Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., lost some of his maverick luster after accepting an invitation to speak at Bob Jones University and voting to make President Bush’s tax cuts permanent. But he still maintains that he won’t prostitute himself to become president. “I don’t want it that badly," McCain told David Ignatius of The Washington Post. “I will continue to do what is right. I will continue to pursue torture, climate change. If that means I can’t get the Republican nomination, fine. I’ve had a happy life. The worst thing I can do is sell my soul to the devil.” And as for accusations of being a hypocrite, McCain argued: “I haven’t changed. My record is the same on all issues, which is that of a conservative Republican. Not a liberal Republican, not a moderate Republican.”
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McCain could not sell his sole to the devil if he wanted too. He traded it away many years ago.
What does it mean to be a maverick in the political sense?
Oh! Going against Bush on everything. I see!
I like McCain, and he is right to support permanent tax cuts. He is his own man and I like it that he doesn’t go out there just to please everybody, either it be the right, left, or the media.
He just does what he feels is right.
Phillip, Phillip, Phillip,
Supporting permanent tax cuts makes McCain less of a maverick?
Weak Phillip, intellectually weak.
“It’s not who you think you are, it’s not who you say you are. It’s what you do.”
McCain supported Bush after they smeared him with lies about an “illegitimate black child” to get the racist vote in South Carolina. (He and his wife had ADOPTED an East Indian girl from Sri Lanka or somewhere.)
Is he somehow a better whore because he says he’s NOT a whore?
The “straight-talk express” proved to be the “fog-and-mirrors show” just like the rest of the new Republicans.
Yeah LH. So much for ethics reform in the House. They passes their “reform” bill last night, and it is a joke. Gutted of anything that is meaningful.
More on the “smoke and mirrors” of ethics reform. I guess you would have to HAVE ethics before they could be reformed.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/5/3/182634/9172
Wonder where Tanker Todd stood on this? Read the “reform” before giving him cudos.
The “straight-talk express” proved to be the “fog-and-mirrors show” just like the rest of the new Republicans.
The “straight-talk express” proved to be the “fog-and-mirrors show” just like the rest of the new Republicans.
The “straight-talk express” proved to be the “fog-and-mirrors show” just like the rest of the new Republicans.
Ooops, sorry for the screwed up post. I dont even know how that happened.
Musta been the NSA…..
Ah, McCain is just trying to keep the Bush lie machine off his back in the coming campaign. Don’t think we’ll see the real McCain until and if he lands the nomination.
He hasn’t sold his soul to the Devil in the White House; it’s just on loan for awhile.
I think he’s the best option so far. I’d vote for him.
He’s on my radar, too.
But he is going to have to move away from Bush to get my vote.
He’s the next president of the US. Book it.
McCain is a clown, he is even more gung ho on Iran and more pro wetback than shrub. McClown is a globalist, anti-White zionist lackey and hopefully he will be struck dead by lightning!
Viva La raza Blanco!!
It’s going to be fun watching the far right of the GOP swiftboating McCain over the next couple of years. He can pander to them all he wants. It won’t overcome any of their loathing for him.
It is either Buchanan/Nader in 2008 or a race/civil war by 2010 and either outcome is just fine by me at this point!
Viva La Revolucion Blanco!!!
If McCain is so wonderful, why didn’t he get the nomination in 2000?
The radical right-wing bailed on him, BushCo’s dirty tricksters stabbed him in the back (”he is mentally unstable after torture in Vietnam”), and big money corporate interests (Enron, Halliburton) loved putting their management in position of government power.
The only thing that McCain could do to re-establish himself as his own man is to run as a Democrat.
We can only dream.
“But he still maintains that he won’t prostitute himself to become president.”…And of course, he’ll still respect you in the morning!
That Mc Cain can still kiss bush’s ass after what Karl Rove and company did to him says a lot to me. The guy is a panderer.
Now I’ll afford the guy some credit. He did have a very traumatic experience in Vietnam.
A little deeper looking might be in order. I don’t want to spread rumors here. That is Karl Rove’s job.
Again, this is just a story. Lend it the level of credibility you think best.
A lady who worked with my Mom once had a meal in a restaurant where Mc Cain was also dining. She tells of a very outspokenly nasty man. He was reportedly abusive of the help and the other diners.
I offer that up as I heard it. Might be interesting to look into in a larger sense.
That said, Mc Cain can’t get the GOP nomination TODD. He aint a big enough a..hole.
I liked McCain before the 2000 election. I felt sorry for him after all the vicious rumors. But kissing the @sses of those who slammed you into the ground does not win my respect. He’s proven he can flip-flop with the rest of the Administration, so he’ll never get my vote.
He’s a sellout. Garners little more respect than for Collin Powell.
We would have been so much better off had Patrick been president.
Regime Crisis
by Patrick J. Buchanan
At this writing, France has capitulated to mass demonstrations and canceled a labor law that would have let employers dismiss workers under 26.
For the French, the cave-in is truly bad news. It means the political system is not strong enough to take even modest measures to liberate France from a socialist system that is a freshwater fish in the salt waters of the Global Economy.
If despair and gloom are widespread in France, they are justified. With a birthrate below what is needed to continue as a French nation, its 5-8 million Arab and Islamic immigrants alienated, a limping economy, and no way to cast off socialist shackles, France’s future appears grim.
In America, too, a regime crisis appears at hand.
Millions have massed in cities from Los Angeles to Phoenix to Dallas to Washington to demand that 12 million illegal aliens be granted full rights of U.S. citizens and all talk of defending U.S. borders be halted at once. Republican and Democratic politicians have been rendered speechless by the size of the demonstrations.
But the demonstrations reveal something more unsettlling. That hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens, all subject to deportation, would defiantly march under foreign flags in U.S. cities suggests the government of the United States has lost its moral authority.
For two decades, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush have failed—or rather refused—to do their constitutional duty to defend the states from this invasion. Now the message had gone out to the world. Americans can’t or won’t defend their country. We can walk in and take over. And they are coming in the millions, every year.
And where is our commander in chief? He backs McCain-Kennedy, the bill to grant amnesty to the 12 million and blanket pardons to the corporate chiselers who hired them and passed on to taxpayers the costs of their health, education, and welfare.
This would put the illegals on the road to lifetime benefits from our welfare state and allow U.S. companies to go overseas and hire hundreds of thousands of workers yearly to bring back to replace Americans who balk at working for Third World wages.
This is the opposite of what Americans have told pollsters for 20 years they want. It is the opposite of what Arizonans and Californians have voted for every time they have held a referendum.
According to a new Washington Post-ABC poll, 60 percent of the people now disapprove of Bush’s performance, the strongest repudiation of his leadership since January 2001. And the Republicans who control Congress are running 15 points behind the Democrats. If the elections of 2006 were held today, the GOP would be annihilated.
But what do the Democrats offer us? Censure, taxes—and Cynthia McKinney.
If you think this Congress is an agonizing disappointment, wait for the new House, where chairmanships will be assumed by Barney Frank, John Conyers, and Henry Waxman, with Ways and Means and tax-writing power going to Charlie Rangel. That should be good for a 1000-point plunge in the Dow.
What is the probability of tough legislation to halt the invasion and put the U.S. government back in control of its frontiers? Given the makeup of this Senate—with Democrats virtually united in their resolve to make those 12 million illegal aliens new Democratic voters, and half the GOP terrified of being called “racist” or “xenophobic”—zero.
Indeed, if such a law were passed, it is questionable Bush would enforce it. For he has refused to enforce existing law or defend our southern border and has stated flatly he cannot secure the border unless given an amnesty/guest-worker program to go with it.
And who is the likely replacement for Bush in 2009? Hillary or McCain, both now competing with each other in the generosity of the amnesties they would bestow.
America is facing something of a regime crisis. The president’s poll number are falling not simply because of perceived incompetence—Katrina, Harriet Miers, the Dubai ports deal—but because his policies are failing. His trade policy has created the greatest trade deficits in history and accelerated the death of U.S. manufacturing. His immigration policy has left our borders undefended and millions of illegals marching for their “rights” under foreign flags. His democracy crusade is being ridden to power by anti-Americans from the Middle East to Latin America. His Iraq expedition has given us endless bleedings of blood and money.
What does McCain offer? On trade, immigration, and Iraq, he is 100 percent Bush. If Mexican radical Obrador wins in July and appears headed for the presidency, Americans may be looking around for a General Pershing. At least “Black Jack” understood border control.
May 8, 2006 Issuehttp://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_05_08/buchanan.html
Viva La Revolucion Blanco!!