McCain burnishes anti-gay cred.
By on Nov 3rd, 2006 at 2:10 pm
McCain burnishes anti-gay cred.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is “starring in two new television spots” for an Arizona proposition that would amend the state’s constitution to ban gay marriage. (HT: AmericaBlog)
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I readlly dont understand why conservatives are holdign on to this… its inevitable people! just as women’s sufferage, abolition of slavery, integration, ipods and so on. PROGRESS IS INEVITABLE!
fighting it only holds back civilization
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:15 pmPerhaps McCain’s new friend Jerry Falwell will once again deny his partnership with the Republicans’ latest gay, anti-gay crusader, Ted Haggard.
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:19 pmofftopic: The Dems need to come out strong TODAY to talk about the Saddam Trials being over to influence the elections
Get this out to as many Democratic leaders as possible, Glenn Greenwald has a post about it today:
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/11/what-are-democrats-doing-about.html#links
Dont allow the public to manipulated before the elections and provide for a bump in the polls a few days before the election, a few days is all they need. Get the word out!
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:20 pmWTF!!! Sen. Mc cain used to be better than this, apparently GOP voters aren’t. Why don’t you have a constitutional amendment banning adultery. THAT is a threat to marriage. Just ask Rev. HAGGARD’S wife!
GAY MARRIAAGE is just a buzz issue to get the lie-vangelicals to the polls. When will they realize they are being used? Maybe McCain can slow his roll into MORONITY (rhymes with HANNITY), and take up border security, (Not the IDIOT fence) or health insurance for the large numbers who do not have it, cannot afford it.
OH, lets decide when we want to let IRAQ goto SH*T, because whenever we leave, thats the final outcome….
Texas Juice
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:23 pmThe amendment isn’t going to pass, according to the polls; this is more “licking the base,” for ‘08. McCain knows it won’t pass – and he couldn’t care less what the Log Cabin republicans think about him for endorsing it; what are they gonna do? Vote democrat?
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:24 pmlook for mcqueen to be coming out of the closet here soon
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:26 pmOfftopic:
Don’t allow the public to be manipulated just a few days before the elections with the ending of the Saddam Trial. Please get the word out!! The Democrats need to take the offensive on this propaganda. Glenn Greenwald has an excellent post up about this here:
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/11/what-are-democrats-doing-about.html#links
This has to be done today! Send this message out to all the democrats you can. Don’t allow a bump in the polls just 2 days before the election and the way to stop the bump is to go on the offensive to take the steam out of their message.
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:26 pmSo John McCain is more of a social theocrat than who? Does he believe the Catholics will vote for him over Mitt Romney and even more so than Gulliani? What about the original independents that liked him because he didn’t kiss the Theocrats’ asses? Seems like he’s due for a net gain of zero as he keeps trading loyality like trading cards.
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:26 pmi think the o’l saying of:
those who are homophobic are having problems with their own sexuality. these folks pushing for prejudice are not comfortable in their own skin.
is very true
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:27 pmhave you all heard that haggard admitted to buying meth from one of his prostitutes. he said it only happened once. lolololo.
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:29 pmNow that we’re finding out that gay republican meth heads are a dime a dozen, I can’t help but think of the old conservatives who used to tell me “never be afraid to be who you are and don’t take crap from anyone”. Haggard and all these closeted Republicans would disgust them so thoroughly, not for being gay, but for their hypocrisy and lack of principles and backbone.
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:29 pmBottom line – McCain is a whore who realizes he’s got one last shot at the Oval Office. He will say anything to appease the right and get the nomination. It doesn’t matter that he doesn’t believe half the crap that comes out of his mouth. If he says it, he should be called on it.
I also hope that in his own private life he is purer than Caesar’s Wife, because if he isn’t (and he’s admitted screwing around during his first marriage), someone should call him on that and ask him if it’s homosexuality or heterosexuality that is causing this. If McCain or Newt or any other politician (Dem or Repub) really cared about protecting heterosexual marriage, they’d march down to the local vet and have themselves neutered.
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:36 pmWell, if nothing else, we should at least be reasonably certain on this particular issue that McCain won’t be ass-rammed by his own petard, a la Haggard.
Reasonably certain.
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:41 pmYay, the backwards state of AZ is getting attention for being homophobic. I used to like the fact that McCain represented me, then TP had to have facts and stuff….
Actually, others have said it. He sold out for a shot at the Presidency.
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:42 pmMcCain wants to show everyone that he’s an old-fashioned, traditional, fear-mongering, republican whore. What good does he think it will do him? The voters are on to it. This is not going to help him in ‘08. He’d be better off asking Diebold for help.
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:43 pmOn MSN, Haggard admits buying Meth.
I am much more concerned with that. Whatever about him being gay. Meth has got to be one of the most, if not the most, damaging substances to our society. So Haggard supports meth cookers, dealers, and meth addicts. That is utterly reprehensible.
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:45 pmWhen is Haggard going to suicide?
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:47 pmAnother hate filled Christian terrorist who doesn’t serve to live in America.
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:50 pm16. What does that say about this man. He’s more afraid of the thought of being gay than of the meth. Did I read right, he baought the meth from a gay prostitute? But didn’t have gay sex, just had meth.
“When the walls come tumblin down,…………”
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:58 pmHellinabucket,
Haggard is only admitting to the stuff that can be proven.
Sure, Haggard only bought the drug, didn’t have sex, got a massage, and then threw the drug out. Sure Ted.
November 3rd, 2006 at 3:05 pmGetting some strange would be a high in and of itself, why feel the need for meth?
November 3rd, 2006 at 3:07 pmOkay can we stop call McCain a maverick yet? Poor bastard no matter how much he fellates them the rightest will never let him be the rethug nominee.
November 3rd, 2006 at 3:14 pmA motel burned down here in Saint Augustine, FL just a few weeks back when a meth lab in one suite went amok. The stuff is as dangerous to make as it is to use.
November 3rd, 2006 at 3:18 pmAwww, I didn’t know everyone in Arizona was white.
Whatever, this thing looks like its going to fail and it just puts another nail in the coffin for the “John McCain pulls independent/liberal voters” presidental run.
November 3rd, 2006 at 3:19 pmThe article the link takes you too erroneously states Gov. Janet Napolitano supports Proposition 107. She, in fact, is OPPOSED to Proposition 107 and gay marriage.
November 3rd, 2006 at 3:25 pmWow, that was quick!! I sent an email, hopefully others did too, pointing out they had the information wrong regarding Gov. Napolitano’s SUPPORT of Prop. 107. After writing a comment in this thread to say that info was incorrect , I clicked on the link again and the phrase, “which she supports” was removed!
November 3rd, 2006 at 3:29 pmMcCain should sponsor an amendment to legalize dragging gays from the back of moving vehicles, as long as it is done in the desert.
November 3rd, 2006 at 3:31 pmThat’ll get him some votes.
I heard that the accuser was going to take a lie detector test live on radio this morning… Any update anybody??
November 3rd, 2006 at 3:33 pmMcCain is a worm. He wants to deny the people of Arizona, whom he represents, domestic benefits, whether gay or straight, which indicates he has become one scary right-winger, outside of mainstream. A vote for McCain is another nail in the coffin to freedom in America.
VOTE GREEN!
November 3rd, 2006 at 3:37 pmMcCain is a pimp. He’s planning on riding the image of himself as “the- wounded-one-time-prisoner-of-war” all the way to 1600 Penn. Ave. Who, besides Imus, buys at all into McCain being the conscience of anything? What is deeply troubling is that ‘Murica, with its unquenchable thirst for “heroes” supporting the many “feel good” about itself, probably can’t wait to fall in line behind this creep. Laughable, that this guy is what passes for an esteemed statesman. O, help us all.
November 3rd, 2006 at 5:31 pmMcCave… for caving in on torture…
November 3rd, 2006 at 6:00 pmPlease folks, if you feel like voting Green…don’t. Vote Dem…this is a serious crisis. The Republicans need to go. The children who tell you to vote Green are about as divorced from reality as Bush.
November 3rd, 2006 at 9:33 pmI hear the Koreans sodomized McCain and he liked it. Prove me wrong.
November 3rd, 2006 at 10:04 pmOr maybe it was the Vietnamese. As long as they were hung…
November 3rd, 2006 at 10:04 pmIf and when McCain gets OUTED as a closeted hypocrite, like Haggard, then the GOP will be officially completely dead! Bye to the Republicans!
November 4th, 2006 at 12:12 am