McCain Explains ‘Hobbit’ Dig (McCain unrepentant for attacks on conservatives)

Roll Call ^ | 2011-08-21 | Melanie Starkey

[rabscuttle385]

Sen. John McCain was put on the defensive Sunday for comparing some of his GOP colleagues to hobbits during the debt ceiling debate.

The Arizona Republican had taken to the Senate floor in July to admonish conservatives for “unrealistic” expectations and quoted a Wall Street Journal editorial that compared them to the characters from J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.”

“What I was talking about, quoting from a Wall Street Journal editorial, was that there was a segment of the Republicans in the Senate — Republican Senators — that said we cannot raise the debt limit until we pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution,” McCain said when asked on CBS’ “Face the Nation” about his choice of words. “The Senate would not pass — would not get 67 votes. ... We could not have passed it. That was unrealistic, hobbits are unrealistic, it was unrealistic to say.”

[Tzimisce]

Yep - McCain was the “conservative” candidate in 2008.

And we’re going to push Perry or Romney in 2012?

Why would these people listen to us? They call us names to our faces and we still support them.

[LomanBill]

^{All bark and no bite.}  

^{All Mrs. McCain's toothless lapdog had to do for the win in 2008 was attack with a single phrase:}

"Penny Pritzker is Mr. Obama's national finance chairwoman.  Her Chicago family owned bank pioneered subprime loans and failed because of them in 2001..."

But McPoodle did have the cajones, did he.

 

[hattend]

As always... FUJM

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Mc Gollum.

[ExGeeEye]

Never forget: at the King’s coronation*, the King himself knelt before the Hobbits.

*movie version

[ExGeeEye]

Never forget: at the King’s coronation*, the King himself knelt before the Hobbits.

*movie version

[ExGeeEye]

oops