Anyone else hoping that McKain will run for President?

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  • El_Kabong
    El_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    eh...I just imagine posters here sitting in on these shows and hooting and moaning, so I'd figure I'd bitch at you guys :)

    Personally, I don't think any of the candidates we have in mind will be running in 2008...it will take some time to sort things out. W didn't even emerge as a front runner until late in 1999...remember it was Liddy Dole.

    And when it comes to Senators...they do really bad...I think JFK/LBJ were the last Senators to become presidents.


    i actually liked mccain in 2000 but he has lost all support for me...while i like things he has done w/ his time he has shown himself to be, to me, a phoney...the way the bush machine flat out told lies about him and how they attacked his sanity and all...then to give bush support for 04 and just an endorsement but photo ops, saying nice things, the whole 9...??? fuck that!
    standin above the crowd
    he had a voice that was strong and loud and
    i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
    eager to identify with
    someone above the crowd
    someone who seemed to feel the same
    someone prepared to lead the way
  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    El_Kabong wrote:
    i actually liked mccain in 2000 but he has lost all support for me...while i like things he has done w/ his time he has shown himself to be, to me, a phoney...the way the bush machine flat out told lies about him and how they attacked his sanity and all...then to give bush support for 04 and just an endorsement but photo ops, saying nice things, the whole 9...??? fuck that!

    You should really check out the site posted by hippiemom....it is my fave site ever...but i'm a dork. it basically ranks members of Congress (both house and senate) on their ideology based on how they vote with party leadership. McCain has ALWAYS been a conservative. But he gets on Russert's show and these other Sunday morning shows, and is portrayed as something he's not. Judging people by their voting behavior is more real than judging them by what they say.
    And you ask me what I want this year
    And I try to make this kind and clear
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
    Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • El_Kabong
    El_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    You should really check out the site posted by hippiemom....it is my fave site ever...but i'm a dork. it basically ranks members of Congress (both house and senate) on their ideology based on how they vote with party leadership. McCain has ALWAYS been a conservative. But he gets on Russert's show and these other Sunday morning shows, and is portrayed as something he's not. Judging people by their voting behavior is more real than judging them by what they say.


    well...for the most part i agree w/ you about judging on their votes...the way they attach unrelated riders into them now, sometimes voting for something good is always voting for something bad at the same time...it seems so hard to find a politician that says what HE thinks and follows through w/ them...

    the worst part is how it's just accepted that our politicians are liars
    standin above the crowd
    he had a voice that was strong and loud and
    i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
    eager to identify with
    someone above the crowd
    someone who seemed to feel the same
    someone prepared to lead the way
  • OneLove
    OneLove Posts: 563
    Kenny Olav wrote:
    I'll never forget a time John McCain was on the Daily Show... this was back during the days of the DC sniper... McCain made an insanely tasteless joke about the sniper killings, responding to something Jon said about guns with "I hear the Bushmaster is a popular model". (Bushmaster being the gun that John Allen Muhammed and Lee Malvo used) The whole audience was shocked and reacted with loud gasps, groans and boos. McCain quickly changed the subject, and didn't apologize. This was either during the sniper terror or within a few days after it ended. Not that it would ever be an appropriate joke, but at that moment it was really touching a raw nerve and it was hard to believe a U.S. Senator would say that...

    just some insight into his character.

    You know, I saw that interview. It was a tasteless joke, but I live in the DC area (stuck on the beltway for hours when it closed down during rush hour, only to find out that someone was killed at the gas station I used twice a week). To be honest, I wasn't offended by it though. Wish I could remember what the comment was now.

    McKain plays politics, this is true. He simply wouldn't be around this long, or of had any success if he hadn't. But, he has war experience, and seems to put "country before god" if that makes sense, which makes him LESS scary than many of the repubs.

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