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Romney depicts loose cannon McCain - updated ("I don't want this guy near the trigger")
Boston Herald ^ | staff

Posted on 01/29/2008 5:26:22 AM PST by teddyballgame

THE MCCAIN WAY ATTACK REPUBLICANS A Top 10 List…

Defending His Amnesty Bill, Sen. McCain Lost His Temper And “Screamed, ‘F*ck You!’ At Texas Sen. John Cornyn” (R-TX). “Presidential hopeful John McCain - who has been dogged for years by questions about his volcanic temper - erupted in an angry, profanity-laced tirade at a fellow Republican senator, sources told The Post yesterday. In a heated dispute over immigration-law overhaul, McCain screamed, ‘F— you!’ at Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who had been raising concerns about the legislation. ‘This is chickens—stuff,’ McCain snapped at Cornyn, according to several people in the room off the Senate floor Thursday. ‘You’ve always been against this bill, and you’re just trying to derail it.’” (Charles Hurt, “Raising McCain,” New York Post, 5/19/07)

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; elections; mccain; romney
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Ever wonder why hardly any of his colleagues in the Senate are supporting him? McCain's greatest hits...
1 posted on 01/29/2008 5:26:26 AM PST by teddyballgame
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Here are the Senators who voted against the Cornyn amendment , which would have established a permanent bar for gang members, terrorists, and other criminals looking to snag a shamnesty visa. Republicans underlined:

Never forget McCain not only pushed the amnesty bill, he refused to allow exclusions for the worst of the lot. And he unloaded his infamous temper on his mild- mannered senate colleague for having the audacity to introduce this amendment.

Apologies to any who feel I am spamming this message on campaign threads, but it is an important message on a key vote which needs to get out.

2 posted on 01/29/2008 5:27:12 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: teddyballgame
‘You’ve always been against this bill, and you’re just trying to derail it.’

That's right McCain, and God bless Cornyn for doing so...and for helping reveal more of your true nature in the process.

3 posted on 01/29/2008 5:29:37 AM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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I certainly wouldn't hold dropping a few F-bombs to Senators against McCain. After all, which of us wouldn't like to do the same, and which of us didn't cheer when the Vice President told Senator Leahy to go perform an anatomical impossibility.

However, the pattern of temper tantrums we see here is a bit unsettling, and reminds one of the history of a certain other Senator and Presidential candidate on the Democrat side.
4 posted on 01/29/2008 5:30:35 AM PST by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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5 posted on 01/29/2008 5:30:41 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Romney didn’t “invent” these events. If he did, you’d expect the abused Republicans to deny the event took place. Has anyone denied these events yet?

Crazy man with his finger on the button - you can be sure this very same campaign has been planned for a long time in the bowels of Democratville... probably since the straight-jacket express first rolled out in Y2K.


6 posted on 01/29/2008 5:33:27 AM PST by rhombus
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To: The Pack Knight

I agree, I wouldn’t hold McCain use of profanity against him. However, it does demonstrate how passionately he defended and fought for his amnesty bill. Something he now basically wants us to forget. Oh yeah, he’ll secure the borders. Right. They call Romney a flip-flopper, McCain saying he’ll secure the borders has to be the flop of all-time.


7 posted on 01/29/2008 5:35:07 AM PST by Big E
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How about one of his key advisers Juan Hernandez who is a Mexican citizen and hole radical amnesty views?
20 million illegals...at a cost of 2.6 TRILLION dollars...
McAmnesty will bring it up again and again....

NO thanks.


8 posted on 01/29/2008 5:36:56 AM PST by JaneNC (I)
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To: The Pack Knight

Yeah, I agree a few “F” bombs don’t bother me, but taken as a whole the guy looks like a bully and a low class thug. Can you see Reagan, Bush (41) or (43), Romney, Thompson, or a majority of the candidates acting like this? Hillary - yes.


9 posted on 01/29/2008 5:37:30 AM PST by teddyballgame (red man in a blue state)
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To: Big E

Sure he’ll secure the border. He even brought Juan Hernandez on board to help the process along.


10 posted on 01/29/2008 5:38:11 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (John McCain: Bush Derangement Syndrome's "Patient Zero")
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To: JaneNC

Beat me by a minute and fifteen seconds...


11 posted on 01/29/2008 5:38:57 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (John McCain: Bush Derangement Syndrome's "Patient Zero")
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Don't call me that. It makes me so angry when you call me that . . .
12 posted on 01/29/2008 5:39:44 AM PST by coramdeo
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

He is a RINO...
The states he won were open primaries.

Liberals love him.
The Republican who always comes against other Republicans.
He is in the wrong party.

And he could NOT beat Hillary.
He lost the base a LONG time ago.


13 posted on 01/29/2008 5:40:05 AM PST by JaneNC (I)
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To: teddyballgame

Does anyone remember McCain after Bush beat him in South Carolina? He snapped at Arnold’s Kennedy wife the reporter for NBC and basically told her to get lost. Another golden McCain Sore Loserman moment.


14 posted on 01/29/2008 5:40:10 AM PST by rhombus
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To: teddyballgame

McCain likes and respects Sen Clinton. So I guess that means in the fall campaign she would observe rules of civility and decorum. HA HA! You can bet the Dems and the media who are now in love with McCain will rip him apart and use incidents like this as part of their arsenal. They will say he is too crazy to be commander in chief, and maybe they are right.

McCain screamed at Sen Cornyn? Too bad Cornyn isn’t our front runner for president! If he were from any state other than TX I think he would have been pushed to run.


15 posted on 01/29/2008 5:41:01 AM PST by TNCMAXQ
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16 posted on 01/29/2008 5:41:35 AM PST by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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I agree 100% that John McCain is a loose cannon. He looks like a walking time bomb.


17 posted on 01/29/2008 5:41:41 AM PST by apocalypto
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To: teddyballgame
Why is McCain so pro-illegal... Since when did conservatism become against Law & Order? There is nothing ‘compassionate’ about this hand out to a few and slave wages for the many. Why would any conservative promote illegal cheap wages?
18 posted on 01/29/2008 5:41:41 AM PST by Just mythoughts (Isa.3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.)
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To: JaneNC
Yes. McCain is a RINO, but so are Romney, Huckabee, and Giuliani. There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference among the four men.
19 posted on 01/29/2008 5:42:13 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: rhombus

I do remember that. That one was actually pretty funny.


20 posted on 01/29/2008 5:42:58 AM PST by teddyballgame (red man in a blue state)
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