Posted on 02/26/2008 11:37:45 AM PST by indcons
Yet another ringing endorsement.
He never had any problem with going after Romney in the most vicious underhanded fashion. He did not have a problem with blasting Ronald Reagan’s son. He has never had a problem with ridiculing or bashing Dubya. But someone calls a Democrat by their middle name and McCain is shocked. Give me a f...ing break.
McCain will always be a jerk when it comes to defending Republicans. You really did not expect a 71 year old RINO to “change” did you?
Candidates are called on all the time to answer for deeds done by people working in their campaigns, even when the candidate had no knowledge of what that individual did. Since McCain knew what happened and did not agree with it, it was better he just come right out and say it.
It would not surprise me in the least. The McCain campaign is waging two campaigns. One is against the November opponent that has not yet demanded much in the way of aggressive campaigning. The other is to somehow get the people who will not vote for McCain under any circumstances to join their side.
Actions like today may have further eroded any accumulated goodwill gained in recent weeks. I believe the McCain camp has more of an uphill battle to win the hearts and minds of conservatives than they will against a November opponent at this point....
Disparage your fellow Freepers all you want, but we’re not the ones screwing up royally here. We Freepers can say all the nasty things we want about the Dems, but we’re preaching to the choir. It’s the independents and moderates who will decide this election, and so far McCain’s campaign to win their votes has been one misstep, revoked statement or apology after another.
If McCain doesn’t tell the truth about Obama, who will? The media? Politics is war by other means, and McCain is either up to the task of carrying the fight to B. Hussein Obama, or he’s not. He doesn’t have to be rude to do that, but he does have to tell the truth about his opposition, loudly, clearly and unequivocably, and so far he’s failing miserably.
McCain’s “Senate comity” “my esteemed colleague” campaign is going to lose the election.
All McCain had to do was tell the MSM that he’s not the one that said it and go ask for the apology from the one that did.
Roger that....
Everything Cunningham said is true, why apologize? Because Obama isn’t the nominee yet. I having a hard time deciding which of the two Dims is going to be easier to pummel in the election come November!
When you are running for President, you don’t act like a flame thrower. It’s not presidential. McCain did the right thing here. I’ve seen Cunningham on Hannity and Colmes’ show, and he indeed IS a flame thrower. He likes to say the most provocative things he can get away with. When he was saying Barak’s name when talking to the folks at the rally before McCain got there, he was emphasizing the Hussein part of Barak’s name. If you saw him like I did, you’d know how he was doing it, which was in a very derogatory way. The inference being that Barak is of Muslim origin, knowing that would be a negative, not a positive. I think that verges on dirty pool. I don’t like Obama, but I, like McCain, would not like a flame thrower saying nasty stuff that is bound to be picked up by the MSM to make McCain himself look bad, which is exactly what happened here.
Ronald Reagan would never have tolerated the likes of a Bill Cunningham warming up his crowd either. Reagan was a gentleman. I’m on McCain’s side here, and I think it is very bad politics to get down and dirty from the gitgo in a campaign. Obama would not allow a lead-in like a Cunningham of the Dem variety to warm up his crowd, and neither will McCain on our side. Good for both of them. Leave the flame throwing on this website where you can do it with impunity and not damage McCain’s chances for the general election by having him have to wallow in the mud right off the bat.
Good point, Doug. (Anybody wanna explain the HUGE, BIG, GIGANTIC distinction between what happened here and what happened during a 2-hour car ride re: Huckabee & some reporter over a dozen-word phrase uttered during that ride?)
Once again. Let's see if we have any consistency from the Romneyites.
The second week of December, Huckabee issued a dozen-word question that was just as true about Romney's faith as Obama's middle name and we got an ensuing wildly rage-filled thread-after-thread reaction lasting 2+ months!
So, let's see if we can measure the consistency level (or lack of it) from the Romneyites: Since obviously the "Hussein" reference, albeit a true statement, could be construed by the overly religious sensitive types, to be some sort of "disparanging" remark connecting Obama with the Muslim faith...Let's see how "true blue" the "let's protect religious minorities" are...
Please note that since the Romneyites from the second week in December thru the second week of February were posting vociferous FReeper posts in the name of...
...Protecting "Religious liberty"...
...protecting "tolerance toward the religious beliefs of candidates"...
...erecting some magical wall between "religion" and "politics"...
...pretending to protect Article VI, Section 3 of the Constitution from some alleged threat of eradication...
...protecting Mormonism from a fuller revelation of its more unflattering mainstream doctrine...
...Let's see how "true blue" they are to "religious liberty," "tolerance," "anti-bigotry," so-called Constitutional threats, and aberrant religious minority beliefs and linkages...
(Come on. Rise up. Time to wave all those SAME banners again on behalf of Obama! Go ahead, crucify the McCain campaign like you did Huckabee! Silence just might be mistaken for overt hypocrisy)
I demand an apology from McCain for his heinous activities in support of amnesty, McCain-Feingold, global warming hysteria, and other insults.
I’ve been saying that McCain can win this election by default, because Obama is totally unacceptable to most Americans. He can still win this. But if he’s gonna play like a sissy, he’ll lose.
I wonder if the MSM would be yelling for an apology if they called him by his real name of Barry?
Why do only Republicans have to diavow what others say?
It’s much more simple than that.
The Romneyites, as you call them, cringed whenever anyone called Romney by his first name, Willard.
Any reference to Obama’s middle name should make them squeal, too.
It is obvious that in their world there is some shame that is attached to both candidate’s given names.
Never turn your back on a Rino!
If Cunningham has any sense he will apologise to Obama on behalf of Conservatives everywhere for the fact that John McCain considers his middle name to be offensive.
The media gave us our candidate because they wanted someone who they could count on to tow their line. He is going to be a disappointment....
McCain succeeds in shooting himself in the @$$ again!
Way to go Juan!
You go boy!
You can apologize all the way to a concession speech on November 5th!
Wake up moron! Take the gloves off and hit this guy!
I think McCain is so afraid he will lose crossover Dems he’s going to play paddy cake with this guy for nine months.
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