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McCain to Hillary supporters: I voted to confirm Ginsburg and Breyer, you know
Hot air | 6/16/08 | staff

Posted on 06/16/2008 12:13:45 PM PDT by pissant

Kaus expects nothing less than a full-blown conservosphere freak-out over this. I’m underwhelmed.

After his public conference call with Clinton supporters (covered extensively by Jonathan Martin) Saturday, John McCain met privately with some 75 of those supporters at his Virginia headquarters, two people who were there said…

“He stayed for a good almost half hour afterwards shaking hands, listening to our concerns, talking to us,” said [Party Unity My Ass] founder Will Bower, who said he thought many of the people there would vote for McCain…

Bower said he’d liked McCain’s answer on judges, in which he “pointed out that he supported Bill Clinton with both Ginsberg [sic] and Breyer.”

What’s he supposed to say? He was there to woo liberals. The best he could do realistically when they asked him about judges was to point to the Gang of 14 and emphasize that he wasn’t an obstructionist when the left’s turn came to pack the Court. Which, incidentally, would be an odd thing for the right to fault him for at this point: After years of Democratic shrieking about Bush’s appointments, my sense is most conservatives believe the senate’s advice and consent should be limited to determining whether the nominee has the legal chops to do the job plus some cursory ideological vetting to make sure there’s no truly fringe kookiness anywhere in his/her closet. If the left had followed McCain’s example, Miguel Estrada would be five years into his tenure on the D.C. Circuit.

Besides, unlike immigration, this clearly isn’t a subject on which Maverick is as far left as Obama — although given the composition of the senate next year, the difference between a McCain appointee and an Obama appointee is likely to be the difference between, say, an O’Connor and a Ginsburg. The former’s better than the latter, but if you think you’re getting another Roberts or Alito under any circumstances, think again.


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1 posted on 06/16/2008 12:13:46 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

email from Hillary today:

Together, you and I changed America forever. We touched so many lives over the course of this campaign, and I can’t thank you enough for the support you showed me. I met so many wonderful people out on the trail, and I wanted to share some of those memories with you.

I hope you’ll take a moment to view our online album with some favorite photos from the campaign.

Thank you so much — I’ll be in touch soon.

Sincerely,

Hillary Rodham Clinton


2 posted on 06/16/2008 12:14:55 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (DENVER DENVER DENVER DENVER DENVER DENVER DENVER!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: pissant; All
McCain to Hillary supporters: I voted to confirm Ginsburg and Breyer, you know

Cartman to MacCainiacs: How can you continue to pretend this asshat isn't a covert leftist?

He wants the Hillary supporters more than he wants conservatives. Guess what, Juanito? You win; You DON'T get my vote.

3 posted on 06/16/2008 12:17:36 PM PDT by E. Cartman (Just say "No" to mug-whores.)
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To: pissant
Kaus expects nothing less than a full-blown conservosphere freak-out over this. I’m underwhelmed.

Can't understand why Kaus, or anybody else, would expect conservatives to erupt in a sudden freak-out over something they've known from long before McCrazy officially began his '08 campaign.

4 posted on 06/16/2008 12:18:19 PM PDT by lonevoice (John McCain was a Kinoki foot pad in the Reagan Revolution)
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To: pissant
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5 posted on 06/16/2008 12:18:28 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: pissant

This is a joke, right?

Ya got to really love the open primary process and how it has been perverted.

This whole political season seems to be one long never-ending affront to conservatism and American ideals all the way around.

GoP,,, It is not too late to pull the plug on this one.


6 posted on 06/16/2008 12:19:32 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline 1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
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To: pissant

Just curious-—do you know if he supported the appointment of William Howard Taft?


7 posted on 06/16/2008 12:19:34 PM PDT by soupcon
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To: pissant

If this is true, it simply cement’s McCain’s status as a major putz.....


8 posted on 06/16/2008 12:21:15 PM PDT by KenHorse (It may be the only purpose of your life is to serve as a warning to others)
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To: pissant

If this is true, it simply cements McCain’s status as a major putz.....


9 posted on 06/16/2008 12:21:29 PM PDT by KenHorse (It may be the only purpose of your life is to serve as a warning to others)
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To: E. Cartman; All
two people who were there said…

Who are they!? Why do they have to quote anonymous "secret" insiders who were there. We know McCains votes. Nothing new here. But if the sources don't come out... BS!

10 posted on 06/16/2008 12:21:58 PM PDT by SolidWood (Refusal to vote for McCain is active support of Obama. Period.)
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To: pissant

Ginsburg ,, 96-3 Senate vote for approval.

Breyer ,, 80-10 Senate vote for approval.

Both Clinton appointees.


11 posted on 06/16/2008 12:23:04 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline 1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Alas, Norm, the ‘GOP’ loves McCain. It is the conservatives that are not enamored. GOP and conservative are not synonymous.


12 posted on 06/16/2008 12:23:11 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

Looks like Johnny McCain in pandering to the left and telling conservatives to kiss his a$$!

What a nightmare for the GOP who had the chance to nominate Thompson or Hunter but instead nominated one of their most liberal Senators.


13 posted on 06/16/2008 12:24:00 PM PDT by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: SolidWood
(Refusal to vote for McCain is active support of Obama. Period.) Translation: The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
14 posted on 06/16/2008 12:24:08 PM PDT by E. Cartman (Just say "No" to mug-whores.)
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To: KenHorse

But Hannity said that McCain would give us judges like Roberts and Scalia!


15 posted on 06/16/2008 12:25:05 PM PDT by pby
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To: E. Cartman
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

That's more the description of folks like you, who behave like McCain spells doom for Conservatism and America.

16 posted on 06/16/2008 12:25:40 PM PDT by SolidWood (Refusal to vote for McCain is active support of Obama. Period.)
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To: pissant

> I voted to confirm Ginsburg and Breyer, you know<

Did I get that right? Wouldn’t surprise me one bit.

Hubby keeps telling me, “He might really suck, but at least he’ll appoint good justices!”.

I said, “Look at how he does everything else? How can you possibly believe he will appoint conservative judges?”

We may agree to disagree on this one.


17 posted on 06/16/2008 12:26:00 PM PDT by Califreak (Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
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To: pissant

I’m trying to forgive and forget, Senator. Please stop rubbing my nose in it.


18 posted on 06/16/2008 12:26:10 PM PDT by nina0113 (If fences don't work, why does the White House have one?)
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To: pissant

Doomed. Doooooomed!

Scriptures to contemplate doom by:
Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too
had a sharp sickle. Still another angel, who had charge of
the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to
him who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and
gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine,
because its grapes are ripe.”
The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes
and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.


19 posted on 06/16/2008 12:27:14 PM PDT by tumblindice (dooomed I tell ya............. Did I tell you we're doomed?)
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To: lonevoice
Enjoy your Obama presidency. I hope your convictions keep you warm after B. Hussein taxes the crap out of you and we have about 3 or more 9/11 type situations. Good Job, jackhole.
20 posted on 06/16/2008 12:28:24 PM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (Obama - not qualified to be president or dogcatcher!)
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