Comments on: McCain’s flip-floppery reveals SCOTUS womb-lust

by: Mike the Mad Biologist

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:54:09 +0000

The Straight Bullshit Express: the Condom Edition…

Full disclosure: I have never bought into the belief of the Compulsive Centrists that John McCain is moderate. A detailed look at his voting record shows that he is often very conservative, with the occasional moment of lucidity (e.g., recognizing th…

by: The left’s wishful thinking on McCain at PunkAssBlog.com

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:49:43 +0000

[…] But Blumenthal doesn’t back that statement up with any new info. We’ve already covered his atrocious voting record and vampiric desire for more bloodshed in Iraq. But we’ve also discussed the alarming notion that even self-identified liberals don’t seem to notice this and continue to back him. Yeeargh. […]

by: Shari

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:56:12 +0000

I’m pretty far left and I don’t like Hillary because she hasn’t proven that she really stands for anything - and she has capitulated to Bushco as well (on the war, etc.). The MSM trying to paint her as “the liberal far left” is ALMOST as assinine as them painting McCain as a “maverick”.

I lost what little respect I had for McCain (as a soldier and POW; his book was an interesting read) when he started kissing GW’s ass after the complete plowing he took from Shrubby’s camp in 2000. If you were any kind of a man, would you play nicey-nice with the guy who screwed you hard to get ahead? I think not.

I am PRAYING that someone else can come forward to take the nomination away from Hillary - Barak Obama perhaps? I doubt Al Gore will come back to politics, and the only person I see with any “star appeal” (which seems necessary these days) is Obama. And he seems relatively clean, politically speaking.

by: Bertie

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:46:27 +0000

It’s going to be an uphill battle; no politician in the country has gotten better treatment from the media than McCain. I think those who say he’s virtually unbeatable are probably right.

Only thing that might possibly work is hanging a failed Iraq war around his neck, and even there there will be problems — if the war is still grinding along in something like its present state by 2008 then someone calling for more troops like McCain would be in trouble. However, if by that time the situation has more clearly resolved in American defeat, McCain will be able to play the whole stabbed in the back/should have sent more troops/nuked Hanoi/whatever card. And the American people will eat it up.

by: norbizness

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:26:29 +0000

Hey, he wasn’t Bush in 2000. That was enough for me. Not anymore, obviously.

by: A Blog Around The Clock

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:32:19 +0000

Repeat this mantra every day: McCain is not a moderate maverick…

As John said right after the last election: Besides picking our candidates and races, I think the most valuable thing most of could do is to help shape the conventional wisdom. We blog, we write letters to the editor, we……

by: Kathy MCCARTY

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 06:57:27 +0000

I too have LIBERAL HIPPIE MUSICIAN friends who are brainwashed (by the Statesman I believe…I don’t dirty my eyes with that rag) into believing that McCain in a “maverick” and “principled” and a “Washington outsider” !!!! And they TOTALLY hate Hillary, for like to reason at all. I think a lot of otherwise sane AMericans see this conflict this way; it is ALL (what’s that word?) ALL IMAGE!!! Image based on the repeating and repeating of what the image is. Groundless.

My only hope is to send articles about what a DOUCHE McCain is to them all the time (thanks for those AManda!)

by: Amanda Marcotte

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:05:19 +0000

Scott’s got more. McCain has a 0% rating from NARAL. The thing about abortion rights is that being anti-choice is pretty much a sure sign that a candidate is not going to be a good leader. I can allow for a few anti-abortion Democrats to fill up the congressional caucas, but anyone in the business of appointing judges has to support the judiciary’s job of protecting individual rights. Period. McCain shows no evidence of understanding the importance of fundamental human rights.

by: Kyso Kisaen

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:48:05 +0000

Those poll numbers make me feel a bit better. Convincing people to be more openly supportive of the views they already have, or educating the fence-sitters about how the anti-abortion people are coming for their pills next, seems like a less impossible task than convincing people who are against abortion to change their minds.

One thing I don’t think we stress enough is how outlawing abortion doesn’t make it go away, it just makes it more dangerous. Sure, the ones who want to punish women for having sex don’t care, but most reasonable people would see the pre RvW situation as one that no one wants to go back to. Unfortunately, a lot of people simply don’t know about it.

by: MikeEss

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:24:38 +0000

McCain does seem to be setting himself up as the heir apparent (with ample help from the Bushites). I know several people, right and left who are already talking about supporting McCain in ‘08.

I think if he gets it, we will all have been punked by the Bush Family. I still think they are planning to use McCain as a “breather” to set up Jeb for 2012. If we finally pull out of Iraq, the Bushites will be able to blaim McCain for the sin of losing Iraq, leaving Chimperor blameless and Jeb set to re-reclaim the throne…

I really hope I’m wrong…