'Maverick' McCain? Not when it counts
By Steve Benen Wednesday May 07, 2008 8:30amThe Arizona Republic explains the reality the DC media establishment tries to ignore:
Over the years, Sen. John McCain has publicly condemned Republican Party leaders and occasionally voted against the GOP on selected issues.
But an Arizona Republic analysis of his Senate votes on the most divided issues in the past decade shows that McCain almost never thwarted his party's objectives.
As Paul Waldman reported, "What do you know? An article that actually takes a feature of the McCain image, and -- hold on to your hats -- attempts to ascertain whether it's true. I'm floored."
In the article, Keith Poole, a political scientist at the University of California-San Diego, added, "He is a conservative who votes conservative on most issues. By no means is he a liberal or even a moderate."
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hillary has a better chance of becoming president than mccain and i think her chances are something like 2.5%
Whaddya’ See When a ‘Maverick’ is Fading into the Sunset?
The "Arizona Republic" link takes me to a login page. Is there another link to the story?
McSame...Bush's third term. I suppose we can expect much more of this with President McIForgot...
Imagine if George W. Bush and Dick Cheney had a say in our government until the days they die. Well they do. One of Bush's famous executive orders has given them the right to control what we know about this administration not just until they die but FOREVER!
Read Orders and Acts and Lies. Oh my!
When are these cowards who are supposed to represent us, you know, We The People going to do something for this country?
Golly jeepers....I had no idea! We must spread the word now, to all the rubes and dupes, and then we must inform the big mainstream media of this so that all the people from sea to shining sea will know the truth.
Mugsy @ 3:
Try this
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0507mccainvotes0507.html
To think: an article actually did RESEARCH before being published.
Who does the author think they are: Journalists?
By now the MSM should know that McCain interjects humor when he is stumped on difficult questions in order to deflect his lack of knowledge.
An experienced reporter would know this and get McCain back on subject.
For 7+ years we have watched Bush use his brand of humor (not funny), to control the WH Press and he continues to get away with it.
John mAcTTila and the republicHUNS
a vote for the Huns is a vote for…
wait, I'm thinking
McCain has never been publicly vetted about what & how much medications he is taking, sometimes he's referred to as "insane McCain, his mind is in a fog, he will mistake what is true for what is untrue, what is right for what is wrong & come to believe what did not happen actually had happened, the signs are all there, I'm afraid ol' big guns McCain is brain dead.
Swing and a pop fly.
3 up, 3 down and on we go to the top of the ninth. McCain still has his no-hitter going.
Oops, bad luck to mention a no-hitter. And he's superstitious too.
I remember when John McCain first arrived on the national scene back in the 1990's. I heard he was a maverick and a breath of fresh air. SO i decided to listen to him the first chance i got . Five minutes was all it took to convince me there was no way i could ever support him on any issue.
yeh mccains a tool, but both obama and hilary voted to reauthorize the patriot act..in hilary's case she voted to enact it in the first place.
not to mention: they both voted to fund the war in iraq, and neither of them wanted to use the constitution for what its for and impeach.
so really...whats the difference???
meh @ 13:
Amongst the many, many things, start with their Supreme Court selections.
meh @ 13:
carefull your speaking treason on here mentioning that both clinton and obama are talking the same trash, the fact is thiers not a dimes worth of difference in them ! clinton won indiana ! more then half of indiana voted for her , i talked to many republicans and asked who they were voteing for here in indiana , and many said obama , when i asked them why they said they were crossing over so they could win the 08 election because they said he was easy to beat, anyway here in southen indiana we went for hillary pretty much in mass, shes still in the race and has every right to be in it, even if you dont like it, so get over it ! if she decides to get out its her buisness ,
I live in AZ. The reason that the Gannett Corporation's Arizona Republic printed this article is to reassure Arizona's knuckle dragging knuckleheads that McCain can be trusted with the Neocon Reich. Hail Victory!
http://www.najakito.com/~john/etc/4post/bushsteddybear.jpg
I understand that there's no seat on the Straight Talk Express for the Arizona Republic. They are too inclined to talking straight.
Mc100wasyear's 'Straight Talk Express' is a private elitist jet.
I live in Az also - since 1966. The Az Republic is the leader in conservative news - conservative not neo-con. (I dont care for them much. I think the only major non-conservative newspaper in Az is the Tucson Citizen) But they are an actual NEWSpaper. Over the years they have done actual news - much of it honest and critical of extremist conservatives.
As a note, McCain isnt venerated in Az the way he is elsewhere in the US. There have been several recall attempts - all involving republicans. (I'm a social democrat) The last national politicians to be venerated by arizonans were Goldwater and Udall. The only current politician that even comes close to that is Napolitano. McCain is reelected here because he is an incumbent not because he is venerated.
Mugsy @ 3:
Excellent blog on gas prices, Mugsy! You should pimp that out to some of the larger mainstream pro-American/left-wing blogs.
Another layer off the onion.
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Rev. John Hagee, is the McCain supporter who said God created Hurricane Katrina to punish New Orleans for its homosexual "sins." Well now meet Rev. Rod Parsley, the televangelist megachurch pastor from Ohio who hates Islam. According to David Corn of Mother Jones, Parsley has called on Christians to wage war against Islam, which he considers to be a "false religion." In the past, Parsley has also railed against the separation of church and state, homosexuals, and abortion rights, comparing Planned Parenthood to Nazis.
John McCain actively sought and received Parsley's endorsement in the presidential race. McCain has called Parsley "a spiritual guide," and he hasn't said whether he shares Parsley's vicious anti-Islam views. That's because the mainstream media refuses to ask. And so, we've taken matters into our own hands, joining Mother Jones to present the truth about McCain's pastor:
Watch the video: http://bravenewfilms.org/watch/19592583/38133?utm_source=rgemail
Since the media won't question McCain about his deeply bigoted pastor, it's up to you to call attention to this issue. Make McCain's pastor problem a major story by forwarding this video to your family, friends, and colleagues. Digg it! Anything to spread the word.
We can't let McCain get away with aligning himself with a religious leader who's called for an all-out war on Islam, someone who draws no distinctions between Muslims and violent Islamic extremists. Now is the crucial time to act.
Yours,
Robert Greenwald
and the Brave New Team
When push comes to shove, Mc Lame doesn't have the balls to do what is right. Like many of our politicians, he'd rather cop out to political expediency than make a principled stand and take any risk. His "maverick" image is a fraud and a hoax, but then he's a Republican, the masters of fraud and deception.
The more voters see and hear McCain the more his ivory tower isolation, his flip-flopping and his challenges of knowledge, logic and memory will become apparent to them. His liabilities and vulnerabilities are huge. He should be questioned on Bush’s policies relentlessly. Either he has to defend Bush, which is political suicide, or he has to disown him, which hurts him with Bush Republicans. And there’s the Iraq war and its trillion dollar debt, veteran’s education benefits he doesn’t believe they deserve, his associations with lobbyists, his wife’s money/jet/eight houses, his elitism, his campaign financing scam, his bomb, bomb Iran war-mongering, his associations with evangelical zealots Rod Parsley and John Hagee and his memory lapses that point to his advanced age. Once McCain experiences the daily competition and scrutiny that Obama and Clinton have undergone, he will look increasingly unacceptable. His inability to take the heat without looking like a bewildered and crotchety old political chameleon will be his undoing. I believe McCain and Republicans will self-destruct and that Democrats will sweep the country with landslide victories in November. How Republicans are perceived in general has not improved since the 2006 elections. And many Republicans loathe McCain as much as Democrats loathe Bush.
If the voters are so attracted to someone who condemns Republican leaders and votes against the GOP, why not just vote for a Democrat?
dennis @ 11:
Actually, it's bad luck to BE superstotious.
McSame and Dumbya ...... Forever.
Chico Hussein @ 26:
Every baseball player is superstitious, Chico. So is every golfer.
What is even more signficant about this piece by the Republic is that this is the same newspaper back in the 1970s that:
A. buried a story on a sitting Arizona U.S. Senator that not only was driving under the influence, but also berated and insulted the police officer who had the audacity to stop and cite him, and;
B. did not participate in a series of investigative stories about events surrounding the assassination of an Arizona Republic investigative reporter. A series of stories compiled by journalists from across the United States that completed the job started by Don Bolles, who died a number of days after a bomb planted in his automobile detonated. The series of stories ended with the indictments of several poeple involved in illegal activities being investigated by Bolles for the Arizona Republic before he was assassinated.
My how things have changed at the Arizona Republic. And I applaud the changes.
Cindy McCain says she'll never release her tax returns
Where is the fake outrage from the reich-wingers? Where is the constant "news" cycle on Faux filled with the screaming and huffing??
*crickets chirping from the reich-wing GOPigs*
tyree @ 15:
Wow Tyree. I think this is a big change from some of your ealier posts I've seen during the primaries. I thought you couldn't stand Hillary. I do agree when it comes to voting records Obama and Hillary are about the same. I've also heard about repugs crossing over to vote for Obama that have no intention of voting for him in November. I've heard the same about Hillary too, so we'll have to see how that works out during the general election.
I think Obama's going to be our candidate but I tell you what. I don't know how he's going to get the 270 Electoral College votes he needs to be President. First, you can knock out the South. I can't think of a single southern state that's going to vote for Obama come November. I know Hillary would at least get Arkansas and she can compete in Tennessee. I'm assuming he'll carry the states Kerry won in the Northeast and the West Coast states. So without the South, Obama has to compete in the Midwest and Mountain West states.
We have to count on states like Virginia and Colorado to vote Democratic in November. I hope I'm wrong but I don't like the looks of this.
The issue is done as far as I'm concerned. Mccain is NOT A MAVERICK. Enough with this stupid word in the liberal or conservative worlds.
Looks like the 'Straight-Talk Express' just lost a few more wheels...
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