Maybe there’s a way to the White House down the middle for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. As it is, his sides are getting bruised.
On the left, MoveOn.org is conducting a $250,000 TV ad campaign against McCain in Iowa, New Hampshire and on cable, arguing it is “actually his idea to escalate the war” in Iraq.
On the right, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson recently said that McCain doesn’t support traditional marriage values and that he would not vote for McCain “under any circumstances.” He added: “I pray that we will not get stuck with him.”
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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Senator McCain is an honorable man, and he deserves better than he’s getting from either party. But that’s not what your editorial is really about, is it? What’s clear, Rhonda, is that you don’t care which set of monkeys is throwing turds so long as some of them stick to a Republican.
Russell you mean man.Rhonda can’t help it if the repugnicans have spent years perfecting the art of ‘turd magnet’.
I like McCain, he knows firsthand the brutality of war, I don’t think he views it as lightly as Dubya obviously does.
moveon should leave McCain alone. Let Dobson and the rest on the right smear him. Remember Bush’s “push polls” against him in 2000?
I used to like McCain but I think he is done for in this election cycle. I agree with Ben, the Religious Right did a number on McCain in 2000. But yet McCain still snuggled up to Bush afterwards like a little puppy that doesn’t know the master just kicked him.
McCain is not now nor has he ever been a “moderate.”
He’s a political opportunist just like Hillary and Joe Biden.
The only people that call him “centrist” or “moderate” are the clueless chattering class–the media.
John McCain
Charges: The most consistently mischaracterized politician in the country, even McCain’s most nakedly self-serving machinations are universally hailed as the bold moves of an independent maverick who really, really, like, cares, man.By virtue of his five-year stay at the Hanoi Hilton and a completely ineffectual campaign finance reform bill (which was itself only PR damage control for his long-forgotten role in the Keating Five),McCain has so successfully snowed America the he could go around kicking puppies all day and he’d be applauded for his authenticity. In reality, McCain is as phony as slimeballs come, having reversed his positions on Roe v. Wade, Bush’s tax cuts, the gay marriage amendment and Jerry Falwell in the last year alone, while the mainstream press looked away and whistled nonchalantly.Keeps changing the number of additional troops he thinks should be sent to Iraq, in hopes of extending the disaster beyond the next presidential election, so his decorated veteran status will still be relevant.
Exhibit A: “I hated the gooks, and I will hate them for as long as I live.”
Sentence: Back to the bamboo cage.Written by Allan Uthman & Ian Murphy
If McCain is a slimeball, then ALL politicians are slimeballs.
Oh wait…they are.
The end.
I took an advanced nutrition College course from a seven year Vietnam POW. He didn’t hold his capture up like McCain does.
He just pressed on with life and occasionally made some anecdotal stories about weight loss and the ingestion of cockroaches and rodents.
McCain needs to move on. He is used up.I don’t think He can win in Arizona.
McCain will give it up for anyone and anything if he thinks he can gain a political advantage. He gave it up to Bush on the Torture Bill, he rolled over for Falwell, he is sucking up to Bob Jones University and he is apparently engaged to Joe Lieberman.
… and since the Republican like to dredge thing up from the past, let’s not forget the Keating Five.
Ah, Sen. McCain is taking flak from both ends of the spectrum; sounds like he’s a good candidate, then.
McCain captured himself and brought along his own camera crew.
No matter what your opinion of the man is……….You know what makes me sick?Here we are 2 YEARS away from election, and the hateful spin machine has started FULL BLAST.And I’m not about to vote for Johnny, BUT, starting this early makes me think one thing….moveon.org—f**k you!
That’s what makes me sick!
I feel the same way about Focus on the Family, FACELESS TRACY, as well.
If you think this is early on McCain, where were you last week when they started on Obama? At least McCain has been a politician for years, Obama is brand new to the game in Washington DC and they are already attacking him – and the last attack came from Hillary, no less.
Politics has become so nasty and negative. I see why people who would make excellent candidates will not even consider running for office – why would they? Even an innocent little statement can be twisted to sound sinister. And don’t even get started on the personal life side of things. What person on this blog would welcome open scrutiny on their entire personal life? Even Obama is being scrutinized for some Muslim school that he attended when he was younger. What a load of crap.
Maybe this is why we always get the same old sleaze bags to run for office – they are the only ones willing to do it because they don’t care anymore about their self dignity? Just a thought.
I love all these people denigrating McCain’s POW time. Camera crew, “I’ll hate the gooks…” as if he doesn’t have the right- can Holocaust Jews hate Germans?Anyway, I bet all you people knocking McCain were beside yourselves with indignation when the Swift Boat Vets questioned Kerry’s Purple Hearts and postwar activities.May I dust off and borrow your 2004 argument that “the man served in Vietnam, who are you to question him?” I think several years in the Hanoi Hilton warrants it more than a cynical JFK-wannabe’s couple of months in “Nixon’s Cambodia incursions.”Buncha liberal jackasses. Thank God you people are a minority.