Freedom’s Commander-in-Chief: Former Foe Explains Why Bush is Man of Year (John McCain)

Human Events ^ | Posted 12/19/1, at 3:30 p.m. | John McCain

[FReethesheeples]

Yes!

[glorgau]

A very nice gesture on Mr. McCain's part.

[katherineisgreat]

Well I still don't like McCain. this is my Mom's theory, (I agree totally)

McCain will leave the GOP about 2 months before he must register to run in the primaries. he will say in a thundering voice "I leave this party because I belive the republican party does not represent the values for which I STAND!! "
The press will say "what an act of courage my this man" McCain will win the RAT primaries b/c they have no-one. Then he will face Bush later as what he truly is: a RAT.

[Jean S]

McCain is a late edition to this collection. This wasn't on the site when this series of articles were first published on the 15th.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/591529/posts?page=16#16

[Howlin]

It's called "trying to get in front of the parade;" McCain and the Clintons are experts at it.

[Jean S]

I think my father used to call it "jumping on the bandwagon." I wonder where that saying came from.

[OldFriend]

Sad to say that praise of our beloved President from this man is not something palatable to me. Forgive my cynicism.

[bayourod]

"I think my father used to call it "jumping on the bandwagon." "
"It's called "trying to get in front of the parade;" "

Maybe. But it also might be that McCain, Buchanan, Bauer, Keyes et al., have actually realized that President Bush is not the baffoon that they originally believed him to be.

I had such a conversion after years of not being able to look at him without seeing his father.

[bushfamfan]

There are times when I don't understand McCain. I think he's being sincere with his comments. Hopefully he's gotten over the election?

[SharonLorraine]

I think McCain is a big pile of crap. He sticks his finger up in the air to see which way the wind is blowing. Right now he would look nothing short of a traitor to this country if he didn't support President Bush in this way.

You just have to trust your gut with a man like McCain. He is a man NEVER to be trusted.

[sarcastro]

There is nothing that this man can say to win even the SLIGHTEST BIT OF PRAISE from you people. If McCain has even a remote criticism of Bush, it is part of some scheme to undermine President Bush, leave the Republican party, win more affection from the media and take over the Presidency himself. When McCain gives Bush a 21 gun salute, it is really a scheme to undermine him, leave the Republican party, win more affection from the media and take over the Presidency himself. The Keating Five scandal was also a scheme to undermine Bush, leave the Republican Party, win more affection from the media and take over the Presidency. Getting captured in Vietnam was a scheme to undermine Bush, leave the...well, you get the idea.

Just give the guy a break already. He makes me mad sometimes, too. But it's important to give credit where credit is due. McCain is being generous to his sometimes-foe because he just knows it's the right thing to do. It'd be nice if you folks could do the same...

[GenXFreedomFighter]

I'd have an easier time trusting McCain if he wasn't always praising Bush on TV while trying to shaft him when it comes to legislation.

[deport]

......McCain is a late edition to this collection. This wasn't on the site when this series of articles were first published on the 15th. .......

Interesting that the people writing these articles contested each other back in Ames Iowa in the summer/fall of 1999 for the Republican nomination. Bauer, Buchanan, Dole, Forbes, Hatch, Kasich, McCain, Smith..... seems to be only a couple missing... Alexander, Keyes

[deport]

A McCain bump for you

[RayBob]

No, Lamar Alexander did one too. Only Alan Keyes is missing. Maybe you didn't read his entry...Uncle Sam's Dangerous Drug.

[deport]

Oh yes, must not leave out Dan Quayle from the list in post 14.... The numbers from the Straw poll conducted on Aug. 12, 1999.... Alexander was the first to bow out.

STRAW VOTE TOTALS
George W. Bush - 7418 (31%)
Steve Forbes - 4921 (21%)
Elizabeth Dole - 3410 (14%)
Gary Bauer - 2114 (9%)
Patrick Buchanan - 1719 (7%)
Lamar Alexander - 1428 (6%)
Alan Keyes - 1101 (5%)
Dan Quayle - 916 (4%)
Orrin Hatch- 558 (2%)

[deport]

Thanks for pointing that out... I did miss Mr. Alexander's article. It was a later addition along with McCain's I guess. Dangerous Drug.... (lol)

[MeekOneGOP]

Sorry, I don't trust this guy at all.

This year, Jim Jeffords gets RINO of the Year.

John McCain: RINO OF THE YEAR 2002!

[agave]

"...it also might be that McCain, Buchanan, Bauer, Keyes et al., have actually realized that President Bush is not the baffoon that they originally believed him to be."

Of course these characters TRIED very hard to paint Bush as a buffoon, but do you really think they BELIEVED their own B.S? Whatever you may think of the respective campaign platforms of these various candidates, not one of them approached the stature and electability of Bush.

Mr. "Straight Talk Express" has amply demonstrated that he is a "man of the moment" who will say and do just about anything to get face time on TV. Before 9/11, he had positioned himself as a permanent thorn in the President's side; a spineless, Jim Jeffords wanna be. Once the bombing started, he got big pub spouting quagmire nonsense for which he surely should have known better.

The only credibility McCain has is that which is assigned to him by sycophants like Don Imus and Chris Matthews.