Wednesday, May 07, 2008
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Comeback of the Campaign
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Posted by:
Mary Katharine Ham at
10:10 AM
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Whatever you think about the claim that the McCains didn't vote Bush in 2000, this is a doozy of a push-back, from McCain aide Mark Salter on Arianna Huffington's story:
"Why would she make something up? Because she's a flake, and a poser, and an attention-seeking diva. And that's on the record." Awesome.
Mark Steyn on the dust-up:
I'd be more impressed by this "straight talk" if it wasn't just as obvious in July 2000 that Arianna was "a flake, and a poser, and an attention seeking diva", when Senator McCain agreed to appear as the keynote speaker at her flaky attention-seeking posers' "shadow convention" (shadowing the GOP one, that is). The LAT claims to find another witness to the Cindy McCain denial of Bush:
Another woman who attended the 2001 dinner said Tuesday that Cindy McCain had told her she could not bring herself to vote for Bush. The source said she did not want to be identified, so as not to alienate the McCains. Sounds unlikely to me. John McCain's too friendly with the left sometimes, but he's no out-and-out Chafee.
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McCain has done more to advance the left's agenda than any other Republican. If elected he will reach across the aisle to ressurect McCain/Kennedy and provide "his friends" with their new permanent majority.
Quoting John McCain's comment in 2004:
"I believe my party has gone astray. I think the Democratic Party is a fine party, and I have no problems with it, in their views and their philosophy."
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I can't stand her. Her hatred (whether legitimate or a business decision) of Republicans, conservatives, FNC, and Bill O'Reilly frustrates me. She seems determined to take all of those entities down, especially BOR. |
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I just can't take her seriously. I mean, wasn't she married to a gay man for many, many years? |
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wishes he had the Maverick's record of passing/proposing giant landmark legislation for the Left...
Hillary and Obama are trying to catch McCain in this regard... |
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Does this post have less to do with rightfully bashing Arianna Huffington and more to do with bashing McCain via Chafee? |
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MCLIJazz wrote,
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"Does this post have less to do with rightfully bashing Arianna Huffington and more to do with bashing McCain via Chafee?"
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Well, Scarlet and VA Pat just happen to be more angry at McCain than they are at lefties. |
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M-Kat,
I pointed out to Carol Platt Liebau yesterday that when McCain spoke at Arianna's Shadow Convention in the summer of 2000, he was quoted as urging everyone to vote FOR Governor Bush.
Incidentally, that anecdote appears on page 322 in a book about McCain, entitled, "Man of the People; The Life of John McCain" by Paul Alexander.
It doesn't even make sense that if McCain WERE going to run around telling people that he didn't vote for Bush in 2000, that nobody else had stepped forward in 7 1/2 years to reveal that "secret."
Or, if he were only going to tell "one" person on the planet, it's unfathomable that he would "confide" in a dishonest, catty, motormouth like Arianna Huffington.
Look at the way she enables her own Huffington Post to indulge in character smears and trash, and that's all you need to know about her fidelity to "truth."
I trust that McCain voted for Bush in 2000.
He may have been angry at Bush as a result of the hotly contested GOP primaries that year, but McCain didn't dislike Bush so much that he would have preferred to see Al Gore in the White House.
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It's quite believable that McCain would have campaigned for his party nominee in order to keep his own future viable, while voting for Gore knowing that Gore would have made a superior president to Bush.
He may also have voted for Bush but told Ariana a fib because he was coming on to her. |
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She, like her posters, distorts & lies about any politicians who are not far left. To be honest, the far right is just as bad. |
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