54 percent of the votes in his Colorado district. “When you win with less than 55 percent of the vote, you are seen as vulnerable. So then the party will go out to the superstars and say, can you please pick one or two vulnerables and do a fundraiser for them.” Somebody in McCain’s office picked him. “And I go, that’s great!” Tancredo recalled.
One day, he went over to the Senate and bumped into McCain in the elevator. “I had never met him. So I shake his hand to thank him for doing the fundraiser.” The senator then asked if he could count on Tancredo’s support for McCain-Feingold (a bipartisan campaign reform act McCain had drafted with Democratic senator Russell Feingold). Tancredo opposed this proposed regulation of political campaign financing, and he told McCain. “So I go: ‘I am voting no, I don’t like it. I actually think it’s terrible’.”
“It was like a bomb went off in his head. He exploded! He was screaming at me! It was, ‘When I come across the f**king street, you are…’ And, ‘You don’t know what the f**k you are talking about!’ And I said, ‘What?!’ I was just so taken aback. But then I went after him: ‘Hey, nobody told me you are coming to help me for a quid pro quo for a shit bill!’ It just got worse. It was really bad, I remember us getting out of the elevator and people stepped back way up because they couldn’t handle the screaming.”
The two never reconciled. “From there, it only went downhill," according to Tancredo.
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Geeeez..... I don’t feel so bad now. Someone agrees with me.
In that spirit, I wish McKook would just retire and go the heck away.
No surprise. McCain is a sell out loser...
Palin not “Presidential”, huh...
For every azz-hat that believes Palin isn’t qualified to be President, I would like to hear their opinion of the current placeholder in the White House...
Divide, divide, divide.
Palin ISN'T presidential.
0bama is even less presidential than Palin...
Well, he’s certainly right about McCain. So I’ll give him a grade of 50% on this.
LOL!
Btw, where does that picture come from ?
[Copied your post here. — FREgards ...]
“[Conservatives are] going to destroy the f*cking [Republican] party...
Why would I want to be the leader of a party of such a**holes?”
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, UNKNOWN
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2425856/posts
“I think the Democratic Party is a fine party, and I have
no problems with it, in their views and their philosophy.”
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 02 APR. 2004
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/4/2/115508.shtml
“I have to tell you, [Obama] is a decent person, a person that you
do not have to be scared [of] as president of the United States.”
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 10 OCT. 2008
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102668/posts
AZ-Sen. 2010: McCain Camp Plans End Run Around AZ GOP (McCain fighting conservatives)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460067/posts
Who is then ?
Hayworth vs. McCain — Primary Headline Roundup [Please help]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2456305/posts?page=8
I’m running a once-a-week Hayworth vs. McCain ping if anyone is interested. — FRegards ....
Tancredo is setting himself up as a third party candidate
Spot on Tom.
Yep agreed.
That story about McCain is about as scary a story as I have read lately - even given the Tsunami and earthquake of yesterday.....
TT thinks McCain is a socialist but maybe not a socialist. Palin is telling it like it is and then she isn’t. He supports the bailout but knows his audience wouldn’t like it if they knew. She’s not Presidential but he thinks he is. Give me a break.
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