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McCain Explains ‘Hobbit’ Dig (McCain unrepentant for attacks on conservatives)
Roll Call ^ | 2011-08-21 | Melanie Starkey

Posted on 08/21/2011 12:22:31 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

Sen. John McCain was put on the defensive Sunday for comparing some of his GOP colleagues to hobbits during the debt ceiling debate.

The Arizona Republican had taken to the Senate floor in July to admonish conservatives for “unrealistic” expectations and quoted a Wall Street Journal editorial that compared them to the characters from J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.”

“What I was talking about, quoting from a Wall Street Journal editorial, was that there was a segment of the Republicans in the Senate — Republican Senators — that said we cannot raise the debt limit until we pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution,” McCain said when asked on CBS’ “Face the Nation” about his choice of words. “The Senate would not pass — would not get 67 votes. ... We could not have passed it. That was unrealistic, hobbits are unrealistic, it was unrealistic to say.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 112th; bho44; debt; hobbitgate; hobbits; mcbama; mccain; mccain4obama; mccainantigop; mccaintruthfile; mcinsane; rino; traitor
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To: rabscuttle385

Yep - McCain was the “conservative” candidate in 2008.

And we’re going to push Perry or Romney in 2012?

Why would these people listen to us? They call us names to our faces and we still support them.


41 posted on 08/21/2011 5:26:58 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: rabscuttle385

All bark and no bite.  

All Mrs. McCain's toothless lapdog had to do for the win in 2008 was attack with a single phrase:

"Penny Pritzker is Mr. Obama's national finance chairwoman.  Her Chicago family owned bank pioneered subprime loans and failed because of them in 2001..."

But McPoodle did have the cajones, did he.

 


42 posted on 08/21/2011 5:40:57 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: rabscuttle385

As always... FUJM


43 posted on 08/21/2011 5:56:39 PM PDT by hattend (The SEALs got Osama. The only thing Obama killed was our childrens future - NoLibZone)
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To: rabscuttle385

Mc Gollum.


44 posted on 08/21/2011 6:00:02 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network ("Cut the Crap and Balance!" -- Governor Sarah Palin , Friday August 12 2011, Iowa State Fair)
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To: rabscuttle385

Never forget: at the King’s coronation*, the King himself knelt before the Hobbits.

*movie version


45 posted on 08/21/2011 6:12:02 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (Freedom is saying "No!" to the Feds, and getting away with it. "Speak 'NO' to Power!")
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To: rabscuttle385

Never forget: at the King’s coronation*, the King himself knelt before the Hobbits.

*movie version


46 posted on 08/21/2011 6:18:33 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (Freedom is saying "No!" to the Feds, and getting away with it. "Speak 'NO' to Power!")
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To: ExGeeEye

oops


47 posted on 08/21/2011 6:23:23 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (Freedom is saying "No!" to the Feds, and getting away with it. "Speak 'NO' to Power!")
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