John McCain at his fieriest before 'don't ask, don't tell' vote (McLame throws temper tantrum)

The Washington Post ^ | 2010-12-18 | Dana Milbank

[rabscuttle385]

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Saturday's debate on the repeal of the "don't-ask-don't-tell" policy was only half an hour old when the Arizona Republican burst onto the floor from the cloakroom, hiked up his pants and stalked over to his friend Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). Ignoring Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who had the floor, McCain hectored the men noisily for a few moments, waving his arms for emphasis.

When McCain finally stormed off, Durbin shook his head in exasperation and Lieberman smiled. A minute later, McCain returned - he had apparently remembered another element of his grievance - and resumed his harangue.

It turns out McCain's fury was stirred by a trifle - he had wanted more time for the debate, which the Democrats eventually gave him - but that was typical. It doesn't take much to set off McCain these days.

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McCain famously said in 2006 that he would support repeal once military leaders recommended it. Instead, he led the opposition to repeal. McCainologists in the Capitol speculate that on this and other issues he's driven less by policy consideration than by personal animosity. A decade ago, his antipathy toward President George W. Bush led him to seek common cause with Democrats to thwart a Republican president. Now his antipathy toward President Obama has made him a leading Republican hardliner.

[sanjoaquinvalley]

I don’t trust McCain.However I do think I have an explanation for this I think.He did say that some of the guards when he was a POW were gay.The guards were entertaining each other, getting their jollies by brutalizing the prisoners.He has good reason to take this personally.

[sheik yerbouty]

His wife and halfwit daughter do ads for rhe other side, with his overt or tacit approval. McWeasel is trying to have it both ways..

[flaglady47]

I know this may sound farfetched to some, but I think McCain is going ballistically conservative because he may want to run for President again. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if he goes for the prize one more time. He has unbridled ambition to be President, and I just think he may be setting himself up for another go at it. I don’t trust him any further than I could throw him.

[bushpilot1]

What POWs is Laos?

[bushpilot1]

POWs in Laos?

[BobP]

Doh!

[apronius]

Perhaps McCain was simply right on this one. Simple way to prove it. Why don’t we put together a concerted campaign to reach the good Senator and ask him if he would sponsor a bill reinstating DADT?

[muawiyah]

Naw, he’s got it under control ~ else Durbin and Lieberman would be quite bloodied and broken.

[muawiyah]

His silly daughter is looking for dates in all the wrong places.

[scbison]

Yea, I intend to agree with you on this.. One thing about McCain is that he cares for the troop and is contact with quite regularly.. He probably has heard from many of them that if DADT is repealed many won’t re-up. He knows that this will be very destructive to the US since we are fighting 2 wars.

[mountainbunny]

I don’t understand FReepers who continue to attack the senator even when he makes the right votes. It makes no sense. If a senator is going to be forever scorned and cut off from any chance of conservative support for past mistakes, what’s the incentive to change? The proper incentive to change is to do the right thing for the right reason.

Senator McCain changes his mind to benefit himself. Example: He was for the repeal of DADT before he was against it because it benefited him to do so. Now that there is no cost whatsoever in being against it, he's against it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020202588.html

Another good example: McCain was for amnesty before he was against it, and will certainly be for it again before everything is said and done.

Changing your mind because you've reconsidered the issue and are now looking at it from another stance is fine. Saying you are changing it simply to make political points is dishonest.

The stunning regularity with which Senator McCain changes his mind in ways that immediately benefit himself indicates that he is in it for himself, not for voters.

It’s not like Senator McCain is going anywhere for the next six years. I’d much rather retire him at the end of his next term as a conservative ally rather than as a RINO quisling. We’ve got plenty of them—no reason to encourage more to join the ranks of the Maine witches.

Even the "Maine witches" as you call them (lol) never said this:

"I believe my party has gone astray," McCain said yesterday, singling out GOP stands on environmental issues and racial set-asides."

I think the Democratic Party is a fine party, and I have no problems with it, in their views and their philosophy," he said.

Senator John McCain, Boston Herald, April 2004

[Carley]

McCain also stated on the Kudlow TV program that he was prepared to shut down the government to prevent omnipork.

[Tribune7]

If he really cared, he could have filibustered this, and everything else Reid, Pelosi and Obama are trying to do.

Actually, he couldn't have. There were not 41 votes against it.

[Liz]

Oh, this is a riot---McC railing at homo suckup Lieberman. Remember when Liar Lieberman sucked-up to prez candidate McC ....as No Principles Lieb wrote a $100,000 check to the Dems to protect his creds?

BACKSTORY McCain ran the worst presidential campaign ever, one that surpassed old man Dole's. McC's nowhere campaign looked more and more like loser Dole's muddled bid. He was his own worst enemy. McC's problem was that he was not prepared to run on anything other than "war hero."

The stupidest campaign move was when McCain “suspended” his campaign and tiptoed into Washington to work on what?-----the discredited stimulus/bailout-----a desperate stunt from which he never recovered. He only succeeded to anchor himself to the sinking economy.

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The economy sprung a leak while McC went out to sea. That stupid move of McC "suspending his 2008 campaign," as the bailout bill surfaced. Expectations were that he would have a plan at the presidential debate a few days later--something to convince voters he was up on the problem. He succeeded only in tying himself to the sinking economy.

McC embraced conservative-haters like loser Giuliani and amnesty-whore Juan Hernandez (Mc's hand-picked Hispanic Outreach man), and Liar Lieberman. All of that made McC lose needed traction with the stalwart conservative base----the party's most energetic activists.

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McC disasters unlimited.

I kept waiting for candidate McC to trip and fall during his disastrous "town hall" debate------ballyhooed as showing McC "at his best." Watching McC mincing around the forum----he looked like an over-the-hill Home Depot guy working to supplement his SocSec. I kept wondering when he was going to start stirring the paint. His poll numbers dived the day after the debate.

BIG SCREW-UP McC hooked up with all the RINO creeps. This was a huge joke----Liar Lieberman sucked-up to McC then wrote a $100,000 check to the Dems to protect his creds.

McC was in bed with amnesty-whore Juan Hernandez as Americans woke up to 5 million toxic mortgages fraudulently doled out to illegals that poisoned our economy forever.

The parasitic pukeneos leashed-up McC like a pet dog. War hero McC was supposed to lay out the pukes case for Endless Global War using US treasure and rivers of US soldiers' blood. The very same pukes that duped Bush with fake documents, and lead the US over the cliff into the costly, bloody Iraq abyss. The pukes also goaded McC to glorify illegals by pushing for amnesty. With friends like these...........

[Eye of Unk]

I just want to bring something to light, up here in Alaska Lisa Murkowski voted for this real, she is of course still waging a battle against Joe Miller for the position of Senator.

For over the last month the local Anchorage rag ADN has been openly supporting Murkowski and doing everything in its power to discredit Miller.

However with Lisa being part of the tie breaker vote all of a sudden everyone is now turning against her and are wishing they had voted for Miller instead.

I’m not making this up, right now there is a pretty sizable amount of Alaskans on both sides pretty pissed off at Lisa Murkowski and are regretting their support for her.

Suddenly Joe Miller is becoming a possible savior, never the less he is still battling the election and is still going to court against Lisa Murkowski.

I honestly do hope the courts take a legal and proper course on this. Defeat Lisa, make Alaska proud and not a symbol of “pride”.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

He probably has heard from many of them that if DADT is repealed many won’t re-up. He knows that this will be very destructive to the US since we are fighting 2 wars.

Well then. He can always introduce a bill to repeal the repeal. Or...perhaps a bill to reinstate the draft.

[Tribune7]

He voted against making the Bush tax cuts permanent

And you can throw in CFR and the blanket, by-right amnesty scheme.

But he was the big push behind the surge which saved us in Iraq and he was the voice in the wilderness regarding Freddie & Fannie when it was anything but cool, and in the last year he's been among the biggest opponents of 0 in the Senate.

Me, I just want to beat 0 & the progressives. If McCain has decided to join our side, God bless him.

Training a politician means hitting them with a rolled up newspaper when they do something wrong, not when they do something right.

And as somebody pointed out we are stuck with him for at least 6 years.

McCain, btw, certainly seems upset about this DADT-repeal garbage. If we want to set things up for a return to some sort of sensible policy, we are going to have to point to guys like McCain who has had a distinguished military career and a reputation, which I think is deserved, for true concern about the military as a reason why the repeal was a real bad idea.

[Vaquero]

He still has anger management issues

true but anger management issues is such a leftist term. one might say that Curtis LeMay had anger management issues.....and thank God for his issues...

[Tribune7]

1 strike and yer out (you get “primaried”)! McCain was "primaried." And that strike was a nice, slow fat pitch down the center of the plate which he hit out of the park.

So what's your plan B?

[Tribune7]

One thing about McCain is that he cares for the troop and is contact with quite regularly.. He probably has heard from many of them that if DADT is repealed many won’t re-up.

I think that's going to happen.