Like Kryptonite To Stupid
I clearly don’t agree with John McCain on practically every issue under the sun, but I’ll say that he’s been pretty consistent in his opposition to torture and in light of Cheney’s torture defense speech today — McCain remains so. And of course it’s worth noting that in this entire debate, Sen. McCain is one of the few people discussing this issue who has actually been tortured.
Looks like it. But then again, she doesn’t have to appeal to the moonbat hordes that form the spine of the Republican party and who are lapdogs to Boss Limbaugh.
The outspoken and lively 97-year-old mother of Arizona Sen. John McCain appeared Wednesday night on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and was more than willing to go where no Republican—at least publicly–seems willing to go on Rush.
“I don’t know what the man means, I don’t know what the man’s talking about,” McCain said of Limbaugh, when asked about her views on commentators on the left and right.
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele had few allies earlier this year when he characterized Rush as “an entertainer” who doesn’t speak for the party. He later apologized.
Steele was “exactly right when he defined this man as an entertainer,” McCain said Wednesday. “And to my horror the Republican Party made him back up on it.”
The founder of the anti-immigration Minutemen has the kinds of positions that normal Americans find repellent… which means its possible he could knock off McCain in the primaries in Arizona. Along with Toomey in Pennsylvania and others I’m sure to pop up in the next year or so, it’ll be fun to see full wingnut engagement for the first time since the early ’90s.
Here’s John Sidney McCain, again playing backseat driver to President Obama:
John McCain, that great evaluator of talent who chose Sarah Palin, one of the dumbest people ever elected to office (it’s a horserace between her and Dubya) as his running mate.
Why can’t Sidney go to work cheating on his second wife rather than carping about what he would have done had over 10 million Americans not rejected his butt?
McCain wants a rewrite of the stimulus bill? Off the top of my head I can think of 69 million reasons why John McCain doesn’t get a rewrite of the stimulus bill.
John McCain is blocking Cindy McCain from going on Dancing With The Stars. Let Cindy GO!
Randy Scheunemann, a senior foreign policy adviser to John McCain, was fired from the Arizona senator’s campaign last week for what one aide called ‘trashing’ the campaign staff, three senior McCain advisers tell CNN.
One of the aides tells CNN that campaign manager Rick Davis fired Scheunemann after determining that he had been in direct contact with journalists spreading ‘disinformation’ about campaign aides, including Nicolle Wallace and other officials.
So, Sen. McCain is going to hold rallies on election day in New Mexico and Colorado. Tell me if I’m wrong, but shouldn’t the McCain camp be more concerned with getting New Mexico and Colorado voters to the polls rather than to a rally to hear the stump speech again? I could be wrong, but on election day don’t candidates usually go to their home state to vote then to whatever venue the election night party is going to be in?
I’m honestly asking.
John McCain’s first rally of the day, in Tampa outside Raymond James Stadium, only drew about 1,100 people. Local reporters noting that at almost the same spot just before the 2004 election, President Bush drew about 15,000 people. Two weeks ago, Obama drew an estimated 8,000.
Republican Gov. Crist, who had previously agreed to do interviews with CNN and various local affiliates, bolted right after the rally with no explanation.
John McCain has excluded President Bush from his campaign to a far more extensive degree than Al Gore with Bill Clinton. And yet, the ironic thing is Clinton would have helped Gore win – and Florida wouldn’t have been stolen.
The McCain campaign repeats the success they had vetting Sarah Palin with Joe The Plumber. If there is a metaphor for McCain ‘08, thats it.
Is Cheney’s last-minute endorsement of McCain a way for Bush to give the finger to McCain, who he never has liked? If so, brilliant.
Which candidate can deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies?
Sen. Obama, the ball is in YOUR court.
People forget that the GOP has recently held the advantage when it comes to get out the vote operations. The unprecedented GOTV for John Kerry in 2004 was beaten by one other… George W. Bush. Part of the reason Howard Dean became the DNC chairman was a commitment to a 50-state strategy predicated on maximizing GOTV. In theory, you would think McCain’s people would ratchet up the arms race. Instead, they’re putting more money into TV?
The vaunted, 72-hour plan that President Bush used to mobilize voters in 2000 and 2004 has been scaled back for McCain. He has spent half as much as Obama on staffing and has opened far fewer field offices. This week, a number of veteran GOP operatives who orchestrate door-to-door efforts to get voters to the polls were told they should not expect to receive plane tickets, rental cars or hotel rooms from the campaign.
‘The desire for parity on television comes at the expense of investment in paid boots on the ground,’ said one top Republican strategist who has been privy to McCain’s plans. ‘The folks who will oversee the volunteer operation have been told to get out into the field on their own nickel.’
Wowsers.
News
Recent Comments