Posted on 02/05/2008 5:03:23 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
You'd think a man who might be on the verge of taking a giant step toward wrapping up the Republican nomination would go out of his way to be gracious. But John McCain couldn't keep his spiteful streak under wraps on this morning's Today.
In the course of his interview by Matt Lauer, the Today co-anchor cited critical comments about McCain by former and current Senate colleagues Rick Santorum and Thad Cochran. McCain retaliated with a personal swipe at their reputations and later declined to describe Mitt Romney as a fine man.
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McNasty strikes again ping to Today show list.
Another reason to dislike McLame. I’ll be voting for Romney today.
hey look... it’s Bob Dole 2008
McHuckabee vs. Romney
McCain is a hateful, spiteful, Washington insider.
Ain’t he going around saying he’d be a “uniter?”
Nope. Bob Dole's a nice guy. Misguided, but a nice guy. McCain's an a$$.
Did Jane Fonda suck McCain’s brains out while he was a prisoner in Hanoi?
Words have consequences my friend.
McCain is always “sore”.
He’s petty little man who shouldn’t even be this close to the presidency.
(It’s of little consolation to me that the Democrats know his number and will squash him like a bug in the General.)
“Gracious” and “McNasty” are two words that just don’t belong in the same sentence. He is the most ungracious politician I think I’ve ever seen or can remember.
How can so many supposed members of our party be so out of touch?
A caller to Bill Bennett’s show this morning had a good comment. Bill said something about McCain’s seeming “electability” and the caller started talking about McCain’s temperment and how a McCain/Obama match might play out in the media with McCain being Mr. McNasty, and Obama putting forth a so called “positive” message. In that situation, I think the guy had a point, McCain against Hillary is one thing (they’re both nasty) but McCain against Obama would come across as a stark contrast: old/young, nice/nasty.
He is just a nasty human being. Can’t vote for him. Even in the general.
So McCains record on Conservatism remains under attack... OK..
But I simply have to ask all the pureists here...
What is that Conservative piece of legislation, or that Conservative battle that Mitt Romney has fought so hard for that makes him the Conservative...
or
Does Conservative Rhetoric during Republican Primaries and campaign seasons and pandering to Conservatives make a person The Conservative?
Watch his handler threaten a woman asking about illegals raping children.
Watch McCain stand on stage and say nothing when they tell one of his constituents to "shut up!".
Oh, stop it, McCain’s a liberal because Rush tells us so.
Who are you going to believe, your own lying eyes or Rush Limbaugh.
nice or not, McCain is going to get the same type of ass wiping as Bob Dole in 1996.
why else do you think all the left oriented MSM has been endorsing him? he’s one of the dream candidates for Hillary
Two votes in my household and we get to vote today. Neither one for John McCain.
Note: Package was routinely handled roughly for 5 years in the Hanoi Hilton. Brainwashing, severe torture and general abuse resulted in permanent damage. Beware of extreme mood swings and violent temper. Known to seek comfort with enemy.
When, along the campaign trail, he runs out of his meds, we’ll see the eruption, a la Howie Dean.
Just because Romney’s no conservative you can’t conclude that McCain is one.
Neither of these two poseurs are conservatives. But McCain is personally and tempermentally unfit for the Presidency, reagardless of his political stance.
I pray each night for no first ballot nominee, and that the delegates include a majority with a modicum of patriotism and character, and who will nominate someone who can unite the party and win in November.
That would not be McCain, Huckabee, or Romney. it could be George Allen, or Rick Santorum, or even someone else not on the radar right now.
Yep, I will be pulling the lever for Romney today.
How could anyone vote for McCain. He is against the 1st Ammendment, for raising taxes, for open-borders, for Amnesty, fights against right-to-life groups in court, sides with terrorists on waterboarding and Gitmo, considered joining the Repubican party in the last election, calls you a racist and bigot if you oppose him on open immigration and Amnesty and stabs conservatives in the back time and time again. He will do it again and again and again. He is sick.
For me...Romney doesn’t qualify as a real Conservative either. He’s just “not McCain”.
Romney is paying lip service to conservative principles at this point. Down the road he MAY well stab me in the back.
I KNOW that John McCain WILL stab me in the back. After the amnesty fiasco last summer I will never support McCain for anything.
Sad that it has come to this.
John McCain of all people?
We might as well make Jim Jeffords the Republican nominee.
Romney is way left of McCain... I just hope that I do not live to see this proven correct. Romney supporters are fools to believe a Liberal like Mitt. Lip service does not trump a lifetime of Liberal support and left wing issues. Fear Romney, he is a Fraud.
Johnny, forgive me, but you'd probabaly say the same about Teddy.
I came to Romney from Fred. While I’m still somewhat unsure about him, I’m casting my vote today for Mitt. If McCain gets the nomination I’ll vote 3rd party, write-in or stay home. I will not vote for that man.
If this country goes down the tubes I want it on the Democrat’s watch. I want them to hold responsibility.
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If you have to ask that question you simply have not been looking.
Mr. Romney denied many “rights” to illegals except for the right to be arrested and turned over to INS. Mr. Romney dramatically reduced spending in his state. Mr. Romney, despite all the rhetoric about raising “fees” reduced taxes by a very large amount. Mr. Romney fought his legislature and Supreme court to fight the marriage law that the court found in the constitution. Mr. Romney fought the legislature to keep single payer health care out of the state, yes he had to come up with an alternate but it is far superior to what was wanted by the Democrats. Mr. Romney took over the ill-managed “Big Dig” and got it completed. There is very much which is positive in his administration. In every opportunity he had he stopped or reduced opportunities for abortion. Yes he signed a budget that included a court mandated state paid abortions. Sometimes you have to do something you don’t want to do. I think he is the only one standing that I can vote for.
I still remember the cold chill I got the first time I heard him say that.
McCain is a hateful, spiteful and DANGEROUS Washington insider.
He epitomizes the idea that power corrupts. With the power of the Presidency I could not begin to contemplate the retribution he would exact on his rivals and those who did not play by his rules.
In a heartbeat and without a moment's regret.
What exactly did he “do” to make him a war hero?
The more I know about Mitt, the more I can't stand him.
At least Bob Dole had a sense of humor that seemed authentic, McCain’s is mostly disturbing and mean.
McQueeg is NUTZ.
A petty, snide, spiteful, grudge holding, vengeful little weasel who is as unsuited for the presidency as any candidate in memory. But most voters still only pick up bits and pieces of news about candidates, so many base their votes on limited information.
A petty, vindictive, arrogant little man.
I would gladly vote for Mitt Romney today if I were in a Super Tuesday state.
In case you didn’t, this thread has nothing to do with Queeg’s conservative failings. This one’s simply about what a graceless, mentally unbalanced bastard the man is.
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