comMITTed to Romney!

Vic Lundquist

The Republican Party Establishment February 5th, 2008 | 3 Comments | Posted in 2008, Cartoon, Dirty Campaigning, Dirty Politics, Disgust, Disgusting, Humor, John McCain, Mitt Romney

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Do you ever get the feeling that the Republican Party insiders don’t really want to change Washington, D.C.? They absolutely know that Mitt Romney always executes against his promises and strategic plans. WE THE PEOPLE need to deny the establishment types of their bureaucratic brother who will certainly perpetuate the status quo.
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Artwork by Michael Ramirez — Courtesy of IBD Editorials

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~ Vic

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David Kim

John McCain: “…desperately trying to change the subject” by David Keene of the ACU February 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in 2008, Analysis, Commentary, and Editorials, Character, Conservatism, Conservative, David Keene, Dirty Campaigning, Dirty Politics, Disgust, Disgusting, Endorsement, Endorsements, Florida, Honesty, Hypocrite, Integrity, John McCain, John McCain, John McCain gets ugly, Juan McNasty, Lie, McCain, McCain Lie, McCain Lies, McLie, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney, Op/Ed, Thad Cochran, conservatives

David Keene of the American Conservative Union (ACU) has a great article entitled “Double-Talk Jeopardy” discussing McCain’s dishonesty in the days leading up to the Floriday Primary. David has endorsed Mitt Romney. Read the whole thing, but here are a couple choice quotes below:

Most politicians who identify their interests with the national interest eventually conclude that whatever they have to do to advance those interests is justifiable; that in their case, the end almost always justifies the means. Such politicians can be dangerous and John McCain is just such a politician. In McCain’s world everything is personal: to disagree with him marks one not just as wrong, but as almost definitionally evil.

Stories of McCain’s intolerance abound in Washington. He’s attacked his fellow senators personally when they have had the temerity to actually disagree with him. Indeed, one Republican senator told me several years ago that he was confronted by an enraged McCain after voting against a minor amendment in committee and dressed down in “language that would be inappropriate in a barroom, let alone in the Senate.”

It is these qualities that concern many who know McCain best. Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran (R) is universally liked and admired by his colleagues. He’s known McCain for decades, and while he’s no camera hog, his colleagues listen when he speaks. In endorsing Romney over McCain in what many now view as a two-man race, Cochran said of McCain, “The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine.”

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David Kim

John McCain: “I hate Gooks” (Updated and Bumped) February 1st, 2008 | 20 Comments | Posted in 2008, Analysis, Commentary, and Editorials, Anti-Discrimination, Asian Americans, California, Character, Civil Rights, Disappointment, Discrimination, Disgust, Disgusting, Diversity, Freedom, Gook, Immigration, John McCain, John McCain, John McCain gets ugly, Korean, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney, Rude

I’m updating and bumping this post to highlight an update below. This story is gaining major traction.

From the San Francisco Chronicle on 2/18/2000:

“I hate the gooks,” McCain said yesterday in response to a question from reporters aboard his campaign bus. “I will hate them as long as I live.”

As you can see from my picture, I am Asian by heritage (specifically Korean). I immigrated (legally) with my parents when I was four months old. They had two suitcases, a baby, and hope for a better life for themselves and their future children and grandchildren. We have lived the American dream.

Growing up, I heard stories of what life was like during the Korean War. My parents and grandparents fled down the Korean Peninsula to make it past the Pusan Perimeter with North Korean Communist troops at their backs. Their generation reveres General Douglas MacArthur and loves the United States of America for the brave sacrifices made in the defense of liberty and freedom. These were not small sacrifices: 36,516 American dead, 92,134 wounded, 8,176 MIA, and 7,245 POW in only 3 years.

John McCain was one of 2,459 POW/MIAs from the Vietnam war. I honor his service. I am thankful for his sacrifice in a way that only someone who understands all too well that were it not for the United States and men like John McCain, I would likely be digging trenches for Kim Jong Il in a labor camp or dead instead of sitting here writing this blog post in the comfort of my home here in Silicon Valley.

I can only imagine the pain inflicted upon John McCain and his fellow POWs by his North Vietnamese captors. I can understand his hatred for these evil men. I don’t judge him for his emotions when he remembers his experience.

At the same time, I am dismayed by a United States Senator and Presidential candidate’s use of the racial slur “Gook.”

Despite being called out on it by the media and Asian American advocacy groups, he refused to apologize. He claimed that he only uses it in reference to the specific North Vietnamese who were holding him captive, as if this should make it okay.

What an individual former POW says in the privacy of his own home, or amongst his personal friends is their business. What the most famous Vietnam POW in America says to the public using the MSM’s megaphone aboard his campaign bus is not just his business. It’s America’s business.

If John McCain had been beaten and robbed by a couple African American gang-bangers, would he be justified in announcing aboard his campaign bus that he hates niggers? Or what about a couple ’spics or wetbacks? Would it be okay as long as he clarified that he was only referring to those individuals who had robbed and beaten him?

Of course not. Words have meaning no matter how many caveats you put around them. The backlash from black or hispanic groups would have been fast, furious, and justified.

I don’t believe that he is a racist. I believe that he is angry and it is a deep seeded anger which has been refined in the fires of hate deep inside his soul for decades. Nonetheless, a man of John McCain’s position and stature using this kind of language sends the message across the country that racial slurs have an acceptable role in our national public discourse. He is contributing to the coarsening of America and validating the some of the worst instincts of the ignorant among us. Afterall, if it is acceptable for John McCain can use the word “Gook” why should anyone else or society at large be held to any higher standard?

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UPDATE: This story is getting major traction. Here’s McCain’s response from the San Francisco Chronicle via Jonathan Martin at the Politico:

“I’m not going to waste my time,” a visibly tense McCain said when reminded of his quotes in the column. “You can say what you want. I’m proud of my record, my service with my comrades. And if anyone has any criticism of that, I can only say I stand on my record and my Silver Star, my three Bronze Stars and my Distinguished Flying Cross.

Huh? What do his medals and commendations have to do with his use of a racial slur? This is the classic McCain response to anything he doesn’t want to discuss…become indignant and hide behind his military service.

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David Kim

Like shooting fish in a barrel…Lindsay Graham January 28th, 2008 | 5 Comments | Posted in 2008, Amnesty, Arrogant, CNN, Character, Dirty Campaigning, Dirty Politics, Disgust, Disgusting, Florida, Foreign Policy, Interview, Interviews, Iraq, John McCain, John McCain, John McCain gets ugly, McCain, McCain Lie, McLie, Media Appearances, Michelle Malkin, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney, Video, negativity

H/T: Hotair and a tip from a friend of mine

First, here’s Grahamnesty playing dumb under an onslaught of facts from Sean Hannity and attacking Romney for allegedly supporting a timeline for surrender.

Putting that clip together with this link from Time Magazine from back in September, however, makes me think that perhaps Grahamnesty was just confused and projecting onto Romney his own desire and advocacy for a timeline to surrender.

Wednesday, Sep. 26, 2007
Lindsey Graham’s Iraq Deadline
By Michael Duffy/Washington

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a pivotal Republican vote in the U.S. Senate on Iraq policy, is willing to give the government of Iraq until Christmas to get its act together.

But not much more.

Graham told TIME Wednesday that the Iraqi leaders have 90 days to start resolving their political differences with real legislative agreements or face a change in strategy by the U.S. “If they can’t do it in 90 days,” he said, “it means the major players don’t want to.”
Graham, who has been to Iraq nearly a dozen times, including spending 11 days in August on duty as a reserve Air Force officer, pointed out that Washington has spent the last few weeks debating Iraq policy and emerged with a commitment to continuing the surge through the spring. That commitment, he said, is the green light for the Iraqis to finally take action on resolving their disagreements.

But Graham, who is up for re-election in 2008, said he will not wait forever. “If they can’t pull it together in the next 90 days,” he said, “I don’t think they are ever gonna do it.” He followed that prediction with a promise: “If they don’t deliver in 90 days, I will openly say the chances for political reconciliation are remote.”

Graham said he believed the “conditions are ripe” for political deals between factions on de-Baathification, which would ease the way for participation of Sunni tribes in local Iraqi politics, and on the holding of local elections, which would allow Sunnis to take a greater role in the Shia-dominated country.

Graham first hinted at a 90-day clock in testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee September 19. In his comments before that panel, he merely predicted the world would see progress by Baghdad in the next 90 days.

In his conversation with TIME, he held out a stick in the event that progress does not materialize. Said Graham: “We’ve won the day here politically, to give them the infrastructure they need to do this. It’s been missing up until now. I am vocally saying it’s up to [the Iraqis] to deliver. We’ve done our part.”

Though he would not elaborate on what kind of plan he would push if the Iraqis fail to meet the deadline, Graham did say a change in strategy would be warranted. “If they can’t do it by the end of the year,” he said, “how do you justify a continued presence?”

In response to Graham’s comments, White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said Wednesday, “The President urged the Iraqi government to make progress on the political front in his meeting with Maliki yesterday. The President has also said that Petraeus and Crocker will report back in March, when they will be able to make a further assessment.”

Do McCandidate and his lap dog Grahamnesty really think that Republicans are this stupid?

By way of contrast, here’s the link to Mitt’s interview with Wolf Blitzer today. Note the good nature and humor with which he responds to McCain’s lies. Night and Day.

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John Cronin

McCain’s Conversation Changer: A Misleading Low Blow January 27th, 2008 | 14 Comments | Posted in CNN, Disgusting, Iraq, John McCain, McCain Lie, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/01/mccains_conversation_changer_a.html

POSTED BY: MICHAEL SCHERER

TIME/CNN

Kudos to Time/CNN on a fine article that calls out “Open Borders” McCain on his shabby and transparent attempt to change the national political conversation back to national security, his only area of strength, from the economy, where Mitt Romney has been kicking his a**!

That this despicable little man would use the men and women in our military, in harm’s way, as political pawns, to keep his limping campaign alive for another week or so, by trying to change the subject back to the war in Iraq, is an indication of moral bankruptcy. Anyone this desperate for political power is potentially dangerous, because it tells me that he will “push the envelope” ethically to achieve his ends.

Nice try, Mr. McCain, but it’s not going to work.

I must admit I am surprised that a member-in-good-standing of the MSM would nail McCain as TIME/CNN just did, but I guess we should be grateful that they didn’t carry McCain’s water on this one and very admirably stepped up to the plate and hit it out of the park.

Someone said just recently that politics is a “blood sport,” but McCain has crossed a bright line on this one. No wonder that Bill Clinton said that McCain and his wife “are very close.” Their tactics are remarkably similar. Just one more reason to hope the good citizens of Florida do their part to hasten this man’s political departure.

~~John Cronin~~

McCain wants the Florida primary to be an election about national security, his best issue. But until Saturday, the contest was humming along as an election more about the economy, Mitt Romney’s best issue. So McCain went on the attack Saturday, lashing out at Romney by accusing him of having once wanted to set a deadline for withdrawing troops from Iraq.

Romney demanded an apology from McCain, which seemed to simply delight McCain, since he used it to escalate the war of words even higher. “I think the apology is owed to the young men and women serving this nation in uniform,” McCain said. Then his campaign started sending out a blizzard of emails, including comments from former CIA director James Woolsey knocking Romney’s support for the war.

To review: In the course of a few hours, McCain said that Romney once wanted to set a date to withdraw from Iraq, accused him of working on the same side as Hillary Clinton in the Iraq debate, and accused him of disrespecting American servicemen and women. Is any of this true? Not that much.

But even if Romney had explicitly supported withdrawal, what exactly does McCain mean by demanding that Romney apologize to American troops? Is McCain suggesting than any American who opposed the surge was somehow not supporting American troops? Is he saying that it is unpatriotic to debate American policy in Iraq? It sure sounds like it. And it is an unbecoming posture for McCain, who has been boasting in recent days about the “respectful debate” he would have with Hillary Clinton, John Edwards or Barack Obama should he win the nomination.

[Editor's Note: Emphasis mine]

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Ann Marie Curling

Slimeball McCain Stoops To New Lows in What “Certainly Smells of Dirty Politics and Dirty Campaigning” in South Carolina January 14th, 2008 | 10 Comments | Posted in Direct Mail, Direct Mail Advertising, Dirty Campaigning, Dirty Politics, Disgusting, Early Primary States, George W. Bush, John McCain, Mitt Romney, South Carolina, Taxes

Check Out The Following Transcripts/Videos:

SCARBOROUGH: He’s about straight talk. Let me show you this flyer that John McCain is sending out in South Carolina. This is my favorite flyer thus far in the political campaign season. John McCain, who criticized negative, distorted campaigning in South Carolina in 2000 and swore he wouldn’t do it, sends out a flier attacking Mitt Romney for not supporting George Bush’s tax cuts early enough. What’s left off of here, Willie, is the fact he called those tax cuts tax cuts for the rich. He voted against them, and he told Tim Russert last week he was proud that he voted against them. But he’s criticizing Mitt for not supporting them early enough. Problematic or Straight-Talk Express kicking it into overdrive.

GEIST: You’ve run for office. What’s the thinking there? You just bank on the fact that people in South Carolina don’t check their facts? What’s the thought there?

SCARBOROUGH: Seriously, I would never send out a flier like that. I really wouldn’t because, if people do catch you doing that, then it suggests that you think they’re stupid, and it also opens up the tax issue.

SCARBOROUGH: Also, very interesting, John McCain mailer went out. Now you’ll remember John McCain attacked in 2000, and he was going to be very positive. This is a McCain mailer that went out that’s talking about abortion. I don’t know if we have the other side of that or not. That’s one mailer that went out. There’s another one.

GEIST: What you’re talking about, it’s also related. He attacked Mitt Romney. He said Mitt Romney funded taxpayer funded abortions. Calls Massachusetts tax-achusetts, criticizes him for not supporting the Bush tax cuts.

SCARBOROUGH: I’ll be very careful here. I will only say this. That John McCain accused people of attacking him unfairly in South Carolina. I would suggest, if you’re flooding mailboxes with mailers that say Mitt Romney didn’t support George Bush’s tax cuts early enough and yet you voted — actually, you, the guy sending out the mailer, voted against George Bush’s tax cuts, were one of only two people that voted against George Bush’s tax cuts, called George Bush’s tax cuts, tax cuts for the rich. And you were on Tim Russert two weeks ago, and you said you were still damn proud that you voted against George Bush’s tax cuts. To send out a mailer attacking Mitt Romney for not supporting George Bush’s tax cuts early enough certainly smells of dirty politics and dirty campaigning.

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