John McCain’s alleged front-runner status may be starting to take its toll — even before he officially jumps in! From the left, we have a slick video that documents McCain’s less-than-straight talk about a bunch of hot-button issues, most notably Iraq. And from right wingnuttia (a/k/a the National Review Institute’s recent “conservative summit”), we have this insightful comment about McCain from a self-proclaimed “Limbaugh conservative” (at about 4:00 into the audio):
He’s a traitor. And I can’t stand him. I watched for the last six years him stick a knife in W’s back and then slowly twist it on a lot of different issues.
Also of note is McCain’s vote last week to eliminate — that’s right, eliminate — the federal minimum wage. He was joined by a passel of other right-wing Republicans (28 in all). So don’t get too excited the next time McCain, or Lindsey Graham, or Chuck Hagel says something borderline sensible about Iraq. They’re still waaaay outside the mainstream.
And, he’s coming to Dedham on Wednesday.
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Anyone going to be there?
but he won both Dedham and Massachusetts in the 20o0 primary.
the Herald got it wrong. His exploratory committee will be there, not the Senator himself.
The REAL McCain.
He’s doing terrible right now. Mike Huckabee and Duncan Hunter are doing much better showings on the usual sunday-morning shows and seem to be building a much better grassroots effort than McCain, for all the money he has.
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I just don’t think he’s recovered from getting torpedoed by Bush in NC back in 2000. That said, the only guns he’s been ardently sticking to since then is pork-barrel spending. It smells like Hillary’s camp is being Rovian in their tactics though, which is kind of ironic.
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“Would you support Barack Obama if he was educated at a Madrassa?”
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Ha.
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That wingnut talking point has already been exposed as a fraud.
Please try to keep up.
not North, where voters got a call asking
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“Did you know John McCain has a black baby?”
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McCain and his wife adopted a very darked skinned girl (who must be in her late teens by now) from Bangladesh from one of Mother Theresa’s orphanages. Of course, the implication was that McCain had an affair with one of the house Negroes.
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I don’t know what is sadder, that someone would resort to these tactics or that they were effective.
For the correction and the knowing what I was talking about.
To translate: “The great questions of our time will not be decided by discussion and majority-rule, but by iron and blood.”
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Are you endorsing that attitude?
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As for me: Give me raillery or give me death!
Otto von Bismarck is an idol of mine.
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It’s not so much that I’m endorsing an attitude, it’s that I think he’s right. Even if it’s over 100 years later and in reference to completely unrelated events.
I was wondering if it had to do with annexing the Sudetenland or invading Poland.
Actually, the best translation isn’t “discussion and majority-rule”, it’s “speeches and majority-votes.”
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For the record, Bismarck liked Poland, because it provided a buffer between Germany and the Russia.
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Hooray History!
Tender, sweet nothings murmered into a lover’s ear, if murmered in German, sound like “Let’s annex the Sudetenland and invade Poland!”
Many in the right do not like McCain to begin with for not falling in line in the past. Now that he has turned his run for the presidency into a joke and adopted a Romneyesque approach he’s lost the moderate Republicans as well. No matter what he does now I don’t think the Republicans will ever fully embrace him.