Thread: MSM is finaly talking about McCain

Foxnews has a video talking about how McCain considered leaving the Republican party in 2001. I don't know of any way to link to the video but it is titled "McCain almost left GOP?"

The story was originally posted back in March but it is just now getting attention because of the Internet. Which shows we can make a difference by working online.

I noticed yesterday Fox begin talking about this. Cnn won't dare to report it up.

Hot Air has the video at this link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nqtL-P8kzo

"McCain has promised less jobs and more wars."

Dixie

Here is a Fox Story.

http://www.mediascrape.com/News/ViewNew ... anelType=1

The story was written by Bob Cusack.

Dixie

This article is over a year old, but it illustrates what an erratic old buzzard we have on our hands. Yikes!


http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal ... 18/mccain/

I'm going to post this in a some places. Tuesday is so important...

Get the word out!

Published: Jan 22, 2008 12:30 AM Modified: Jan 22, 2008 06:35 AM

LABEL MC CAIN A DEMOCRAT

George Will, Washington Post Writers Group

WASHINGTON - In 2004, one of John McCain's closest associates, John Weaver, spoke to John Kerry about the possibility of McCain running as Kerry's vice presidential running mate. In "No Excuses," Bob Shrum's memoir of his role in numerous presidential campaigns, including Kerry's, Shrum writes that Weaver assured Kerry that "McCain was serious about the possibility of teaming up with him," and Kerry approached McCain. He, however, was more serious about seeking the 2008 Republican nomination.
But was it unreasonable for Kerry to think McCain might be comfortable on a Democratic ticket? Not really.

In ABC's New Hampshire debate, McCain said: "Why shouldn't we be able to reimport drugs from Canada?" A conservative's answer is:

That amounts to importing Canada's price controls, a large step toward a system in which some medicines would be inexpensive but many others -- new pain-relieving, life-extending pharmaceuticals -- would be unavailable. Setting drug prices by government fiat rather than market forces results in huge reductions of funding for research and development of new drugs. McCain's evident aim is to reduce pharmaceutical companies' profits. But if all those profits were subtracted from the nation's health-care bill, the pharmaceutical component of that bill would be reduced only from 10 percent to 8 percent -- and innovation would stop, taking a terrible toll in unnecessary suffering and premature death. When McCain explains that trade-off to voters, he will actually have engaged in straight talk.

There are decent, intelligent people who believe that equity or efficiency or both are often served by government setting prices. In America, such people are called Democrats.

Because McCain is a "maverick" -- the media encomium reserved for Republicans who reject important Republican principles -- he would be a conciliatory president. He has indeed worked with Ted Kennedy on immigration reform, with Russ Feingold on restricting political speech (McCain-Feingold) and with Kennedy and John Edwards -- a trial lawyer drawn to an enlargement of opportunities for litigation -- on the "patients' bill of rights."

McCain is, however, an unlikely conciliator because he is quick to denigrate the motives, and hence the characters, of those who oppose him. He promiscuously accuses others of "corruption," the ubiquity of which he says justifies McCain-Feingold's expansive government regulation of the quantity, timing and content of campaign speech.

McCain says he would nominate Supreme Court justices similar to Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts and Sam Alito. But how likely is he to nominate jurists who resemble those four: They consider his signature achievement constitutionally dubious.

When the Supreme Court upheld McCain-Feingold 5-4, Scalia and Thomas were in the minority. Two years later, McCain filed his own brief supporting federal suppression of a right-to-life group's issue advertisement in Wisconsin because it mentioned a candidate for federal office during the McCain-Feingold blackout period prior to an election. The court ruled 5-4 against McCain's position, with Alito in the majority.

In the New Hampshire debate, McCain asserted that corruption is the reason drugs currently cannot be reimported from Canada. The reason is "the power of the pharmaceutical companies." When Mitt Romney interjected, "Don't turn the pharmaceutical companies into the big bad guys," McCain replied, "Well, they are."

There is a place in American politics for moralizers who think in such Manichaean simplicities. That place is in the Democratic Party, where people who talk like McCain are considered not mavericks but mainstream.

When McCain and Joe Lieberman introduced legislation empowering Congress to comprehensively regulate U.S. industries' emissions of greenhouse gases in order to "prevent catastrophic global warming," they co-authored an op-ed column that radiated McCainian intolerance of disagreement. It said that a U.N. panel's report "puts the final nail in denial's coffin about the problem of global warming." Concerning the question of whether human activity is causing catastrophic warming, they said, "the debate has ended."

Interesting, is it not, that no one considers it necessary to insist that "the debate has ended" about whether the Earth is round. People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues.


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http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/col ... 94166.html

McCain has asked for "divine intercession" on Super Tuesday and beyond. May God answer and dispatch him in a whirlwind to the mountains of Afghanistan---preferably naked.

OMG, is anyone watching the news coverage of McNasty stumping in Alabama today? He is an angry, angry guy! If he's trying to win friends and influence people, he's in the wrong business. He scares the living you know what our of me! What a scary dude! I'm beginning to feel so sorry for his wife...he shoulda been a drill sargeant.

Now that the media spotlight is on him....he better run for the hills cuz he will not be running for the Republican party too much longer! He's the worst thing to EVER happen to the party...any party, for that matter!