Senator John McCain banks on earmark crusade (McCain attempts to hijack the Tea Parties)

The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Ariz. | 2010-05-23 | Dan Nowicki

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[c-b 1]

What a lying hypocrite, he made a big show of voting for TARP, the biggest pork barrel bill in the history of the country.

[pallis]

Sweep out the RINO poop.

[television is just wrong]

mccain, we don’t want any more of you.

[funfan]

A couple of years back I was watching C-Span and McCain was on the Seanate floor bloviating about a bill I do not recall what the bll was but he was going on and on how the bill had pork in it and he just kept saying the bill was bad but in the end he said he would vote for it I was shocked and thought out loud what a jerk he was-if you are against it you are against it period end of story and vote NO. He talks out of both sides of his mouth just like the rest of the polliticians

[Kimberly GG]

“(McCain attempts to hijack the Tea Parties)”

why am I not surprised.

[CitizenUSA]

Earmarks are Juan McPain’s cause celebre. They are completely insignificant compared to everything else happening in government. We are $1600 billion in the red this year alone! What’s $1 billion here or there?

A senator can’t vote to spend trillions on unconstitutional programs then cut a few earmarks and (honestly) claim to be a champion of small government. Shame on Arizona if he fools enough people to reelect him (again).

And people shouldn’t buy McPain’s “secure the border first” crap. First, who gets to decide the border is secure? Our pathetic leaders in DC? Secondly, McPain can’t wait to cram down amnesty as soon as the border’s “secure.” Yeah, paying a fine and “going to the back of the line” is AMNESTY if the illegals aren’t deported.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/amnesty

am·nes·ty:
1. a general pardon for offenses, esp. political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.
2. Law. an act of forgiveness for past offenses, esp. to a class of persons as a whole.
3. a forgetting or overlooking of any past offense.

If the penalty (deportation) for breaking existing law is forgiven, it’s an AMNESTY.

[nmh]

Tell Sarah Palin to SHUT UP and STOP endorsing this dinosaur of a RINO! END McPain’s political career.

[mkjessup]

McStain needs to worry more about his comments regarding his “admiration” for Mexican el Presidente’ Calderon receiving wide coverage between now and primary day.

That stupid sonuvabitch needs to be retired to the Happy Acres Home for Demented RINOs.

[AmericanInTokyo]

If McCain wins, and it is shown the Palin’s support was instrumental in him keeping his seat in the Senate, I am suspending any support of Palin for President in 2012. Simple as that. Sorry. And I DO happen to like her on a number of issues.

[mkjessup]

Good morning AiT, hope all is well with you so far today, and I agree with you regarding Sarah Palin, there are a number of positions of hers that I agree with, unfortunately she has created so much ambiguity regarding what she stands for, we cannot afford to embrace a candidate based on kneejerk, emotional reactions to what they say on the stump, we must do what former Attorney General John Mitchell (1913-1988) said, "Watch what we do, not what we say", and for those who would say that Sarah Palin is only endorsing a 'couple' of RINOs, I ask: "How much poison is fatal?".

That is not an unreasonable question.

[AmericanInTokyo]

My political support of anyone is never unconditional.

Trust but verify. They walk away from bedrock principles, then I walk away from THEM. Simple as that. If more Republican and Conservatives did that, we would have less RINOS. RINOs only do the things they do because they know they can get away from it due to the lack of scrutiny, accountability or the short memories. Not any more. Dammit.

[kamikaze2000]

Raging against earmarks is like raging against a rain drop while a tsunami bears down on you.

The Federal budget has grown to monstrous proportions and will bury us all sooner or later.

[restornu]

Such a phony and his earmarks he will never spill the beans he is nothing but a big tease....

[counterpunch]

Come on AZ Tea Partiers, we’re all counting on you to retire McCain.
Everyone needs to vote in the primary, and bring 10 friends!
If the Tea Party shows up in force, they can’t stop us.
The AZ GOP primary is Ground Zero for the entire Tea Party movement!

[MaggieCarta]

McCain also noted that at least four conservative Arizona tea-party organizations are not picking sides in the Senate primary.

Oh, c'mon AZ, flush the John!

[stephenjohnbanker]

Palin fans keep talking about how powerful a Palin endorsement is, but when anyone mentions Palin’s relentless radio ads for McCain, they all say it won’t make a difference on the voters. We can see clearly that they have.

[stephenjohnbanker]

McCain bought them off.

[mkjessup]

Palin fans keep talking about how powerful a Palin endorsement is, but when anyone mentions Palin’s relentless radio ads for McCain, they all say it won’t make a difference on the voters.

This is called hypocrisy and lying for the benefit of their own flawed beliefs.

Sarah Palin is on the record as saying that she "shares John McCain's vision for America" and only a fool or a liberal (alas, I'm being redundant here) would suggest for a nano second that McStain's 'vision for America' is a conservative vision. He is not a conservative, he is a liberal-progressive lying POS-RINO.

And Sarah "shares his vision", so what does that tell us?

If Sarah is walking with the angels as her apologists and acolytes seem to think, then when will THEY announce that they too, "share John McCain's vision for America", because if they believe it's ok for Sarah to adopt that position, they should put their money where their mouth is and support her!