More Evidence McCain Is a Jerk

[joemurphy]

McCain voted for the war. He was a big drumbeater for it. Now he's saying Dems are aiding the enemy by questioning Bush's misuse of the Iraq intelligence.

McCain is scum. Worse than Cheney and Bush in some ways because he lacks the courage of his convictions.

[NanceGreggs]

1. McCain is a Judas Goat ...

... knowing what Bush & Co. were all about (better than most people) he shilled for them in 2004 anyway.

[WI_DEM]

2. I've always been skeptical of some of the people who think

McCain is moderate and reasonable--he is a very right wing Republican and very hawkish on Iraq.

[ewagner]

3. The chips are being called in

McCain has been ordered to toe the line and repeat the mantra...or else!

Even if you sell your soul on the installment plan, the bill eventually becomes due. McCain is paying up.

[LeftNYC]

4. If McCain is trying to get elected in '08 wouldnt he

want to distance himself from the White House? What do they have on this guy? What is he afraid of?

[insane_cratic_gal]

5. This is good news

considering that Bush's ratings are in the low 34 percent... McCain looses any moderate Dem who might flip because he supported Bush.

Now he'll loose the 34 percent because he flipped on Bush.

And he'll loose the 58 percent who believe we should get out of Iraq now.

This seals his fate, it is good news.. I say, Let him be the back stabbing Jerk he is, when 2008 rolls around they won't run him.

[azmouse]

6. I've hated McCain

ever since he voted to impeach Clinton.

[Disturbed]

7. John McCain, Hypocrite

John McCain, Hypocrite
by Doug Ireland

John McCain, the media's darling, has found a clever way around his own campaign finance reform law to take big corporate bucks in furtherance of his political ambitions while carrying water for the corporate mammoth providing the dough. But the national press is ignoring the story.


The Associated Press first ran the story of John McCain's odorous but lucrative Senatorial service to the communications giant Cablevision on the afternoon of March 7. But, while some local papers in McCain's home state (like the East Valley Tribune) have run the story, nothing has as yet made it into the print editions of the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Washington Post, or any of the half-dozen other big city dailies I checked (although, if one searches the hundreds of AP stories available on the Post's website on its Politics page by clicking on "Latest Wire Reports," one can find it there--but how many readers would bother to do that?) One notable exception: the Kansas City Star.


Here's what the AP's investigation found:


McCain repeatedly intervened on behalf of a policy Cablevision favored -- one which "congressional and private studies conclude could make cable more expensive" -- while his chief political adviser, Rick Davis (who's masterminding McCain's probable '08 presidential rerun) solicited $200,000 in contributions from Cablevision to an institute that promotes McCain and pays Davis a $110,000 annual salary.


The Reform Institute was set up to promote McCain and his issues--especially campaign finance reform, embodied in the famous McCain-Feingold law. This Institute is "a tax-exempt group that touts McCain's views and has showcased him at events since his unsuccessful 2000 presidential campaign," and it "often uses the senator's name in press releases and fund-raising letters and includes him at press conferences," the AP says. And, of course, it provides a cushy sinecure with no heavy lifting for McCain's main man, Davis, as he prepares the pontificating Senator's next presidential run. Cablevision's contributions account for a whopping 15% of the Institute's budget.


http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0309-35.htm

[Joe for Clark]

9. I am with you,

Mccain is just an opportunist - of the worst kind. I kinda wonder if Bush was right about him in 2000. On second thought, no, I don't dislike him that much. I sure don't want him for President, either.

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. John McCain, the ass who ate cake with Bush

while the levies were breaking in New Orleans. I hope those pictures haunt him for the rest of his life.

[datadiva]

10. My defining moment of McCain will always be

His huge kiss ass hug of *. I will never forget how he and his family were slimed and then he comes back and hugs the one who slimed his family. His own family! Can't be trusted. Simple as that.

[BrklynLiberal]

11. Convictions? He has convictions?

Anyone who could hug a man who did what Dimson did to his family cannot have any convictions at all.

[Todd B]

12. The man must of loved torture...

..because he certainly loves to cozy up to the fascists in the GOP only to be kicked aside later.

I used to respect him, but the way he just continues to go crawling back to the party that continues to slime him is sickening!

[rniel]

13. They were saying Kerry is a flip flopper

McCain has flip flopped so many times I can't keep count anymore.

[rniel]

14. All I needed to know about McCain

His family is attacked by bush, his wife was smeared as a drug addict and then they spread rumors he adopted a black baby to scare the southern voters. What did he do about it. Get mad, get even.

He gets down on his knees for bush, hugs him, kisses him, thanks him, invites him over for cake.

What kind of a man is that. I cannot respect someone like that. I can only stand there dumbfounded.

[joemurphy]

15. My wife's an addict -- Ha, ha. Well, that's politics I guess...

More cake, George?

[pearl]

16. Piece of Shit

n/t