Everyone knows Lettermen only brought him on to try to make him look bad. Pathetic!
Posted on 04/01/2008 10:46:10 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK - Republican presidential candidate John McCain good-naturedly sparred with David Letterman on Tuesday night's "Late Show." During his monologue, Letterman joked that the Arizona senator reminded him of "the guy at the hardware store who makes the keys" and "the guy who can't stop talking about how well his tomatoes are doing."
After Letterman added that McCain looked like "the guy who points out the spots they missed at the car wash," the senator appeared on stage.
"You think that stuff's pretty funny, don't you?" McCain asked, then added: "Well, you look like a guy whose laptop would be seized by the authorities."
McCain also said the host resembled the guy caught smuggling reptiles in his pants, to which Letterman replied, "Don't knock it if you haven't tried it."
The candidate also likened Letterman to the manager of a creepy motel, the guy who enjoys watching his swim trunks inflate in a hot tub and the guy about whom neighbors later say, "He mostly kept to himself."
Later in the show, the two discussed more serious issues, including the national credit crisis, Iraqi casualties, the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Bear Stearns and accusations that McCain's not a true conservative Republican.
"I think maybe some people think that you ought to have exactly the same position they have on every issue," McCain said.
The two Democratic candidates have also appeared on the CBS show this year — Hillary Rodham Clinton in February, and Barack Obama in January.
"I think maybe some people think that you ought to have exactly the same position they have on every issue," McCain said.
earlier NYT thread
McCain and Letterman Trade Insults on ‘Late Show’ ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995270/posts
04/01/2008 7:07:51 PM PDT · by RDTF · 61 replies
NY Times via Drudge report ^ | April 1, 2008 | Michael Cooper
How about being the guy who DOESN'T have the EXACT same positions on issues as the democrats?
Huh, John?
How about being the guy who DOESN'T have the EXACT same positions on issues as the democrats?
Huh, John?
How about being the guy who DOESN'T have the EXACT same positions on issues as the democrats?
Huh, John?
Servers acting weird. Sorry about the repeat replies.
So, exactly what are you trying to say?
CA....
No problem, I been getting a glut of proxy errors the last hour,, I think the server is getting worked on..
I wanted to get that quote out before I hang it up tonite.
It’s the Limbaugh echo chamber; relax, it’s only on 3 hours per day
(ducks and runs away)
“Well, you look like a guy whose laptop would be seized by the authorities.” - McCain to Letterman
Hahahahahaha!!!!
It seems as though McCain isn’t too old to figure things out afterall.
“I think maybe some people think that you ought to have exactly the same position they have on every issue,” McCain said.
No, but one or two would be nice.
Everyone knows Lettermen only brought him on to try to make him look bad. Pathetic!
“I think maybe some people think that you ought to have exactly the same position they have on every issue,” McCain said.
I find it interesting that many of John’s quotes are precisely what some of my moderate to liberal Democrat associates say to me and very rarely are they even in the ballpark of what some of my conservative associates say to me. Hmmmm, if it walks like a duck...
As said by Let It Be So:
“I think maybe some people think that you ought to have exactly the same position they have on every issue,” McCain said.
I find it interesting that many of John’s quotes are precisely what some of my moderate to liberal Democrat associates say to me and very rarely are they even in the ballpark of what some of my conservative associates say to me. Hmmmm, if it walks like a duck...
I think I am going to be sick.
IF McCain is a democrat, why would letterman spar with him?
Like Conservatives have a dog in this fight... ha!
It was just fake contention. Letterman’s writers likely even wrote his witty(?) retorts.
I just watched this. He talked about his dear old friend (Dem) Morris Udall and quoted Chairman Mao.
He said he was a proud Republican comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan.
“The party is pretty well united.”
LOL. Perhaps he is thinking of quotes from Joseph Goebbels...
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
Oops... he wasn’t finishted.
He blamed the problems in Iraq on the “horrible mismanagement” of the war by Rumsfeld “and others,” said we needed to make a commitment to never torture another person, needed to work on climate change, and need to close Guantanamo. He got lots of applause from the lefties out of that breath.
In the prior segment, he went off on the greedy executives at mortgage companies making money selling stock (gasp!) while all of those poor folks were losing their homes.
McCain is playing the odds for personnal triumph. 20% of voters are "undecided Independents", 15% of the Democrat 40% share will hate whomever is nominated and Republicans who vote will not vote Democrat. He figures to net about 52% of the vote this way.
However, the segments he is chasing don't contribute to campaigns and that's his big problem. The Clintons are known quantities, treat them right (money) and they take care of you (jobs, pardons). Obama is from the Chicago School of politics and probably works the same way.
To donors, McCain don't look like a guy you can rely on to deliver (Keating Five aside)and this will hurt him in the end.
McCain will never inspire the kind of Internet giving that Fred did. Correction- McCain will never inspire. So his only hope is meltdown by the Democrats with him the last guy standing-just like the Republican primaries.
Lousy election all around.
““I think maybe some people think that you ought to have exactly the same position they have on every issue,” McCain said.
No, but one or two would be nice.”
BINGO!
HOw was he rec’d be the audience?
Finally someone McCain can impress, guy who neighbors later say "he stayed mostly to himself.".
Dip into their savings?! Oh my! I guess those savings are for a future trip to Disneyland or something...so the rest of us must step up and pay the mortgage. God forbid they should have to "dip" into those funds to pay for their house!
I guess I'm old fashioned. I remember when savings were for "a rainy day". Mine still are.
>> Servers acting weird. Sorry about the repeat replies. <<
Some things bear repeating.
If you watch Letterman critically, you’ll find that he mostly aims his ‘humor’ at Republicans.
Leno and the others usually keep a balance. Letterman never does.
McCain reeeeeeeeeeely laid into Letterman. LMAO
McCain is right. Rumsfeld was to blame for terrible mismanagement of Iraq. I’ll give him a D-, the only thing he got right was the invasion.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/industries/technology/article/clinton-obama-ahead-mccain-registered-voters_541963_12.html
TABLE 1 CLINTON VERSUS MCCAIN
"If the national election for the president of the United States were to be held today,
for whom would you vote for?"
Base: All adults
Political Political
Registered Party Philosophy
Total Voters ------------------------------
Rep. Dem. Ind. Cons. Mod. Lib.
-----------------------------------------------
% % % % % % % %
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Hillary Clinton 37 39 9 68 30 15 41 62
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John McCain 33 35 70 9 29 57 28 11
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I would not vote for
either of these 17 15 12 13 24 16 18 17
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Not at all sure 12 11 9 10 18 12 13 10
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Note: Percentages do not add up to exactly 100% due to rounding
TABLE 2 OBAMA VERSUS MCCAIN
"If the national election for the president of the United States were to be held today,
for whom would you vote for?"
Base: All adults
Political Political
Registered Party Philosophy
Total Voters ------------------------------
Rep. Dem. Ind. Cons. Mod. Lib.
-----------------------------------------------
% % % % % % % %
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Barack Obama 39 40 12 66 33 14 43 65
----------------------------------------------------------------------
John McCain 33 35 69 12 28 60 27 9
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I would not vote for
either of these 17 15 10 14 22 15 18 16
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Not at all sure 12 10 9 8 17 10 13 10
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Note: Percentages do not add up to exactly 100% due to roundingMethodology
***In the prior segment, he went off on the greedy executives at mortgage companies making money selling stock (gasp!) while all of those poor folks were losing their homes.***
McCain was right about that because some of the mortgage companies were handing out mortgages to people without downpayments and too little income to pay the mortgage. As far as selling stock, surely you’ve heard of hedge funds. In fact, some banks were telling their loan officers to give out mortgages under the same circumstances and then selling the mortgages as hedge funds on the stock exchange.
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