McCain will skip Saturday’s Iraq vote.
By on Feb 16th, 2007 at 11:45 am
McCain will skip Saturday’s Iraq vote.
AP: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), “a staunch supporter of sending more troops to Iraq, will skip a Senate vote on the war Saturday to campaign in Iowa while other candidates rearrange their schedules.”
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We don’t want his stinkin vote anyway.
February 16th, 2007 at 11:59 amI don’t think anyone will even notice ‘ole Chipmunk Man isn’t there.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:03 pmThere is something seriously wrong with McCain. I’m certain we’ll find out soon…
February 16th, 2007 at 12:07 pmGood. Skip all the votes you want, McCain.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:15 pmBy skipping the vote he won’t be on an official record. That way he can say anything he wants to say about what he would have done, but no one can point to an actual vote. It is a cowardly thing he is doing, but POW or not, it is all too rethuglican in action.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:17 pmHe would have abstained anyway, or voted “Present” same as voting FOR an escalation.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:20 pmSurprise!! Not.
What a pussy.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:23 pmMcCain must resign from the Senate immediately, since he thinks his personal ambitions are more important than his job voting in Senate!
February 16th, 2007 at 12:29 pmI hope there is something wrong with McCain. He’s taking up way too much space on this planet and he just gets on my nerves with his vascillating. I swat houseflies, for less.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:33 pmCoward.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:39 pmLike he would know what he was voting for anyway. Someday he’s going to do something really weird like take off his pants on the floor of the senate.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:40 pmMaybe I should start Tivo-ing C-Span….
February 16th, 2007 at 12:45 pm#5 you are exactly right, McCain is trying to have his cake and eat it too. He supports escalation loudly, but won’t go on record, because he knows that a Republican politician can always lie about what he said before, and the 30 percenters will lap it up.
I have long maintained that Bush is a great force of destruction, ruining everything he touches, including those who surround him. He is well on the road to ruining his own political party, and he will ruin his party’s slim chances for the presidency in 2008, because his gang will ruin anyone who won’t play ball with them between now and the election. McCain is just one manifestation.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:49 pmSure, he has time to be keynote speaker for creationists, and attend a Falwell meet and greet session, but when it comes to speaking for the troops, no matter how wrong-headed I find his position, he’s absent.
Support the troops, my ass. More like, support himself, and himself alone. If the man can’t even engage in the most important issue of our time, then he deserves the attention the recall movement is getting in Arizona.
February 16th, 2007 at 1:06 pmAre we being set up with a Giullani/McCain ticket in ‘08?
February 16th, 2007 at 1:18 pmMcClown is much to busy stumpin for prez to actually do his job and go on the record as for against sumptin.
February 16th, 2007 at 1:25 pmDoubling down on the chickenshit….
February 16th, 2007 at 1:36 pmI just want to roll on the floor whenever I hear Giuliani’s name mentioned as a Republican candidate. Please, please, please put his name on the ticket, Republicans, I beg you!
February 16th, 2007 at 1:37 pm#10
February 16th, 2007 at 1:52 pmThat was my first thought… EXACTLY!!
He’s preparing the next flip-flop. He’ll wait for the result to parrot the convenient line, either “I was always against the escalation” or “We need the surge badly”.
February 16th, 2007 at 2:00 pmThis is not an important issue to canidate mccain. Persons running for office need not take a stand on important issues. Especially when they know they would make the wrong choice.
February 16th, 2007 at 2:02 pmWhat a chicken$hit! He knows he’ll be “hoist on his own pitard” regardless of how he votes so he’s “not playing the game”….well, all I can say for this coward, is “good riddance” – Your deliberate absence from voting makes you a coward, a snake, and a worm whose afraid to show how little he identifies with the majority of americans. Why doesn’t McCain “cut his losses” right now and bow out of the race? He doesn’t have a chance anyway and this action on his part simply illustrates just what a spineless sycophant he really is.
February 16th, 2007 at 2:32 pmIf he votes “for” the escalation, he shows what a geezer and whiner he is and how out of synch he is with the overwhelming majority of americans.
If he votes “against” the escalation, he becomes the “pariah candidate” in the GOP.
Can’t have it both ways so he’s opting out which is as good as saying “screw you” to both sides of the fence. Now he’ll become a ‘PARIAH TO ALL’…..What a spineless amoeba!
February 16th, 2007 at 2:33 pmMaybe he needs the day off to get checked by his shrink for “senile dementia” instead?
February 16th, 2007 at 2:34 pmthis dude is a bigger pu**y than hilary
February 16th, 2007 at 2:45 pmlol
February 16th, 2007 at 3:20 pmHe’ll probably be too busy napping to take part in the vote.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:52 pmMcCain might as well skip the rest of his term…
…especially since it ought to be his last…
…he’s a miserable, soul-less, flip-flopping Bushite tool and TRAITOR…
…and the world sees him for what he is…
February 16th, 2007 at 4:11 pmAh yes, Mr. pasty-faced, flip-flopping, gutless creep–would rather campaign for his futile effort to gain the repugnant-repub nomination in 2008 than vote on an important matter–that’s McPAIN for ya!!!!! A sell-out until the bitter end–for HIM that is!!!!!
February 16th, 2007 at 4:17 pmDid McCain rush back to Washington to rescue a braiin dead woman? Can’t stop what he’s doing to rescue our troops. It’s not on the Republic Party’s agenda.
McCain will not be president. He needs to get back to Washington and do his job. He’s a has been.
February 16th, 2007 at 5:05 pmthis isn’t news….McCain has sold his soul to the “Repuke Right Devil”.
February 16th, 2007 at 5:08 pmI seem to recall more than a few Repubs honking and braying, red-faced angry about Kerry missing a few votes during the 2004 election. It’s the same old act. If you’re St. John McCain, you can miss votes, you can flip and flop like a tuna on deck, you can hire a-holes who have trashed your family and you can lie down in bed with people you’ve railed against and everyone just stares off into space like nothing happened.
February 16th, 2007 at 6:19 pmSo McCain is going to miss the vote — one less vote for Dubya’s War of Choice and Escalation of Choice.
February 16th, 2007 at 6:43 pmYeah, it’s more important that the veteran remain on the campaign trail — what is he thinking?
February 16th, 2007 at 7:32 pmOh, that’s right, he’s not thinking any more. He can only flip-flop and kiss ass.
Hope he plays to an empty house, all by his lonesome self. Dogballs.
February 16th, 2007 at 9:16 pmWhat a yellow little Sally.
February 17th, 2007 at 12:17 am