Blumenthal Claims Inside Knowledge that McCain Flirted with Leaving GOP

Business & Media Institute ^ | APRIL FOOLS? | Jeff Poor

[Nick Thimmesch]

Could John McCain have been the Independent or Democratic senator from Arizona? Though that sounds awkward, especially in the midst of a presidential race with McCain as the GOP’s nominee, but one Washington insider claimed McCain considered abandoning the Republican Party. According to Sid "Vicious" Blumenthal, a senior adviser for former President Bill Clinton and current adviser to Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, at one point McCain was going to leave the Republican Party and caucus with Senate Democrats.

[Nick Thimmesch]

Okay, Sid: part of your probation is not to drink.

[indylindy]

I have no doubt MCain flirted with leaving the GOP. I wish he would have.

That would have been super.

[BARLF]

Hillary worried about McCain as her opposition in the general?

[facedown]

Sid is almost as credible as OJ.

[Old Sarge]

Nice mugshot, Sid...

[Zhang Fei]

Sid Blumenthal has a rep as a pathological liar. If he said the sky was blue, I’d check just to make sure.

[blackdog]

I have inside information the Sid beats his wife.

[Czar]

Too bad he didn’t...

[Shirerwasright]

Sindy is a pathological liar who has pickled his brain, why should anyone listen to this drunk?

[Shirerwasright]

Come on... this girlie man hit a woman? She would kick his butt.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

McCain could still officially leave the GOP. IMHO, McCain has already left the GOP many years ago.

[Farmer Dean]

Yep,he could have saved us a lot of trouble if he had gone where he really wants to be.

[Russ]

Haven’t most of us flirted with the idea of leaving the GOP recently? So what...

[Sooth2222]

...so if McCain considered becoming a Democrat, then the "crossover Democrats" won't vote for him in the general election? Hmmmmmmmm.

No wonder he was in the drunk tank and Hillary's campaign is in the tank.

[appleharvey]

Okay, Sid: part of your probation is not to drink.

And not to imbibe any Clinton genitalia, ( internal or external).

[BerryDingle]

Looks like a skinny Janet Reno.

[Popman]

Tried and true Clintonian tactic: Sowing seeds for the MSM to lap up like the sycophants they are

Two fold strategy: Position Hillary as the opposite candidate to McCain and remind the conservative base McCain is a RINO.

[cripplecreek]

Um, here's the deal John. Talk around the water cooler is that your heart just isn't with us anymore. If you could clean out your desk and be out of here by...oh, say 3 PM. That would be super. Mkay?

[Randy Larsen]

This deserves the “NO SH!T” award!

Hey Sid, When DID you stop beating your wife? And were you drunk at the time?

[indylindy]

Instead he decided to stay and destroy conservatives and the GOP. What an honorable man.

He claims he turned in liars. I would like to turn him in.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Blumenthal Claims Inside Knowledge that McCain Flirted with Leaving GOP"

WOW, MAN WHAT MINDSHATERING breaking news there Blumey...

FYI Blumey anyone with 2 eyes and half a brain already figured that out many moons ago!

Gang of 14 anyone?

[Young Werther]

Yes, but did they KISS?

[indylindy]

Haven’t most of us flirted with the idea of leaving the GOP recently? So what...

Uh, get real, our flirting was not to become Jon Cary clones and join the liberal Democrats.

[LucyJo]

~~ Haven’t most of us flirted with the idea of leaving the GOP recently? So what... ~~

I’d feel a lot better about it if the motivations for flirting with leaving were the same.

[indylindy]

But Nooooo! McCain stayed in the basement office with his red stapler in order to hang around long enough to burn down the GOP. LOL!

[elizabetty]

McCain is such a tease - his body should follow his heart out of the Republican party.

Maybe he will pull a Lieberman and run as an "Independent" Republican.

[DustyMoment]

Um, NOT a news story. We all know that he flirted with leaving.

We just wish he would have gone beyond the flirting stage.

[cripplecreek]

Oh man Photoshop on the way.

[indylindy]

I just cannot wait!;^)

[Mad Dawgg]

"Yes, but did they KISS?"

[saganite]

“at one point McCain was going to leave the Republican Party and caucus with Senate Democrats.”

Wouldn’t surprise me if. If he’s elected he’ll spend all his time with Democrats. Think of Ahnold. Then double it.

[Boundless]

McCain is a Republican?

Who would have guessed.

[Young Werther]

The guy on the right can lick his eyebrows and is a stone cold conservatist!

Great picture!

[freespirited]

According to Sid "Vicious" Blumenthal, ... at one point McCain was going to leave the Republican Party and caucus with Senate Democrats.

Then Sid should have no trouble supporting him. McCain is certainly more qualified for the job than either of his RAT candidates.

[M203M4]

It would be one thing if his motivation was borne of sickness over the left-wing big-government decay within the party. But he considered leaving the GOP because he finds it "too conservative". There are right-wing GOP outsiders (Tancredos, Hunters, Pauls), and there are left-wing GOP outsiders (you know, like McCain with his F rating from the GOA and his C rating from the NRA).

The latter group can also be identified by their impulses to officially join the Democrats, and their consistent partnering with democrats - especially from the far-left wing of the party - on a variety of issues. Kyoto and global warming, campaign finance reform, amnesty, taxes, internationalism, and so on.

[San Jacinto]

I told the last two donation solicitors that I was thinking of leaving — y no dinero este dia o manana.

[cripplecreek]

[indylindy]

ROTFLMAO! Too funny.

[dynachrome]

Sid Bloomie = groin leech!

[cripplecreek]

Good use of the term “Goin Leech”. A+

[pallis]

McCain isn’t that honest.

[Eagle Eye]

He doesn’t care what party ticket he runs on as long as he can have power.

[SERKIT]

Um....isn't that the prima facia evidence of a RINO? Isn't McCain a RINO? Is this much of a revelation?

[dynachrome]

Told ya I was gonna steal that phrase. I hope to spread it far and wide.

[E. Cartman]

I have no doubt MCain flirted with leaving the GOP. I wish he would have.

That would have been super.

It's a pity he didn't become a dem. It would have raised the median IQ of both parties significantly .

[denydenydeny]

Once again the "staunch conservatives" on this thread are arm in arm with the Clinton thugs. From Christopher Hitchens's review of Blumenthal's The Clinton Wars:

On pages 608-9, he has quite a colorful description of a dinner in Washington with me and my wife and with Gore Vidal, at which I was not in fact present. (I was in London.) I wouldn’t mind this slip if it wasn’t for the detail and for the direct quotations.

How much of this can you take?

[TexasCajun]

Sid The Enforcer Clintonista

That guy scares me.

[TigersEye]

McCain calls Jeffords' switch lesson for GOP FR May '01

McCain may leave Republican Party to fight Bush in 2004 FR July '01

How Bill Kristol ditched conservatism. Great Escape (Gave floundering McCain 2000 campaign a direction.)

McCain may leave Republican Party to fight Bush in 2004
His staff set up policy think-tanks and other groups to lay the ideological foundations for another third-party challenge in the Bull Moose style.

McCain Looked into Caucusing with Democrats

[TonyInOhio]

[GOPJ]

It’s OK - we ‘flirted’ with kicking him out of the party.