This is coming from the same mouth that claimed late term abortion in this country is a myth. I guess when abortion is your party’s main platform you have to make it sound good, like calling extermination camps “work farms”.

Guess not. I wonder why Republicans don’t like Bill Clinton. I mean, cheating on your wife is the actions of a man with a strong sense of ethics and morals now.

Or something… I’m not sure, maybe cheating on your wife isn’t an ethical/moral question?

Did you notice the use of the present tense? He didn’t say that “he never had an instinct about what is the right thing to do and what is not.” Notice the difference there? No, you probably don’t.

Well, if you wanna be a turd, Dean didn’t say “at present he doesn’t have an instinct about what is the right thing to do and what is not.” He simply said “doesn’t,” which, while it is indeed a present tense form, can also imply an extension into the past. And Dean also brought up the Keating Five, which in fact happened in the past. Get it? No, you probably don’t.

(Oh, and for the record, I ain’t exactly the world’s biggest McCain fan.)

Shrieking Tool

Heh. Reminds me of the Allah of Old, the God of Photoshop.

You can choose or not to believe Bennett’s description, quoted above, but you’re slandering McCain regarding the Keating 5 scandal. McCain was cleared of wrongdoing, and not even the most heavily implicated senators were convicted of “taking bribes.” Cranston was censured – the stiffest penalty – but even he wasn’t accused of enriching himself.

CK MacLeod on February 21, 2008 at 7:55 PM

Listen, it’s quite simple: You take money from somebody and you try to use your influence in ways that would benefit that somebody. You can call it whatever you like (as can Congress desperately trying to cover their own asses), and it’s quite obvious that you will when the recipient of the funds is somebody you want to spin for, but everybody with a moral compass knows what it is.

And no, saying that you’re sorry doesn’t change it either.

Sorry you got caught, I’m sure.

Damn, I never expected to have to explain that to a fellow conservative. The morons at the Daily Kossack, to be sure, but not around here.

Because Howard Dean didn’t say that McCain had an ethical lapse or something like that. He made the blanket statement that McCain “doesn’t seem to really have an ethical compass. He doesn’t seem to have an instinct about what is the right thing to do and what isn’t the right thing to do.”

And when the guy who makes that statement got a deferment from military service on physical grounds and then spent his time skiing, attention must be paid.

Great post, AP.

Levy on February 21, 2008 at 8:04 PM

Did you notice the use of the present tense? He didn’t say that “he never had an instinct about what is the right thing to do and what is not.” Notice the difference there? No, you probably don’t.

And don’t get me started on that shitbird Dean, please, I’ll never get done with the expletives, but I wasn’t aware that facts become something else because they’re mentioned by somebody you don’t like.

Again: I always thought that was something that liberals in the deep throes of BDS had cornered the market on.

Sheesh.

Do you think that you can compare Kerry’s laughable excuse for a war record (he still hasn’t released his Military records) vs a True American Hero like John McCain.

Do you really believe they are comparable? Really?

Really?

JayHaw Phrenzie on February 21, 2008 at 8:18 PM

Ahhhh… So now it’s all a matter of how high on the JayHaw Phrenzie Scale of Heroics you scored? If you score highly enough, all is forgiven for the rest of your life, and no amount of ethical lapses can ever be mentioned, lest you be accused of insulting a war hero.

Gotcha.

Of COURSE I’m not comparing F*ckFace’s record to McCain’s, you dolt, but that’s hardly the point, now is it? The point is that some people, just exactly like the ridiculous Kerryites back in ‘04, seem to take any criticism of their hero McCain as a most heinous and vile attack on his war record, no matter the relevance or utter lack of same.

Pathetic.

This is turning into The Daily Kotz.

*Sigh*

This didn’t take long. Howard Dean crawls from under his rock to jump on the John McCain story. Being given softball questions over home plate by Linda Douglass from TNR.
“So there is big news about John McCain — the story that is …

That’s the Republicans ‘real conservatives’ job!!

I think they let Dean loose now and then to scare us

They used to have a treatment in mental hospitals similar to water boarding. I remember the scene with Olivia DeHavilland in the Snake Pit
For fun, watch this movie and imagine Dean in her place. He has the scream

THE CHOSEN ONE on February 21, 2008 at 8:00 PM

Kerist you’re thick. I’m not defending The Times, but if you want to be a garbage picker, include me out.

Wars can bring out the best in men and being a politican can bring out the worst of the same man (See: Cunningham, Duke).

Why is it assumed he is ethical because he was a POW?

Didn’t we use to make fun of Kerry for that (and rightfully so)?

Misha I on February 21, 2008 at 7:17 PM

Do you think that you can compare Kerry’s laughable excuse for a war record (he still hasn’t released his Military records) vs a True American Hero like John McCain.

Do you really believe they are comparable? Really?

Really?

But how does this mean that nobody, anywhere, can ever again question his morals and ethics without being reminded of the kind of hero he was 40 years ago and being accused of denigrating that?

I just don’t get it.

Misha I on February 21, 2008 at 7:17 PM

Because Howard Dean didn’t say that McCain had an ethical lapse or something like that. He made the blanket statement that McCain “doesn’t seem to really have an ethical compass. He doesn’t seem to have an instinct about what is the right thing to do and what isn’t the right thing to do.”

And when the guy who makes that statement got a deferment from military service on physical grounds and then spent his time skiing, attention must be paid.

Great post, AP.

Allahpundit= Best Headline Writer Evah!

terryannonline on February 21, 2008 at 6:50 PM

heh, I was just going to say the same thing! That, and those screencaps…

Eh, this righty…whose an avowed McHead…doesn’t think AP’s “in the tank” for McCain. Gheeze, if anything, there’s been a lot of almost “anti-McCain” posts on HA. Almost…

F You. The guy responsible for this smut is an adulterer himself. It’s totally relevant and the Times ought to burn in hell. Keep defending the indefensable, loser.

I’ll use that defense if I ever decide to take bribes myself then. I’m sure all my sins will be washed away instantly.

Misha I on February 21, 2008 at 7:30 PM

And what will be your excuse for bearing false witness?
You can choose or not to believe Bennett’s description, quoted above, but you’re slandering McCain regarding the Keating 5 scandal. McCain was cleared of wrongdoing, and not even the most heavily implicated senators were convicted of “taking bribes.” Cranston was censured – the stiffest penalty – but even he wasn’t accused of enriching himself.