John McCain’s botches of the week: “Liberal” and “dispirited”
Someone needs a rest, I think. It’s going to be a long, long, long eight months. At least we got some inadvertently straight talk. For once:
Republican candidate John McCain has had trouble winning over some of his party’s conservatives, who suspect that deep down he’s not one of them. On Thursday, McCain may have confirmed their suspicions with a slip of the tongue.
“I’m a proud conservative, liberal Republic…,” McCain said before catching himself.
“Conservative Republican,” he said deliberately, as the crowd at a brand-new Texas Instruments manufacturing plant laughed. “Hello, easy there. Let me say this: I am a proud conservative Republican, and both of my likely opponents today are liberal Democrats.”
Describing the challenge he’ll mount against Barack Obama, he vowed: ““It’ll be dispirited,” he said. “It’ll be spirited. Because there are stark differences.”
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Freud? Freud? Who was he … and what was he doing in a slip?
Truth in advertising or fake but accurate?
We used to slam the media when they made an issue of Bush misspeaking – talked about how petty it was and all. It’s still petty. If McCain scares you, how about this: President Obama. Or this: First Lady Michelle “I’ve never been proud of my country” Obama. These are serious times.
For heavens sake….everyone has an accidental slip of the tongue or a mis-reading from time to time. I was not aware until now, that it was news worthy.
527’s must be outlawed? Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t McCain-Feingold largely responsible for their existence?
“Maybe we should all just calm down.”
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TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY. IT HAS BEEN HIJACKED!
Having a senior moment is much better than having a junior for eight years.
Yes, everybody makes a slip of the tongue occasionally.
No it is not newsworthy.
Yes, it is still funny.
IMHO
“We begin bombing in five minutes.” -RR-
I was prowling around the blogs this morning and found this little gem about McCain here. … An interesting read.
Lets face the facts John McCain is just NOT SHARP!
I’m sure part of it is the ageing process, part of it is the extreme pressures of a National Campaign, he may have gotten whacked in the head too much when a POW and a HUGE part of it is the associations, friendships and bizarre legislation he cultivates is enough to confuse even the brightest minds in the Nation.
I’m worried that he won’t even survive (drop dead) by November. Look at the way he walks (like he’s got rigor mortis setting in) and the way he holds his arms while giving speeches (like he’s wearing a back brace). This man is so NOT INSPIRING!
His personal choice to chastise the Talk Radio Icons is just plain NOT SMART!
WE’RE IN TROUBLE PEOPLE! This is the best we could do? The First Republican Primaries in 8 years and “we the people” were not given the opportunity to choose our best candidate. The “overwhelming” establishment Republican politicians endorsements before super Tuesday and a “Huckleberry” as the lone surviving alternative option.
The VP selection will be significant more than ever.
Juan McCain was only speaking what is in his heart. Surprised?
Out of the mouthes of mavericks come truths?
Yes, it was a slip of the tongue, and it shouldn’t mean much. But, should Sen McCain go up against that silver tongued orator, Sen Obama, in a debate what could we expect?
Sen McCain stepped in it when he wouldn’t let go of his mis-charaterization of Gov Romney’s use of the word ‘timetable.’ Fortunately, not much was made of it because Gov Romney was more than civil in attempting to correct Sen McCain.
Sen McCain stepped into again when he attempted to take Sen Obama to task over the comment about Al Qaeda establishing a base in Iraq. The reality is Sen McCain dismissed the premise of the question to which Sen Obama actually responded to.
Sen McCain should be concerned about having to answer the same question, because his answer would be very nearly the same as Sen Obama’s. As would any president’s response.
The Question: Sen McCain, after we win the war in Iraq and our troops have left should Al Qaeda begin a resurgence do you send troops back into Iraq?
Notwithstanding the difficulties Sen McCain has representing conservative views, his inability, or ability, at understanding what is said, not said, and in what context should be alarming.
It happened earlier and many people, including Sen McCain, became exercised about Sen Obama’s statement that we should act on Al Qaeda in Pakistan if Musharraf wouldn’t. Sen Obama was called naive, yet we recently acted and whacked a few Al Qaeda in Waziristan, Pakistan.
I opened with a question and the answer is that Sen McCain could look nearly as foolish as Sen Clinton.
Speaking of Liberals, can’t we just put them all in a giant wood chipper and make some type of fuel out of them?
As my wife quickly commented when she read this bit of news laughing doesn’t this make him an oxymoron? I am so glad I found a right minded woman to spend my life with.
It takes DECADES of practice for a liberal to get prepared to spout their lies correctly. Poor old Juan will continue to practice. The challenge for rePUBlicans is to decifer the lies.
I just wrote a blog about Matt Taibbi’s criticisms of John McCain Presidential aspirations . Check out my latest blog “Matt Taibbi,When Doves Cry”
http://www.myspace.com/cantgetherefromthere
We could make them all into a soylent green bar to feed the welfare society they have created.
For the record, McCain holds his arms in that awkward way because they were broken (along with a leg) when his plane was shot down in Vietnam. He was then stripped and beaten by an angry mob, and refused medical attention when he was taken to the Hanoi Hilton. When he finally did receive medical attention, it was marginal and interrupted by torture. I don’t know, I find his survival despite such horrendous injuries and abuse quite…inspiring.
You know that Latin saying–”in vino veritas”. I would love to give McCain, Obama and Clinton a bottle of nice red wine each and then have a debate!
Maybe then the truth would finally come out and we could all make informed choices!
Well, there are all kinds of possible reactions to McCain’s senior moment (that being just one of them). To be fair, we knew this already. He is a liberal republican (i.e. Rino) and yes, he will run a dispirited campaign, because his inner Democrat will always be struggling to come out. Yet, by gosh, I appreciate the candor.
Moreover, I concede that McCain would be better than Obama, but then so would my beloved cat Ashley. Does anyone want to vote for Ashley? Just as I thought. Of course at this point someone will start yelling that McCain is a war-hero and would anyone who dares criticize him on anything shut up!
My goodness, this is getting old. I won’t be able to criticize Obama because of his race. I can’t criticize McCain because of his war-hero get-out-of-jail-free card. This is so wrong at so many levels and it speaks of the enormity of the disaster the American people are being backed into. But one mustn’t give up hope. I think it is possible to influence McCain by appealing to his vanity. Bowing and scraping, nodding and obeying, might just work for conservatives. Sadly, I regret to say, I will not do it.
John McCain is not a fancy talker. Obama will run circles around him in the debates but that is to be expected. The Republican candidate has already been done in by Republican establishment figure Frank Farenkoph. Mr. Farenkoph spends his days lobbying for the gambling industry although he calls it the “gaming industry”. He is the Republican who gets to negotiate with the establishment Democrat over the terms of the presidential debates. And Mr. Farenkoph has always given in to all Democrat demands. First, he agrees that only main stream media “journalists” get to ask questions. In the last several debates, that has meant Jim Lehrer, the superannuated liberal from PBS gets to ask lots of questions. His questions are always about what new federal programs do you want. A Republican can’t win a debate on those terms. It also has meant that liberals Tom Brokaw of NBC, Bob Schiefer, a CBS liberal and other CBS guys get to be panelists. Then Farenkoph accepted one other term of Republican surrender. There can be no debate focused solely on national security and foreign affairs. The debates have to be about federal programs and giveaways. Frank Farenkph’s negotiating skills are the weakest since Neville Chamberlain.
On October 27, 1967, four days after being shot down, McCain called for a North Vietnamese guard. He told the officer, “O.K., I’ll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital.” -U.S. News and World Report, May 14, 1973 article written by former POW John McCain
Navy regulations say two eyewitnesses are required for any award of heroism and McCain has none for the valor awards he received.
While a prisoner of war, McCain was treated as a “special prisoner,” with privileges including being given his own private and affectionate nurse.
Ted Guy, a former Air Force Colonel held 5 1/2 years by the Vietnamese and McCain’s senior ranking officer (SRO) in the POW camp, told the U.S. Veteran Dispatch he cannot remember the communists ever laying a hand on McCain.
I don’t understand how graduating 895 in his Navel Academy class, 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war, and capitulator first qualify him as Commander in Chief.
I’ll thank McCain for his service while in the Navy. But he is just sickening as politician.
Hillary, Obama, McCain. None have shown any sign of statesmanship. We are doomed no matter which liberal “wins” the election. Save your money, keep your powder dry. The next 5 years are going to be worse than the Carter years…
Please educate yourself on McCain’s POW background. At least read John McCain at Wikipedia under the “Prisoner of War” section e.g. “In August of 1968, a program of vigorous torture methods began on McCain, using rope bindings into painful positions [...] His injuries to this day have left him incapable of raising his arms above his head.[14] ”
As I understand it the torture that damaged McCain’s shoulders resulting in what you call “the way he holds his arms while giving speeches (like he’s wearing a back brace)” is the “rope treatment”. The subject has his hands tied behind his back then the rope is pulled up and tied tight for long periods of time, stressing and eventually damaging the shoulder joints. Whatever we use to hold our arms up, in McCain it’s just shot.
For once the open borders SOB told the truth. I don’t respect his service, what in hell dose sitting on your @$$ in Hanoi have to do with fighting a war?
This is proof that the VP is going to be very important. McCain is older than dirt. If he’s elected, the republicans can take 4 years looking for a real candidate. My biggest worry is another David Souter.
I have a poll for all you true conservatives out there: Have you ever accidentally called yourself a liberal??? Of course not! He’s lying through his teeth about being conservative, and his age just caught up with him.
This guy reminds me of a caller to Rush’s show a few years ago. She said she had been a registered D-… Republican for her whole life. Rush had a lot of fun replaying it in slow motion.
The Straight Talk Express finally spoke the truth if even for a little while.
Good heavens, ScottD, McCain’s knee was completely ruined when he ejected over Hanoi, and the “treatment” he received by his captors made it worse.
Marctheinfidel, that site you linked to links to conspiracy nutter sites.
I think it’s ridiculous to make a big deal over one slip of tongue made by someone who’s been campaigning without a break for a year, except for the fact that it’s sort of funny. I think one slip is a pretty good record.
I’m telling myself you’re a liberal troll. If you genuinely consider yourself a conservative, leave now. We don’t want you. You are an embarrassment.
So if conservatives do not support a liberal Republican we are not conservatives?
I second Rational Thought’s thoughts. Do a little research and ask yourself if you have the fortitude to endure what he did.
In response to rebuttal comments by Rational Thought, Paul-Cincy and juliesa:
Your responses to my post are appropriate and respected. I too am inspired by John McCain’s military service on behalf of our country but do not feel that that alone is a single adequate qualification for CIC.
Electing the next President of the USA is all about the future. His tenure at the Hanoi University of Hard Knocks is by and large his “front row” ticket into this Campaign Soirée. It sure isn’t his “screw the republican establishment legislative achievements”!
Something that doesn’t seem to be discussed “yet” is 1) How much more that POW term has aged him both mentally and physically compared to someone who didn’t have the same horrific experience. ADD an extra 20 years to his current age I think would be fair. 2) I have friends that had tours in Vietnam not as POWs and still are experiencing “flashback-nightmares” caused by it though not as much as they did in the 70’s and 80’s.
Has John McCain ever commented on his own “flashback-nightmares” he’s personally experienced or has he somehow been immune to that common Post-Vietnam Mental Health Condition. I presume this may never be discussed as this element by itself would DISQUALIFY HIM for POTUS.
I think John McCain is a HERO in my book and always will be just like every American soldier whom serves our country during Wartime. That part of his resume is very inspiring. Do I think he would make a Good POTUS? NO I don’t just like I don’t think JACK MURTHA would be either. Don’t misinterpret this comment as comparing him to Jack Murtha just that Murtha has military experience also. So did John F. Kerry supposedly.
My prediction is this is the FIRST SLIP of the MOUTH from McCain with many more to be expected on the horizon. W has made a cottage industry out of tongue slippage so this doesn’t disqualify him either. John McCain’s orchestrated and conflicted Career in Washington DC does though.
John McCain was NOT our best choice for Republican Presidential Candidate. His selection of VP may be his only saving grace and our chance to win in November.
“Thats easy”. I DO NOT have the fortitude to endure what John McCain did in his valiant tour of Vietnam on behalf of all of us.
I’m not running for President either.
I’m voting for John McCain this year. I just wished we had a better alternative.
These are truly amazing times we live in. Liberals are terrified of the word liberal, center-left/open borders Republicans want to be called conservatives, and real conservatives are struggling to win elections. Maybe some day we’ll look back at 2008 and laugh, but somehow I doubt it.
TEN WARNING SIGNS OF ALZHEIMER’S
(Reprinted with permission of the Alzheimer’s Association)
1. Memory loss
2. Difficulty performing familiar tasks
3. Problems with language
4. Disorientation of time and place
5. Poor or decreased judgment
6. Problems with abstract thinking
7. Misplacing things
8. Changes in mood or behavior
9. Changes in personality
10. Loss of initiative
Please someone kindly post the link
wehategringos dot com
I can never get it right and the site needs to be circulated as far and wide as possible. Try and remain calm while viewing.
Just slightly off topic, although McCain is always tied to illegal immigration!
I do not like McCain but the issue of raising his arms is “inspiring” to me. Opie and Anthony made fun of it the other day asking callers to name jobs he cannot have (football ref) and it drove the point home to me. With a son applying to West Point this military stuff is hitting real close to home.
I agree with the above and the rest of your post. I wasn’t suggesting McCain’s status as a combat pilot and former POW qualifies him for anything at all except our unyielding gratitude, and yes, our respect. I wasn’t a McCain supporter in the primaries either. Heck, I couldn’t find anyone to support on the Republican side. HOWEVER, he’s our guy now, and the more I learn about Sen. Obama, the more I am certain — absolutely certain — that McCain will make a better president of this country. So we can piss and moan and call him Juan, and then get good and drunk next January watching Obama and his America-hating racist wife move into the White House, or we can get seriously behind McCain. Those are your two choices: President McCain or President Obama, and the latter would be an epic disaster.
Just a quick little FYI for “Juliesa” ..
If you are trying to elude to the fact that you somehow know the POW/MIA Issue better than the POW/MIA Family Members who have lived through this issue for close to 40 years, then I think that is pure arrogance on your part.
Like it or not, they are the moral authority on how they are treated and how John McCain threw them under the bus.
I guess the only way you will learn about their harsh reality is if, sadly, soneone you know presently serving comes up missing in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Calling them “conspiracy nutters” definitely reflects on you lack of humanity.
-Marc
Actually, going to vote this November, will feel like going to the judge to hear my sentence. “Well, son, do you want to hang, be electrocuted, or given the needle?”
Thanks, Scott D, excellent points.
twonininerkilo, what’s not to respect about his service? You’ve moved the goalposts into the next galaxy. Just what would it take to earn your respect?
This is a blog for McCain supporters, if interested people can read what McCain supporters believe.
http://standupformccain.com/about.html
http://enigma.dune.net/~eric/Do-not-feed-the-troll.PNG
Sadly, this wasn’t McCain’s first senior moment. What about calling Putin the president of Germany and using q-cards to read his speeches. I am sorry, but his service in the war was a long time ago. What has he done since then? A lot more years have passed in his political career than in his war career. Murtha is also a veteran, as he calls himself, an ex-Marine. I don’t respect him, I don’t respect McCain either. There are many veterants who I cannot respect, John Kerry, the Rep from CA who was an actual Vietnam war hero, decorated I believe (forgot his name), who took bribes and got sentenced to 8 years in prison. I am so embarassed for McCain. If it was one or two slip ups, OK, but it is becoming a pattern. God help us for the next 4 to 8 years. I for sure do not feel motivated r inspired in any way by this man to go out and vote for him. I am so saddened by what is happening.
Your choice:
Barack Obama or John McCain.
Obama will just destroy the country, that’s all..
We are going to have to peruse immigration reform aggressively after the election with a no-excuses effort. Until then we have to avert a potential catastrophe that would end USA as we know it, that means working to elect John McCain.
The fact that McCain is the GOP nominee gives the GOP politicians the cover to say: the people have spoken (even if it was only 30% or so of the GOP) and they selected Mr. amnesty, so the people want comprehensive reform and we will give it to them- It was just those loud folks that made all the fuss, it was not the majority. So, I think McCain will push his stuff again, in fact he said that if his same bill comes in front of him as president he will sign it. Then he tried to say, but that won’t happen since people want the border secured frist (implying congress won’t dare do it again). But if Congress does dare do it again and again till we are all tired of fighting, Mr, McCain will be happy to sign it.
Oh, I just remember another McCain misstep or truth maybe. During one of the debates he said that if an illegal happened to “unfortunatelly” get deported. Then he caught himself AGAIN, and said “or fortunatelly” depending on how you look at it. That spoke volumes to me about this man. Anyway, good night all.
“I’m a proud, liberal Republican, I mean, I’m a proud, conservative Democrat, I mean…you know what I mean.”
Yes, we do, John. Yes, we do.
I’m a proud, conservative Obama supporter, I mean I’m a proud, liberal McCain supporter, I mean…I’m not sure what I mean. Will a real conservative presidential candidate please raise your hand high above your head so I can see who to vote for? That’s odd, I don’t see any hands.
Said with great clarity. I’m still waiting for anyone to produce evidence showing that McCain is to the left of Oh!b♥m♥ on any issue.
It’s not:
Obama/Feingold
Obama/Kennedy
Obama/Kerry
Obama/Leiberman
It’s:
McCain/Feingold
McCain/Kennedy
McCain/Kerry
McCain/Leiberman
Obama is empty while McCain is full of it.
Very disappointed in this thread, Michelle.
It’s petty, mean-spirited, opportunistic and disrespectful.
On March 1st, 2008 at 9:38 am, jeanie said:
It’s only news-worthy when your intent is public mockery and defamation of character.
A decidedly un-Christian motivation, my opinion.
On March 1st, 2008 at 9:38 am, jeanie said:
It’s only news-worthy when your intent is public mockery and defamation of character.
A decidedly un-Christian motivation, my opinion.
NONE of you here could have endured what this man endured.
The “true conservatives” here who are willingly trashing John McCains’ military service to discredit his character in the name of politics, are an absolute disgrace.
May God forgive you.
On March 2nd, 2008 at 8:51 am, TexasTiger said:
I think you’ve been asking someone to produce this evidence for weeks now, haven’t you?
You won’t get it because it simply doesn’t exist.
But it certainly isn’t going to stop “true conservatives” from posting one RINO screed after another decrying John McCains’ “liberalism”.
After all, why bother with something as dull as evidence when wild-eyed histrionics in a group setting will suffice?
You know what they say: you tell a lie often enough, and it becomes “truth”.
On March 1st, 2008 at 4:18 pm, secondsight said:
And what does it say about YOUR character that you would use something like this to mock another person?