John “I’ll say anything in order to win the presidency” McCain

2008 Presidential Race, General, National, Politics 1 Minute

OK, so maybe he didn’t say quite that but he might as well have. Check this out.

Pathetic. Just pathetic. h/t Blacknell.net

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5 thoughts on “John “I’ll say anything in order to win the presidency” McCain”

  1. I recall from the last few campaigns where Democrats were so enthusiastically lauding McCain for his collegial nature, straight talk and willingness to work in bi-partisan fashion to get real progress made. Now that he is the presumptive nominee, some of your side are falling back to the old epithets used against generic Republicans, such as old, mean, and dumb.

    So, the question is, are you lying about McCain now, or were you lying about McCain then? What it comes down to is that either those Democrats who used to laud McCain just didn’t know him or his record, or they intentionally misrepresented him as being such a great, bi-partisan, team building, Senator.

    What shall it be, are these Democrats who used to speak so well of McCain dumb, or are they dishonest?

    The third way is to just admit that McCain could turn out to be the best President that the Democrats have had in a long time. He is as likely to vote the Democratic way on key issues, as he is to support the standard Republican Party line. In my view, with McCain as the Republican nominee, Democrats will have a no-lose situation in the November elections since he will likely vote for as many liberal positions as a Democratic President would, and he will, in spite of recent allusions to the contrary, probably select judges who are not from the Religious Reich’s list of lackeys.

    In the view of many hard core conservatives and some libertarian-leaning Republicans, with McCain as the GOP nominee, there is just no Republican in the Presidential race for this election.

    My opinion, is that our country is resilient enough to survive a McCain presidency. He is a Navy Vietnam vet and former POW, who has, for years, been labeled a maverick for his propensity for calling attention to government waste and for putting together coalitions with Democrats and Republicans. His bi-partisan bills are roundly criticized by the extreme elements of both sides, which indicate to me that they were, as a whole, a pretty good compromise in the direction of progress.

    At the end of President McCain’s two terms, Democrats will look back and exclaim that John McCain was the best President that their side has had since FDR.

  2. Oh come now, Tyler, you’re smarter than that. Most anyone with ears and honesty in equal measure can attest to the change in McCain’s rhetoric between 2000 and now. And anyway, when we speak of decent Republicans, we’re usually grading on a curve (the alternative is really ugly, I’m afraid).

  3. The question is whether McCain was lying now, or whether he was lying then. When he said Jerry Falwell was an agent of intollerance, was he lying? Or was he lying when he gave the final commencement speech at Liberty before Falwell’s passing, wherein he praised Falwell repeatedly? Was he lying when he said he was opposed to passing tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans during a time of war and subsidizing big oil? Or is he lying now that he things the tax cuts were genius and that in fact the wealthiest Americans need more of them? Was he lying when he said that setting benchmarks and timeframes in Iraq was tantamount to declaring our surrender in the war in that country? Or is he lying now that he’s proposing his own benchmarks and timelines for withdrawl?

    I wish I could be as optimistic about his potential presidency as you, Mr. Balance, but I’m not sure which John McCain we’re even talking about.

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