Posted on 02/16/2008 10:48:47 AM PST by libstripper
WASHINGTON - Temper, temper. Republican John McCain is known for his. He's been dubbed "Senator Hothead" by more than one publication, but he's also had some success extracting his hatchet from several foreheads.
Even his Republican Senate colleagues are not spared his sharp tongue.
"F--- you," he shouted at Texas Sen. John Cornyn last year.
"Only an a------ would put together a budget like this," he told the former Budget Committee chairman, Sen. Pete Domenici, in 1999.
"I'm calling you a f------ jerk!" he once retorted to Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley.
With Cornyn, he smoothed things over quickly. The two argued during a meeting on immigration legislation; Cornyn complained that McCain seemed to parachute in during the final stages of negotiations. "F--- you. I know more about this than anyone else in the room," McCain reportedly shouted.
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McCain = Dukakis
I can’t help noting the number of anti-Obama articles even though that primary hasn’t been decided. Not to mention the fake McCain beats Hillary polls. It is pretty obviously to me what the press is trying to do.
Whatever McCain’e real temper, it can’t compare to Hillary.
Years ago, I remember watching Bill Clinton talk on TV. He had a big bump and a scratch on his forehead. My husabnd and I figured Hillary clobbered him with a lamp.
Only without the charisma. ;-)
How can that be? I only hear that McCain has a temper, I never hear that Mrs. Clinton has one. /s
Here it comes.
Trying to get the demorat elected, and it looks to me that they have pulled it off.
He’s a war hero. How dare they criticize a war hero for cussing?
I’ve been wondering how long it would take a President McCain to seize the lapels of some visiting head of state and tell him to get on board with US policy or risk a JDAM coming thru his office window.
I’m sure that the first thing Bill does when checking into a new hotel room is hide all the ashtrays.
Here’s another FR post where the MSM is turning on McCain:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1971456/posts?page=8
McCain is our Khrushchev.
Dukakis,charisma?My cat makes a better entrance into a room than that doofus!
Now why didn’t AP tell us about this 3 weeks ago. I guess they were too busy bringing down Romney to focus on McCain.
As many Achilles heels as McCain has, he must be a centipede.
‘..I’ve been wondering how long it would take a President McCain to seize the lapels of some visiting head of state and tell him to get on board with US policy..’
The drive-by-main-stream media pukes will attack McCain from now until November, while their friends, the DNC, decide who their candidate will be.
With the possibility of a Dem brokered convention, or at least a tumultuous one, the media will keep McCain from getting his poll numbers up.
They also need to keep the GOP and the Republican base from coming together to defeat the liberal/progressive/socialist movement that is the Democrat Party.
Previous post was smiley-captioned for the humor-impaired. ;-)
“By the way, I think the fence is least effective. But I’ll build the goddamned fence if they want it.”
Sometimes the F word or S word is most appropriate…some emasculated pricks need to be upbraided from time to time with what they really are.
Sure - but you have to admit it would have been entertaining to have a full blown addict like Kitty in the White House.
One of Obama’s many problems is his youth and inexperience. The MSM will counter that by making McCain into a foul mouthed, hotheaded, bully who lacks the self control to be POTUS. By November, Obama will look positively Presidential in comparison.
And they’re starting earlier than I thought, too. Looks like they’ve done the math and figured out that with Romney’s delegates going to McCain, we’re not going to have a brokered convention. IOW, it’s safe for the long knives to come out.
They still allow smoking into hotels, or do they just include ashtrays as decor???
I guess they consider "We will crush you! You'll regret having ever mentioned this to me!", "F--- Jew B*****", etc. are examples of her calm demeanor.
Oh, God. I forgot about his comb-over. Watch for the MSM to begin prominently featuring that, also.
By comparison King Lear will look like the epitome of mental health and sanity.
If temper were only the worst of McCain’s characteristics. Here are a few statements he makes repeatedly”
“I know how to lead.”
“I’m the most qualified to lead.”
“I know what’s best for America.”
“I was elected to make the tough decisions, not the easy decisions.”
He’s beyond an ego problem, or temper problem, but has a Little Napoleon complex and thinks he, and only he, has all the answers. If president, he’d do whatever he damn well pleased and then mouth about “reaching across the isle” and “making the tough decisions.” He be beyond reason and influence because he has this complex, and would always fall into his self-affirming and excusing bromides.
Works for me so long as they build it.
Wow, this article really hurts McCain. Truly damning information. Almost as damaging as articles that mention he is 71 years old.
If this is all they’ve got, I don’t think McCain is worried.
Shot down over North Vietnam
Beaten like a bad Navaho rug for 6 years and he doesn't get the chance to go back and kill even one of the little SOBs rat bastards....
Yeah, I'm thinking some folks are *lucky* to walk away with all thier teeth still in place.
I am not a McCain fan - but if anyone out there has earned the right to blow some smoke - it's Capt McCain.
I agree 100%
However....
In my opinion, the same could be said of hitlery........
These are sad times for America, I fear.
Hey AP, did you give Hillary the same coverage when she called one of her aids a F-——g Jew?
I guess I will vote for McCain.
Mclaim is about as sharp as a bowling ball - Foghorn Leghorn..
Go ahead and vote for McCain, but understand this...he is a conservative Democrat. His best buds are Lieberman and buttboy Graham.
I promise you, McCain will not carry ten states in the fall. When the GOP runs a Democrat-lite they lose.
“Sometimes the F word or S word is most appropriate…some emasculated pricks need to be upbraided from time to time with what they really are.”
It is exceedingly unfair to characterize Senator Cornyn arguing against giving American sovereignty away to illegals as an emasculated pr*ck. The one bending over for his globalist overlords in a most crude and unwarranted manner was McCain.
They sure didn’t care about another former POTUS’s lack of self-control in abusing his Office, abusing his intern, abusing a subordinate, or abusing the truth under oath. Oh, I forgot .. he was a Democrat .. that’s ok.
I am concerned about McCain’s temper but we have had, and will have, POTUSes with greater flaws.
If Bill had any sense he’d send some advance people out and have them bolt down all the furniture.Hillary looks like she could throw a mean chair!
And God bless him for his service! But, that does not make him fit to be POTUS.
If the man has anger issues and takes out his stresses on people who were NOT beating him up 40+ years ago, then he has no business being President.
C’mon, all that was FORTY YEARS AGO !!!! Can we stop excusing every little thing the idiot does because of something that occurred FORTY YEARS AGO ???????
The problem with McCain is that he has many Achilles heels . . .
Excellent point. White washing someone's character flaws for what someone did to him long ago used to exclusively be a democrat trick. A real conservatives takes responsibility for his actions.
My dad is a WWII vet, South Pacific Theater. He lost a lot of good friends to the “Japs” (BTW, he still refers to them as Japs).
He feels the loss almost as much today as he did 60+ years ago. You also will not find any 'Jap' products in his use either, tho today the attitude is becoming untenable.
I can imagine that every time his back or shoulder joints cause him pain, John feels the same....
Is it an excuse? NO. Is it understandable, to me anyway - yes.
Should he be CiC or POTUS? Again, in my view, no.
Mac’s emotional constitution does concern me. I think anyone who endured what he has would have some symptoms of PTSD. But cussing out politicians isn’t always a bad thing. Like anyone, I hate war, and I think Mac hates it more than I do. But, he is pretty savvy on foreign relations stuff. He would not say, for instance, that Putin has no soul. I understand that that is a very disparaging comment among Russians.
Getting infuriated at the behavior of a nuclear rival could be bad. But H is more likely to go off the handle than Mac is. I think.
A one mg. klonopin before sleepy time and Mac would be good to go.
H is crazier than Mac and O is so far left, so far out there, his political-psychological makeup is almost beyond analysis. But, I think a messiah-rock star complex comes closest, maybe not so much with O yet (it’ll appear), but I detect a Jim Jones type loyalty evident among many of his sycophantic disciples.
Funny. Right,dat.
Then again, I was NEVER going to vote for McCain anyway. I quit voting for liberals over 30 years ago.
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