McCain Embraces Third Bush Term: ‘I’d Be Honored To Be Anywhere With Him’
McCain Embraces Third Bush Term: ‘I’d Be Honored To Be Anywhere With Him’
The New York Times writes that Sen. John McCain will ask George W. Bush to fundraise for him, but does not “want the president to appear too often at his side.” U.S. News reports:
President Bush is increasingly confident that John McCain, as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will be an effective defender of the major Bush policies such as cutting taxes, fighting terrorism, and winning the Iraq war, according to White House aides.
Standing at an event this morning with former President George H.W. Bush to receive his and Barbara’s endorsement, McCain was asked whether he “would be in effect carrying out a third Bush term.”
“I’d be honored to have President George Bush’s support, his endorsement,” McCain responded. “And I’d be honored to be anywhere with him under any circumstances.” He added, “I am proud of this president’s strategy in Iraq.” Watch it:
McCain tried to qualify the strength of his ties to Bush. McCain said, “I’m pleased to have had the opportunity to work with him on many issues,” but added, “obviously, as any president who follows one has different views on particularly specific issues.”
One McCain adviser told the NYT that “that while there were risks for Mr. McCain to appear with Mr. Bush, it would be a bad idea to keep Mr. Bush entirely at arm’s length.”
Transcript:
QUESTION: Your Democratic opponents say that you would be in effect carrying out a third Bush term. I’d like to ask you and President Bush, to what degree do you think the current president’s influence will affect your candidacy?
MCCAIN: Well, let me just say that I’d be honored to have President George Bush’s support, his endorsement. And I’d be honored to be anywhere with him under any circumstances.
Having said that, obviously, as any president who follows one has different views on particularly specific issues.
But I am proud of this president’s strategy in Iraq. It is succeeding. The Democrats are the same ones who said it would fail. The Democrats are the same ones that after they said the surge wouldn’t work, and it worked, that politically that it wouldn’t work, they are wrong, they are wrong. And we should start out this presidential debate by the admitting that they were wrong. And if we had done what they wanted to do, then we would have had Al Qaida succeed in Iraq.
So all I can say is that I’m glad to have campaigned hard for President Bush’s election in 2000, his reelection in 2004, and I’m pleased to have had the opportunity to work with him on many issues.
Are there issues we are in disagreement on? Of course. And, again, obviously, the American people will judge who they vote for by the qualities of the candidate and how those qualities and vision and leadership is displayed.
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“I’d be honored to have President George Bush’s support, his endorsement,†McCain responded. “And I’d be honored to be anywhere with him under any circumstances.â€
Do us all a favor, little Johnny. . . please take GDumbya rug-shopping in a Baghdad market. Soon. No armed escort. Thank you.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:06 pmMaybe, Mcinsane will ask him to be his BFF or VP?
February 18th, 2008 at 2:09 pmPlease! Take Bush to Baghdad! He will be greeted as a liberator. Give the Iraqis a chance to show their deep gratitude for Bush’s War.
And please, take a lot of pictures.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:09 pmGood! The more MacIdiot associates with the War Criminal the better! I Hope there will be lots of photos with these two imbecils together! Excellent campaign!
February 18th, 2008 at 2:11 pmGood lord — not only is McCain nuttier than a fruitcake now he wants to commit political suicide. Good ahead, Georgie, in your quest to remain relevant please DO campaign for McCain. That’ll be the icing on the cake for anyone who questions whether or not McCain will be Bush on steroids (to quote Pat Buchanan — or was Pat comparing McCain to Cheney?) Go grief after a while they all seem alike.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:14 pmThis is great!! Keep tying yourself to the Bush Titanic you moron. Can’t get any better.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:15 pmFaiz: I love TP and your posts, but could the title here be any more mis-leading?
February 18th, 2008 at 2:16 pmMcCain responded. “And I’d be honored to be anywhere with him under any circumstances.â€
February 18th, 2008 at 2:17 pmThis Guy is becoming the manchurian canidate!
What did they do to him in Hanoi?
February 18th, 2008 at 2:18 pmMcCain is more of a nut than I realized. Either that or they have something juicy to blackmail him with. Maybe the Bush thugs threatened to turn Karl Rove loose on him. I’m sure Rove would be happy to dream up any number of push polls to drag McCain down.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:19 pmIt’s almost like McCain wants to lose the election. It makes no sense that he would align himself so closely with a President who has a 30% approval rating and where 60-70% of the people think our country is on the wrong track.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:19 pmBut I am proud of this president’s strategy in Iraq. It is succeeding. The Democrats are the same ones who said it would fail. The Democrats are the same ones that after they said the surge wouldn’t work, and it worked, that politically that it wouldn’t work, they are wrong, they are wrong.
And this is another thing. Almost 70% of the people in this country want us out of Iraq NOW and that hasn’t changed since before the surge. So, it’s pretty clear to me that 70% of the people in this country don’t think that the surge has worked.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:21 pmI can’t think of a better gift to the nation from John McCain than to run on the platform of continuing Bush’s policies for another four years. It may get him the conservative support he craves, but it will doom him to an embarrassing defeat in the general election, no matter who the Demcorats choose to run.
Of course, the Pander Express will probably change tracks (again) once the nomination is sewn up. Then it’ll be like “George Who? “Bush”? Never heard of him.”
February 18th, 2008 at 2:21 pmnow that he’s all botox’ed up, McMaverick can’t even feel the greasy, brown stain on the end of his nose.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:22 pmOf course, the Pander Express will probably change tracks (again) once the nomination is sewn up.
Comment by ralph the wonder llama — February 18, 2008 @ 2:21 pm
But the nomination is already sewn up. That is what is so weird.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:24 pmBut the nomination is already sewn up. That is what is so weird.
Comment by VerbalKint — February 18, 2008 @ 2:24 pm
Ah, but you forget, Verbal, that our friend Daryll proclaimed that God has already elected the Huckster. So maybe it’s not as clear-cut as it appears.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:27 pm“I’d be honored to be anywhere with [Busch].”
IN HELL ??
A∞Ω
February 18th, 2008 at 2:31 pmI offered Brother Daryll 10 to 1 odds for $1,000 when he relayed God’s message about Huckabee, but the delusional fool wouldn’t take my money.
I would gladly donate $10,000 to his Church of I’ve Got Mine, You Get Yours, if Huckabuck won the Presidency, if Daryll would donate $1,000 to The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in San Francisco. Sister Peaches Christ could use the dough.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:36 pmA concern troll at the Washington Post compared Obama to George McGovern, and predicted that McCain would beat Obama 61% to 39% in the general election.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:37 pmSo what happened, did the Democrats manage to secretly infiltrate the McWacky campaign? Because his campaign advisers couldn’t be poisoning the well any more than they are, even if they were Dems. I mean I realize that the Pukes aren’t the brightest bulbs in the chandelier, but come on, even they are going to fall for something as unsubtle as this.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:39 pmoops even they AREN’T going to fall for something so unsubtle.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:40 pmOh, and Mr. McPain, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeese have Chaney help with the campaign too.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:52 pmMuch more of this and Bush won’t need Gannon’s services any more.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:55 pmWe should never give him an opportunity to keep Shrub at arm’s length but link them to each other every chance we get.
This should be the common talking point for all Democrats: McCain is just Shrub in different clothes. All of Shrub’s disastrous policies will be continued under McCain. Repeat it over and over again.-every day in every way.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:56 pmIts doubtful that McCain will win Texas as many conservatives dont see him representing their values.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:58 pmI’m not sure which America would suck more, McCain America or Huckabee America. McCain America is foreign policy hawkish with no domestic economic intervention, let the rich keep getting what they think they deserve while the middle and lower class merge into one group bearing most of the burdens of inflation, the recession and the steep deficits. Huckabee America is a gay hating, women’s rights taking, amending the US Constitution to a God’s standard land of intolerance.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:03 pmOf course McCain is going to talk nice since Bush’s parents are standing right next to him. He will be pandering to a different crowd eventually, my friends.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:06 pmLet McCain hitch his wagon (with only one of it’s four wheels) to the Bush Conestoga, powered by one underfed mule.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:11 pmThis is the best thing that could have happened in this Country: McCain and Bush in bed now.
I hope people will be intelligent enough to see that it is just the continuation of the same BUSH-it and will vote for a Democratic candidate.
It’s time to stop the ABUSE!!!
February 18th, 2008 at 3:18 pmI have a feeling McNapolean will turn on his supporters once he gets into office because hes never wrong and everyone else always is.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:18 pmMcCain *hearts* dubyah
February 18th, 2008 at 3:21 pmWhat a pathetic bunch of losers, these Republicans. Their message of hope to Americans: unending war in Iraq, more new wars, more PTSD. The more that the Bushes associate themselves with McCain the better. Can’t wait to see them all go down in a giant blaze of glory. Satan is readying a whole (west) wing in Hell for them all.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:23 pmif this place is any kind of barometer, i’d have to say McMaverick is lacking the “trollmentum” he needs.
until the incoherent and irrational are firmly lined up in support of him, the man doesn’t stand a chance.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:30 pmweird.
i wonder who is addressing these comments to; it cant be the american public, because this would be the kiss of death with them.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:33 pmweird.
i wonder who is addressing these comments to; it cant be the american public, because this would be the kiss of death with them.
Comment by grover nerdkissed
seems ery to me too…….I hate to even speculate.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:35 pmMcCain seems to be bending over backward to cozy up to Bush’s base. “Why?” is a mystery.
It makes no sense to flip flop on everything just to woo the far right. The Rush Limbaughs and the Ann Coulters of the world are either going to vote for McCain (assuming he gets the nomination) or they will stay home. Despite Coulter’s claim that she’s going to campaign for Hillary, the wingnuts are never going to vote for the Dems.
But no matter. The more McCain twists himself like a pretzel trying to appeal to the right, the more he will look like a fool. And that’s better for the Democratic party.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:36 pmIt could just be that McCain doesn’t realize his remarks are being recorded, and he just blathers whatever the pander of the hour is to the audience in front of him.
He could be just that senile.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:41 pmWho are those two in the back, The White Haired Female? Beast doing a George Washington impersonation, and the Tall Ghoul that looks like Herman Munster?
February 18th, 2008 at 3:42 pmI personally urge McPander to continue on w/ this strategy. The more he twists and turns to court the far right wingnuttery, the more he’s going to alienate the rest of the country (the 70% or so of us who currently despise Botch & Co). Me’thinks the righties are about to have their McGovern Moment (get beaten like a little tin drum…).
February 18th, 2008 at 3:42 pmComment by Brain From Planet Arous — February 18, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
The Ghosts of the GOOP Past…
February 18th, 2008 at 3:43 pmMcCain Embraces Third Bush Term: ‘I’d Be Honored To Be Anywhere With Him’
Want the cell next to him ?
February 18th, 2008 at 3:48 pmFools rush in, where scoundrels fear to tread. Surge this arsehole.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:49 pmKKKarl gave the trolls the day off. And you know pissy little losers aren’t going to spend any of their own time defending the neocons. They will steal time from work to fight the good fight but today’s a day to kick back, drink beer and watch NASCAR reruns.
All except Francine, who can’t hold down a job, and Mommy let her play on the computer today.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:51 pmWho gets to hold the remote in that relationship?
February 18th, 2008 at 3:51 pmLooks like insane McCain and all the Bushes are drinking from the same cup, smoking the same stuff, or sharing the same needle.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:52 pmA concern troll at the Washington Post compared Obama to George McGovern, and predicted that McCain would beat Obama 61% to 39% in the general election.
Comment by VerbalKint — February 18, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
That concern troll forgot some key differences.
During the campaign of 1972, the GOP nominee was the incumbent president, whose approval ratings ranged from the high 50s to the low 60s (Watergate didn’t trash his approval ratings until after the election). No incumbent president had been defeated for re-election since 1932, and Hoover lost because of the Great Depression. Nixon was pretty much a shoo-in unless God Himself ran against him.
McCain isn’t an incumbent president, which puts him on a more level playing field with the Democratic nominee. However, the incumbent president IS going to be in this race — for two reasons. First, as long as McCain paints himself as an extension of the Bush administration, it will be the Bush record on the ballot. Second, Bush and Cheney have managed to tarnish the entire GOP, much as Watergate did for the party in 1974. The power of the incumbency is a negative thing nowadays, not a positive thing.
The election of 2008 will probably look more like 1976 than 1972. That was the year America voted for an honest man because they were sick and tired of being lied to. Sound familiar?
February 18th, 2008 at 3:53 pmThe more McCain twists himself like a pretzel trying to appeal to the right, the more he will look like a fool. And that’s better for the Democratic party.
Comment by missmolly — February 18, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
That’s exactly the expression I used last week in describing McCain - I said that he’s tied himself into a pretzel so much since 2000 that I don’t think even he knows what he thinks anymore.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:55 pm‘I’d Be Honored To Be Anywhere With Him.’
Play your cards just right, McBush, & you just may be so honored.
Last stop, Lowest Circle of Hell. Everybody out…
February 18th, 2008 at 3:57 pmOne small correction, missmolly, if I may?
Whilst Watergate may have tarnished the entire GOOP in 1974, Bush and Cheney just might have DESTROYED it, for a generation, or more, to come.
Talk about a scorched earth policy…
February 18th, 2008 at 3:57 pmMcCain is known to change positions based on what’s good for him at the time.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:17 pmHe attacked Pat Robertson & Company and all evangelicals in 2000,because he claimed then to be an ‘Independent’, now he is licking their feet, and claiming to be a Religious Conservative.
‘Changing positions’ is McCain’s well known ‘trade mark’.
Johnny McInsane : More positions than a $20,000 a night hooker……..
February 18th, 2008 at 4:19 pmThis is a great, appealing promise from McCain: MORE WARS!! - isn’t it?
A person making such statements and hoping to win a presidential election must be a little “cucooo”. May be his name on the ballot should appear as McCrazy
I think the man is still traumatized with his experience in Vietnam, and may be still seeking revenge to date. It may be unconscious, but possible.
He was in captivity, America lost the war, and it was all a bad deal. McCrazy may be desiring to show that now HE is in power (no longer a captive but the “commander in chief”…) and America is going to WIN de war! A war that has yet to be started, with IRAN of course.
It seems that besides PTSD, there may also be some dementia dusturbing the man. Is this the best shot the Republicans have to offer as candidate to the presidency of the greates nation on Earth?
February 18th, 2008 at 4:23 pmNow that he has the Bush family endorsing him all he needs is the Osama Bin Laden endorsement and he will have it all sewed up.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:25 pmI HOPE YOU RECIEVED MY E-MAIL ATTACHMENTS. I SEE MCCAIN WAS INVOLVED IN THE ILLEGAL CAMBODIAN WAR. IRONIC THAT THERES AN ILLEGAL IRAQ WAR GOING ON RIGHT NOW AND HE’S ALSO INVOLVED. I SOPOSE THE (IF HE WERE TO BE ELECTED) IRAN WAR WILL BE ILLEGAL ALSO.THIS IS SOME SCARY S_ _T!!!!THERE ARE MAJOR BIG PEOPLE IN CONGRESS, ETC. AWARE OF THESE EVENTS, AND THEY ARE WILLING TO LET OUR COUNTRY GO DOWN THE DRAIN. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GOOGLE (JOHN MCCAINS TEMPER) AND (JOHN MCCAINS ERRATIC BEHAVIOR), AND SEE ALL THE PAGES POP UP. THATS ALOT OF PEOPLE WHO DON’T GIVE A D_ _N ABOUT THIS COUNTRY…. AS I SAID ON ANOTHER POST, THE WORD ERRATIC IS NOT TO BE TAkEN LIGHTLY. IT WAS USE WITH THE ACCOMPLISHED YOUNG MAN WHO JUST KILLED 5 PEOPL AND INJURED13 OR 14………
February 18th, 2008 at 4:34 pmThe more McCain twists himself like a pretzel trying to appeal to the right, the more he will look like a fool. And that’s better for the Democratic party.
Comment by missmolly — February 18, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
mm,
February 18th, 2008 at 4:34 pmI use the expression that he will impode because he is sucking up to everyone.
He’s screwed if he doesn’t get the delusional pro-Bush 30%, who would be for Charles Manson if he were already in place.
But anyway, they get that 30% and have to fool 20% or so with lies. It’s like 2000 when they took those who though Clinton was a failure and times were hard (oh, hindsight), then fooled many others into looking for change, a Washington outsider to bring unity and civility, a humble foreign policy, and improved edu(ma)cation…
The 40% of voters who are in the middle are important but not if the infamous base is dissuaded from voting, so he’s massaging their scales.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:37 pmComment by The Republic of Stupidity — February 18, 2008 @ 3:57 pm
You’re right — “destroy” is probably a more apt term than “tarnish”. Not just for the GOP, but for our entire federal government in general.
However, we MUST remember that in 1974, we felt that it would take at least a generation for the Republican party to recover from Watergate. Instead, it took a mere 6 years, at which time Reagan managed to resurrect it phoenix-like from the Watergate ashes.
In fact, I believe a number of conservatives have already resigned themselves to losing the White House in 2008, and suffering larger Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress. Their strategy will be to to keep Democratic rule to four years through pouncing on errors, hammering away at the “liberals”, and general trashing of the Democratic party (sort of like they have done with Congress since 2006).
We must remember that it won’t be enough to merely bury the GOP in 2008. When we regain control of the government, we must show America what the Democrats can do. The GOP will have a hard time arguing with success and a job well done.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:41 pmI agree, McCain wants to have the victory and completely pulverize terrorists (and have collateral damage, oh well). He’s old, probably not setting up for riches and directly serving contractors with the vague and ongoing war, then moving to Dubai or Saudi Arabia.
He wants to “win” this and be a war leader, economy be damned. Oh, the special interests will get theirs, he’s just going to bring back the draft and take dissenters as enemy combatants. Some of it is revenge and facing an enemy that’s brutal but not based on greed and big business, except for the backers.
He says he wants double the troops and to win, I believe him and that’s not good. Where are they coming from? And what does he care about the deficit, fix that with oil later.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:45 pmThe GOP will have a hard time arguing with success and a job well done.
Comment by missmolly — February 18, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
True, and well said.
And I also think it would be good to drive wooden stakes thru their hearts, cut off the heads, and stuff the mouths w/ garlic.
I would also suggest putting up plenty of mirrors, keeping lots of holy water around, and a maintaining a healthy supply of silver bullets…
February 18th, 2008 at 4:58 pmThe GOP will have a hard time arguing with success and a job well done.
Comment by missmolly — February 18, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
But argue with it, they will.
And they will be aided by a vast arsenal of smear and misinformation tactics that they have already honed to a fine edge.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:04 pmGeorge W. McCain, reporting for doody.
-GSD
February 18th, 2008 at 5:10 pmNearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:11 pmAbraham Lincoln
McCain has drilled so far up into the Bush body that the only thing I can still see are his feet wiggling in the back.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:12 pmComment by GSD — February 18, 2008 @ 5:10 pm
heh heh. You said “doody”. Heh heh.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:15 pmGo John!!
SINK yourself by attaching yourself to a WAR CRIMINAL.
Of which, since YOU supported his LIES, YOU are one ALSO…
“You’re with WITH McCain and Bush OR
February 18th, 2008 at 5:18 pmYou’re with the USA and the TRUTH!”
And I’d be honored to be anywhere with him under any circumstances.
The next stall over?
February 18th, 2008 at 5:27 pmMcCain Embraces Third Bush Term: ‘I’d Be Honored To Be Anywhere With Him’
Buying that property next to his in Paraguay , are ya’ ?
February 18th, 2008 at 5:29 pm“a Washington outsider to bring unity and civility…”
Comment by singe_101 — February 18, 2008 @ 4:37 pm
People always like to bring in a “Washington outsider.” This is why four out of the last five U.S. Presidents (Dubya, Clinton, Reagan, and Carter) were current or former state governors who had never held national office.
Problem is — as soon as you bring a “Washington outsider” to Washington, he becomes a Washington insider, so it really doesn’t make much difference.
We may finally be getting wise to that. The top three viable contenders for the presidency (Obama, Clinton, McCain) are all currently U.S. senators. (The only former governor in the race is Huckabee, who’s trailing the pack by a wide margin.) Unless something dramatic happens between now and November, this will be the first time America will elect a sitting senator to the presidency since 1960, when JFK was elected.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:30 pmAbsolutely NO ONE wants another Bush term - this is the kiss of death for Mr. McCrazy.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:32 pmThis just illustrates how pig-headed McTorture actually is - his advisors are telling him that Bush is toxic to his campaign so what does he do?? He ignores them and does what the hell he wants instead. We definitely do not need another moron like this for 4 years!
February 18th, 2008 at 5:33 pmMcCain is typical of right-wingers. They have no idea of what is right and wrong, what is moral and immoral. bush and his gang of thugs are wrong for the country. They all are immoral. McCain fits right in with them. They are all a bunch of sociopaths.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:36 pmLooks like Diebold will have their hands full with this election. With Diebold’s help, John McCain could even beat Pee Wee Herman.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:51 pmSo he would be honored to carry on complete and total failure? What? Does he want to be the second most worst president in history, just behind Bush, the absolute worst in history?
The GOP is so totally finished, even Sir Charles Barkley is calling these idiots out.
Buck Fush
February 18th, 2008 at 6:17 pmBush,Sr. to McCain:”Welcome to the ‘28% approval ratings’ club”..
February 18th, 2008 at 6:56 pmLooks like Diebold will have their hands full with this election. With Diebold’s help, John McCain could even beat Pee Wee Herman.
Comment by Mr. Evil
I don’t think they are going to try to steal this election. They can only get away with it if the difference in the vote is 4% or under. If it gets above 4%, people simply are not going to buy it. Just imagine Obama being 10% above McCain, but on the morning after, McCain is 10% above Obama. No one is going to buy that for a second. There would be rioting in the streets if they tried to do that. It’s more likely they are going to try to flip the congressional elections since they may be closer.
I hope the DNC is gearing up to create a large troop of people who will watch each polling place to make sure that workers don’t take the machines home for sleepovers and any of the other things they have done in the past.
February 18th, 2008 at 7:06 pmjust found this… yea, right… roosevelt…
A McCain cabinet could bear shades of Teddy Roosevelt
February 18th, 2008 at 7:09 pmUSA Today - 59 minutes ago
By Dan Nowicki, The Arizona Republic PHOENIX - Democrats already are regularly attacking John McCain for offering what they characterize as a third George W. Bush term.
http://www.usatoday.com/ news/ politics/ election2008/ 2008-02-18-mccain-roosevelt_N.htm
No McBush
February 18th, 2008 at 7:29 pmComment by katy — February 18, 2008 @ 7:09 pm
Holy Christmas, I just looked at that article… was that a parody?
Did you look at the folks the writer thought might end up in McPander’s cabinet, and the positions they’d have?
Giuliani - Homeland Security?
Huckleberry - Health and Human Services?
Fred Thompson - AG?
This can’t be a serious article.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:26 pmKosovo, Now Pakistan, who else sees a trend that will be culminated in Nov 2008 with the election of the DULY “elected” President of the United States.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:42 pmI fu(king can’t wait until this traitor is out of office or dead, whichever comes first.
The McCabinet would have “Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., in a prominent job, possibly even secretary of state.”
I just puked.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:44 pmI hope the DNC is gearing up to create a large troop of people who will watch each polling place to make sure that workers don’t take the machines home for sleepovers and any of the other things they have done in the past.
Comment by bilbobaggins
Hee, hee. Yeah right. Hee, hee.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:46 pmYes, McCain MUST keep his distance from President Bush. We wouldn’t want to have any of this!
http://64.23.65.203/ 2008/ 02/ john-mccain-skips-vote-and-veterans-and.html#links
February 18th, 2008 at 8:49 pmJEEZ….. get a room already.
This is “Tweety’s” recurring, big, wet, gay dream….. bet his leg is REALLY tingling now.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:54 pmThis can’t be a serious article.
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — February 18, 2008 @ 8:26 pm
Pure speculation, TRoS. To contemplate the Cabinet of a non president is a hoot. Like whistling past a graveyard. Tabloid sensationalism from USA Today. So, I read it as humor, like the stuff you put out. Very funny.
February 18th, 2008 at 9:28 pmDo you twisted freaks realize how utterly pathetic you sound to a rational person? Many of my liberal friends won’t even bother to defend your virulent views any more…
February 18th, 2008 at 9:59 pmwill be an effective defender of the major Bush policies
oh you mean mccain will lie, deceive, and enjoin everything with extreme incompetence and callousness.
February 18th, 2008 at 10:10 pm.
Many of my liberal friends won’t even bother to defend your virulent views any more…
Comment by Neocon — February 18, 2008 @ 9:59 pm
That’s funny — liberal friends. Tell us another…
February 18th, 2008 at 10:23 pmThe Straight Talk Express veers to the right whenever it’s expedient, like on torture and now on the Bush legacy. Something tells me it won’t be running out of oil anytime soon, either.
February 18th, 2008 at 10:23 pmhttp://newsprism.wordpress.com
Do you twisted freaks realize how utterly pathetic you sound to a rational person? Many of my liberal friends won’t even bother to defend your virulent views any more…
Comment by Neocon — February 18, 2008 @ 9:59 pm
You don’t know a rational person, and you certainly don’t have any liberal friends; you’re just another sociopathic, lying, treasonous neojerk. piss off.
February 18th, 2008 at 10:32 pmGeorge HW Bush Sr -
Architect of Panama Invasion -3000 Innocents killed, and test run for new weapons to be used in Gulf War 1
Gulf War 1 - instigated by the Kuwait Incubator Hoax and OK’d by April Glaspi in 1990
Head of CIA 1975
Pardoned Iran-Contra Criminals and before that justified selling the weapons
Used the term “New World Order” quite often.
http://www.rotten.com/ library/ bio/ presidents/ george-hw-bush/
February 18th, 2008 at 10:38 pmNeedless to say, I am very deeply disappointed by McCain’s remark that he would “be honored to be anywhere with [der fuhrer] under any circumstances.”
As for me personally, I would not be with W in a box, I would not be with him with a fox. I would not be with W here or there. I would not be with him anywhere!
But I’d better not say that too loud or W will put me IN a box…
February 18th, 2008 at 10:44 pmtros - i think that article is supposed to be serious, speculation as noted,
not a parody… the author states:
McCain has long identified Roosevelt, president from 1901 to 1909, as a political idol.
well, um… this, from wiki:
Roosevelt was a Progressive reformer who sought to move the dominant Republican Party into the Progressive camp. He distrusted wealthy businessmen and dissolved forty monopolistic corporations as a “trust buster”. He was clear, however, to show he did not disagree with trusts and capitalism in principle but was only against corrupt, illegal practices. His “Square Deal” promised a fair shake for both the average citizen (through regulation of railroad rates and pure food and drugs) and the businessmen. As an outdoorsman, he promoted the conservation movement, emphasizing efficient use of natural resources. After 1906 he attacked big business and suggested the courts were biased against labor unions.
mcCREEPY ain’t no t.r. roosevelt… the nerve…
February 18th, 2008 at 10:50 pmbut no wonder the CONs don’t like him… his “idol” is a regular anathema
to today’s “republican” party… sounds like a great democrat to me…
He can’t be serious .
Either that or he really believes no one in this country is, well . . .
February 18th, 2008 at 11:39 pmin this country.
please, is anyone really serious about this? i thought the folks voted that we are tired of bush so……..why mccain. i would hate to be brash but….ok….76 and 4 years in office 80 and during that time he is one breath away from a heart attack or something.
February 19th, 2008 at 12:13 amsomething else… i just noticed this, watching it on olbermann -
has pappy bush turned into a redhead? into the grecian formula?
ha!
g’nite…
February 19th, 2008 at 12:40 amMcCain is no Maverick:
McCain hasn’t been a maverick since he almost flunked out of the US Naval Academy squeaking by in the bottom 5 of his large class.
Throughout his life he has shown profound weakness of character. His has a pattern of revealing that he knows what the principled, honorable, or ethical position or path to take is, only to do the opposite as his consistently weak character gives way to corruption, calculation and expediency.
After seeing over 130 shipmates burn to death from napalm and high explosives. He said it opened his eyes to the horrific suffering of napalm and that he didn’t think he could any longer bomb the civilian areas of North Viet Nam. But within 3 weeks a few brave North Vietnamese saved his life of the vengeful crowd that had seen the mass murder of hundreds of thousands from his bombs and others. That flip against what he recognized as right is his life-long pattern.
Last year he allowed amendments to his anti-torture bill which reversed the effect of the legislation so as to allow its use, ban any civil suits for its use and thus any ability to expose it, allow torture coerced statements and confessions in kangaroo trials, provide de facto impunity for using torture including allowing the use of reliance on (bogus criminal) legal opinions allowing it as a defense. He said not one word, allowed it to be portrayed as a successful thankless campaign against torture, and did not expose that the bill had become the torturers dream.
His imaginary positive character traits like GW’s are media creations. The difference seems to be that McCain often knows what is right before he betrays the principle.
McCain has flipped on almost every issue of substance in order to cynically pander to the worst elements of the political sphere. (This list includes but is not limited to campaign finance, torture, taxes, domestic surveillance, immigration and much more.) On the 3 trillion dollar disaster in mass murder adventurism however his has not wavered. Escalate any war the U.S. is in and wage as many wars against the weak as possible.
McCain might remotely be considered like Teddy Roosevelt, just in terms of Foreign Interventionism but without Teddy’s domestic policies of patriotic decency while defending the Constitution and the American people from corporate tyranny.
A man of principles to which he adheres regardless of consequence, he is not.
A man of honor, he is not.
A rogue bucking the system he is not.
A phony who with the media cultivates his false image is what he remains.
JK
February 19th, 2008 at 1:43 am89. “…you certainly don’t have any liberal friends…”
Lefty Patriot
How would you f**king know??? Do you suppose all liberals are as f**ked up as you twited freaks are? Go f**ck yourself!
February 19th, 2008 at 2:23 amDon’t worry… Bush/Cheney have NO intention of leaving office. Just Google “NSPD-51″.
February 19th, 2008 at 3:02 am#80, Luf Ballons wrote:
[”The McCabinet would have “Sen. Joe Liebrman,I-Conn., in a prominent job,possibly even Secretary of State”.
I just puked.]
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Well Luf, Lieberman (I) has been a secretary of a ‘foreign’ state in Washington for a long time.
February 19th, 2008 at 7:57 amHow would you f**king know??? Do you suppose all liberals are as f**ked up as you twited freaks are? Go f**ck yourself!
Comment by Neocon — February 19, 2008 @ 2:23 am
The TRUE “face” of a RapeubliNazi.
Just like Rush. And Coulter. And Hannity. And Savage. And O’Dildo, etc.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:15 am#96 JK, a few additional facts:
In high school McCain had two nicknames, “Punk” and “McNasty”.
February 19th, 2008 at 11:15 amLater, at the US Naval Academy he had run-ins with the faculty. He was considered ambivalent and lackluster and received hundreds of demerits. He graduated 6th from the bottom of his class, 894th out of 899.
All the Bush supporters should be happy, a vote for McCain is four more years of George.
February 19th, 2008 at 2:10 pmThank God for Antarctica! Why? Because since Rove et. al., decided that Iraq and Africa (from the results of their faulty intelligence!) was a danger to all, well China is an economic threat to…well… ‘buy’ us, and well, South America is ‘given’ to Chavez and Castro Look-Alikes(??), and finally, WE BE NORTH AMERICA! Soo, what’s left…..ummm… its Antartica: home of less and less bears, forcasting property values to….well go through the (roof)!!
February 19th, 2008 at 8:06 pm