If you've NEVER respected John McCain, and NEVER will: CHECK IN!

[PresidentObama]

He's an asshole, plain and simple.

Didn't like him before he won the nomination, don't like him now.

But it seems some people on DU respect him. In fact, some fell for the bullshit he pulled today "defending" Obama against his OWN supporters that HIMSELF and his RUNNING MATE provoked and pushed them into racist, hateful fits over Barack Obama. They claimed he was "palling around" with terrorists, and suggested he was "dangerous" and "risky" while they darked his face in advertisements and tried to rally the RepubliKKKan base.

I didn't fall for it. And neither should you.

Check in if you've never respected John McCain. And if you don't respect him now for his stunt of "respect" for Obama that was just covering up his campaign's strategy of smear and fear backfiring on him.

[Maccagirl]

1. Checking in

n/t

[NC_Nurse]

2. I never supported him, but I didn't know he was a complete asshole until

the last few years.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

3. I'm always amazed at how many people, even liberals, have been duped by McSame

and the "maverick myth." This man is limey through and through.

[PresidentObama]

7. Not many people who vote with Bush 90% of the time are mavericks, nor deserve our respect.

[1corona4u]

4. Here!

[RayOfHope]

5. Never cared for him, never will n/t

[Mz Pip]

6. Me

And I voted for him in 2000, only because I thought he'd be better than Bush.I wouldn't have voted for him in the general election but I thought if it were the Repugs turn he'd be better. Maybe back then he would have been. Now? No fucking way. He started this hate war by picking Sarah. Hate in heels.

He's got nothing left. If he manages to win, he will be hated more than Bush by the way he did it, never mind that a good portion of the country won't believe it was an honest election.

With legacy at stake, he isup shit creek without a paddle.

[bdamomma]

8. .........

any man who can't look at another man or shake his hand I cannot respect.

[PresidentObama]

9. Bingo. Don't forget the "that one" line n/t

[parabolabear]

82. present. d/t

[mvd]

10. Never respected him

His whole career has been driven by politics. When he thinks it is politically beneficial, he'll be a maverick. When he doesn't, he won't be.

[PresidentObama]

41. Indeed. The maverick bullshit is the biggest hoax I've ever seen n/t

[Erin Elizabeth]

11. Never liked him, never respected him.

Still don't, probably never will.

[LittleBlue]

12. I'm working for Sen. Obama to win the Presidency

Really, I don't hate McCain. I just don't want to see him in office.

I'm starting to get turned off by the namecalling. I honestly believe the Bush guys and Palin were responsible for the hate stuff, and McCain probably isn't sharp enough to resist the pressure.

What's the point of disliking or liking him? I'll settle with winning the presidency. B-)

[Binka]

71. Oh Geez Are You PAYING Attention To This Race?

Your stuff post sounds like horse shit. Really. Fuck your little smile thing. Your post is shit. At this point if you do not hate McLame something is wrong with you.

[Jackpine Radical]

13. Here.

One of the few things that genuinely puzzles me about Russ Feingold is that he seems to LIKE McCain. I have never been able to figure out why. Usually Russ has better taste than that.

[Forkboy]

14. I thought the people who liked him 2000 were nuts.

I don't even know what the people who like him now are. :scared:

[Oceansaway]

15. ...

[SunsetDreams]

16. McCain no longer = Bush. He is worse than Bush!

I never thought I could loathe anyone worse than Bush, but it has happened.

Coming from me, that's saying something, because I can't stand Bush!!!

[Lint Head]

17. Sounds like a self serving bastard that just happened

to get shot down while bombing people.
:dem:

[Just-plain-Kathy]

18. He co-sponsored the Iraq War Resolution...he should not be our president!

[tulsakatz]

19. I have never liked McCain.......

...and the reason is very simple. You can't trust anything he says from one day to the next! You just can't count on him to keep his word and that's important to me!

Remember when Bush tried to push through his torture bill in '05? McCain was against it and insisted that he would not support a torture bill. Then he and Warner and someone else crafted a new bill and when they were finished......yep! It included torture!! So he made a big deal about how he was against something that he ultimately created!!

And his campaign is no different......you just can't rely on anything he says!

And about the way he defended Obama today. He didn't do that for Obama, he did that for himself. His rallies were beginning to promote a level of hate, the likes of which we haven't seen in this country since the 60s!!! If he had allowed that to continue, those people would have become the terrorists they claim they are against now!! Eventually, one of them would have done something very stupid and it would have escalated into something that would have been very, very bad for McCain.

[Zomby Woof]

20. Fuck no

His 'straight talk maverick' bullshit was always a phony marketing campaign. If you have to sell it that much, you ain't got it. He always a smarmy, unctious, anti-choice, sell-out admiral's spoiled son.

I don't even give a fuck about his POW status. So fucking what? There have been POW's as long as there have been wars. I had 3 g-grandfathers in the Civil War, and 2 of them spent time as POW's. McCain would have folded like a pair of cheap hooker's panties if he endured even 1/10th of what they did, that weak-ass shithole.

I piss on McCain and everything he has ever stood for, which is ultimately himself, whenyou cut through the bullshit.

I say we kick his political corpse around while he is down and defeated.

[AllieB]

21. Excellent rant-spot on!

:yourock:

[Carolina]

80. K&R K&R K&R K&R K&R!!!

[Vote2008]

22. he is only saying to help him!! Nothing because he cares!!!

[Cha]

23. I never bought his bullshit..

not for a nano second. And, Rolling Stone Mag this issue lays it out that he was always a loser.

[Mira]

24. Present !

[sweetroxie]

25. I never have

and I think he said what he said today in the most grudging way possible--he could barely get the words out.

[Labors of Hercules]

26. Check and check.

I had to pretend to be this motherfucker at Harvard Model Congress in High School. Hated him ever since.

[Old Codger]

27. done n/t

[madmom]

28. i'm checking in

[IsItJustMe]

29. I bought into the msm hype for a little bit. But your true colors will show through sooner or

later.

[MoJoWorkin]

30. McLurch will be back bashing Obama tomorrow.

How could anyone be gullible enough to believe anything that comes out of his mouth now. He contradicts himself completely on a daily basis. His nasty lying ads are still running. Why would ANYONE give him a pass for his CYA moment today?

I just read some posts here that said he looks "very sick" and they were feeling sorry for him. I am not so inclined. I can't wait for his vile campaign to implode. As the head of his campaign, he MUST take ownership for Sister Sarah and her crazies.

McSinker needs to go down with his Titanic!

[ThePhilosopher04]

31. Figured this thread would have 10,000 posts by now***

NM

[glitch]

32. Check. I have an uncanny knack for spotting evil. Not that Republicans don't make it easy. nt

[always_saturday]

33. :::::::Raising Hand:::::::::

I've NEVER fallen for the bullshit that he's a "maverick" much less any other myths about him being a "moderate." His very conservative, hateful record has always been available for anybody to check out, so I think anybody who thought he wasn't as bad as he is, is just plain STUPID.

[Captiosus]

34. Checking in.

McCain's motives are very clear: McCain first. Everyone else second.
And he doesn't care who he has to step on, shit on, lie about or incite hatred about to get there.

[mscuedawg]

35. No way...No how...No McCain and No Palin!!!!

[RagAss]

36. I checked in....no donuts?...I left....

[PresidentObama]

37. Too poor for donuts. How about stale Chex Mix from my cabinet? n/t

[Beregond2]

38. I've never seen one thing in his life story to admire.

He was a failure as a pilot, a traitor as a POW, an adulterer, a golddigger, a corrupt politician...what is there to admire?

[stolivodka]

39. fake war hero is fake

Last I heard, giving secrets to the enemy during a time of war isn't very heroic.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

40. I never cared for McKeating, never will. nt

[political_Dem]

42. Checking in. /eom

[central scrutinizer]

43. war criminal and coward who bombed barefoot farmers

never had any respect for him but now I actively despise him

[lonestarnot]

44. Raising both hands on that Cornville pig!

:puke:

[shugah]

45. i have not followed his career closely by any means

but i have never respected him because he sucked up to bush after the cruel things bush & co did to his family in the 2k campaign. i know that politicians in washington have an "understanding" about "campaigning" but there is no way in hell i could respect a man who publicly offers homage <that pic of mccain hugging bush- you know the one i mean> to someone that targeted his children. that is just sick.

i don't necessarily buy the "contrite mccain" either. i don't know what his motivation is, probably too little too late in any case. plus, we'll have to see what toads and slithering snakes drop from the lipsticked mouth of palin following this to make any determinations as to the validity of mccains apparent sighting of the light.

[grace0418]

52. That was exactly when I realized he was nothing but

a political whore. Dubya dragged him through the mud and he did nothing. I knew then that he'd do or say anything to win.

[frogmarch]

46. I saw right through him today. He's still a piece of shit. nt

[silverojo]

47. I didn't respect him when I lived in Arizona

And I sure as hell don't respect him now.

No way, no how, NO McCAIN!

[progressive_realist]

48. I read a (positive) bio of him years ago.

The impression I took away was that he is militaristic and jingoistic, but not very bright and completely non-self-aware. Add to that his obvious lack of ethics (which this bio glossed over and I didn't realize until his torture flip-flop and when I found about his dumping his first wife for Cindy). Not only is there nothing to respect, but I think he would be dangerous to my health and that of other people who might be negatively impacted by nuclear war with Russia. Which is to say all of us.

[liberal1973]

49. Here

:hi:

[Frank Booth]

50. I have to admit, back in 2000 I didn't think he was all that bad.

I wouldn't have voted for him, but I didn't think a McCain administration would be a nightmare, like I knew a Bush administration would be.

But, as soon as he ran into Bush's arms and pushing for the Iraq war, I realized that he had no integrity, he'd just been better at faking it than most politicians.

[Uzybone]

51. I lost all respect once he threw the Hamas bomb

after he got the nomination. When he said Obama was endorsed by Hamas. i know at that point that the "straight talking" man who used to go on TDS and speak his mind with Jon Stewart was dead and replaced by something else. I would say I used to respect him before the GOP primaries because of his stances on stem cell and torture.

That McCain is dead. This McCain as completely undone all the virtues the old McCain once had. This McCain has run the sleaziest; most dangerous campaign in my lifetime and I truly fear for the future of our planet should this reckless fraud take office. Thank goodness we are gonna make sure that Obama wins.

[Willo]

53. Checking in. nt

[stillcool]

54. unfortunately he reminds me..

of someone who was very sick. Did lots of very hurtful, damaging things. Every time I see him I am reminded. It's odd but Joe Scarborough reminds me of someone else in the same family.

[wisteria]

55. He may have pulled a fast one, but I like to think he has some integrity left and he did the right

thing. He didn't do this at no risk to his campaign.

[democracy1st]

56. K & R

[AzDar]

57. Living in AZ for the past 24 years, I've heard plenty of first-hand accounts

of his douchebaggery...

He's unfit for duty.

No way. No how. No McCain.

[firedupdem]

58. checking in! fuck McCain..I will never have respect for him! n/t

[Occam Bandage]

59. I did in 2000. I did when he stood up against the tax cuts and against the religious right.

I haven't since he cuddled up to Falwell.

[DavidDvorkin]

60. Well said.

[donheld]

61. I'm in

[Hansel]

62. I have never liked this guy. n/t

[rdmtimp]

63. A long time Arizonan checking in....

No matter how you slice it, the future sucks for him - first he gets punked by Obama, then he either retires, or gets his ass handed to him by Janet Napolitano in the 2010 Senate race.

[LibGranny]

64. Check!

[Roxy66]

65. Not before. not now...never

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

66. Here!

[burrowowl]

67. I have never respected McCain or

Colin Powell or RayGun, etc.

[Morning Dew]

68. checking in

nm

[TwilightGardener]

69. Ack--who respects him here? What an absolutely dreadful campaign he's running.

His latest stunt is a tactic done either to appease other high-level elected Repubs who didn't appreciate what he was doing, enough to take back their endorsements and fear for their seats, or he's trying to show he's "honorable" again (LOL!) while still running smear ads and having Princess Bitchface do all the nasty stuff.

[Raine]

70. NEVER respected him NEVER will but still

I thought he was better than what he has shown himself to be. x(

[lady raven]

72. Can I join if I once respected him based on misinformation?

I respected him once based on what I believed to be true about him, which WASN'T true. So do I count?

Had I know what he was really about, I would never have had a SHRED of respect for the guy.

[goletian]

73. guys got no integrity. backpedaling on what you yourself incite is not honorable.

[Gnister]

74. Check!

[Sodan]

75. check

[nc4bo]

76. Here. nt

[La Coliniere]

77. Phony

as a three dollar bill. I respect few politicians; he's never been one of them. When liberal friends would praise him from time to time, and repeat that 'he's a maverick' nonsense, I'd tell them that they, and he, were full of shit. Guess what?

[Kahuna]

78. Never liked him. Saw him as an idiot back in 2000. Even though I agreed

with what he was saying about the religious right, I saw it as a bone-headed campaign move and the final nail in his coffin.

[Carolina]

79. K&R, checking in

never liked him
loathe him now

A decent, good and honorable man would NEVER run the campaign he's running;truth is McCain is a greedy, nasty, self-serving bastard to the core. Always has been, always will be.

[Bluenorthwest]

81. I first heard of him

When he was opposing the holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.. My first impression was that he was a huge racsit. So no, I've never had a shred of respect for him. Once I read what he did as a POW I came to destest him.

[Greg K]

83. I admit, I did like him a bit in 2000, but..

He completely lost my respect with "the hug". It was clear that someone (Rove) did some talking to him after all of the talk about him possibly becoming Kerry's running mate, and promised him support in '08 if he toed the party line. He should have accepted Kerry's offer.

[livedemocarticordie]

84. I have never been a JOHN MCCAIN FAN

.. but then again I have been around a while. I lost complete and utter respect for him when:


1. He allowed George Bush and Co to rip his daughter apart and then came back to sniff and kiss the crack of Bush's ass. John SIDNEY McCain is driven by ambition and he would give over his soul and his mother to be president.

2. When he selected Palin rather than Romney. It revealed his stupidity and tendency to be manipulated by others.

3. When he cheated oh his wife.

4. When he claimed he did not know that his wife was a drug addict.

5. When he voted against the Martin Luther King Holiday.

6. When he graduated at the bottom of his class at the Academy but feels enough sense of entitlement to go after anything and everyone while deriding his opponents.

7. When he did not have the guts to say to OBAMA's face the crap he's been spewing through the past month.


And unlike some, I don't see one wimpy scared retreat (driven by internal polls) comment about Barack being a decent man as huge attrition for his insidious dangerous mouthing off of the last two weeks. I guess I am just not all that forgiving a person. I think when you seek to bubble up vitriolic racism and evil, you are a dangerous, self-centered (country last not first) person.

Besides he looks like an evil little angry gnome.

[govteacher]

85. Better than bush?

During the Repug primaries in 2000, I thought he was better than bush...but that doesn't say much does it???

[Laelth]

86. Never have and never will.

Who could respect that?

-Laelth

[tilsammans]

87. A man who calls his wife a c*nt . . .

. . . does not deserve respect.

:dem:

[Politicub]

88. I've never trusted him

And I'm glad people are seeing this emperor without his clothes - finally.