“Hillary is More Conservative than John McCain!”
February 1st, 2008 Posted in 2008, Ann Coulter, Conservative, John McCain, Liberal, Mitt Romney, Tsunami Tuesday
John McCain is frustrated tonight — BIG TIME! Just look at his face.
Did y’all catch Hannity and Colmes tonight? If you did not, you missed the best 2 minutes of politics in the last 20 years! I spoke to Mike Laub tonight and he is going to give it his college best to find the clip. Until then, here are her quotes — If these are not perfect quotes, they are close:
- “If it comes down to John McCain and Hillary, I will vote for Hillary!”
- “If it comes down to John McCAin and Hillary, I will campaign for Hillary! — I am serious!”
- “Hillary is more conservative than McCain!”
- “Hillary lies less than McCain does!”
- “Hillary would be tougher on Al Quaida than McCain would be!”
- “Hillary is smarter than John McCain!”
This was the only time I did not see Alan Colmes say anything for his segment! He had his feet kicked up on the desk with his arms folded and at the end held her hand high in the air signifying that she won! It was classic!
~ Vic
February 1st, 2008 at 12:09 am
Hey, anyone know or hear anything about the NY Times article that McCain forced them to suppress? I’ve heard it has to do with a diagnosis of cancer (skin, prostate?) that he didn’t want leaked, and threatened them with a lawsuit for violation of doctor patient priviledge.
I hope if he wins (and not with my help) he picks a good VP to take over when he has health issues. I also wish as part of the presidential resume and vetting process that all the candidates be required to have a physical. He’s underqualified in every other category, this would just be one more, in my view.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:15 am
Yeah, that was a funny interview with Ann Coulter. Just a heads up, the guy’s name is Alan Colmes.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:24 am
Well done Vic. Right on!
February 1st, 2008 at 12:24 am
Does everyone still remember that John McCain had involved in a corruption scandal of Savings & Loans in later 80’s when he was a Congressman? He was punished by stripping his sit in the house and went back to his home in AZ. A few years later, he ran for a senate of AZ, and successes. The former house speaker, Dennis Hastert still remembers this and mentioned this in a local news media in IL.
My question is do we want with a history of corruption a politician to be the Republican Party’s nominee ? That is an insult to the Republican Party.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:41 am
Sorry, I had some errors in cut and paste. Here is the new one.
Does everyone still remember that John McCain had involved in a corruption scandal of Savings & Loans in later 80’s when he was a Congressman? He was punished by stripping his seat in the house and went back to his home in AZ. A few years later, he ran for a senate of AZ, and successes. The former house speaker, Dennis Hastert still remembers this and mentioned this in a local news media in IL.
My question is do we want someone who has a history of corruption to be the Republican Party’s nominee? That is an insult to the Republican Party.
February 1st, 2008 at 1:00 am
Vic — tsk, tsk, tsk you promised not to use that scary picture of McCurmudgen again.
February 1st, 2008 at 1:19 am
Did anyone see Colbert tonight? He did a hilarious piece about John Mccain at last night’s debate. He had Mac saying the word “timetable” dozens of times. It made him look very senile. So Funny
February 1st, 2008 at 1:42 am
Helen, that is known as the Keating Five…I am surprise it has not come up in any of the debates thus far.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:13 am
Since we’re on the topic of McCain-Hillary, y’all have to check out this video, “Suprisingly Liberal-John McCain”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGTJDAAHCnQ
Pass it on!
February 1st, 2008 at 2:17 am
McCain: ‘I Know What’s Best For The Security Of This Nation’
In a recent interview with GQ magazine, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) proclaimed that he can ignore American public opinion polling on Iraq because he knows “what’s best for the security of this nation:”
GQ: Then how can you support sending the military on a mission that the American people don’t support?
MCCAIN: Because I know what’s best for the security of this nation. And if we don’t show signs of success, the American public will force us to pull out.
Here’s a quick review of McCain’s credentials for “knowing what’s best” for U.S. national security:
– Declared Muqtada al-Sadr’s forces were “not contesting American forces,” just as tens of thousands of Sadr loyalists rallied to oppose the U.S. occupation
– Proclaimed Americans could “walk through” Baghdad neighborhoods, evidencing his stroll through a Baghdad market accompanied by 100 soldiers, 3 Blackhawks, and 2 Apache gunships
– Said Gen. Petraeus rides “almost every day in an unarmored humvee” in Iraq, but later acknowledged “obviously, that’s not the case”
– Drew “laughter down the line” from U.S. forces in Iraq over his comments about the effect escalation was having
– Said a “date certain” for withdrawal was the “orderly way” to stop the U.S. campaign in Somalia, but now calls it “surrender” when applied to Iraq
When forced to confront the unpopularity of his Iraq position, McCain told GQ, “I think Americans don’t pay close attention.” He certainly must have to think that in order to publicly claim he knows what’s best for the security of this nation given the record he has.
Digg It!
Transcript:
GQ: The polls indicate that Americans oppose this plan. Do you believe those polls?
MCCAIN: Sure. Americans are angry and frustrated.
GQ: Then how can you support sending the military on a mission that the American people don’t support?
MCCAIN: Because I know what’s best for the security of this nation. And if we don’t show signs of success, the American public will force us to pull out.
GQ: It seems like the American people tried to force you to pull out, with their votes in the midterm elections.
MCCAIN: I think they were frustrated because we were deploying a bad strategy.
GQ: So you think the message of the midterms was about the strategy and not the war itself?
MCCAIN: No, I think the message of the midterms was that the American people didn’t want any more out-of-control spending and corruption. Lieberman could never have been elected in a state like Connecticut if the message was just about Iraq.
GQ: Okay, that’s fair. But if you’re saying that the American people have a problem with the strategy and not the war, the polls we just talked about indicate that they don’t like the new strategy, either.
MCCAIN: I think Americans don’t pay close attention. They see the crawl across the screen, and they know that we’ve been there a long time, and they’re frustrated.
Filed under: Iraq
February 1st, 2008 at 2:25 am
Red and Black Blogs
September 19th, 2007
Presidential Pretenders: John McCain
By efields on September 19th, 2007
Name: John Sidney McCain
Party: Republican
Office: Senator, Arizona
What he wants you to think: John McCain is a decorated veteran, and a capable leader. He’s never afraid to speak out about how he really feels. He’s conservative, but he’s also a maverick, unafraid to differ from the Republican orthodoxy. He’s almost bi-partisan, and only cares about what is best for America.
So that’s the standard info on John McCain, and the picture the media paints of his campaign. Unfortunately, John McCain is like most politicians. He just sucks up to the media more. According to Tucker Carlson’s book Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites,
“McCain ran an entire presidential campaign aimed primarily at journalists. He understood that the first contest in a presidential race is always the media primary. He campaigned hard to win it. To a greater degree than any candidate in thirty years, McCain offered reporters the three things they want most: total access all the time, an endless stream of amusing quotes, and vast quantities of free booze.”
This is essentially McCain’s greatest asset. He buddies up to the media, gives them access, provides funny quotes and unorthodox stories, and of course free booze. The media, in return, loves him. Scores of journalists are only too happy to sacrifice integrity for a story, and they report breathlessly about the legend of McCain. The truth about John McCain is much dirtier and darker than you’d like to believe.
Let’s start with the most ballyhooed part of the McCain aura, his military service. His father and grandfather were both four-star admirals in the Navy, and John of course had no trouble getting in the Naval Academy without the help of nepotism. Never mind that he was an awful student and he graduated 894th out of a class of 899. In his book “Faith of my Fathers”, he readily admits to breaking every drinking and alcohol related rule the Navy had, and that he spent more time concentrating on loose women and booze than he ever did on aviation.
While serving, McCain was shot down and captured, and spent time in the infamous POW camp called the “Hanoi Hilton”. His experiences as a POW are well documented, and simply surviving in Vietnam is heroic in and of itself. Eventually, McCain returned to America and attained a number of positions that his rank of lieutenant commander normally would not allow. Being the son of a four-star admiral had nothing to do with these unusual appointments.
After deciding to run for Congress in 1980, he divorced his first wife, the wife who reared his children and waited on him while he spent five years in a POW camp. Three months later he married a wealthy heiress daughter of the biggest Anheuser-Busch distributor in America. Classy. By 1982 he had settled in Arizona with a firm base, and won his first Congressional race.
McCain was notoriously involved in the Keating Five scandal, where he essentially took bribe money from a Charles Keating in the form of campaign donations and tried to influence investigations into the savings and loan practices of Mr. Keating’s company.
McCain is also notorious in the Asian-American community for repeatedly using the slur ‘gook’ to refer to his Vietnamese captors. He even refused to apologize during the 2000 election season and insisted he would not stop using the word, and that he only referred to his captors and torturers as ‘gooks’. Eventually, after overwhelming disapproval from Asian-Americans before the important primary in California, he promised to stop using the term. Don’t let anyone tell you that John McCain doesn’t make decisions the same way all politicians do: do whatever gets you elected.
In March 2007, McCain claimed that neighborhoods in Iraq were safe enough to walk through openly, saying “There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today… The US is beginning to succeed in Iraq”. McCain’s claim was utter foolishness from a man who had no idea what he was talking about. I’d go so far as to call McCain a moron. Several reporters stationed in Baghdad immediately responded and essentially called McCain an idiot in nicer terms. McCain’s own experience with Baghdad? A nice little walk through a marketplace. Surrounded by 100 soldiers in Humvees, attack helicopters and rooftop snipers. Apparently Baghdad is a bit more dangerous than McCain wanted to let on.
As many shady, dumb, or offensive things as John McCain has said or done, none are as dangerous as his beautiful manipulation of the media. Most people think of McCain as a ‘maverick’, and a true moderate in the Republican Party. Unfortunately, that’s just not the case. McCain consistently scores near zero when rated by liberal groups, and consistently scores near 100 when rated by conservative groups. A nice summary of these congressional grades can be found here. McCain is as much a moderate as Bill Frist or John Kerry.
John McCain’s image as a ‘maverick’ is another deception. McCain wants you to think he’s a principled man who stands by his convictions no matter what his party says. In reality, he’s a politician who flip-flops on important issues regularly based on political consequences. He’s been changing his votes and his actions because he feels he isn’t conservative enough to win the Republican primary (and he’s right). He voted against an anti-gay marriage amendment, and then campaigned for the same measure in Arizona years later. He’s said he wouldn’t seek to reverse Roe v. Wade, then recently commented that he would. He’s tried to characterize himself as both pro-amnesty for illegal immigrants AND a ‘border security’ politician.
In perhaps his most famous flip-flop, he called Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson “agents of intolerance” during the 2000 presidential election, which they are. In 2006, he backed off of his stance and went to speak at Falwell’s Liberty University, suddenly embracing the agents of intolerance that could get him elected. The only reason he made the statement originally was because Bush was clobbering him among religious conservatives, and he hoped to win more votes from the moderate wing of the Republican Party.
To summarize McCain, I would say that he has a questionable military record marked by poor performance, debauchery, and nepotism. He survived an unimaginably horrible situation in a Vietnamese POW camp, and no one can take that away from him. He dropped his first wife and married a richer woman. He accepted bribes, slurred Asians and made up facts about Iraq. He’s flip-flopped over and over on critical issues in order to win votes. And he wants your vote for leader of the free world. There’s actually much more I could write about, such as his insane escalation policy in Iraq, the McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Act that prevents incumbents from being defeated and restricts free speech, or how he’s the most authoritarian candidate America may have ever seen. Unfortunately, the internet doesn’t have enough room to fit in everything you could say about John McCain.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:31 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZBwhqbxHZc&feature=related
February 1st, 2008 at 2:39 am
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/01/31/coulter-if-mccains-the-nominee-ill-campaign-for-hillary/
February 1st, 2008 at 2:46 am
hope the clip above is the one you were looking for.
Even liberals are worried about the free pass McCain gets from the media!
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/02/01/mccain_problems/
February 1st, 2008 at 3:28 am
While me going link crazy, if you really need a good strong laugh today watch this one of John Edwards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AE847UXu3Q&eurl=http://www.imao.us/
February 1st, 2008 at 4:44 am
Here’s the full Hannity clip with Ann.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QJ9pizyASM