McCain mocks “suck-ups?” Pot meet kettle.
Well, this is rich. The GOP’s biggest suck-up to the liberal media is mocking Republican presidential candidates who have decided not to treat the conservative media like pariahs.
Because in John McCain’s world, kowtowing to liberals is “outreach.”
But treating conservatives with respect is “sucking up.”
Via WaPo:
Holding court for reporters aboard his bus, a confident McCain folded his arms across his chest and delivered a bring-’em-on taunt to his radio foes. “I don’t think that Romney’s going to succeed in getting to the right of me,” he said.
The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza asked whether the radio hosts’ displeasure might be explained by “the fact that you never tried to court these people, suck up to them like Romney did.”
“Great question!” McCain answered, laughing at the thought. “I never would suck up the way all those other guys did, those suck-ups.”
Nice display of presidential temperament there, eh?
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McCain is right. He would never suck up to conservatives. He doesn’t like us, doesn’t have our values and certainly isn’t interested in what we have to say. His record proves that. At least he’s honest on this one lone point. How refreshing.
Ahhh. John McCain, the consummate professional. Of course he is presidential.
…and the man accidentally reveals his true self…AGAIN.
Where a man’s treasure is, there is his heart.
McCain treasures his relationship with the New York Times.
People who have earned the respect of actual conservatives
are despicable “suck-ups”.
What clearer proof could one require?
Okay, here’s a prediction…
If, by some chance, McCain does get elected president, he will go in with an approval rating about as low as the current one for the US Congress.
Any takers?
I think it is this attitude that has so many of us unwilling to give McCain an inch. He would be a democratic President and he would be praising them while attacking the conservatives in the Republican party, calling them racists, etc.
I have decided that this election is no longer about political leaning but rather about character and principal, and I find McCain deeply lacking. If Romney gets beat, I will start a search for an Independant or 3rd party character who can attract conservatives. If that fails I will pick the democrat. Because the republicans would be far better off with a democrat in office than McCain.
Michelle seriously needs a sense of humour transplant.
Is this the family oriented get-a-life politics MM asked for a few days ago?
McCain has changed on immigration. Romney has changed on everything, and continues to change on a weekly basis. McCain is actually conservative. He voted against tax cuts because they would increase the deficit. A conservative does not want to put his children into debt for short term political gain.
I friggin loathe this man!
I fully believe that McCain was ready to switch to Dimocrate back in 2001.
Not only is the man NOT a conservative, I think his attachment to the GOP is like Hillary’s marriage to Bill…only a matter of whoring to get what you want, pretending every day…
Only a troll would think his comments are suppose to be funny.
Pesky trolls. Anynone know a good exterminator?
A Twofer!!
…And we are suppose to believe that you actually care about what conservatives want. That’s funny.
barry F.
Call 1-800-Troll-be-gone.
Ragspierre
We talk about the Clinton obsession with getting back in power … but McCain thought he was next in line in 2000 and has been obsessed with getting into the WH ever since GWB took it away from him …
With all that Obsession floating around it smells like a perfume counter …
Well, all the obsession floating around is giving me indigestion. Ugh!
Funny thing about the information age…you can easily find out when someone lies to you about their vote.
McCain never said anything when casting those votes like he’s saying now. Look it up. He was using the class-warfare, bash the rich rhetoric of his LEFTIST running-buddies.
Given that the information is readily available, you have to consider that someone who choses to ignore it does so for some purpose besides dealing with the truth.
As I said, the man tells you who he really is, what he really believes, all the time. It contradicts what he says he is and believes.
That makes him dishonest and dishonorable.
Nice to know what he really thinks of conservatives and our principles. Having sworn to defend the US Constitution going on 32 years now I will absolutely not go against this sacred document by voting for someone that has passed unconstitutional laws through Congress and has been in league with those that would destroy it and all it stands for. No more compromises! No more RINOs!
It has been my experience that if you ignore trolls they push the envelope to get any response and eventually get banned.
I loathe McCain. He is uncouth.
I can’t stand the sight or sound of him and prefer a Democrat to him. He has betrayed the GOP and is attempting to blend both parties into a one party system (the Liberal Party of Socialism and Open Boarders). His rejection of conservatives to play with liberals is not bipartisan, it is bipolar.
He may have served his country in the military, but he is a traitor to those who elected him to the US Senate to serve as a Republican.
McCain lacks class and compassion. I read of his visit to a wounded soldier, and of his referring it as a photo op—it turned my stomach.
I just read, on the Corner National Review, his comments about Rick Santorium in an interview by Katie Couric Feb 4th:
His Mama did not teach him manners. He is a bitter old coot.
Clueless…
Tax cuts INCREASED revenues for the IRS. What put us in the deficit was not the tax cuts but the increased spending on national security, military, wars in Iraq, etc., and stupid liberal spending programs.
GET A CLUE. Look at the figures released…we had record revenue collection SINCE the tax cuts.
What a pompous a..
Rush alone has 20 million listeners. Yeah, McCan’t, we’ll bring it on. Don’t worry.
What is he doing with LaRaza and Juan Hernandez that doesn’t fall under suck up? oh no that right that is pandering.
#19 On February 5th, 2008 at 10:24 am, Lindsay said:
“I just read, on the Corner National Review, his comments about Rick Santorium in an interview by Katie Couric Feb 4th:
‘MCCAIN: Again … I don’t know what a defeated candidate for reelection who begged me to come up and campaign for him has to say. But I know what my other colleagues, those who I have served with, and those that I am serving with. So many of them who are supporting. More than anybody else.’”
Man, could McCain speak any more the way the socialists do?
The nastiness of his comment sure makes it sound that Santorum’s comment hit home.
Here’s a little thought exercise…
Would the man who authored, sponsored, and fought to pass MC CAIN-Feingold, and who has used the federal courts to see to it that it is enforced against pro-life partisans…
would that man support or oppose a re-imposition of the “fairness doctrine”.
Come on, McCainiacs…step up to support you man, and explain your response.
Blameamericalast, you almost got it right. The deficite is from entitlments, not descressionary spending. Defence spending, the war, and even the earmarks are a small part of the 3 TRILLION dollar budget.
Ahhhh….
….the sound of silence….
I wish somebody would pull the rope ladder down on a certain someones tree.(while he’s in the tree of course)
I’m reminded of this quotation.
A man’s character is his fate.
~ Heraclitus
James Dobson has just hosed McCain in a statement read on Laura Ingrahm’s (sp?) show…
Yea, right. So why are you going to CPAC except to “suck up” to the Republican base. You’re not enough of a man or a leader to deliver a good enough talk that is going to convince anyone (but the already convinced old Republican guard) that you can lead this party.
You’re going to lie so many times Mr. McCain during your CPAC speech that your nose is going to grow as you speak.
The conservative base has to completely reject the man. If he is just short on delegates at the time of the convention, things could turn around, and Romney would get the nod just to keep the party together.
Actually Barry, I think McCain would sink into the depths of Jimmy Carter loathing terrority and that is indeed, very, very low.
Talking about past budgets…not the new one.
Rush had some comments on who he would rather see in the White House…McCain or a Democrat.
I think he makes a valid point. If McCain would unfortunately get the nomination, this is something to consider, IMO.
McCain is a stubborn, bitter, crotchety, vindictive, old man. He is unable to deal with anyone that comes with a different opinion.
Dobson just came out with a scorching thumbs down for McCain.
Come ON, McCainiacs….
Would McCain be MORE likely or LESS likely to join LEFTISTS in muzzling this critics on the Right????
I mean…considering his RECORD, and his COMMENTS…
Hmmmmmmm….???
I’m not surprised. McCain still holds a grudge against conservatives for nominating Bush over him. For a man who has played the role of Ted Kennedy’s Monica Lewinsky, McCain’s comments show his true colors.
It’s almost refreshing to watch the old saying come true in real time: the closer McVain gets to power, the more his corruption shows.
Can I really force myself to vote for this guy?
Just voted (NYC).. Mitt, for lack of a better option. I believe in the NY, NJ and Connecticut Republican primaries, the winner of the popular vote gets all the delegates, so my vote may be meaningless. I resent that, and to me that completely flies in the face of the democratic system.
MDS = McCain Derangement Syndrome is alive and well here… People are actually saying they would prefer a Democrat in power instead of him?
He has everything far righters should love – he served the country, is pro-life, supports the death penalty, supported the Iraq war AND the surge BUT!
He doesn’t like waterboarding and Gitmo…
A man that was tortured doesn’t like to see America losing it’s moral high ground with the enemy by using waterboarding and Gitmo… who would of thought it?
And as for The Fence That Will Solve America’s Immigration Problems®, well we ALL know he wants to open it right up don’t we!
Today it’s having to press 1 on the phone to select English, tomorrow it’s Amerimexico land…..
Oh, and I spent all night dreaming about earthquakes.. hrm.
#34 On February 5th, 2008 at 11:11 am, katieanne said:
“Rush had some comments on who he would rather see in the White House…McCain or a Democrat.
“If I believe the country will suffer with either Hillary, Obama or McCain, I would just as soon the Democrats take the hit . . . rather than a Republican causing the debacle,” he said. “And I would prefer not to have conservative Republicans in the Congress paralyzed by having to support, out of party loyalty, a Republican president who is not conservative.”
I think he makes a valid point. If McCain would unfortunately get the nomination, this is something to consider, IMO.”
I agree that Mr. Limbaugh makes a valid point.
I’m coming around to that point of view, despite, and in correction of, my reasoning of last week on another thread.
I’m just not convinced, I just don’t believe right now, that McCain would be any better than one of the socialists.
And, as some folks are saying, it just might be better to have one of the declared socialists as President, if they are no worse than McCain; so that conservatives can concentrate their energies against the socialists, rather than being paralyzed by party loyalty, as Mr. Limbaugh said.
And, the honorable way to do that would appear to be to write in someone – say Romney, for example – rather than to actually vote for a socialist.
That way, one would not have to bear the psychological onus of, “Oh, my God…I actually voted FOR a socialist!”
Why, yes…because we LISTEN to what he says, and OBSERVE how he votes, and WATCH the company he keeps…we do know what he will do.
He will do as he has done before, because that is what his values suggest, and his advisers speak in his ear, regardless of his pandering lies to the gullable.
I was searching for a real conservative presidential candidate, but I’m starting to believe that we will be stuck with John McCain.
It just goes to show that the ol’ bumper sticker is right: Age IS just a number. “Maturity” doesn’t necessarily walk hand in hand with “maturity” apparently, because that John McCain is a real ninny-headed foo foo stinker face!
Folks, Let’s have a chat … shall we?
McCain only cares about one thing and that is McCain. His stance on certain issues has nothing to do with his values or principles, it has to do with what he thinks is the best political position to take.
If something is good for McCain, he will see it as good for America.
BUT If something is good for America, but not necessaryily good for McCain .. he will choose what is best for him.
This man has taken his former POW status and made a political career out of it.
He doesn’t give a rats a$$ about anything or anyone except himself and his ego.
Did you know that he has been the biggest enemy to the families of Prisoners of War and those Missing in Action from Vietnam? He has made the efforts of these families a mockery by belittling witnesses during testimony at Senate hearings, supporting and passing legislation that weakened previous legislation which gave the families some sense of oversight. McCain just came in and gutted it – He has saw to it that documents remained classified LONG after their declassification date – Why? Because some of them deal with him and what he did while in captivity. Once again, he made the POW/MIA Issue about HIM!
for more – please go to http://powwarrior.wordpress.com
It will make you sick what this man has done to families whose fate was much worse than his own.
There is no denying what is there in black and white. Just watch the video … It will make you sick!
The man is a psycho – if elected, they will be adding a psych wing on to the West Wing! Maybe Brittney can come by for a visit and they can chat! UGH!
How many American lives have been saved and bad guys’ plots foiled, by America’s moral high ground – just wunderin’?
Good to see our resident troll came out for some fresh air.
Now then, back under your bridge.
Here is what Barack Hussein Obama has promised his Muslim supporters if he is elected:
Muslim in disguise? You better believe it. I’m with Gingrich on this one. If somehow Romney is not the nominee, we better start supporting McCain. Otherwise, if you sit out the election, the above could very well become a way of life in America.
McCain will never be President of the US. He’s a loser.
Gabe,
Read your source material more carefully.
Obama has said outrageous things enough without putting words in his mouth that were really spoken by someone else.
Ragspierre,
The article I linked to is from Front Page Magazine, and those positions are endorsed by Barack Obama. In other words, it is a campaign promise.
The guy is the scariest thing ever to become a serious presidential candidate. He is not American culturally and is a cultural Muslim. At this point, I would even enthusiastically support McCain to prevent this guy from becoming our president.
Gabe,
I read the article; I followed the threads.
Where is Obama’s promise?
Where is his endorsement of any of that?
I won’t vote for McCain, period. I’ll stay home. The Republic survived survived the Carter presidency, it can survive an Obama one.
Yes, he served his country honorably in Viet Nam. But I’ll not use my vote to reward McCain for kicking me in the proverbial teeth for 15 years.
I am voting for Mitt when TX votes. If McCain gets the nomination, I don’t know, as
yet, what I will do. I am so used to trying to hold the party together that it is going
to take some real soul searching for me to vote for a dim. I’m agreeing with Rush in
this…better for HRC to take the hit than the GOP.
McCain has just nailed himself squarely in the jugular.
He attacked Romney for attacking Dole, and dissing him as a war hero when Romney didn’t serve.
Anyone with a brain, and the ability to read, knows what a black and dirty liar McCain is.
PLEASE!!! JUST SAY “NO” TO McCAIN!!!
Ragspierre,
Another quote from the article, since you don’t seem to get it (or don’t want to).
The following positions are then officially sanctioned by Barack Obama, unless he has no clue what his campaign team is promising Muslims (very doubtful):
The guy is far more insidious than Jimmy Carter was while president.
I don’t intend on feeding you. I wish to enlighten you instead.
The disdain that most people here have for McCain isn’t solely based on the issues – it’s his character. You seem to think that all Republicans want in a President is someone who believes or think like we do, and nothing more. Which is indicative of your lack of understanding regarding what makes Republicans/conservatives tick. We do not choose unpopular positions because we like being seen as rebels (although I can think of being labeled worse!). We choose the positions we do because we believe in them. I cannot same the same for ‘fly by the seat of his pants’ McCain. You cite his positions on being pro-life, supporting the death penalty and supporting the Iraq war, etc… But you’ve have purposely ignore the overwhelming message that has been resonating from every McCain thread – Republicans and conservatives do not trust McCain. So, the next time you trot out his stances on the war and death penalty to sway us, just remember – McCain-Feingold, McCain-Lieberman, McCain-Kennedy, etc., etc… We will not forget how we sold us out and how he continues to do so. So, please refrain from trying to package him in a way that conservatives can swallow. It didn’t work with Huck’ed Up and it won’t work with McCon.
Sorry, Gabe…
Obama didn’t promise jack…
He didn’t endorse jack…
You said he did both. All you have is a VERY tenuous conclusion based on false premises.
I read exceptionally well, and I don’t tar people as readily as do you.
You will believe what you wish, and vote in fear of a boogy man.
In reality, there is enough and to spare to fear from a Clinton or Obama presidency without fantasizing new fears.
It is shocking to see McCain relish bastardizing his fellow
conservativesRepublicans in front of his new bff’s in the MSM.Is he truly so naive as to believe the MSM vipers actually support him, or is his disgust for the conservatives in his own party so immense, that he can’t help but snub talk radio?
In either case, I don’t think McCain’s attacks on talk radio are permanent; and when the primaries are over, and he is faced with the general, he is sure to discover he needs conservatives and their airwaves.
And when that time comes, Rush and talk radio had better brace themselves for the impact force of McCain, as they are apt to be bowled over by his charge to latch onto conservative radio’s teet for the sustenance he will need to keep his campaign afloat, once the MSM end their brief encounter with McCain and return to their true love – the Democrat nominee!
The article from Front Page Magazine is right here: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=36308A44-DF3D-46AD-829A-4F63BA0C52F1
Barack Hussein Obama’s official campaign has promised Muslims the following:
Speaking of sucking….
How in the heck are conservatives supposed to hold their noses and vote for this goon to prevent the fascist Democratic candidate from winning? It’s like voting for the pedophile because he isn’t a serial-killing cannibal. Lovely choice we have.
If McCain wins the nomination (not a foregone conclusion yet), ask yourself:
Does Barack Hussein Obama want to pull out of Iraq immediately and stop the War on Terror? Does John McCain want to pull out of Iraq immediately and stop the War on Terror?
That should make the decision easier.
OK, Gabe,
WITHOUT quoting what someone writing on Frontpage said,
…or someone on some Muslim website said THEY want,
…show me a source where Obama—
1. promised these things OR
2. endorsed passing them into law
When you do, I’ll agree with the proposition you endorsed.
Until you do, I’m going to respectfully observe that you need to be a bit more of a critical thinker.
Just saying…
Great post.
Still pissed you do not speak German?
OMG. “I never would suck up the way all those other guys did, those suck-ups.” ???
I’m so sick of people prefacing every remark about McCain with things like “Though owed great respect for his war heroics …” In my mind, a hero is quiet. Downplays a great deed. Moves on with life. Mr. McCain is owed nothing, any longer. He doesn’t know when to shut up. Doesn’t know how to be presidential (Dignity, anyone?!). Has little or no concept of humility, and zero respect for those he would pretend to represent.
I never understood Dems who said “Bush is not MY president.” Silly blather. Your president is your president, like him or not. You can work to change it, but for now, it is what it is.
Never understood it until now. *sigh*
#63 On February 5th, 2008 at 12:40 pm, Gabe said:
“If McCain wins the nomination (not a foregone conclusion yet), ask yourself:
Does Barack Hussein Obama want to pull out of Iraq immediately and stop the War on Terror? Does John McCain want to pull out of Iraq immediately and stop the War on Terror?
That should make the decision easier.”
This is a sincere, informational question, not a contentious, confrontational one.
What about John McCain that I have missed should convince me that he in fact would be better against the Muslim jihadist crzies than either of the socialists; and that, therefore, I should vote for him, if he should win the nomination?
Honestly, I keep going back and forth, back and forth,….
What should give me the confidence to bet (and that’s what it seems to be now, just a bet) that McCain will in fact protect our culture/society/nation better than either of the socialists?
Again, let me say that this question is not a challenge; but, rather, a request for information, for evidence.
What an excellent question! Here’s the answer, strictly from my point of view…
McCain is strong on national defense…if you don’t count defending our borders…
…which I think nobody with a brain can do…
He is SO strong, that he will easily be portrayed as SCARY, OUT OF CONTROL, A LOOSE CANNON, and a WAR MONGER likely to involve us in war with IRAN, N. KOREA, CHINA, etc.
a la Goldwater vs. LBJ
That drumbeat in the MSM will begin about two seconds after he clinches the nomination, IF THAT HAPPENS.
He is easily our weakest candidate, and that is but one reason he is so weak.
BlameAmericaLast said (#20):
There is not a serious economist anywhere who thinks that. The budget deficit was larger than Iraq spending.
Sorry…PS
McCain is identical to the LEFT on rights for terrorists, putting them in the same legal/moral standing with our uniformed service people under various international treaties, calling the same treatment (not including waterboarding) virtually any American criminal suspect is exposed to “torture”, bringing terrorists onto American soil for detention and providing them all the protections of American citizens within the CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM (unheard of in American history), instead of holding them as the terrorist enemies they are…more like pirates in legal/historical terms…
so, really, not very much difference at all…
except he doesn’t say he would immediately withdraw from Iraq…
which none of the Dimocrates left would really do, anyhow…
#68:
Hmmm….
Interesting.
I remember Goldwater vs LBJ; I had just started junior high.
I think you may be on to something.
The MSM and their friends, the socialists, may be trying to play some Republicans like a fiddle, and hoodwink them into nominating McCain; whom, after he is nominated, they will then turn upon like hunting dogs, and rip apart, knowing that he would have, at best, only lukewarm support from his own party.
Again, interesting…!
I guess you’d better define “serious economist”, because the Nobel Laureates I read all say exactly the opposite…
and, of course, there is the empirical evidence of the U.S. and all of the Western democracies, Japan, and Korea who have moved to cut tax rates in the last decade or two, seeing their tax revenues rise…
but you can’t count that…
#72 Ragspierre:
A bit of advice that I have learned at this blog:
JUST
IGNORE
THEM
Thomas Sowell – you gotta love him.
He does have some true pearls of wisdom, 30.
Ragspierre,
Re “He is SO strong, that he will easily be portrayed as SCARY, OUT OF CONTROL, A LOOSE CANNON, and a WAR MONGER likely to involve us in war with IRAN, N. KOREA, CHINA, etc.”
– what scares me here (never mind my other 1000 McCain worries) is that he may actually *be* that war monger. President Bush has used reasoned approaches for all his decisions. Some approve, some do not. But only hysterical leftists can (and do) argue that this was war-mongering. But with McCain’s temper, his inability to use dimplomacy -within his own party-, and his enormous ego… wow. I cannot see him tactfully engaging with anyone. This could get bad.
I work with a woman who never stops talking about how hard she works. But everyone has found out the hard way that if you need something done, she is the last person to ask. She worked hard once, many years ago, and she got a deserved promotion, and she has been just mailing it in ever since.
Reminds me of someone….
Exactly.
We’ve been waiting till Super Tuesday to separate the wheat from chaff. Let’s hope today that this is both a wakeup call for the GOP and a smackdown to McVain:
Speaking of Till Tuesday
If people are voting for McCain Mutiny just because of his military record, I wonder if they also support Murtha.
Damn, if I have to see those horse teeth in that photo too many more times, I’m gonna lose it on my keyboard…
Now things are really scary. McCain vs. whoever means the nation will elect a left wing doo-loop for president however it plays out. Doesn’t anyone see that McCain is unstable? That forced, whispering tone is how he resists the impulse to explode with rage. On sucking up – he knows all about it. Suck up to the left wing Democraps, suck up to the main stream press, suck up to anyone if it serves to flip the bird to conservatives. The press that has nurtured him along will turn on him when the Dem candidate is set, and then he won’t have a friend anywhere. Amnesty John will be know as Lonesome John.