McCain still unhinged.
By on May 21st, 2007 at 2:13 pm
McCain still unhinged.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) offers this response to criticism of his immigration plan: “In the case of Governor Romney, maybe I should wait a couple of weeks and see if it changes, because it’s changed in less than a year from his position a year before, and maybe his solution will be to get out his small varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his lawn.”
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varmints? consarn it!
May 21st, 2007 at 2:18 pmoh the crazy man is so funny! Its like sketch comedy... with bloodshed
May 21st, 2007 at 2:23 pmAmazing....McCain's swinging away at the other Repuke candidates as if he actually has some sort of chance of winning the nomination.
He's just precious.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:24 pmJohn McCain = Elmer Fudd
May 21st, 2007 at 2:24 pmWho does McCain think he is, Ann Coulter?
May 21st, 2007 at 2:28 pmCrazy old man.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:28 pmI thought bloggers were supposed to be vitriolic and angry.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:31 pmMcCain may be the least crazy of that gang running for Republican President (except Paul).
Come on, this is funny. Mitt said he was a small varmint hunter. He also had illegal immigrants taking care of his lawn and now he claims those who hire illegals should be prosecuted.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:31 pmMcCain will never, never, never be President. We will have a Democrat for our President. We need to impeach Cheney and than Old Bush so Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi can be our Presidnet. We need a Woman to fix this mess you Republican have made.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:35 pmIf Mitt would quit shooting them poor little bunnies, he wouldn't have to worry about his lawn getting overgrown.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:35 pmAnd McCain, is, well insane!
Yeah, that was a pretty good line. I can see Jon Stewart making the same joke.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:35 pmI'm sure any criticism of this statement will be met by him with the usual,"Get a life."
May 21st, 2007 at 2:37 pmOh please...
That's the best thing I've ever heard McCain say.
If Romney gets the nomination (yeah, right) our candidate should recycle that endlessly. It nails Romney for his ludicrous explanations of his positions on gun issues as well as his hypocrisy on labor and immigration. In one brief and humorous sentence.
Why don't we have writers like that (outside of the Daily Show)?
May 21st, 2007 at 2:38 pm"John McCain = Elmer Fudd" - - I think it's much more like:
May 21st, 2007 at 2:38 pmJohn McCain = Yosemite Sam
I love it. Let them eat their own.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:40 pmsmall varmint gun?!?!
May 21st, 2007 at 2:42 pmImagine that....
May 21st, 2007 at 2:45 pmReminds me of the SNL animated version of the 'R' debate...
Mittuns: 'I have 7 wives'
Rudy: 'I have 9 wives & 2 slaves'
McCain suddenly cold cocks Rudy...
McCain: 'I did that'
(Maybe you would have had to see it...)
May 21st, 2007 at 2:48 pmIgnore my last post... I'm an idiot.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:51 pmWas a Republican, G A S P, being funny? Well who could have seen that coming?
May 21st, 2007 at 2:54 pmI gotta admit, this was pretty funny, not McCain being unhinged. Romney deserves it and more, after all this (Romney) was a guy who said he couldn't imagine anything worse then polygamy. Umm try the holocaust dumbass!!!
May 21st, 2007 at 2:55 pmI can also see the humor in it. Romney recently joined the NRA after supporting gun control as Governor. He wanted to show the public that he was a manly man who had hunted, who drinks beer and farts like the rest of 'em.
Fact is, he probably hadn't and he certainly doesn't. He your Repub version of John Kerry, trying hard to be seen as a man of the people.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:57 pmHey McCain, check out my 'varmint gun'. Not so small, heh?
May 21st, 2007 at 2:57 pmWith Morons like McJowls, Fooliani and Romknee : Is Ron Paul the candidate by default?
God help us is one the former 3 make it.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:58 pmThat's not unhinged, that's funny. He tagged Romney on the hunter thing, the flip-flop thing, and the immigrant lawn care thing.
McNasty's got him dead to rights on all three.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:59 pmUh..Krazny, I believe he was referring to his personal family history which did not include the Holocaust.
May 21st, 2007 at 3:06 pmEric, is the holocaust not worse then polygamy?
May 21st, 2007 at 3:11 pmDo you read comrehensively? Romney was being interviewed about his family background and made the comment to Mike Wallace in regards to his family background which includes polygamy - not the holocaust.....lol. Sorry I had to type slowly for you.
May 21st, 2007 at 3:16 pmUh..Eric, please substantiate your claim that Romney was limiting the discussion to his personal family history when he claimed he couldn't "image anything more awful than polygamy".
May 21st, 2007 at 3:17 pm"That’s the best thing I’ve ever heard McCain say.
If Romney gets the nomination (yeah, right) our candidate should recycle that endlessly. It nails Romney for his ludicrous explanations of his positions on gun issues as well as his hypocrisy on labor and immigration. In one brief and humorous sentence."
I one hundred percent concur and cannot understand why McCain didn't use it in the debate.
May 21st, 2007 at 3:18 pmFlip-Flop King
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/9111.html
Seems he has a bit of a memory lapse.
May 21st, 2007 at 3:32 pmIn this case, I think McCain is the "varmint".
May 21st, 2007 at 4:03 pmGuys: Don't know what to say. I posted the exact quote and just disappeared a few minutes later. It included 60 minutes and Mike Wallace interview in a very small portion but now it's gone? Are there rules about quoting certain things? Interesting editing/censoring TP
May 21st, 2007 at 5:29 pmIsn't the so-called "national conversation" on the immigration bill just another debate between the center-right and far right?
May 21st, 2007 at 6:27 pmDon't know why you think that McCain is unhinged. Romney was caught with his landscaping company hiring illegal Guatemalans the same week he gave the ridiculous stories about "hunting varmint" and only days after "strengthening" his policy approach to immigration. McCain--unlike the rest of the Republican bunch--just put two and two together.
It may not be a second career, but McCain seems to have a better sense of humor than either the rest of the GOP candidates or what we've been giving him credit for. I've said before that there was absolutely nothing wrong with his "Bomb Bomb Iran" song attempt (there are both a Right-wing and a Left-wing parody "Bomb Bomb Iran" that uses the Beach Boys as the source), given that his audience was a bunch of Republican-voting veterans. And I don't see anything wrong here either. Besides, let the Republicans eat their own.
On the other hand, I think there should be a new breed of anti-Romney signs--Var-Mitt.
May 21st, 2007 at 6:44 pm