Thread: Is John McCain Stupid?

Not only is McCain 'stupid'...he's ignorant!


Is John McCain Stupid?

July 31, 2008; Page A13
Is John McCain losing it?

On Sunday, he said on national television that to solve Social Security "everything's on the table," which of course means raising payroll taxes. On July 7 in Denver he said: "Senator Obama will raise your taxes. I won't."

This isn't a flip-flop. It's a sex-change operation.


Recent remarks by John McCain has some Republicans stewing. Wonder Land columnist Dan Henninger of the WSJ Editorial page talks with Kelsey Hubbard about McCain's need for a new strategy to beat Barack Obama. (July 31)
He got back to the subject Tuesday in Reno, Nev. Reporters asked about the Sunday tax comments. Mr. McCain replied, "The worst thing you could do is raise people's payroll taxes, my God!" Then he was asked about working with Democrats to fix Social Security, and he repeated, "everything has to be on the table." But how can . . .? Oh never mind.

Yesterday he was in Aurora, Colo., to wit: "On Social Security, he [Sen. Obama] wants to raise Social Security taxes. I am opposed to raising taxes on Social Security. I want to fix the system without raising taxes."

What I'm asking is, does John McCain have the mental focus, the intellectual discipline, to avoid being out-slicked by Barack Obama, if he isn't abandoned by his own voters?

It's not just taxes. Recently the subject came up of Al Gore's assertion that the U.S. could get its energy solely from renewables in 10 years. Sen. McCain said: "If the vice president says it's doable, I believe it's doable." What!!?? In a later interview, Mr. McCain said he hadn't read "all the specifics" of the Gore plan and now, "I don't think it's doable without nuclear power." It just sounds loopy.


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Then this week in San Francisco, in an interview with the Chronicle, Sen. McCain called Nancy Pelosi an "inspiration to millions of Americans." Notwithstanding his promises to "work with the other side," this is a politically obtuse thing to say in the middle of a campaign. Would Bill Clinton, running for president in 1996 after losing control of the House, have called Newt Gingrich an "inspiration"? House Minority Leader John Boehner, facing a 10-to-20 seat loss in November, must be gagging.

The one thing -- arguably the only thing -- the McCain candidacy has going for it is a sense among voters that they don't know what Barack Obama stands for or believes. Why then would Mr. McCain give voters reason to wonder the same thing about himself? You're supposed to sow doubt about the other guy, not do it to yourself.

Yes, Sen. McCain must somehow appeal to independents and blue-collar Hillary Democrats. A degree of pandering to the center is inevitable. But this stuff isn't pandering; it's simply stupid. Al Gore's own climate allies separated themselves from his preposterous free-of-oil-in-10-years whopper. Sen. McCain saying off-handedly that it's "doable" is, in a word, thoughtless.

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http://online.wsj.com/xml/rss/3_7128.xmlSpeaker Pelosi heads a House with a 9% approval. To let her off the hook before the election reflects similar loss of thought.

The forces arrayed against Sen. McCain's candidacy are formidable: an unpopular president, the near impossibility of extending Republican White House rule for three terms, the GOP trailing in races at every level, a listless fundraising base, doubtful sentiments about the war, a flailing economy.

The generic Democratic presidential candidate should win handily. Barack Obama, though vulnerable at the margin, is a very strong candidate. This will be a turnout election. To win, Mr. McCain needs every Republican vote he can hold.

Why make it harder than it has to be? Given such statements on Social Security taxes, Al Gore and the "inspirational" Speaker Pelosi, is there a reason why Rush Limbaugh should not spend August teeing off on Mr. McCain?

Why as well shouldn't the Obama camp exploit all of this? If Sen. Obama's "inexperience" is Mr. McCain's ace in the hole, why not trump that by asking, "Does Sen. McCain know his own mind?"

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In this sports-crazed country, everyone has learned a lot about what it takes to win. They've heard and seen it proven repeatedly that to achieve greatness, to win the big one, an athlete has to be ready to "put in the work."

John McCain isn't doing that, yet. He's competing as if he expects the other side to lose it for him. Sen. McCain is a famously undisciplined politician. Someone in the McCain circle had better do some straight talking to the candidate. He's not some 19-year-old tennis player who's going to win the U.S. presidential Open on raw talent and the other guy's errors. He's not that good.

There is a reason the American people the past 100 years elevated only two sitting senators into the White House -- JFK and Warren Harding. It's because they believe most senators, adept at compulsive compromise, have no political compass and will sell them out. Now voters have to do what they prefer not to. Yes, Sen. McCain has honor and country. Another month of illogical, impolitic remarks and Sen. McCain will erase even that. Absent a coherent message for voters, he will be one-on-one with Barack Obama in the fall. He will lose.

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This Man and Barrack Obamination will tell you anything your "Crazy A$$" wants to Hear

and thats just how they think of you... just another Ignorant "Crazy A$$"

Wake up America... put the pill bottles down at watch the Bull SH_T fly like the rest of us

He is more than CRAZY, he is after our taxpaying money, too

Wake up America... put the pill bottles down at watch the Bull SH_T fly like the rest of us

LOL......what's that saying?.....If you can't impress them with your intelligence you baffle them with BS........or something along that line....and right now we need waders to get through all this. Shame they can't sell this for fertizilizer. LOL

Obama speaks well. McCain spends half of the time in his speeches staring at what was written for him by speechwriters. McCain is good at bumbling even the written word, just like W. More of the same. I am still voting for Ron Paul.

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

This Man and Barrack Obamination will tell you anything your "Crazy A$$" wants to Hear

and thats just how they think of you... just another Ignorant "Crazy A$$"

Wake up America... put the pill bottles down at watch the Bull SH_T fly like the rest of us

For the past year and one-half, the public has been exposed to the raw, graphic evidence that BOTH of these buffoons are completely and unquestionably UNQUALIFIED AND UNFIT TO BE POTUS!!! Half of the registered voters in this country should not even be allowed to vote, and the other half does not WANT to vote for either one of them, including myself.

We are 3 weeks away from the DEM convention, and all I can think of is that we MUST do something to cancel the entire election until both parties can give us a viable choice! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING IN THE USA!!! Obama should be disqualified...he is totally unvetted and way too shady; and McCain is one step away from the old folk's home!

If this is the best America has to offer...we deserve to fail! And we WILL fail! This electon is a FARCE...and we MUST stop it before it's too late! No one wants to wake up on Jan. 4th and find the Obama tribe living in the WH...or the senile, confused, Juan McCain, who can't decide if he's going to be the president of Mexico or the US!

The one thing -- arguably the only thing -- the McCain candidacy has going for it is a sense among voters that they don't know what Barack Obama stands for or believes.

I disagree . We know . Fact you made the best agurment . McAmnesty praise of everything and everybody except the American Citizen . Tells me he's toast , gone as Nutty can be . obama-snob is on a super-ego trip pumped up by a love fest of high paid news anchors . This guy has done nothing cept take dirty money just like hillary . Has Communist ties , just like hillary etc etc etc .
We know what they are . Most of us even know why they act the way they do . Cause where called "Mushroom People", feed them Crap all day and keep'em in the dark .
We know they're the two worst candidates to ever be in a already rigged election . Both are Truly Anit-American . obama-snob will not even show his real birth certificate ! McAmnesty is from Panama ! are either really American citizens