John McCain’s conservative credentials got a boost with the endorsement of former Texas senator and presidential candidate Phil Gramm. Though Gramm wrote in a Wall Street Journal commentary that he has disagreed with McCain on various issues, he thinks the Arizona senator would be “the right president for these times.” The key issues for Graham were McCain’s fiscal conservatism, his willingness to tackle entitlement reform, his support of free trade and his authority to “thwart enemies, unite friends and win peace.”
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His time has passed. He has shown to be an administration lackey and a huge let down for letting the administration cut the Military Personnel Budgets and Veterans Health and Welfare programs. He should have been all over the Walter Reed shame. No leadership skills evident in the last 10 years.
Yeah now that he’s said he doesn’t support Roe, I’m sure the neocons will come around to backing McCain fully.
What about his unflagging support of the war that will not end? That right there will cost him the presidency, if nothing else.
Phil Graham? One of the most hated men in Texas? Hehehehehehehehehehe
Ya know, I have seen graham in pics lately with McCain. Graham was the one who uttered the famous phrase “every candidates best friend, ready cash” in reference as to why HE would win the nomination when he ran.
How did all that “ready cash” work for ya phil?
Damn, you dont think mccain would pick graham or his wife, the former head of the FTC, as veep do ya?
Jesus wept. If mccain keeps running any farther to the right, he’s gonna be on the left…..
As if John McCain didn’t have enough problems, Gramm’s quasi-endorsement is the “kiss of death”. Prior to his political emergence, Phil Gramm was a professor at Texas A & M University and my late wife had to endure one of his classes — rambling, disjointed and partisan rhetoric constituted his “lectures”. Crushed by the pressures of taking 20 hours her final senior semester, she asked me, prefacing it by admitting she knew it “wasn’t right”, if I would write her “final”, a paper regarding the Truman-MacArthur conflict which, we all know, resulted in Truman “firing” MacArthur.
Having never attended even one of his lectures, never read the texts assigned, I wrote 40 some pages of drivel, made up quotes and statistics, etc. (Thank God, if there is a statute of limitations on this sort of thing, it’s long since expired.) In any even, she “aced” his class.
Anyway, he subsequently entered politics, as he understood it. He was perched on Ronald Reagan’s lap quicker than Paris Hilton’s rodent appearing dog dives into her Louis Vitton bag.
For those of you out there that are young enough that you don’t remember him vividly, google a picture. While they bear no physical resemblance overall, Gramm and Brownback have almost identical “beady weasel eyes”. It wouldn’t surprise me that Brownback put Gramm up to this, as a last gasp of a corpse of a campaign far beyond life support. Except, Brownback isn’t that smart.
So long, John McCain.
true DAT rm. And if graham is a laughing stock in TEXAS, fer christ’s sake, imagine what the rest of the nation thinks of him.
More wingnut pandering from mccain. He’s starting to sound a lot like lance kinzer.
Oh wait, he always did!!!!!!
Who will be giving McCain the orders on how to think?
The GOP used this man, then threw him to the dogs, and yet he came crawling back with his tail between his legs (obviously learned from those dogs) and is begging for more.
McCain gets no R-E-S-P-E-C-T, and deservedly so.
McCain is done. His full support into the pResident who is currently taking space in OUR WHITE house has made him lose all credibility. He has forgotten his roots and his experiences. He is not the same McCain he used to be…he is just a bush toy now
He lost me at The Patriot Act — caved in and agreed to prisoner abuse. Since then he has perfected his bush lock step and proven to be a political whore.
Lots of Democrats supported the Patriot Act.
Lets get real.
McCain is a man without a Party. He gets in the news by bashing other Republicans or bashing Republican causes. The Press likes this, and gives him front page treatment in these situations.
The situation is different when McCain runs against a liberal. In that case, McCain will be treated like any other Republican.
However, McCain is a Republican who has made a career out of pissing off the Republican base.
Without the “base” and without the liberal media, what does McCain have?
McCain is a loose cannon kook bush lap dog.
Paul said: “Lots of Democrats supported the Patriot Act.
Lets get real.”
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Unlike you Paul I am capable of looking beyond the capitol R or D behind a politician’s name. Of all the people who should have stood their ground against abuse of soldiers McCain should have been at the top of the list. And he tried until he caved in. And that is the REAL story of McCain. He is a political whore.
Paul: I’m afraid all he’s got left is the he still looks better than Brownjerk. Beyond that, as Willie says, “Turn out the lights, the party’s over…”.
Agreed rm – I once liked McCain but seeing him kiss up to the Bushies after what they did to him in South carolina did it for me. Seems like he has been terminally infected with campaign fever and lost his independence.
I would add that he has become ‘old news’ on the political scene. His time has passed.
Sorry but could not disagree more that Sen. Mc.Cain would be right for this job. While his patriotism and heroics are honorable and respected, I see nothing fresh from what he was voicing 8 years ago when running against the Shrub.
True, this current administration has blindly and self-servingly invaded a country with no clear plan. Yet we captured and hung the bad guy…. the WRONG bad guy. Plus, they have an even more unclear and inept exit plan, except to rack up the carnage. As a former POW, Sen. Mc.Cain has woefully let our valiant soldiers and veterans down with his hawkish rubber-stamping. How dare him voting for cutting off and reducing miltary families’ benefits and salaries while he receives free health care and a hefty pension. All the more reason for term limits. This and myriad conditions point toward a Democrat ticket claiming victory next November.
The person I would feel most comfortable in a situation of this gravity is Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico with Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as his Vice-President. Of all the candidates from both major parties to date, he possesses the diplomatic international experience, combined with a strong and unruffled demeanor to take on the awsome, gut-rendering power of this office.The GOP has no one who could come close to even carry his briefcase. Remember, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s post 9-11 decisions were after the act. While in no way to belittle his actions, he did what a Mayor was expected to do. Aside from being evrything a Reflublican conventionally is not, I see nothing from him that would make him a viable candidate. Mitt Romney?? There isn’t room in the White House for all of his wives! OK, I couldn’t resist that one! Sen. Mc.Cain should finish his term, go back to Arizona with his stunningly beautiful wife and soak up the sun. OOOPS! My bad!
To this point, Gov. Richardson has quietly avoided the spotlight so as to thoughtfully organize his campaign. Trunks, I’m afraid you’ll be the homely girl at this dance.
McCain no longer garners respect from moderates of the Repub. party and Dem. party. Having lost the middle he has very little.
God help us if we have to choose between McCain or Hillary. I need a drink. Excuse me.
It is comforting to see that so many of you have come to see what I’ve been saying all along…McCain is two-faced…on a GOOD day.
McCain is as useless as a pile of horse dung on a cold day- as are most Republicans.
“Lots of Democrats supported the Patriot Act.”
Oh, Paulie Rossell, lets do a quick comparison on party support in their votes for this act, okay?
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll627.xml
Looks like it was a hands down republican legislation.
Didn’t your mother teach that lying was wrong???
Or are you suddenly smart enough to see what a political expelling of flatus this ill-conceived piece of crap this was – and now you want to “share the glory” with the Dems. Sorry, won’t work.
Before Paulie can argue what the meaning of “lots” is; sort of like his hero argued what the definition of “is” is…
44 Dems voted for the Patriot Act out of 425 voting which made for 10.4% of the affirmative votes. An embarrassingly high number, but FAR from “lots”. Hopefully those Dems voting for it were sent home.
JR”loose cannon” and “lap-dog” are mutually exclusive terms, aren’t they?
steve
Lots is the right word
More than a few, more than several, lots of dems voted for the patriot act.
Mc Cain for president?When i quit laughing, I thought about it critically. And laughed again. He can’t even make up his mind on what he wants to change his mind on. He’ll say or do whatever he thinks gets him in the public eye, and after watching him and monkey-boy do the 2-step the last few years, I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him.