"stunned at just how big a lying sleaze-peddler and hypocrite [McCain has] turned out to be."

[ProSense]

TPMtv: How Low Can He Go?

By Josh Marshall

Even those of us who didn't go into the campaign with an over-rosy view of McCain have been stunned at just how big a lying sleaze-peddler and hypocrite he's turned out to be. In today's episode of TPMtv, we take a look at the awful truth ...

(Video: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/">TPMtv: How Low Can You Go?)

[BrklynLiberal]

1. From what I have read, even some former McSame supporters are shocked at the way this

campaign is being run...and how down and dirty McSame is letting it get.

Read this article by Tom Davis VA(R)..

TOM DAVIS GIVES UP
<snip>
No more. The revolution is over, the thrill is gone and the Republican brand under President Bush has, in Davis’s view, been so tarnished that, as he likes to say, “if we were a dog food, they would take us off the shelf.” These will be Davis’s last few weeks in Congress. He decided against re-election, disaffected by the partisanship, by a process he calls broken, by a party he considers hijacked by social conservatives. “We’re just not getting much done,” he said.
<snip>
For Republicans like Davis, these are gloomy times. While John McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin as his running mate energized the party after a long stretch of depressing developments, the most optimistic Republican strategists still expect further losses in Congress even if McCain wins the White House.
<snip>
But the students did not come alive until he threw the discussion open for questions and they asked about Sarah Palin. “The base hated McCain; it was a marriage of convenience,” Davis told them. “What are the negatives? What about her résumé? I got through it in about 10 seconds. Does that hurt? He’s the guy running on experience — ‘3 a.m., I’m the guy.’ And she’s a heartbeat away.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/magazine/05Davis-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin

[Virginia Dare]

8. Awwww. cue The Eagles..

after the thrill is gone...:nopity: Gee Tom, I guess your Bushbotting these past seven years has sent your political career down the crapper, right along with your wife's. Too bad, so sad. Off to K Street with you, gotta love that revolving door.

[Cha]

2. I'm not..I have some kind

of radar about these things. I got into politics in 2000 and started to watch the rnc but couldn't handle the sleeze.

It actually turns out that mcain has always been this way..he was just better at hiding it.

[Mabus]

4. He had a lot of help

The media used to be his friend and would go out of their way to take him off the record. But your instincts were right on target.

:hi:

[Cha]

12. Yes, the corporatemedia have been doing their share

to help promote fascism in America for a long time.

:hi:

[theothersnippywshrub]

3. He has soiled his soul searching for a buyer. But there are no takers. Not even Satan. n/t

[demo dutch]

5. He's always been that way

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

6. I don't understand it when people claim that they thought McCain was a swell guy.

That's setting the bar pretty low in terms of what constitutes common decency.

People knew about his involvement in the Keating 5 scandal, of which his wife Cindy was heavily involved as well.
People knew that during the 2000 Republican primaries, he proclaimed that the Confederate flag represented a symbol of hatred and intolerance, only to backtrack later.
People knew that he had voted against a national holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. TWiCE!!!
People knew that he allowed Bush to smear his family and didn't do much to condemn this guy; instead, he has now invited many of those involved in the smear campaign against himself and John Kerry to work for his campaign.

John McCain is NOT an honorable man; he has never been!

[Virginia Dare]

10. The Reagans apparently never thought so..

especially after he dumped Nancy's good friend his wife Carol, for Cindy.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

11. Exactly, and neither did Ross Perot.

I just find it interesting that the Republicans really can't stand John McCain, but the Dems tend to go out of their way to praise him. :puke::puke::puke:

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

7. I don't understand it when people claim that they thought McCain was a swell guy.

That's setting the bar pretty low in terms of what constitutes common decency.

People knew about his involvement in the Keating 5 scandal, of which his wife Cindy was heavily involved as well.
People knew that during the 2000 Republican primaries, he proclaimed that the Confederate flag represented a symbol of hatred and intolerance, only to backtrack later.
People knew that he had voted against a national holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. TWiCE!!!
People knew that he allowed Bush to smear his family and didn't do much to condemn this guy; instead, he has now invited many of those involved in the smear campaign against himself and John Kerry to work for his campaign.

John McCain is NOT an honorable man; he never was!!

[DCBob]

9. McCain let himself be controlled by the radical right wing of the Republican party.

That was his fatal mistake.