John McCain is Toast & For Good Reason
Mark April 2007 on your calendar as the month that John McCain’s bid for the White House crashed and burned.
McCain worked hard through the winter to betray his purposely vague “values,” which included a whistlestop tour in which he kissed every right-wing Republican butt of consequence below the Mason Dixon Line while hewing to a hard-line view of the Iraq war that vast swaths of the electorate have long stopped believing because they know that it is sheer fantasy.
Now, coming hard on the heels of reports that McCain considered defecting from the Republican Party, is having trouble raising money and made a fool of himself befitting Michael Dukakis in the most heavily armed photo op in president campaign history, is the news that John Kerry says that he sounded him out about joining him on the 2004 presidential ticket — and not the other way around has had been rumored.
More about that here.
I once hoped that I might have a chance to vote for McCain some day. I used to like him that much. But that opportunity will never come and I now certainly don’t regret it. He’s made an utter fool of himself — whomever himself is.
16 Responses to “John McCain is Toast & For Good Reason”
This also shows how bad a candidate Kerry was. Do we really need to do that again with Hillary?
John Kerry: McCain Approached Me About Joining Dem Ticket in 2004…
Well… John Kerry put the rumors to rest yesterday about who approached who in ‘04 to float John McCain as a potential VP. It wasn’t Team Kerry… It was McCain:
According to Sen. Kerry, it was John McCain’s staff who appr…
Well that ought to be the kiss of death, lol! What conservative worth his salt would be able to tolerate knowing that about McCain (if its true)???It just tells me that McCain would sell his blind, 97 year old grandmother to al queda if he thought he’d get a few electoral votes out of it! Are all of these guys so blinded by ambition?
I remember liking Ford because he never wanted the presidency, and seemed like the ultimate ordinary guy, who even buttered his own muffins at home. Then I read that once he became president, he started to really care about staying in power-a lot. He’s still a decent guy, but it changed my view of him.
McCain is mentally unstable. No way he can be president when he is a year and a half away from the old folks home. His suppressed anger comes through with every word he speaks. A six year old can see it.
Yes, he went all the way from considering a run with a Northeast liberal antiwar Democrat to kissing the agent of intolerance, Jerry Falwell’s tush and out hawking even VP Cheney on the war in Iraq.
> John Kerry: McCain Approached Me About Joining Dem Ticket in 2004
No surprise regarding McCain, acting not like a GOP RINO here but just purely in his own Keating Five interest. He’s “worked” with Democrats before.
I’m don’t want him anywhere near that nuclear football. He might flash-back then freak and nuke Hanoi. I honor his service to country, but for the world’s sake I must face reality and remember that the North Vietnamese may have bashed his head in one to many times. The way he speaks purposely quiet, monotone through gritted teeth gives me the creeping willies.
I wouldn’t believe John Kerry if he introduced himself to me as John Kerry. Nevertheless, the urge to give the rumor credence is entirely due to John McCain’s “maverick”, i.e. RINO behavior.
In any event, as the fund-raising figures and the poll numbers show, McCain’s campaign was already a dead letter before this rumor and the surrender monkey’s hooting and hollering over a walk through the market.
Ultimately, McCain has simply been outclassed by his rivals who are younger, smarter, more charismatic, more experienced as leaders and have far less baggage that he does. Obama get a lot of criticism for not having enough experience in the Senate, but frankly, too much experience in the Senate is a disqualification for the presidency–too much acting the fool in public
He is said to get along poorly with other members of congress, be thin-skinned and have a very bad temper. Think he might get drunk with the arrogance of power and keep Bush’s theme of the “unitary executive”? I will only vote for someone who respects the checks and balances built into our system.
McCain may be toast for the marketplace stroll, and fundraisers dropping out. Commenters on the left are questioning his courage due to the flak-jacket shot. Classy, no? Remember that co-ed at Columbia commencement last year calling him a war criminal. She’s got a byline at HuffPo now.
But, as per the switcheroo: Kerry or his handlers, and Jonathon Singer at MyDD are lie’n like rugs, and the kewlkidzmememachine are spiking the ball on the five yard-line (looking silly, and malicious as/usual):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6415519/site/newsweek
http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/d7964567-9864-4587-8296-0b8096ed2232
Kos only gives this story one-line, that says something.
The funny thing is all that Maverick money is going to go Mormon (heh).
>I will only vote for someone who respects the checks and balances built into our system.
Then you’ll be unhappy that so many other people have voted Hillary the next President.
I like that McCain is a maverick, but I have to question his judgment that he seriously believes he has a shot at the nomination. He’s done too much to alienate the red meat crowd and is blatant pandering to get the nomination is completely transparent. Well, Hillary is blatantly pandering too, so maybe it actually works.
His mother you mean?
If his grandmother would still be alive, she would probably 120 or something.
LOL, always a stickler for detail, eh, mvdg???:)
Mick Stockinger, you are right, I would take it a bit further though. I would say that so far there are no viable repubublican candidates. They’ve all been “out classed”.
Here we go with the Flip Flop express