Posted on 10/06/2008 9:31:33 AM PDT by mojito
Good grief.
Lieberman: McCain draws the line at using Rev. Wright.
"Wallace asked Lieberman if McCain would bring up Rev. Jeremiah Wright after condemning state Republican parties for running ads criticizing Obama for his relationship with the controversial figure."
"Lieberman responded: “He [McCain] didn’t like that approach. Senator McCain feels that same way about bringing up Reverend Wright through his campaign. And that’s the kind of line drawing that I think John McCain is all about.”
"Later on Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume said the McCain camp would be “out of their mind” to not bring up Obama’s relationship with Rev. Wright."
“What on earth are Joe Lieberman and John McCain talking about when they say that the long association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright is off the table?” Hume said. “Why is that off the table? It’s an important part of Obama’s background and record. It’s one of the reasons people wonder about who he really is.”
Follow the links from LGF to see the video.
I'm still voting for McCain, but he sure doesn't make things easy. I mean, really, what kind of a fool is he?
Unbelievable. Dump McCain from the ticket.
The rats go thru Alaskan Garbage cans, but McCain is bi-partisan.
I am pissed people.
Palin already has. That’s what leaders do, lead. McCain can follow along with Lieberman if he likes.
Don’t worry folks. Lieberman doesn’t speak for McCain.
Dispierta Juan. Wake UP! This is not a game of marbles, unless you already have lost all of yours!
I LOVE Brit Hume!
Owl_Eagle
“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden
I begin to think that the next four years will be so rough, that John McCain has decided that maybe a Democrat ought to have the pleasure.
Where O where are the mavericks?
The real thing. Actions ...not simply the words we are getting.
Generalities that mean next to nothing.
SARAH EXCLUDED. She is indeed a light in the dark.
John ... Speak UP if you are here.
pure and simple. If the RATs don't like it, then they should look in the mirror!
This is not the McCain I saw in the highlight videos of his life. Time to update the milk cartons at the local grocery stores ...
McJuan reminds conservatives of the one main reason they weren't planning to vote for him in the first place, his inexplicable penchant for prostrating himself before our domestic enemies.
One can only pray there will be enough left of our free election process to give Sarah Palin a chance in '12.
Holy Crap, how dumb can we be, let McCain attack Wright/Obama, only don’t announce to the world that he is going to do so.
I really don’t care what they say, I care what they do.
Prepare to be underwhelmed by McCain’s performance at the Tuesday night debate.
Maybe the key word is “target”....I have no doubt, no doubt, McCain will go after Obama/Wright....maybe he just wants to do a sneak attack on that one. Catch them off guard. He wants to win and he knows, he knows Wright is a fair judgement of character of association. It will happen...
If elected, Obama will spend the first 2 years blaming Bush for everything. Then the next 2 years will be spent campaigning for reelection on the platform of needing another term to do what he REALLY intended to do during his first term. In the meantime, all of his special interst groups and questionable associates will be running the country.
You’ve been told more than once McCain is taking yesterday and today to practice for the debate.
Palin is much better at it anyway. Let her be the pit bull!
1. Lieberman is entirely incorrect.
2. Lieberman is partially incorrect. McCain won't directly attack the Obama/Wright links; a 525 will.
3. Lieberman is correct. McCain is so emotionally invested in being the consummate bipartisan maverick that he'd rather lose the election HIS way than win using partisan tactics.
At this point, I'd believe any of the above.
“I don’t see where he says anything about Ayers.”
Palin mentioned Ayres during her speech in FL this morning.
*bangs head on wall*
Are they seriously trying to give the election away to a Marxist?
My comment was more about the disappearance of McCain’s campaign (excluding the near heroic efforts of Governor Palin). Especially in light of Lieberman’s comments.
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By a huge margin, McCain’s most prominent characteristic is his preening self-righteousness. He has a twisted and distorted view of “honor” that he transfers to the political arena, thus setting himself (and those unfortunate enough to desire a Republican victory) as some paragon of virtue and decency, when in reality he’s gullible and naive, and cedes issue after issue to the amoral left and greatly diminishes his and the party’s chances of success in November.
Who voted for this guy?
Standard campaign strategy: VP is the pit bull, Presidential nominee presents a postive image.
Very normal, historically.
I am so frustrated with McCaign and his people. This would have never happened with Fred or Mitt as the candidate. I'm really pissed!!!!
I heard later this afternoon McCain was going to have a press conference and admit guilt in the Keating 5, and even cry in hopes of garnering some non parisan votes ...
And, as everyone but possible John McCain knows, it was the very late arrival of the Reverend Wright issue that enabled Hillary to win most of the final dozen or so Dem. primaries. Had that issue broken just two or three weeks sooner, Hillary would likely be the nominee.
But pious and self-righteous John just can’t stoop to address that issue.
Stop it!!
The FACT is the campaign has opened the Ayers/Wright front just like you all wanted!!!
Don’t play into the hands of the trolls!!!!
dont know why everyone is pissed. this is palins job and fox is doing a damn good job at it too. mccain can stay presidential. no biggy.
Palin has already mentioned Rev. Wright so this article is no longer true.
Not only does he need to bring up Rev. Wright, he needs to mention that $22,500 contribution to Wright’s church that appears on Bambi’s 2007 tax return. He needs to ask the audience how many of them have given $22,500 to any church, much less one to which they were paying so little attention (Obama would have us believe) that they failed to notice the pastor was an anti-American, anti-Semitic racist! Oh, and that was on top of $5000 in 2005 and $400 in 1998. Follow the money!
Too late, Sarah Palin did today!
Are you a troll or simply a malcontent?
Now comes this story that Wright is off the table.
This is ridiculous. Enough.
There is a tremendous, pent-up fury amongst Conservatives in this country, and if McCain loses this election to a Marxist by running an idiotic campaign there will be backlash and blood all over the place.
I’m someone seriously disappointed in the campaign that McCain has run so far. And if you read this forum, I am far from being the only one.
You just may have something there. This kinder-gentler way of campaigning just does not get it. Biden proved he can not get his facts straight and Obama is allowed to blow smoke with just a grin from McCain. This campaign has stressed me to the max . . . it is gut wrenching to think of the Obama clan to be running this country.
Another thing . . . I hear CONSTANTLY about the last 8 years of Bush and NO mention or ACCOUNTABIITY for the last 2 years of the dems having the majority while we were headed for this train wreck.
mojito: FReeper birth date 9-24-04
Sleeper troll?
Owl_Eagle
“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’
-Slow Joe Biden
Red meat for the base, assurance for the mushy middle, and a new reason not to trust Barry.
Whatever works...
Calm down.
McCain wont bring it up. He’s got an agenda contrast and positive message to focus on.
His surrogates (Palin and the rest of US) will. Ayers, Wright, Rezko and most importantly why it shows that Obama has been dishonest, extremist and lacking in good judgement.
Obama is not fit to lead is the message.
Get real. He cannot blame Bush when the Congress is his party.
When the Congress and POTUS is all DEM, they will be blamed not Bush.
Owl_Eagle
“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’
-Slow Joe Biden
Get off it already. Everyone who isn’t seeing sunshine & roses in this campaign is not a troll.
And just so you all can get good and bent-out-of-shape, I do not expect McCain to engage in the Ayers/Wright attack in tomorrow’s debate.
Cedric, you are right. I am just so angry that this Marxist/Muslim is getting a free pass, and is being helped BY rasmuseen and his bad sample polling.
Then, in these tense times they should damn well stop acting like it.
Not a good tactic to not use it. Using the Wright connection would be a good tactic to go along with the general strategy of questioning Obama’s associations!
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