Media pundits suggest John McCain could be ‘the new Ted Kennedy.’
Media pundits suggest John McCain could be ‘the new Ted Kennedy.’
Yesterday, Cynthia Tucker, a columnist with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and frequent television pundit, argued that “John McCain could be the Senate’s new Ted Kennedy.” While acknowledging McCain has “bowed to the harsh nihilism that seems to be all that Republicans represent these days,” Tucker said there’s hope that McCain could embrace Kennedy’s “reputation for pragmatism.” Yesterday afternoon on CNN, host Wolf Blitzer amplified the emerging meme:
I was talking earlier with some friends and I asked, who might emerge as the new Ted Kennedy in the United States Senate? You know who a lot of people think it might be? … That would be Senator McCain.
Watch it:
Ted Kennedy said “Americans want the choice of enrolling in a health insurance program backed by the government for the public good”; McCain says we have to “abandon the public option.” Kennedy joined with McCain to push aggressively for comprehensive immigration reform in 2007, a bill that McCain “would not” vote for anymore. Kennedy is remembered as a passionate gay rights advocate; McCain thinks discrimination against gays in the military is “working well.” See the similarities?
Check out “The Dream Lives On” — ThinkProgress’ video tribute to Sen. Kennedy.
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This would be laughable it if wasn’t so insulting to Senator Kennedy.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:38 pmYeah, and I’m the new Queen of England. WTF.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:38 pmMedia pundits suggest John McCain could be ‘the new Ted Kennedy.’
– - Uh huh, because McCain had 5 “Chappaquidicks” flying in Vietnam? Puh-leeze.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:41 pmTeddy Kennedy was know for his warmth and compassion and for being the first guy to comfort those in need. McCain is known for being a cantankerous old coot. Why would legislators feel the willingness to bend for McCranky? The media IS the problem with this county.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:41 pmWTF? There’s no idiot like a media idiot. Uncle Grumpy in for Uncle Ted? No frackin’ way. Just setting aside the difference between liberal and pandering reactionary, the pragmatism that Cynthia Tucker alludes to isn’t there either.
I like Cynthia Tucker, but she occasionally gets a little too far off base; too much good will.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:42 pmHA HA. McCain the new Teddy Kennedy? Not even in his DREAMS
August 28th, 2009 at 1:42 pmI can’t think of a bigger insult to Ted Kennedy’s legacy and his family than “pundits” making this comparison.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:43 pmDear Lord! Ted deserves better than this. McCain doesn’t have an ounce of compassion in his body. How dare they compare McCain to Kennedy. Not only is it insulting, Kennedy was far more empathtic than McCain. These guys are in different stratispheres.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:43 pma lot of people? just who are at lease some of the lot i will take 20 names, if he could come up with them
August 28th, 2009 at 1:43 pmROTFLMFAO!!!
August 28th, 2009 at 1:45 pm1. Exit Stage Left sez:… No, it is laughable. Even Teddy would probably have laughed at the notion. It’s damned near stunning in its silliness.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:45 pmYanno, I somehow feel like, if John McCain wanted to embrace a “reputation for pragmatism”, Ted Kennedy wasn’t standing in his way.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:46 pmThis is the kind of vapid crap CNN goes for when they’ve got some time to kill.
There’s no “next” anything. Ted Kennedy was Ted Kennedy, and there aren’t any more of him, period.
Certainly not John McCain.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:48 pmGive me a break. I saw McCain on TV the other day saying he felt it was his duty to continue on Kennedy’s spirit of compromise.
What a joke.
McCain has been nothing but an obstructionist since the election and is only interested in himself and his legacy.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:48 pmHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Um…yeah. Just like Michelle Bachmann could be “the new” Barbara Jordan?
August 28th, 2009 at 1:49 pmSo if we extrapolate, would that make Sarah Palin the next Hillary Clinton?
August 28th, 2009 at 1:49 pmCynthia, you’re normally smarter than that; surely you jest.
I just spoke to some friends and they said Wolf Blitzer is a moron.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:49 pmPlus, McCain isn’t looking forward to another 30 years as a legislator as Kennedy was.
Seriously, was Wolf dropped on his head recently?
August 28th, 2009 at 1:50 pmExactly. That is what is so insulting to suggest that a great man like that can be replaced by that a$$hole that gave us Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber because it was expedient for his career.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:51 pmMcCain would need a major epiphany to become the “Ted Kennedy” of the Senate. I don’t see that happening anytime soon. After losing the election he could have become a statesman rather than just a political hack. He chose not to rise above the petty politics and try to move the country forward. Kennedy stood for changing health care while McCain continues to represent the status quo.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:51 pmGIVE ME A BREAK
August 28th, 2009 at 1:52 pmOMG – This only goes to show how stupid and out of touch the MSM is. John McCain is no Ted Kennedy. The only thing the two had in common was their age grouping.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:53 pmI am so sick and tired of these corporate stenegraphors aka so-called media people continuing to push the idea that John McCain is some kind of stand up, honorable person.
This man is as evil, mean-spirited, spiteful, hateful, dishonest, and petty as they come. But yet the so-called media still looks to him as if he’s some agent of goodwill. This is a bitter man, a man who set the stage for all of the race baited hatred that we’re now seeing by first letting his “running mate” use the “pallin’ around with terrorist” line, and then the screams of “kill him, string him up” BS.
Just because he said to some woman that Mr. Obama is not an Arab (what’s wrong with that? oops my bad I forgot), we’re supposed to be greatful. This old fool will not and has not stood up to his party in years, all he has done is laid down and played old or played guess what I forgot when the political winds go the other way.
This man COULD have been a great man, he had it in his grasp, but his party took it from him A LONG TIME AGO.
Keating 5 ring a bell. I wont talk about his personal life because I dont care, that just shows his true character, his political BS is enough for me.
The hell with John McCain, and the hell with all who believe that this man is some kind of honorable person that we should be listening to. The so-called media is just trying to keep him in the limelight, and they’re also keeping him around so that they can use him to talk about out President after they’re called out in their complicity of getting our President hurt.
RIP
August 28th, 2009 at 1:55 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 In (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
As someone at DailyKos commented… Republicans need to get their own coffin.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:55 pmThe MSM is really smarmy. Fortunately actions are what make reputations, not some pundit pronouncement.
McCain is no Ted Kennedy.
On a related note – the MSM really does not want real healthcare reform and especially not the Public Option. They will stop at nothing to try to force “bipartisanship” in the name of Ted Kennedy and the passage of a really watered down healthcare bill.
Dems need to stand strong on their convictions, as Kennedy would have.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:56 pmwatchdog says:
I don’t think McCain drove his sperm dumpster off a bridge.
Flagged. But I think that’s a pretty apt description of McCain’s Presidential campaign overall.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:58 pmWait the guy who voted against MLK Day and the Civil Rights Act of 1990 will be the next Kennedy?
Amazing the detritus spewed forth on a daily basis over the airwaves.
gtbfkm
August 28th, 2009 at 1:58 pmJust when you thought old dogpoop had shamed himself to the utmost,
he comes up with something so utterly tasteless it makes Dice Clay look like a class act.
good thing for you this isn’t my local bar, dogpoop, or you’d never, ever find all the pieces of your teeth.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:59 pmTo even suggest that McCain is anything but a washed up has been, let alone a possible standard bearer for the common people, shows just how deluded the MSM is. And I will never again read anything from Cynthia Tucker. She used to make sense.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:59 pmWolf Blitzer is a gossipy high school cheerleader of a journalist, and CNN is a locker room filled with “journalists” of exactly that caliber.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:00 pmwithout reading the thread copy or comments, want to relate this:
caller to ed just talked about mcLIAR on larry king repeated the LIE that kennedy’s bill would allow abortions to be paid for and that’s why he couldn’t support it…
if this is true, that is a most despicable action taken by a senate member while talking about – LYING about – a recently departed and much beloved fellow senate member…
anyone know?
August 28th, 2009 at 2:01 pmI wonder if McSame ever found out how many homes he owns.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:01 pmwatchdog says:
I don’t think McCain drove his sperm dumpster off a bridge.
And running a stop sign and killing a young man didnt stop Laura Bush from becoming a First Lady did it?
RIP
August 28th, 2009 at 2:01 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
“Media pundits suggest John McCain could be ‘the new Ted Kennedy.’”
Oh, hell no! That’s an insult to Senator Kennedy. In no shape or form Grandpappy McSame is close to be another Ted Kennedy. No one will ever replace Senator Kennedy nor his brothers, John and Robert. Now I look for lawmakers such as Barney Frank, Dennis Kucinich, and Bernie Sanders who have been vocal on certain issues that matters in this country to be the voice to carry on Senator Kennedy’s dream. Seriously, no one will ever replace Senator Kennedy. The media has been drinking the spiked koolaid.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:02 pmIt is an insult to even compare these two men. McCain certainly couldn’t muster as much statesmanship and compassion for his fellow Americans as Kennedy has done.
This kind of s**t, along with the rest of the bile that is gushing out of the right wing is absolutely shameful.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:04 pmAIO says:
So if we extrapolate, would that make Sarah Palin the next Hillary Clinton?
August 28th, 2009 at 2:04 pmCynthia, you’re normally smarter than that; surely you jest.
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It was almost a year to the day that Sarah Palin invoked Hillary Clinton’s name in trying to woo Hill’s supporters and she was booed for doing so. NO WAY, NO HOW, NO MCCAIN!!
watchdog at 20 reported for abuse.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:04 pmFrank, Kucinech, Sanders, Harkin, Feingold…these are names who might, someday, be able to fill Kennedy’s place.
McCain has never, in his entire career, been able to remain consistent on any subject, least of all the rights and needs of the American public.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:07 pmbut you’re a real classy guy, right watchdog?
u r so lucky i’m not in your real, physical vicinity….
August 28th, 2009 at 2:10 pmhe did… found it:
KING: We’re back with Senator John McCain.
He will speak tomorrow at the memorial service for his friend, Senator Ted Kennedy.
Senator, it’s going to be a difficult vote.
What if we put it this way, a way that Senator Kennedy once put it for me — to me.
How can a nation this rich and this strong have anybody not insured?
MCCAIN: Yes, he’s got an excellent point. But the question is, in all due respect, that whether health care can be made affordable and available to all Americans or, as is the present proposal through the Senate Health Committee, is a government takeover, including funding for — federal funding for abortion, among other objectionable items that are in the bill, including 111 new mandates on the part of the federal government.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/27/lkl.01.html
August 28th, 2009 at 2:11 pmhow does that ditty go on stephanie?
you lyin’ sack of crap… you lyin’ sack of crap…
August 28th, 2009 at 2:11 pmyou lyin’ stinkin’… bag of liquid crap…
Wolf,,, you do realize that John do not threw those BBQ`s anymore for his friends the media.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:11 pmSo you can quick the butt kissing mode, hack most of the MSM should do the same turn off the love fest of butt kissing!
Watchdog should know sleaze–he’s full of sleaze. Every comment he makes is bitter gall. Don’t you have anything better to do than to speak ill of the dead.
I’m sure he’ll crap on this too.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:13 pmI guess you forget McCain cheating on then leaving his ‘dumpster’ as you crudely put it, after she had a car accident.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:13 pmGrampy McSame says – My friends back in the day we wanted to be like the Kennedy’s, rich, hansom, educated, popular…but they wanted the common little people to have a better life, now we republicans can’t be having none of that, no sir-re-bob, that would be bad, very bad, can’t have them having the same healthcare I receive, hell no, but Wolfy thinks I can be the next Kennedy, well I tell you now, I am the Anti-Kennedy, sorta like the Anti-Christ only grumpier, meaner…real mean, like, get off my lawn mean…Cindy told me yesterday that she hopes I will be the next Ted Kennedy real soon…wonder what she meant by that? Uh, oh, dropped a Wolfy in my diapers.
Grampy, you will never ever be anything close to Ted, but really hope you visit him real soon.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:13 pmHe’s a coward tom, plain and simple.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:13 pmtime for dogshit to get banned for good.
sorry-ass excuse for a human being….
August 28th, 2009 at 2:14 pmwatchdog says:
You are an ignorant piece of garbage. Just go kill yourself. You monumental stupidity is offensive to decent human beings and you are far too stupid to be anything but a burden on decent normal humans. Go into the garage and do the right thing
August 28th, 2009 at 2:15 pmb!tchdog is a pussy
he would never say that within fist range of me
August 28th, 2009 at 2:15 pmTo the igmoes: The Hyde amendment stopped the use of federal funds for abortion, except in severe cases, since, IIRC, 1975.
McCain should know that.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:15 pmMay we all be so blessed as to never have to live in the watchpup’s reality. And if we are real lucky, they won’t allow him computer privileges in the lock down ward.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:16 pmwatchdog says:
You wouldnt know the truth if it bit your nutsack you stupid pathetic pile of dogshit
August 28th, 2009 at 2:17 pmmccain will be remembered for ….well, I can’t think of anything.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:17 pmI wish
for some reason, TP seems to tolerate him, despite his serial spamming and lying and hate-filled bogus posts
still, keep flagging and reporting his racist, ignorant, cowardly posts. maybe TP will finally get the hint
August 28th, 2009 at 2:17 pmIt will be a very cold day in Hell when McInsane can in ANY way be compared to the late Senior Senator from Massachusetts.
WTF are they smoking, old tennis shoes?
August 28th, 2009 at 2:19 pmsuck on this watchdogie:
Tens of thousands pay tribute to Ted Kennedy
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090828/ap_on_re_us/us_kennedy_memorial
mccain will be lucky if his family attends.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:19 pmWhy stop at McVain? Jim jackInhofe is clearly the Gooper conscience. Our Press Corpse should be promoting his idea of bipartisanship: “I’m voting no and I’m not bothering to read it.”
August 28th, 2009 at 2:19 pmWolf owes Teddy an apology. Republicans claim that things would be different if Teddy was around. Teddy tried to bring healthcare to everyone for 47 years. My question is, “why didn’t the republicans work with him to being healthcare to everyone”? They had 47 years to work with him. O that’s right, they were the ones stopping him from bringing healthcare to everyone. What a joke the American media has proven itself again.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:20 pmFred, McCain will be remembered for being the first weathervane elected to Congress. Whatever way the wind blows, Johnny will be there with his fly open.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:20 pmthe watchmouse that roared.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:21 pmVoting down that worm infested fleabag is no longer enough. Flag that worthless piece of excrement that tries to spew Fox lies here.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:21 pmI hope you mean “empty nutsack”. I wouldn’t want you giving the turd credit where none is due.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:22 pmhoodathunk @40,
Can you imagine Sen. Frank as VP or PREZ?
The rightwingers would really have a heart attack.
Heck, the fundamentalist churches would get so involved in politics we might finally be able to get them to pay their share of taxes.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:23 pmagreed, if enough people report him for abuse they will remove him.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:23 pmor TP can become the place where b!tchdog posts, but no-one else bothers. his BS is long past intolerable
TP mods, get it together or lose your audience
August 28th, 2009 at 2:25 pmMcCain tarnished his own legacy by choosing Sarah ‘Facebook’ Palin as his running mate… he has yet to atone for forcing her on America. His legacy is with the folks who showed up at his rallies and are now infested in his townhalls.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:26 pmgood dog… look at all the attention you got!
August 28th, 2009 at 2:27 pmOld John McCain is the old John McCain. Nothin’ new here folks… Old, cranky, war-monger, greed-monger, lie-monger, corporate-monger, monger-monger. He showed his growing senility during the 2008 Presidential campaign, forgetting what he said on Tuesday and contradicting it on Wednesday. McCain is very much like Michael Steele, full of new daily lies and contradictions of his previous “positions.” Repeat after me, John and Michael: There is no videotape. There are no computer memories. What a pair of clowns…
August 28th, 2009 at 2:28 pmThey already are, report them and demand action:
http://www.irs.gov/irs/article/0,,id=178241,00.html
We have several of these under review right now. Now is the time.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:30 pmThe text on the screen says, “Champion of the Oppressed”. And Blitzer is trying to sell us on the idea that McCain could be “the new Ted Kennedy”???
McCain will first have to champion the oppressed to even qualify for the tryouts. I’m not holding my breath.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:30 pmThe only person who can fill Kennedy’s shoes is Bernie Sanders from Vermont.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:31 pmtombaker says:
Wolf Blitzer is a gossipy high school cheerleader of a journalist, and CNN is a locker room filled with “journalists” of exactly that caliber.
I was wondering what they reminded me of. I think you’ve got it there.
Neither the vapid generalities they blather about off the top of their heads to fill time, nor the desperate attempts to “stay cutting edge” with techy gimmicks like touch-screens and holograms are going to get CNN back to the glory days (Gulf War I) of when they were the “hip new thing.” Let’s face it, they made cable news a viable option. But that was then. As the recent Iranian situation has demonstrated, the cutting edge has moved on and left CNN in the dust, lamely reading from the Internet into a camera.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:32 pmForget the nonsensicalness of comparing McCain to Kennedy. I’m stuck on how crass it is to be talking about replacing someone who HASN”T EVEN BEEN BURIED YET! I think that’s disgusting.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:35 pmwatchpup is gone.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:35 pm“watchpup is gone”
so what? all it’s poop is still here………….
August 28th, 2009 at 2:37 pmIt’s difficult to picture McCain as ‘the new’ anything, except maybe ‘retiree’.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:38 pmNow look at what you libs have done…
I was reading the comments and saw a post by watchdog with -9 votes and voted it down also. I refreshed my browser to see if there were -10 votes or more, to determine if I could claim credit for the vote that would hide the comment. Much to my surprise, that comment and all of watchdog’s comments were gone!
So to all you liberal posters who flagged him I just want to say Thanks!
August 28th, 2009 at 2:39 pmFck off and die watchdog.
You are a worthless piece of sh it.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:39 pmG’bye, pup.
We’ll know when you’ve come back.
It’s not hard.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:41 pmSorry it took so long to respond, I had to get up off the floor and then stop laughing.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:43 pmwow, b!tchdog finally crossed the line
about time
kudos to the mods
just be sure to ban his new identity when he returns
August 28th, 2009 at 2:44 pmKaty: McCain was lying through his teeth about the bill….there is no provision concerning abortion because the Hyde Act is all encompassing with regard to federal dollars spent on health care….the Hyde Act prohibits it.
McCain is a lying, sleazy old man who should just go home to Arizona next year. He’s no hero….he’s a follower.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:45 pmYou have to love America’s legislative system. We go to all the trouble of electing Representatives and Senators every two years and then send them into a system of seniority and privilege that has no concept of ability or worth. Positions are handed out on a feudal system.
Is it any wonder our legislature is owned by private interests?
August 28th, 2009 at 2:47 pmPlease. He won’t even be the old McCain, let alone the new Ted Kennedy.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:51 pmSenator Kennedy had a long and accomplished history of standing up for the underrepresented. Whether you agreed with him or not he was consistent in the types of legislation he supported.
He wasn’t a waffling “maverick”…no similarities.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:51 pmMcCain???!!
August 28th, 2009 at 2:51 pmPerish the thought!
Feh. John McCain is not even a pale shadow of Teddy Kennedy. Instead of the Lion of the Senate, he’d be maybe the hyena of the senate. (Appologies to any hyenas who might be offended.)
August 28th, 2009 at 2:52 pmWhen I read this article it didn’t make me angry. It made me sick to my stomach. I am not the type to get sick to my stomach unless I’m ill in a physical way, but this did it. CNN, Blitzer, and Tucker have defiled Senator Kennedy’s character, reputation, and legacy with this inane comparison. I’m so disgusted that I will not write the name of this piece of human scum in reference to Senator Edward Moore Kennedy.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:54 pmThe media effort to portray John McCain as a statesman and a man of substance are increasingly silly. The man lies about everything, just to keep Republican talking points rolling off his tongue on tv and elsewhere. Once in a blue moon he corrects some insane conception he has helped to promote. But he is absolutely a man who puts party before country and he should not be compared to Kennedy, who was for the people, not for the rich, even though he himself was wealthy. There are not many wealthy people left with that kind of integrity, and McCain is not one of them.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:57 pmThose pundits probably think Miley Cyrus could be the next Janis Joplin.
There is one way McCain could be like Ted Kennedy.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:58 pmHe could die.
Wow that’s a tone deaf comment by Blitzer!
McCain is criticized as being “out of step” with his increasingly strident, angry and paranoid Party, where as Kennedy embodied the very heart of Liberalism in the Democratic Party.
August 28th, 2009 at 3:06 pmOh yeah. And Sarah Palin is the next Hilary Clinton.
August 28th, 2009 at 3:15 pmmangy cur finally did it. He went from being willfully stupid to totally tasteless.
BAN HIM PERMANTLY!
August 28th, 2009 at 3:18 pmban by his IP address
With apologies to the late Senator Lloyd Benson.
John McCain,
August 28th, 2009 at 3:21 pmI knew Ted Kennedy
Ted Kennedy was a friend of mine
Senator McCain,
you are no Ted Kennedy
This is the new John McCain, the same as the OLD John McCain:
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/mccain-throws-sarah-palin-agrees-vha-pamph
RIP
August 28th, 2009 at 3:24 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Joey09 says:
I’m stuck on how crass it is to be talking about replacing someone who HASN”T EVEN BEEN BURIED YET!
Depends on what kind of “replace” you mean. Teddy Kennedy was already trying to get the Massechussets state legislature to pass a measure to replace him even before he died, so that the D’s wouldn’t be stuck at 59 in the Senate. That’s pretty awesome.
But that blather up top? Tasteless and pointless. You can’t replace who someone is.
August 28th, 2009 at 3:35 pmWolfy you say the darndest things! lol
August 28th, 2009 at 3:36 pmthe only way ““John McCain could be the Senate’s new Ted Kennedy.” is if grampy mclame develops a brain tumor too.
August 28th, 2009 at 3:42 pmMakes me think of that (paraphrased with intertubes humor) line from Apocolyps Now:
“I love the smell morans in the morning”.
Well, honestly, no I don’t….but CNN certainly is feeble. You know what they remind me of. They remind me of kids who think they can make a saying or phrase popular by repeating it. CNN thinks they can still be media ‘makers’ by repeating bullshit. Are there no adults over there or are they run by Karl Roves accolytes?
August 28th, 2009 at 3:54 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
This says much more about the media than it does about anything else. The fact that the two men were at odds on almost every single issue is irrelevant to them. They’re all about style and presentation; shallow, lazy-minded comparisons. Kennedy was old and well-liked…. McCain!
Kennedy was all about universal health care – McCain opposes it. Kennedy was a classic FDR Democrat – McCain has, over the course of his career, expressed opposition to Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, minimum wages etc. etc.
Memo to our lazy-minded media elite: Kennedy was a liberal. McCain is a conservative. Any “new Kennedy” who comes along has to be a liberal. Get it?
August 28th, 2009 at 3:59 pmSouthern Man: “We don’t need another drunk skirt chaser in the Senate.”
Sure you don’t. You’re party is already filled with guys who wear diapers while sucking prostitutes’ toes and guys who cruise public bathrooms for special favors.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:01 pmElBruce says:
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Joey09 says:
I’m stuck on how crass it is to be talking about replacing someone who HASN”T EVEN BEEN BURIED YET!
Depends on what kind of “replace” you mean. Teddy Kennedy was already trying to get the Massechussets state legislature to pass a measure to replace him even before he died, so that the D’s wouldn’t be stuck at 59 in the Senate. That’s pretty awesome.
But that blather up top? Tasteless and pointless. You can’t replace who someone is.
August 28th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
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How would you feel if the Reps did this? Would that be awesome?
August 28th, 2009 at 4:02 pmSouthern Man: “How would you feel if the Reps did this? Would that be awesome?”
Man, wise up. They’ve done it a bunch of times over the years. And, at least Dems didn’t pull stunts like your jokers did with Strom Thurman, wheeling him in on a gurney every day when he was little more than a vegetable, and having someone put a pen in his hand and move it across the page for him while his eyes were closed with a big pipe in his mouth. Pay attention, man.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:04 pmMust feel good to be earning a paycheck again, eh, SM? That was rough, what with the RNC laying off so many down at Troll Central after the election.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:06 pmHe (McCain) is already the “cantankerous Old Guy” of the Senate. He can’t be the Lion of the Senate, too.
Has he reached across the isle this year, other than to push someone out of his way?
August 28th, 2009 at 4:09 pmhey stupid@#100,
grampy mclame dumped his first wife (who waited for his tired ass for years while he was locked up in vietnam) for his current meal ticket cindy because wifey was disfigured in an accident.
great “moral compass” you got there.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:10 pmI had two more hurricanes to work last year Ralph. No time for fun in here. You see, actually helping people put their lives back together makes more of a difference than talking about it.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:12 pmSouthern Man 2 says:
And we dont need anyother ignorant brainwashed punkass troll on the site so why dont you just STFU and let the adults talk
August 28th, 2009 at 4:13 pm“actually helping people put their lives back together makes more of a difference than talking about it.”
i am not sure being a parasite and price gouging people while selling bottled water to victims of hurricanes on a street corner would put you in league with mother theresa
August 28th, 2009 at 4:15 pmSouthern Man 2 says:
You dont know what other people do and we dont know that you arent a worthless lying piece of garbage. What we DO knw is you are an ignorant racist punkass troll without a single functioning braincell or a shred of decency. Just STFU and let decent people have a conversation you are far too stupid to ever contribute to
August 28th, 2009 at 4:16 pmMcCain Dumps Wife < Teddy Leaves Woman To Die
August 28th, 2009 at 4:16 pmHow is that for a moral compass?
i don’t recall kennedy running on a “traditional family values” platform, unlike the hypocritical old coot grampy mclame.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:18 pmHey Southern Man, evidently, you want to play.
McCain making video tape calling American soldiers “war criminals” that gets constantly played for the rest of the prisoners 24 hours a day > than making a terrible mistake while driving that gets someone killed.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:20 pmSouthern Man 2 says:
You are a worthless ignorant soulless peice of filth. Maggots wouldnt infest your putrid flesh out of professional courtesy.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:27 pmsouthern “man” 2
August 28th, 2009 at 4:27 pmthe rude pundit’s got some words for you:
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
Southern Man 2 says:
When you get promoted to God it will be your job to judge other people for what you think are sins. Until then, cover your own hypocritical ass. We all have things in our past. God forgives…too bad wingnut trolls don’t know how to forgive. Kennedy will pay if he hasn’t already. It is not up to you hypocritical aholes to beat a dead horse. You have enough on your plate.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:28 pmI’ve been onto the CNN site and left a message of my opposition to Blitzer’s comment suggesting that McLame could be Kennedy’s replacement. I wonder how many messages it will take to get across to him that he’s barking up the wrong tree.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:33 pmkasinca says:
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Southern Man 2 says:
When you get promoted to God it will be your job to judge other people for what you think are sins. Until then, cover your own hypocritical ass. We all have things in our past. God forgives…too bad wingnut trolls don’t know how to forgive. Kennedy will pay if he hasn’t already. It is not up to you hypocritical aholes to beat a dead horse. You have enough on your plate.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
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August 28th, 2009 at 4:34 pmDo you forgive the Republicans. Do you cast stones, still, at them? Or do you forgive?
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Hey Southern Man, evidently, you want to play.
McCain making video tape calling American soldiers “war criminals” that gets constantly played for the rest of the prisoners 24 hours a day > than making a terrible mistake while driving that gets someone killed.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
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Didn’t he also refuse to leave the POW Camp until all of his men were released. That’s noble. Might I say, heroic?
August 28th, 2009 at 4:37 pmDo you forgive the Republicans. Do you cast stones, still, at them? Or do you forgive?
Ask the familes of soldiers who died in a bogus war.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:39 pmOh, poor old SopranoMan2,
Contrition is the gateway to forgiveness. You should know that.
I’ve yet to see a single R own up to a goddamned thing. Ever.
I’m ready, as soon as they grow up enough to feel genuine contrition, to forgive them.
So, for obvious reasons, I’m not holding my breath.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:39 pmNinerFan says:
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Hey Southern Man, evidently, you want to play.
McCain making video tape calling American soldiers “war criminals” that gets constantly played for the rest of the prisoners 24 hours a day > than making a terrible mistake while driving that gets someone killed.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
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So, by your thinking, Laura Bush also made a “terrible mistake”?
August 28th, 2009 at 4:39 pmDo you forgive the Republicans.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:41 pm— Well first you will have to tell me which mistakes, sins, poor choices, and indiscretions you are asking about…
Didn’t he also refuse to leave the POW Camp until all of his men were released. That’s noble. Might I say, heroic?
Keep telling yourself that. It makes your cowardice understandable.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:41 pmmarrying that retarded silver-spooner was probably the worst mistake in poor lil Laura Pickles Bush’s life.
imagine having that awful man-goon for a mother-in-law….
**shudders**
August 28th, 2009 at 4:43 pmSouthernTrollMOron
When they sincerely appologize I forgive them and move on.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:44 pmand yes by my thinking Laura made a terrible mistake. You dont really care about any of this though. You are a punk, you are an ignorant brainwashed troll and the only thing you care about is attacking and dengrating the left because that is just what a sad pathetic and ignorant piece of garbage you are
Really?
You do that for free, do ya?
Or do you just profit on others’ misery on a fat, sweetheart, insider contract?
August 28th, 2009 at 4:46 pmDo they mean that he should get brain cancer and die?
Wolf Blitzer did ask McCain how his health is yesterday.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:48 pmEugeneDebs says:
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SouthernTrollMOron
When they sincerely appologize I forgive them and move on.
and yes by my thinking Laura made a terrible mistake. You dont really care about any of this though. You are a punk, you are an ignorant brainwashed troll and the only thing you care about is attacking and dengrating the left because that is just what a sad pathetic and ignorant piece of garbage you areAugust 28th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
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Look in the mirror and what do you see? Just remove the word “left” and replace it with “right”. I don’t think you are garbage, pathetic, or ignorant. Or a punk. I like your passion. Never change.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:52 pmOr maybe they mean that McCain can hypocritically game the system so that windmills don’t block his view while pushing for subsidized wind energy.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:54 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SicFn8rqPPE&feature=related
The 4:40 mark and on.
McCain will never equal Kennedy’s passion for standing up for working men and women.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:57 pmBecause he’s pragmatic? It ain’t so, but anyway that’s like saying Senator X could be the next late-great Senator Y because he’s tall. It’s complete non-sense that only makes me wonder what little seed of a meme he’s really trying to plant. He essentially just said that Kennedy’s passing is no loss, because we have another one.
August 28th, 2009 at 5:00 pmJohn McCain the new Ted Kennedy? I am sure delusions are treatable, hope they have good health insurance.
August 28th, 2009 at 5:02 pmtombaker says:
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I had two more hurricanes to work last year Ralph. No time for fun in here. You see, actually helping people put their lives back together makes more of a difference than talking about it.
Really?
You do that for free, do ya?
Or do you just profit on others’ misery on a fat, sweetheart, insider contract?
August 28th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Free? Free makes the world go round? No sweetheart insider contracts. I refuse to work for the gubmt! In the last four years, I have helped more people than I ever would have imagined. And I am grateful that I could, and make a living doing so.
August 28th, 2009 at 5:04 pmSouthern Man 2 says:
No. I DONT see someone who only cares about attacking the right. I see someone honest. I see someone that doesnt like morons like you that only come here to screw with us and have ZERO interest in honest discussion. I see someone that it wouldnt even OCCUR to go to a conservative site and trash them and those on their side just to annoy them. I see someone that thinks that is something petulant ignorant punks do. I cut my political teeth on honest and honorable conservatives like John Danforth, Barry Goldwater, William Buckley. I dont see that many of them on the right at this point but I havent forgotten them. As much as I disgreed with them I respected them so NO. I am not the same as you. I would be ashamed to be anything like you.
August 28th, 2009 at 5:06 pmAnything you do for money is NOT a favor. I make my company a LOT of money. I would never consider it a favor I do for them. You are making justifications and fooling no one but yourself
August 28th, 2009 at 5:10 pmIf it’s how you get paid, don’t pretend it’s a “favor” to anyone.
That’s all I’m saying.
August 28th, 2009 at 5:15 pmSopranoMan “helps” the “victims” whose palatial summer homes are damaged.
You’re a regular Mother Teresa there, arentcha??
August 28th, 2009 at 5:17 pmEugeneDebs says:
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Southern Man 2 says:
No. I DONT see someone who only cares about attacking the right. I see someone honest. I see someone that doesnt like morons like you that only come here to screw with us and have ZERO interest in honest discussion. I see someone that it wouldnt even OCCUR to go to a conservative site and trash them and those on their side just to annoy them. I see someone that thinks that is something petulant ignorant punks do. I cut my political teeth on honest and honorable conservatives like John Danforth, Barry Goldwater, William Buckley. I dont see that many of them on the right at this point but I havent forgotten them. As much as I disgreed with them I respected them so NO. I am not the same as you. I would be ashamed to be anything like you.
August 28th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
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I love the name calling. I’m a big boy. So far, in this thread, you have called me,
You are a worthless ignorant soulless peice of filth. Maggots wouldnt infest your putrid flesh out of professional courtesy.
And we dont need anyother ignorant brainwashed punkass troll on the site so why dont you just STFU and let the adults talk
You dont know what other people do and we dont know that you arent a worthless lying piece of garbage. What we DO knw is you are an ignorant racist punkass troll without a single functioning braincell or a shred of decency. Just STFU and let decent people have a conversation you are far too stupid to ever contribute to
All you have done is attck me personaly. Conservatives are used to that. it bounces right off and makes me smile. You prove yourself really well in wanting to discuss. So go ahead and give me another -1 vote. I gave you a plus and didn’t call you a single name.
August 28th, 2009 at 5:21 pmtombaker says:
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If it’s how you get paid, don’t pretend it’s a “favor” to anyone.
That’s all I’m saying.
August 28th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
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Where did I say I was doing anybody a favor. This is what I said-
Free? Free makes the world go round? No sweetheart insider contracts. I refuse to work for the gubmt! In the last four years, I have helped more people than I ever would have imagined. And I am grateful that I could, and make a living doing so.
August 28th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Getting a paycheck puts food on the table and a roof over my families head. Driving home at night knowing I just made someones life a lot easier, makes me and greatful that I am making a difference. Did I make the company money? Yes. Did I make a family sleep easier at night? Yes.I must suck to hate your job.
August 28th, 2009 at 5:29 pmSouthern Man 2 says:
Getting a paycheck puts food on the table and a roof over my families head. Driving home at night knowing I just made someones life a lot easier, makes me and greatful that I am making a difference. Did I make the company money? Yes. Did I make a family sleep easier at night? Yes.I must suck to hate your job.
Do you think everyone without a job chooses not to work? If you do, then you need to go to the unemployment offices and ask how many people quit their jobs and how many got laid off. You might find the truth in that.
August 28th, 2009 at 5:56 pm“helping people put their lives back together”
is what you said.
rebuilding a poorly-located vacation home isn’t what that is.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:05 pmJust because someone is on TV. Doesn’t mean they know what the heck they are talking about. It just means they are on TV.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:17 pmSM, you should realize that some of us here have learned that when someone offers personal information that makes them look good, it’s best to distrust it.
So I generally discount such information as unreliable.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:21 pmElBruce says:
How would you feel if the Reps did this? Would that be awesome?
I would have to seriously respect the commitment to service of any Senator, Republican or Democrat, who while dealing with brain cancer and his own impending death used his remaining time to see to it that his state continued to get representation in the Senate.
If (God forbid) John McCain’s melanoma got out of hand and he was doing the same thing with only days or weeks of life left to him, I’d still admit it was awesome. I’ve never agreed with him on anyhing, but the guy does have his moments.
Thanks for asking.
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Southern Man 2 says:
Didn’t he also refuse to leave the POW Camp until all of his men were released. That’s noble. Might I say, heroic?
No, he refused to take a deal of confessing to trumped-up “crimes” to get early release. Which, while admirable, was largely par for the course for most POW’s in Vietnam.
Also, there’s no such thing as “his men.” As a pilot, he wasn’t in command of anyone else.
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Southern Man 2 says:
So, by your thinking, Laura Bush also made a “terrible mistake”?
Yep. Of course there’s a bit of a difference between losing control of a car you’re in and having the passenger die while you barely managed to swim to the surface yourself, versus running a red light at a clear East Texas crossroad, T-boning the other vehicle at 50mph, and killing that driver. But only a slight bit. I’m not sitting as judge of either of them as regards mistakes they’ve made in their personal lives.
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Southern Man 2 says:
Getting a paycheck puts food on the table and a roof over my families head. Driving home at night knowing I just made someones life a lot easier, makes me and greatful that I am making a difference. Did I make the company money? Yes. Did I make a family sleep easier at night? Yes.I must suck to hate your job.
One thing I’ve learned from these little chats is that 100% of the time a wingnut brings their personal situation into the argument, they’re lying. From that principle, I can deduce that you’re unemployed. Or possibly a member of Congress.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:30 pmAs a Conservative in Arizona I have no use for McCain because he acted like Kennedy.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:35 pmWolf Blitzer needs to have his lips surgically detached from AIPAC so he can get his head out of his ass.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:44 pmThank you, Bruce. Pilots are flying grunts who act on orders only. Why so many people are convinced that they’re military leaders is a mystery to me. In the event that an officer weren’t available, they would take orders from enlisted personnel in ground control. They work in a complex, technological system, and are operators in that system—not strategists or leaders.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:44 pmHa!, he wasn’t even the a real mccain. Hey Blitzer, take a vacation.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:53 pmSouthern guy: “Didn’t he also refuse to leave the POW Camp until all of his men were released. That’s noble. Might I say, heroic?”
If by noble or heroic, you mean basically following military code, then I agree. Sometimes the code demands a lot from an officer. But please understand that if he hadn’t taken that position, which is what the military code calls for, he would have been a disgrace. But, the fact that McCain has over the years crafted a very special narrative which consistently presents him to us as The Greatest Living American!!! is really irrelevant. Again, you can’t be “the next Kennedy,” if you stand against everything Edward Kennedy supported over the course of the last 50 years.
August 28th, 2009 at 8:19 pmat least McCain did not get drunk and kill a girl and run home
August 28th, 2009 at 8:21 pmso that is a plus for McCain
Poor, unfortunate, Southern gentleman: “All you have done is attck me personaly. Conservatives are used to that. it bounces right off and makes me smile. You prove yourself really well in wanting to discuss. So go ahead and give me another -1 vote. I gave you a plus and didn’t call you a single name.”
Well, you ARE a glutton for punishment. Maybe you should talk to a therapist about that.
August 28th, 2009 at 8:24 pmCaptain Obvious: “at least McCain did not get drunk and kill a girl and run home
so that is a plus for McCain…”
Yes, but, again, McCain is a conservative. I know this is a little nuanced for someone like yourself who just stumbled on to the free PC connection at the half-way house, but the “next Kennedy” needs to be a liberal like Kennedy. Does that make sense? Have you had your meds today?
August 28th, 2009 at 8:26 pmJack: “Wolf Blitzer needs to have his lips surgically detached from AIPAC so he can get his head out of his ass.”
Exactly. You have to ask yourself where someone like Cynthia Tucker even got the idea that has completely enthralled Reich-marshal Wolfgang Blitzer. Who thought of that? What Democrat suggested to whom that the “next Kennedy” might be an old Goldwater-loving right-winger who has opposed everything Kennedy ever stood for? Great idea! Maybe we can get Noam Chomsky to carry on for the departed William F. Buckley!
August 28th, 2009 at 8:30 pmNo. McCain just abandoned his disabled wife who waited faithfully for him while he was in a prison camp.
August 28th, 2009 at 8:33 pmI’m sure it’s already been said above but I’ll say it again:
“YOU SIR ARE NO TED KENNEDY!”
August 28th, 2009 at 8:35 pmKennedy is has an incredible legacy. Great man. Nearly half century of public service. Fighting for what he believed in. If you’re sane, you respect that.
McCain is not Kennedy, but he’s also served this country for a very long time.
Kennedy and McCain did share the impression that what they believed in was more important to them, then their party affiliation.
I respect both men.
August 28th, 2009 at 10:30 pmi aint you says:
at least McCain did not get drunk and kill a girl and run home
Dude, if we excluded everyone from public debate who was involved in a fatal car accident, there’d be no Republicans left.
August 28th, 2009 at 11:17 pmI’ll give you similarities: Cynthia Tucker is bat-sh*t crazy, Wolf Blitzer is bat-sh*t crazy, and John McCain is even bat-sh*t crazier.
August 29th, 2009 at 12:46 amMcCain = Kennedy? I think I’m going to be physically ill.
August 29th, 2009 at 2:04 amHammer meeet Nail! LOL
August 29th, 2009 at 2:06 amIn all his years of being an elected offical, John McCain has never stood on the side of the little guy. He hasn’t authored some great piece of legislation that we all give great thanks for, nor has he ever led to offer his voice for a cause which would benefit average Americans. Had McCain ever actually stood on the side of the little guy, don’t you think his presidential campaign and the McCain-loving media would have pointed it out just once during the campaign?
August 29th, 2009 at 4:04 amSo I guess you’re saying that McCain should continue with his heavy drinking and skirt-chasing, because the Senate does not need another one like him, eh?
Southern Man 2 says:
August 29th, 2009 at 8:59 amWe don’t need another drunk skirt chaser in the Senate. Just keep doing what you’re doing McCain.
SM2, I’m glad that you can take the name-calling, but let the man rest in peace, for crying out loud.
August 29th, 2009 at 11:20 amMy Congresswoman, the Honorable Barbara Lee:
August 29th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
100. Southern Man 2 says: We don’t need another drunk skirt chaser in the Senate. Just keep doing what you’re doing McCain. And one day, you will be loved. August 28th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Holy mother of hey suess, are you out of touch, dude.
I don’t know McCain personally but I had the pleasure of the unwanted acquaintance of Navy fighter and attack aircraft jocks and have some understanding of McCain’s behavior before and after his very unfortunate imprisonment in NVM. What is it you don’t understand about the Tailhook Association, man? McCain would have been right in the thick of that; they made guys like Teddy Kennedy look like pikers.
August 29th, 2009 at 5:04 pmAmerica to McCain:
“We’ve knew Ted Kennedy…and you sir, are no Ted Kennedy!”
August 29th, 2009 at 5:44 pmSouthern Man 2 says:
Your WWWWAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH is pathetic. You EARNED those insults for the soulless way you attacked Ted Kennedy. Why is it you conservative morons think that ONLY you get to make personal attacks? You came in here insulting and attacking trying to pretend you are on the high horse now is you being pathetic again. Why would I try to discuss anything with you while you are acting like an ignorant punkass troll? Come in here and try to have a REAL discussion not about how vile this liberal is or what is wrong with liberals. For instance in THIS thread you could have made a case WHY McCain could be like Teddy. You didnt even try you went right for the vile attacks on Teddy. You are a punk. Everything I said about you was well founded. I have a suggestion if you dont like being TREATED like a punkass troll maybe you should stop ACTING like a punkass troll. By the way your update of the Im rubber you are glue it bounces off me retort is priceless. Do you get ALL your material on the grade school playground? Grow up and stop being such a punk.
August 30th, 2009 at 8:28 amconservaTROLL says:
As a HUMAN BEING. I have no use for moron weasels like YOU. Why havent you killed yourself yet?
August 30th, 2009 at 8:36 ami aint you says:
You are a liar, a fool, an ignorant piece of sewage and a subhmuman moron. You dont know he was drunk. There is no such evidence. He also didnt run a red light on a road and kill an ex lover. Why dont you just STFU since you are far too stupid to contribute to actual discussion in any way.
August 30th, 2009 at 8:39 amI am not even going to give this story the dignity of reading or watching it after the headline. Suffice it to say that John McCain, whom I have supported for many years, wouldn’t amount to a molecule in one of Ted Kennedy’s farts. Ted Kennedy is bigger in death than John McCain is or ever will be in life.
August 31st, 2009 at 10:44 amMcCain can be bought and sold for a price and does not have the mental capacity to think any further then himself. This is a no go.
August 31st, 2009 at 10:57 am