And I and anyone else cares who Captain McCain voted for eight years ago because?

curmudge: And I and anyone else cares who Captain McCain voted for eight years ago because?

Have you seen Bush's approval ratings? McCain needs to distance himself from that failure if he wants a chance.

Unright: Have you seen Bush's approval ratings? McCain needs to distance himself from that failure if he wants a chance.



Any closer and he'd be behind Bush.

i'd prefer if he didn't vote for bush in 2000, but it probably won't help him earn my vote either way.

and also, the ballots are secret for a reason, because it's none of our business.

burndtdan:
and also, the ballots are secret for a reason, because it's none of our business.

Quoted for great justice.

You'd think that, in today's political climate, he'd say "fark yeah, I didn't vote for that guy, and you're damn right I said he was as dumb as a stump!"

Alas, his having to appeal to the 28%ers not to stay home and thus swing the election to Obama has made him lie.

/y'know, if he's lying

I miss Josh and Toby.

West Wing was a damned good show.

curmudge: And I and anyone else cares who Captain McCain voted for eight years ago because?

HAVE YOU SEEN HIS WIFE'S TAX RETURNS? NO, BECAUSE THEY'RE UNTRUSTWORTHY LIARS WHO HAVE HAD DOZENS OF PEOPLE MURDERED TO FURTHER THEIR CAREERS!


Wait, you're talking about a Republican? Sorry, thought you said Bill Clinton...

Who I'd vote for in this election:
1. Tough call between Obama and 2000 McCain
3. Hillary
4. 2008 McCain

/the straight talk express has crooked tires now

The fact that he didn't like Bush and the fact that he has a pretty moderate voting record with a history of stepping across the aisle was what made me like him in the first place back in 2000.

The fact that he's done a complete 180 and gone into neo-con vote-whoring mode is just disgusting and sad.

dletter: Who I'd vote for in this election:
1. Tough call between Obama and 2000 McCain
3. Hillary
4. 2008 McCain

THIS. With the entire gas tax reprieve nonsense (and his not promising a land of milk and honey to factory workers), it seems that Obama's the only major candidate who will say something that needs to be said, and not just what people want to hear.

Of course, he backed off on this today, probably not realizing that people might actually have more respect for him if he just showed some balls and came out and said, "Damn straight I didn't vote for him!" Sadly, however, he's just become as big a panderer to the right as Hillary is to the left.

this is the worst they can come up with?

Sonny Corleone: Of course, he backed off on this today, probably not realizing that people might actually have more respect for him if he just showed some balls and came out and said, "Damn straight I didn't vote for him!" Sadly, however, he's just become as big a panderer to the right as Hillary is to the left.

That would have been an interesting and very respectable answer.

TFA: "She's a flake and a poser and an attention-seeking diva," Mark Salter, one of Mr. McCain's closest aides, told The Washington Post.

This may be true (it is also an apt description of almost every politician ever - including JM), but he is a spineless, Bush-fellating flip-flopper.

TFA: Ms. Huffington, a former Republican, said that she chose to speak out now because she felt Mr. McCain had abandoned his principles in embracing Mr. Bush and that the news media were giving him a free pass.

Well, she sure as shiat nailed that one.

real shaman: this is the worst they can come up with?

No...not even close.

Not the biggest fan of Mr. McCain, but what he does in the voting booth is none of my business.

More proof that McCain has lost touch with the electorate. If he had an ounce of sense left, he would shout from the rooftops that he didn't vote for GWB.

It appears the Straight Talk Express is fresh out of common sense, but well-stocked with crazy.

And again, if this is the burning vitriol liberals seem to be able to muster, the White House is ours.

Too bad you can't accuse McCain of being Hitler. That would be quite the feather in your caps.

burndtdan: i'd prefer if he didn't vote for bush in 2000, but it probably won't help him earn my vote either way.

and also, the ballots are secret for a reason, because it's none of our business.

Until you open your fat mouth.

just when you think it can't get any more stupid. with a new low each week between now and november we should reach bog standard for sure.

Somacandra: Not the biggest fan of Mr. McCain, but what he does in the voting booth is none of my business.

Seems the issue isn't who he voted for, it's that he lies about it when it's politically expedient.

skookum: And again, if this is the burning vitriol liberals seem to be able to muster, the White House is ours.

Too bad you can't accuse McCain of being Hitler. That would be quite the feather in your caps.

It doesn't matter what vitriol the lie-berals muster, because Bush isn't going to allow elections in 2008.

Isn't that what you said last year?

I am going to my basement - I will come out when this is over!!
When I come out I want to see rainbows & unicorns!!!

I really can't stand Huffington and don't believe this claim all that much. Also, I'm pretty sure she was naked on The Colbert Report last night.

This is an absolutely ridiculous and pointless story. How this matters at all isn't clear to me. That being said, if she did just make this up (I'm not buying that she and others decided to wait almost eight years to actually tell anybody about it) then it's a pretty clever move on her part. It further riles up the misgivings the Republican base has about him, while at the same time forcing him to come out and trumpet his support for a president with a 70% disapproval rating. It's lose-lose for him.

All kidding aside, if some kind of threat manifests itself or an actual attack occurs in or around Election Day, Bush could well suspend the November Elections, yes. But see, he doesn't have to. He has kept this country safe with the so-called controversial mechanisms designed to deal with terror.

The torch is being passed to McCain, liberals. Sorry. You won't win this one, nor will you ever win another major office again. Maybe a few seats in the House, but no. This is going to be the Godlen Age of the GOP.

"McCain was just sort of going off on how much he disliked Bush and the horrible things that the Bush campaign had done to his family in South Carolina, and his exasperation with Bush about his ridiculous tax cuts and he really wanted to talk to him about it, but he said the guy doesn't have the concentration, and you talk for 10 minutes and then the guy wants to talk about baseball,"

This sure as hell sounds like a true story.

skookum:

The torch is being passed to McCain, liberals. Sorry. You won't win this one, nor will you ever win another major office again. Maybe a few seats in the House, but no. This is going to be the Godlen Age of the GOP.

Care to put your money where your mouth is?

What I find most interesting is the vitriolic way McCain is responding to the claim (albeit through his "camp," and not directly).

Similarly, when Obama said McCain had "lost his bearings" the other day, the McCain camp shot back that Obama was being a jerk by bringing up JM's age. Uh...what? He didn't do that. But, good way to reinforce that "hot head" image, Senator McNasty.

However, Brit Hume did directly address McCain's age when speaking about his confusion of Sunni and Shiite. Hume called it "kind of a senior moment." To my knowledge, the McCain camp did not have a conniption fit over that direct reference to the candidate's age.

It's almost as if McCain has a different set of of standards for the Huffington Post/Arianna and FOX/Brit.

skookum: All kidding aside, if some kind of threat manifests itself or an actual attack occurs in or around Election Day, Bush could well suspend the November Elections, yes. But see, he doesn't have to. He has kept this country safe with the so-called controversial mechanisms designed to deal with terror.

The torch is being passed to McCain, liberals. Sorry. You won't win this one, nor will you ever win another major office again. Maybe a few seats in the House, but no. This is going to be the Godlen Age of the GOP.

So farking yawn. Seriously, you're not even depressing anymore. Just tired and pathetic.

I really don't feel the need to stoop to betting. It's more of a personal satisfaction, knowing that the plan is falling into place: that Bush will have a successor to his policies and the note-taking and observations made by this administration will prove quite valuable. McCain is going to clean this country up, what Bush has not dared to do, he will do, what Bush has hestitated to enact, he will enact.

We will have a full-time draft once again, safe borders and a clean slate to deal with terror. It matters not that he disagreed with the President. His efforts constitute the chief architecture of this vision.

I was waiting on the trolls! Glad to see I'm not disappointed.

Unlike most Americans who are embarrassed to admit they did vote for Bush.

When Senator Obama wins the presidential nomination, not only will there be celebrations in the streets of many US cities, there will be celebrations in the streets throughout the world. It will make the events depicted at the end of Lucas's Return of the Jedi re-imagining pale in comparison. Our nation is clamoring for this. Our globe is clamoring for this.

/proudly waves the Obama flag

So farking What.

/seriously, get a life

Bloody William: Just tired and pathetic.

My prophecies have come to pass: that the necessary precautions in the post-911 age are in place, and it's finally becoming difficult to espouse liberal nonsense anymore. Look at Keith Olbermann. No one watches or listens to him. He will probably be taken off the air. Meanwhile Limbaugh commands tens of millions of listeners to ensure a McCain victory. It's over liberals. This was your last stand, and now the White House is ours once again, for indeed decades. The Democratic Party will become a decommissioned oddity like visiting the Old Senate Chambers at the Capitol. It's time to accept your defeat with dignity.

skookum: My prophecies have come to pass

You insisted that the democrats would not take both houses in 2006 iirc.

you should just get a new schtick. i agree with the "yawn" that was posted previously.

Lionel Mandrake: WSimilarly, when Obama said McCain had "lost his bearings" the other day, the McCain camp shot back that Obama was being a jerk by bringing up JM's age. Uh...what? He didn't do that. But, good way to reinforce that "hot head" image, Senator McNasty.

Did you see Obama's response to that long winded press release about the age thing?

"Clearly losing one's bearings has no relation to age, given this bizarre rant that Mark Salter just sent out."

Gold.

skookum: I really don't feel the need to stoop to betting.


Oh, so you're a chickshiat? Guess I should have expected that. Nuts are in your throat eh?

This is not a "shtick." These are prophecies relating what will happen to your liberal eggshell world. McCain is going to sweep this election. Enact far-reaching reforms in this country to deal with basic citizenry protocols. Use our military to crush terror. Ensure this country prospers well into the next century, you can go ahead and laugh at my delivery of these messages, but they do not make them any less true. For you, I would suggest the proverbial advice that you "straighten up and fly right" in the next decade, because you either adapt or you founder, and you very much may need to be re-educated.

skookum: This is not a "shtick." These are prophecies relating what will happen to your liberal eggshell world. McCain is going to sweep this election. Enact far-reaching reforms in this country to deal with basic citizenry protocols. Use our military to crush terror. Ensure this country prospers well into the next century, you can go ahead and laugh at my delivery of these messages, but they do not make them any less true. For you, I would suggest the proverbial advice that you "straighten up and fly right" in the next decade, because you either adapt or you founder, and you very much may need to be re-educated.

Eh, I gotta give you a 5/10 for this one. Was going to give you a four, but I liked the bit about re-education; thats *gold* right there.

I really see no reason to rate my postings, and I should caution you that such a careless and cavalier attitude like yours is precisely what might get you admitted into the camps. If I were you, I would take a good look at myself and wonder whether it's worth it to make so many waves. I'm warning you: do not vote Democratic in this next election. Vote straight Republican with a clearly-marked choice for McCain. I'm tired of having to reason with your kind, and assigning some queer number to my postings shows a serious inability on your part.

skookum: And again, if this is the burning vitriol liberals seem to be able to muster, the White House is ours.

Too bad you can't accuse McCain of being Hitler. That would be quite the feather in your caps.



/yes, I hotlinked
//I also murder kittens and rip the tags of mattresses

skookum: My prophecies have come to pass: that the necessary precautions in the post-911 age are in place, and it's finally becoming difficult to espouse liberal nonsense anymore.

Where's your liberal concentration camp, sparky? Got yer gulag setup for all those people who dare to exercise their freedom of speech?

Come on, that 1984 style fascist state wet dream ranting is so over the top that it's either painfully obvious trolling or the words of someone so incredibly delusional that no one will pay you any mind, skookum. Hardly rates a 1/10, but I'll give you 2/10 for persistence. There, another number for you, because thats all you are and deserve.

Ms.Maus: burndtdan:
and also, the ballots are secret for a reason, because it's none of our business.

Quoted for great justice.

well to be honest it was McCain who offered up the info. it was he who allegedly said that he didn't and later on was reported to have said something completely different.
totally legit question to ask now since he's on the record.

Im confused, is the Huff trying to defame McCain with this or promote him?

Because, im not sure this information helps here case.

They did have a pretty bitter fight for nomination.

skookum: These are prophecies relating what will happen to your liberal eggshell world.

Yeah, verily, and the moon shall be as blood, and the rivers and seas shall give forth their dead. At this time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock.

Ole Skooks must be just beside himself that no matter what happens in November, there will either be a liberal Dem or a RINO in the White House in January.

Oh, by the way--weren't you guaranteeing a Romney nomination a while ago? Kinda failed on that one, huh?