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By: francine hardaway

francine hardaway — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:09:44 +0000

I’m the last one to say issues are not as important as character — I think the issues in this race are huge — but you can certainly see how someone like McCain handles issues when you read the Rolling Stone story, which takes all this much further about the womanizing, gambling, crashing planes, etc. Do we need to have another spoiled rich brat in office?

By: ursulas

ursulas — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:27:07 +0000

I am stunned that such a cowardly worm could get so far too.

Wife-beaters are cowards.

By: Francine hardaway

Francine hardaway — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:10:06 +0000

He keeps getting elected because of the power of incumbency; when you have a Senator who has been around a long time, they get money and good committees. Everyone wants their Senator to be on good committees.

By: Michael VanDervort

Michael VanDervort — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:19:57 +0000

Most of my friends and family in Arizona tell me that Arizonans don’t really like McCain. How did he keep getting elected all this time?

He has fallen much in my estimation. I was never a huge fan, but I thought he was a better than average republican.

By: francine hardaway

francine hardaway — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:26:51 +0000

Shel, Rolling Stone has just published every story about John McCain that I would ever need to publish. They add up to a morality I don’t share.

By: shel israel

shel israel — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:28:39 +0000

With all due respect, I am not going to touch this story. As an Obama supporter, we do not need to spread this crap around. The sourcing is not confirmed. JJust because Palin is now tossing garbage off her team’s sinking ship, we don’t need to. The issue is not the garbage but the economy. John McCain has served with dignity most of his years. But he is too old, too eratic in behavior, too much a friend of banking and has too weak a running mate for a man in questionable health. Those issues are fair play. Digging for dirt under fingernails of an incident that occurred 30 years ago is not relevant; nor is it necessary to win this election.

By: Michael R. Bernstein

Michael R. Bernstein — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:34:54 +0000

Oh, I forgot to say that if Karl Rove had wanted McCain out of the senate in 2000, instead of just out of the presidential race, I’m sure this all would have come out then.

It’s the secrets you have on folks that you *don’t* tell anyone that give you power, and I’m sure that various Powers-That-Be were only too glad to try and get a new puppet into the White House if they could, hence the same mud-slinging crew that took McCain out for GWB in 2k is working for him today.

By: Michael R. Bernstein

Michael R. Bernstein — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:28:30 +0000

Huh. I’m reminded of this article from a few years ago:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/15/opinion/meyer/main2182755.shtml

Two quotes:

“it’s just a simple thesis: The men who ran the Republican Party in the House of Representatives for the past 12 years were a group of weirdos. Together, they comprised one of the oddest legislative power cliques in our history. And for 12 years, the media didn’t call a duck a duck, because that’s not something we’re supposed to do.”

He’s referring to Newt Gingrich, Richard Armey and Tom Delay, but goes on to say:

“The colleagues that wielded the most power — like McCain, Simpson, Lugar, Specter, Stevens, Warner — have had long runs of service in several arenas relatively free of public and private embarrassment and hypocrisy — and even some substantial accomplishments pre-Senate.”

But now, of course, it’s looking like the *very same* conspiracy of silence in the media applied to McCain. Somehow, I’m not particularly stunned that McCain could get this far. It worked for GWB too (a born-again alcoholic coke-head draft dodger), after all.