against McCain

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"Though many Republicans have begun to coalesce around McCain in recent months, the statements they've made over the years are telling of their personal opinions of the Arizona Senator. "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me." Senator Thad Cochran, R-MS "I decided I didn't want this guy anywhere near a trigger." Senator Pete Domenici, R-NM "If either [John McCain or Mike Huckabee] gets the nomination, it's going to destroy the Republican Party, it's going to change it forever, be the end of it." Conservative talk show host and author Rush Limbaugh "There's nothing redeeming about John McCain...he's a hypocrite." Former House GOP Whip Tom DeLay "He is a vicious person. Nearly all the Republican Senators endorsed Bush because they knew McCain from serving with him in the Senate. They so disliked him that they wouldn't support him. They have been on the hard end of his behavior." Former Representative Charles LeBoutillier, R-NY "John was very rough in the sandbox. Everybody has a McCain story. If you work in the Senate for a while, you have a McCain story. He hasn't built up a lot of goodwill." Former Senator Rick Santorum, R-PA "There would be a lot of people who would have to recalibrate their attitudes toward John." Senator Bob Bennett, R-UT "For all his supposed, newfound enlightenment about what most Americans want - protection against invasion, commitment to the rule of law, meaningful employer sanctions, an end to sanctuary cities, enforcement-by-attrition plus deportation reform, and an end to special illegal alien benefits that invite more law-breaking-The Maverick remains a Geraldo Rivera Republican. Like the ethnocentric cable TV host who can't string a sentence about immigration together without drowning in emotional demagoguery, McCain naturally resorts to open-borders platitudes when pressed for enforcement specifics...McCain has learned nothing." Michelle Malkin, conservative columnist and author "His temper would place this country at risk in international affairs, and the world perhaps in danger. In my mind, that should disqualify him." Former Senator Bob Smith, R-NH "I heard about his temper more from others. According to them, he really unleashed on some of them, and they couldn't figure out why...It happened enough that it was affecting his credibility with some people." Grant Woods, McCain's former Chief of Staff, former AG of Arizona, and current McCain staffer An "embarrassment to the party." Arizona GOP State Senator Susan Johnson "What happens if he gets angry in crisis in the presidency? It's difficult enough to be a negotiator, but it's almost impossible when you're the type of guy who's so angry at anybody who doesn't do what he wants. It's the president's job to negotiate and stay calm. I just don't see that he has that quality." Former Arizona GOP Chairman John Hinz "No dissent, no opinion to the contrary- however reasonable- will be entertained. Hardheaded is one way to say it. Arrogant is another way to say it. Hubristic is another way to say it. Too proud for his own good is another way to say it. It's a quality about him that disturbs me." Col. Larry Wilkerson, US Army (ret.) and former chief aide to Colin Powell "He is the anti-conservative. He instinctively sides against conservatives and relishes poking them in the eye." Conservative talk show host and author David Limbaugh "It just seems like everything we did, John was someplace else...In my mind, he is not [a conservative]." Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-IL "I think it's his style as much as much as the positions he takes...I think it's his attitude that it's his way or the highway." Former Senator Tim Hutchinson, R-AR "I don't like McCain. I don't like him at all." Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-CO McCain "has a legendary temper and often uses foul and obscene language." Focus on Family Founder James Dobson "John's a person I've had a lot of disagreements with, but you've got to have a lot of respect for him...I'm not speaking as if I'm a born again supporter of John McCain, I'm just trying to express it the way that I see him." Senator Charles Grassley, R-IA "What has struck me about McCain is that everybody underestimated the ability of his advisers and him to hypnotize the national media, because most of us in the media in Arizona thought of him as a guy who had a terrible temper, occasionally had a foul mouth, a guy who whined and pouted unless he got his way. McCain has a temper that is bombastic, volatile, and purple-faced. Sometimes he gets out of control. Do you want somebody sitting in the White House with that kind of temper?" Pat Murphy, former editor of the Arizona Republic, and a former friend of McCain "John McCain is Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism, and youth. Like McCain, pollsters assured us that Dole was the most electable Republican. Unlike McCain, Dole didn't lie all the time while claiming to engage in ‘straight talk.'" Ann Coulter, conservative columnist and author "Is it possible that John McCain thinks you have too much freedom? ... I gotta tell you, I don't know what's happening to John McCain." Wayne LaPierre, CEO and Executive VP of the National Rifle Association"

Insert hooksaw-esque hyperbole about how the party is being torn asunder.

6/13/2008 8:04:57 PM

A lot of these quotes (and particularly, the sources of the quotes), make me more likely to vote for him.

6/13/2008 8:12:15 PM

^i agree, means he's doing a good fucking job as a representative

6/13/2008 10:54:32 PM

^^ Me too, but a lot of those quotes were from before the current race, and some of them are from not-so-credible people.

But, McCain really did poke conservatives in the eye prior to the massive flipflopping of his campaign for this election.

6/13/2008 11:26:53 PM

I don't see it as massive flip-flopping. IMO, he has run hard to the right in order to satisfy the base, and he has a long voting record which he cannot get away from. But the frequently cited examples from the left are a joke.

Torture ban? Democrats are being disingenuous on that issue. Stop reading liberal attack blogs like Think Progress and you'll realize it. Here's an excerpt from article in Time Magazine:

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"There is nothing the Democrats would like to do more than portray McCain as a rank hypocrite, someone who has sidled up to George W. Bush and flip-flopped on torture, all for political gain — which is exactly what Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean claimed in March. "It is shameful that George Bush and John McCain lack the courage to ban torture," Dean said in a statement. "And it is reprehensible that McCain changed his position on torture just to win an election." Dean's statement, distributed in a press release, was a political attack meant to raise questions among independent voters. And as with most political attacks, it turned a grain of truth into a misleading landslide of overheated accusation. A review of the record shows that McCain has neither changed his position on torture nor taken sides with President Bush on the substance of the issue. But at a time when new details are emerging of the Administration's intimate involvement with formulating specific detainee interrogation practices, the Arizona Senator does now find himself in the uncomfortable position of agreeing with President Bush on a key election-year vote about those very same controversial policies. At issue is a Democratic proposal to require the U.S. intelligence community to limit its interrogation techniques to those contained in a military training book called the Army Field Manual. Several Democrats who have received classified briefings on the current CIA interrogation program have said that the U.S. continues to approve of methods that they believe to be immoral and illegal. The CIA will not discuss the methods, except to say that waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning historically considered to be illegal, is no longer employed. McCain has long argued that the Bush Administration overstepped its legal authority by approving techniques like waterboarding, and has successfully championed two efforts to try to limit the White House to the plain language of international treaties, which ban cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. McCain has also spoken in opposition to other techniques in the CIA arsenal like sleep deprivation and the use of stress positions, both of which were employed by the North Vietnamese during McCain's captivity as a prisoner of war and may still be employed by the CIA. But on this latest piece of legislation, which arose during the heat of the primary campaign and may surface again later this month, McCain sided with Bush in opposing a further restriction of CIA techniques. Despite the claims of some partisans, McCain's decision was not a flip-flop, but rather the continuation of a position he took in 2005 when he first championed a bill to restrict the Bush Administration's ability to mistreat detainees. "The field manual, a public document written for military use, is not always directly translatable to use by intelligence officers," McCain explained in February, reiterating his position from 2005. He added that the CIA should be allowed to use "alternative interrogation techniques," that are not otherwise outlawed as unduly coercive, cruel, inhumane or degrading. McCain has not publicly described the techniques that he believes fall into that category. "

As far as the Bush tax cuts go, it was certainly justifiable to oppose them at a time when Bush was launching 2 wars and increasing spending in other areas. Likewise, it is easy to see why McCain doesn't want to repeal those taxes now, due to the fact that we are staring at a recession. Hell, Obama doesn't want to repeal the tax cuts except on the very rich. I wouldn't call that a flip-flop, since we are in a much different position now then we were in 2001.

6/13/2008 11:41:07 PM

wait, you mean principled conservatives stand on position without giving a damn about the immediate political consequences... geez aw schucks... I thought we just did polls to assess the currently most viable centrist position... oh wait, that's your heroes.

Of course we'll attack McCain, he attacks what we believe in. Go figure. Its about ideas.

I wouldn't expect you to understand.

6/13/2008 11:51:26 PM

"GOP attack machine".....hahaha.....

6/14/2008 10:38:35 AM

you'd think the GOP attack machine would shut the fuck up unless they are prepared to have 4 years of obama fucking up the economy and stealing more of my income dollars.

6/14/2008 11:02:05 AM

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"A lot of these quotes (and particularly, the sources of the quotes), make me less likely to vote for him."

6/14/2008 11:48:38 AM

it is a proven fact that he shoots his fucking mouth off too much

and I have see credible reports about his temper

and a lot of these quotes are from major players in the GOP and the conservative movement

politicians are known to go with the tide and they'll attempt to rally behind him, but it's hard to feign complete and undying support when it's just not there

6/14/2008 2:37:33 PM

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"and a lot of these quotes are from major players in the GOP and the conservative movement "

Exactly, and they are typically an untrustworthy bunch. If THEY don't like McCAin, he must be doing something right.

6/14/2008 7:23:10 PM

Mccain has a huge temper, indeed. My friend who was a whitehouse aide told me how he treated aides like shit. On one occasion, he yelled at them for bringing the wrong brand of bottled water.


Not surprised that he as made some enemies when he is throwing tantrums over stupid shit.

[Edited on June 14, 2008 at 7:38 PM. Reason : .]

6/14/2008 7:37:43 PM

the only difference between McCain and the crazy homeless guy on Western is that McCain's family has money.

6/14/2008 8:17:19 PM

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"the only difference between McCain and the crazy homeless guy on Western is that McCain's family has money. "

Which means Obama wants to make McCain just like the crazy homeless guy on western. To be fair and all.

6/14/2008 8:26:13 PM

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"the only difference between McCain and the crazy homeless guy on Western is that McCain's family has money."

are you old enough to vote?

6/14/2008 8:35:40 PM

CRAZY

NAM

VET

[Edited on June 14, 2008 at 10:17 PM. Reason : oh im 23. IM VOTIN BITCH]

6/14/2008 10:16:57 PM

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""There's nothing redeeming about John McCain...he's a hypocrite." Former House GOP Whip Tom DeLay"

Boy the irony is so thick, you could cut it with a knife.

6/14/2008 11:52:50 PM

It's so thick, you could hammer it with a Hammer.

[Edited on June 15, 2008 at 12:01 AM. Reason : .]

6/15/2008 12:01:00 AM

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"Insert hooksaw-esque hyperbole about how the party is being torn asunder."

Boone

You're obsessed--can you keep my name out of this? For the gazillionth time, I'm not in the GOP, get it?

6/15/2008 2:26:58 AM

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"A lot of these quotes (and particularly, the sources of the quotes), make me more likely to vote for him."

6/15/2008 9:53:15 PM

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"A lot of these quotes (and particularly, the sources of the quotes), make me less likely to vote for him."

6/15/2008 9:54:50 PM

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"A lot of these quotes (and particularly, the sources of the quotes), make me more likely to vote for him."

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"A lot of these quotes (and particularly, the sources of the quotes), make me more likely to vote for him."

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"A lot of these quotes (and particularly, the sources of the quotes), make me more likely to vote for him."

6/16/2008 3:45:24 PM

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"You're obsessed--can you keep my name out of this? For the gazillionth time, I'm not in the GOP, get it?"

i mean really, Boone, everyone knows hooksaw is The Constitution Party.

6/16/2008 6:57:15 PM