Straight Talk Express plans stop at Liberty U.
By on Mar 28th, 2006 at 11:09 am
Straight Talk Express plans stop at Liberty U.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who once called Rev. Jerry Falwell an “agent of intolerance,” will be the graduation speaker at Falwell’s Liberty University on May 13. “He is in the process of healing the breech with evangelical groups,” Falwell said. (Via TPM)
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As straight as a bowl of spaghetti.
March 28th, 2006 at 11:13 amHe wants what most republicans are after – the wacko vote, as Delay likes to call them. The religious zealots are easy to fool and cater to as they prefer others to do their thinking for them. They have shopping to do.
March 28th, 2006 at 11:15 amMcCain has again shown his true colors, RED. He is cut frmo the same cloth as Dubbya, he just has a few medals on his chest. Deep inside he is just another Republican Neo-Con trying to pull the wool over our eyes.
It’s time people stopped seeing him as a “moderate” influence in the GOP. He is far from moderate, or he would not court the fundies vote by kissing their collective butts at Liberty U.
March 28th, 2006 at 11:20 amSome sweet stuff over at Huffpo today. In line with this thread is a link to an article that’s titled: Religious Right Splits the GOP.
Good food for thought. I just want to know if they can hang them before they split them?
March 28th, 2006 at 11:21 amJohn McCain gives whores a bad name.
March 28th, 2006 at 11:25 amAh yes, Liberty U, the institution that claims to have the best debate team even though they went 3-5 and never made it to the bracket?
Yeah, those guys.
March 28th, 2006 at 11:35 am.
…and some say the pander is an endangered species…
Goper’s Lament (Hard To Be A Republican)
March 28th, 2006 at 11:43 amBush’s signing statement on the bill containing McCain’s anti-Torture amendment essentially said “I am going to ignore the anti-torture provisions in this piece of legislation.” Did McCain ever issue a statement about that particular subversion of the rule of law by Bush?
March 28th, 2006 at 11:44 amTry to get your chin wiped off before you do the “speech” thang John…it’s unbecumming.
March 28th, 2006 at 11:47 amMcCain is desperate for power and he is whoring himself .
It’s really sickening ! the 2000 election & 2004 election was bad enough !
Bending over for Falwell is the worst !
McCain is looking like a Desperate ” whore ” politician .
America needs to purge itself of these useless types !
March 28th, 2006 at 11:50 amThis tells us that the repubs must think the bush/cheney strategy will continue to work in 2008. . . . . we can certainly expect to see more fringe issues taking up lots of congressional time. The religious right now are receiving enough money from bush that they are even better prepared to “spread the word” in 2008. Don’t expect them to go way just because they are crazy.
March 28th, 2006 at 11:56 amIT’S RIDICULOUS WHEN YOU CONSIDER WHAT PASSES FOR “CHARACTER” IN WASHINGTON D.C. THESE DAYS
The same crowd (the Bush Supporters) who Slandered and Insulted and Ridiculed McCain in 2000, and in exchange for their promising not to do that in 2008, he kisses all their butts no and forever (most notably Bush’s)…
Appeasing your enemies: this is what passes for “character” in Washington D.C. these days.
He thinks he’s in line for the Presidency in 2008, this man of “character” does.
March 28th, 2006 at 11:57 amIslam has al Qaeda…
…Christianity has al Cracker…
If religious freedom is going to work…
…religious extremists (on both sides) must be neutralized…
March 28th, 2006 at 12:04 pmSome sweet stuff over at Huffpo today. In line with this thread is a link to an article that’s titled: Religious Right Splits the GOP.
Comment by kindness #4
good link kindness,
Let’s hope they tear each other apart…
…literally…
March 28th, 2006 at 12:07 pmMcCain does stuff like this, and people still call him a “maverick” and stuff in Congress. He’s just as bad as any other Capitol Hill politico; he sells out whatever beliefs he has so he can get votes. Pathetic.
March 28th, 2006 at 12:15 pmMarch 28th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
McCain…what’s that, Irish for whore with no memory?
March 28th, 2006 at 12:39 pmIt really is too bad about McCain. I had admired him to some extent in previous years.
It’s become apparent, that he feels he can only reach the next level if he bows before and pledges fielty to the neocon fascists running the republithug party right now. As such, McCain now has as much value to me as stuff I can’t scrape off the bottom of my shoe.
March 28th, 2006 at 12:52 pmHow so is it that Jesus turned over the Tables of the Money Changers and today they embrace the money changers?
Not only are these People Political Hypocrites, they are Religious Hypocrites as well.
March 28th, 2006 at 12:52 pmThe Neo-Con Movement is Dead, The Evangelicals for the most part have wised up to the Political Liars, and Yet Mcain and Falwell are still dragging this dead beaten horse around?
March 28th, 2006 at 12:54 pmMcCain once called Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell “agents of intolerance.”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the question is how low will a conservative go in the quest for power?
March 28th, 2006 at 1:05 pmMcCain -FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP
March 28th, 2006 at 1:14 pmYAWN!
You know, 4-5 years ago, I was thinking that McCain would make a good president. Even two years ago I was thinking that if he were to get the Repub nomination, that I’d probably end up voting for him.
But the abjectly shameless pandering to the far right that he’s been doing for the last two years has simply turned my stomach.
March 28th, 2006 at 1:16 pmJust the latest sign of the transformation of John McCain from GOP maverick to Republican prostitute.
For the details, see:
March 28th, 2006 at 1:20 pm“The Prostitution of John McCain.”
WATCH OUT, MCCAIN!
FALWELL’S FAT ASS MAY REQUIRE TWO KISSES.
March 28th, 2006 at 1:46 pms.w.bob 11 – “This tells us that the repubs must think the bush/cheney strategy will continue to work in 2008″
i just heard something scary – marcos/kos is on franken and said that the site “myspace” has been bought by murdoch… they can mine that info and get to the kids now…
better warn everyone you can…another reason to stay off myspace…
March 28th, 2006 at 2:04 pmMurdoch actually bought MySpace last year for $580 million, so this isn’t exactly a new story. The site to watch now is Facebook.com, which could sell for close to a billion dollars.
March 28th, 2006 at 2:16 pmMcCain will bend over and take it up the a** from anyone these days. Clearly, he’s lost what little mind he had left after his POW experience. Tsk.
March 28th, 2006 at 2:49 pmWhat a disappointment McCain has turned out to be. As others have noted earlier, at one time I, too, admired McCain for his courage in the past, and his supposed “straight-shooting.” My disappointment is exceeded only by my disgust now. He has reduced himself to bootlicker; he has embraced the man who slandered him and his family, and who once questioned McCain’s mental state. Now he is developing a brown nose with the religious wacko community. How low can he stoop?
March 28th, 2006 at 3:25 pmKindness, I agree, I used to have some respect for McCain and felt that, if we had to have a Republican president, he wouldn’t be too bad. He’s been such a total whore over the last few years, it’s obvious that his own self-respect means nothing to him. So how can he think that anyone else will respect him?
March 28th, 2006 at 3:33 pmI, too, used to respect McCain and actually proclaimed OUT LOUD to my GOP friends that I would consider supporting him if he ever ran against a really weak Dem. I thank Falwell and Liberty U for “outing” McCain ahead of campaign season! Pandering over Iraq war is one thing. Pandering in the name of “hate” against our own brothers and sisters to advance a political career is utteraly unacceptable.
March 29th, 2006 at 9:33 amBy addressing(pandering) to the Hitler Youth at “Liberty” U, that is really stooping low for votes. McCain, Go back to Hanoi.
March 29th, 2006 at 6:56 pmMCcain is not only kow towing to the same people who slurred and slandered him in 2000 but to that individual who slandered and dihonored the entire country after 9/11. He drank the kool aid in 2004 by supporting Bush. It wasn’t a fatal dose but certainly, if anyone is watching, this betrayal of integrity will be.
April 2nd, 2006 at 6:41 pm