Bill Cunningham: Damned right I’m endorsing Hillary
posted at 9:58 am on February 27, 2008 by Allahpundit
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And when she drops out next week? He’ll shift to Ralph Vladimir Ilyich Nader, presumably.
When even Karl Rove is troubled by your tactics, it’s time to rethink.
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Cunningham is Ann Coulter without the looks or the humor.
Pax americana on February 27, 2008 at 10:01 AM
Or the smarts.
toliver on February 27, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Get lost, dumbass
Mike Honcho on February 27, 2008 at 10:03 AM
What a tool.
Just STFU.
JammieWearingFool on February 27, 2008 at 10:04 AM
McCains group knew what they were getting with Cunningham. They set him up to make McCain look like the Great Uniter. It stinks.
ctmom on February 27, 2008 at 10:04 AM
I guess he’s sitting out the general election or voting Obama. Blowhard.
THE CHOSEN ONE on February 27, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Also, who was the idiot that put this loud mouth jerk on as a warmup speaker? Some of these talk show hosts and TV talking heads are their own worst enemies.
rplat on February 27, 2008 at 10:06 AM
It smells like politics to me. Good old well calculated politics.
I can’t believe we haven’t seen Commercials from the left yet with the McCain “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran”
I’m sure we will though.
beefytee on February 27, 2008 at 10:06 AM
Even Karl Rove? What does that mean?
JiangxiDad on February 27, 2008 at 10:07 AM
Bill Cunningham looks like one of these yoohoos who is so desperate for their 15 minutes of fame that they’ll step out in front of any camera that happens to be running at the time and blather off any old kind of goofiness while trying to look like they are models of refined genius. I’m just surprised he didn’t get up there foaming at the mouth and throw his full backing towards Huckaschmuck.
pilamaye on February 27, 2008 at 10:07 AM
Casse toi alors, con. ;)
fourstringfuror on February 27, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Most of our radio talkers are our treasure. This Cunningham is a liability. The sooner he shuts up, the better.
petefrt on February 27, 2008 at 10:10 AM
The only other possible theory is that McCain and his staff simply don’t listen to conservative talk radio. This “Republican” sruff is very new to them. So they just took out the yellow pages and pointed out on the first host with a nice sounding surname “Cunningham”, it’s really not their fault.
Aristotle on February 27, 2008 at 10:12 AM
Wow. You’re gonna be banned for that dude.
JiangxiDad on February 27, 2008 at 10:12 AM
I doubt if anyone told him to give them maggot infested red meat.
Expect raving lunatic Cunningham to be front and center in the news for at least 4-5 more days. He defintely won’t get the Norman Hsu instant vanishing treatment by the MSM.
fogw on February 27, 2008 at 10:16 AM
McCain is his own worst enemy, time will prove that point.
tarpon on February 27, 2008 at 10:16 AM
Some of you guys are so mamby-pamby (sp?).
I think these things are fair game. We are not electing a first grade teacher here. Toughen up folks. Go Bill.
faraway on February 27, 2008 at 10:17 AM
Alas. People whose normal speaking tone is a loud harangue seldom do much credit to their causes, unless they are drill instructors.
As conservatives, I think we have good arguments (see the Wall Street Journal, the City Journal, Charles Krauthammer, etc.). Reason, and not volume, will win arguments.
morganfrost on February 27, 2008 at 10:19 AM
I don’t know the Cunningham guy. But what did he do that was so off limits? I’m very interested in Obama’s religious views and affiliations, and want to know more about the church he attends, and his minister. I want to know about his relationship to his father, to Islam, to Kenya, Indonesia, etc. I want to know if he or his wife are racists or anti-semites. How did he get that middle name? What is the significance of it, if any? The personal lives and religious beliefs of the Republican candidates seemed to be bared for public display. The Dems not much.
JiangxiDad on February 27, 2008 at 10:20 AM
He’s tasted national exposure, and he wants more.
Slublog on February 27, 2008 at 10:20 AM
I heard this jackass when I lived in Cinci in the 90’s. Didn’t like him then, and I cannot understand how this jackass made it to national syndication.
bloviator on February 27, 2008 at 10:21 AM
Watched the video, and now my head hurts. Egads, what an irritating voice.
juliesa on February 27, 2008 at 10:21 AM
Yup. If McCain meant it he would have said it IN FRONT OF THE CROWD… not after he gave his boring stump speech and was talking to reporters. Yawn…
TOPV on February 27, 2008 at 10:21 AM
I’m not ecstatic about McCain either, but you don’t see me publicly make a pansy out of myself. And this guy didn’t understand that Hussein is a common name (one of the original Imams), and that linking Obama with genocide-lovin’ Saddam is a bit far-fetched.
LT Nixon on February 27, 2008 at 10:21 AM
I’d never heard of this guy before outside of hearing Hannity say he likes him. McCain isn’t from Ohio, so how can you expect him to know this guy?
And with the press all in a huff over Hillary’s circulation of the Obama in the silly Somali outfit, McCain had to distance himself from the “Hussein” stuff. Or the rest of the campaign could have been “your people call him Hussein, just like Hillary’s people.”
We do see how well that’s worked for Hillary, right?
Now, those of you who prefer Obama to McCain like Ann Coulter, go ahead and toss the conspiracy theories around and stick up for this guy…..because you wanted to see McCain get the “Hillary” treatment?
funky chicken on February 27, 2008 at 10:23 AM
I think AP’s explanation on another board about why it is disingenuous to bring up Obama’s middle name and say “what’s the big deal?” is perfect. Maybe if Sean Hannity read it, he could get that through his thick head.
asc85 on February 27, 2008 at 10:24 AM
oops, like Ann Coulter, ctmom, and TOPV
funky chicken on February 27, 2008 at 10:25 AM
So using Obama’s real, given name is off-limits? This is bloody insane. If this is going to be the way this election is going to be we’re doomed. I have decided to not vote for anyone for Pres in the general and focus on Congress.
jdawg on February 27, 2008 at 10:26 AM
To be shallow, this guy has the same little piggy eyes as Joe Scarborough. Ick
funky chicken on February 27, 2008 at 10:26 AM
No, not off limits at all. Just cheap and counterproductive.
McCain didn’t do us any favors by making such an issue of it, and Cunningham just digs the hole deeper by reacting to McCain in such an unhinged way, which tends to color other talk radio hosts in the eyes of the lefties. The left is watching the self-destruction and loving every minute of it.
petefrt on February 27, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Cunningham is such an idiot. You have to love someone who can contridict theirself in the span of 3 minutes on video.
12thman on February 27, 2008 at 10:29 AM
I think Captain Ed said it well here.
There are many, many reasons to oppose Barack Obama. His name shouldn’t be one of them. It’s a distraction, not a strategy.
Slublog on February 27, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Bush is Hitler but we cant use Obama’s real name. What have we come to? This reminds me of the War on the enemy that cant be named. Disgusting.
Lets be “unashamed and unafraid”.
faraway on February 27, 2008 at 10:31 AM
The guy has been on Radio for 24 years. So he’s hardly seeking “his 15 minutes”.
Barak Hussein Obama
Barak Hussein Obama
Barak Hussein Obama
Like the taste of that?
Some of you “conservatives” suprise me. First the objections to the Obama in muslim garb pic, then this…You have gone soft. Like the rest of the Western World, you seem to have lost the will to fight.
pseudonominus on February 27, 2008 at 10:31 AM
Whoever said Cunningham is as bad as Coulter, should apologize to Cunningham. That is low.
THE CHOSEN ONE on February 27, 2008 at 10:31 AM
Who?
Asher on February 27, 2008 at 10:32 AM
I’m with you. The country needs to know and understand Obama’s history. It’s fair to discuss his anti-semitic pastor. And it is fair game to discuss his business connections with Syrian-born Rezco and Iraqi-born, now London billionaire, Nadhmi Auchi. A lot of Auchi’s money has been floating around and it seems Obama may have benefited. Is that how Obama was able to afford his Hyde Park mansion? These are all good questions that someone needs to explore. If McCain and his campagin do not believe those kind of issues have merit, he is forgoing a major weakness he ought to exploit on his way to victory. If McCain doesn’t knock Obama down, he will be lost in the Sea of Change.
flyfisher on February 27, 2008 at 10:34 AM
Republicans don’t need to smear a candidate who’s the democratic version of Mitt Romeney.
THE CHOSEN ONE on February 27, 2008 at 10:35 AM
faraway, so you admire and wish to emulate the McChimpyHalliburtonHitler folks on the left?
funky chicken on February 27, 2008 at 10:35 AM
JiangxiDad on February 27, 2008 at 10:20 AM
I would also like to know the answer to the same questions you posed about Obama. Sending out a Cunningham as a warm-up act at a campaign rally doesn’t strike me as practical way of getting answers. There is evidence to support my assertion.
Today the media isn’t raising any probing questions about Obama’s character or association with the Muslim world, they aren’t saying “Hey, we need to look into a few of the things Cunningham mentioned”. No, they are hanging him out to dry and doing there utmost to link McCain to his pathetic performance.
The facts and details on Obama’s past will remain a mystery, thanks to the blind eye of a biased media. Right-wing talk show hosts won’t ever change that, whether they come across a lunatics, or rational thinking analysts.
cheers.
fogw on February 27, 2008 at 10:37 AM
This is one of those rare cases where absolutely everyone is in complete agreement on all the material points:
1) The man John McCain hired to introduce him is a loudmouthed freak, and
2) Anyone who makes a big deal out of the simple act of mentioning someone’s name is an over-reactive idiot.
logis on February 27, 2008 at 10:38 AM
funky, you are equating calling a man by HIS OWN name to calling someone Hitler. Help me out here.
faraway on February 27, 2008 at 10:38 AM
Fact is: McCain has been on Cunningham’s show several times.
McCains have had dinner with the Cunninghams, a couple of times.
stenwin77 on February 27, 2008 at 10:39 AM
I can’t believe that for once, on an issue of pure politics, I agree with Alan Colmes. First he calls Barack Obama a Manchurian candidate, then says he doesn’t think he’s a Manchurian candidate two minutes later.
And nice strawman assist by Hannity bringing Rezko into it. As far as I’ve heard, McCain only took issue with the gratuitous use of Obama’s middle name. Looks like he hates McCain enough to go down with this bloated Titanic of a douchebag to stay true to form.
As far as I’m concerned, the further from McCain this assclown stays the better. At least Ann Coulter didn’t wait for McCain to take issue with some stupid invective of hers to voice her disapproval. What an ego on this putz.
Mark V. on February 27, 2008 at 10:39 AM
It’s going to be a long 8 months.
stenwin77 on February 27, 2008 at 10:40 AM
This guy is over the top.
He surely isn’t someone who should be speaking for conservatives !
OBX Pete on February 27, 2008 at 10:41 AM
psudonominus:
You can’t attack Obama for his middle name and the goofy picture because those attacks are designed to characterize Obama as being an Islamic radical when he’s not (even if his pastor apparently supports one!). You can see how effective those kinds of vicious smears have been for Hillary.
I think the key to victory with Obama is to really lean on him for his total lack of accomplishments, his lack of record, and his Che Guevara-like “cult of personality” campaign. Every time Frank Luntz brings together focus groups and asks them to name an Obama accomplishment, they can’t do it! Say what you want about McCain, and I don’t like many of McCain’s positions, but the average Joe can name lots of things McCain has accomplished in his life and would characterize McCain as an independent thinker and, dare I say it, even a change agent.
Outlander on February 27, 2008 at 10:41 AM
logis, Cunningham is an entertainer and was hired to throw red meat to the masses. He did his job.
faraway on February 27, 2008 at 10:41 AM
What Mr. Cunningham has forgotten, (just like the Coutlers, Limbaughs, Hannitys, and Ingrahms), is this election is not about them, or their egos, or their ratings. John McCain has chosen to rise above the rhetoric and innuendos and would rather attack Mr. Obama on policy and principal……sounds Presidential to me.
The fact that Cunningham spends his valuable time introducing John McCain and then later (on Hannity and Combs) threatens to endorse Hillary Clinton speaks volumes about his own credibility.
Rovin on February 27, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Why the scare quotes around “conservative”? As if to be a true conservative, one must fight like an unhinged Kos Kid or Huffingtroll and disparage people because they have a funny name or some other heinous reason.
Not only is it lame and, per Ed, intellectually lazy, it’s only effect will be to paint Republicans as bigots and intolerant xenophobes, in addition to rallying the troops (moderates) around the guy receiving the dishonest and unfair attacks. Bank on it.
amkun on February 27, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Exactly, for the Repubs – everything’s BARED
stenwin77 on February 27, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Hillary already has a supporter.
Although it seems pretty empty, lately.
Back to the lock box, Rodham.
profitsbeard on February 27, 2008 at 10:42 AM
dude, you made the point first
Really, with the media screeching about the Hillary campaign and the silly Obama in the tourist Somali style outfit, McCain had no choice but to distance himself from anything that might go in the same direction.
We have seen what has happened to the Clinton campaign because of some comments made by here supporters that used Obama’s middle name (Bob Kerrey) and compared him to Jesse Jackson (Bill Clinton).
McCain doesn’t want to have to deal with stupid stuff like that for 6 months, so he nipped it in the bud early.
Cunningham appears to be a real weenie who couldn’t take a little criticism or step back to see the big picture.
funky chicken on February 27, 2008 at 10:44 AM
Hussein is the man’s middle name, for crying out loud!!!!!!!!! Cunningham didn’t make it up, and when I listened to him he didn’t put any emphasis of it, so it’s absolutely ridiculous to make it an issue. This PC cr@p is destroying us. So, what, if the man gets elected, and has to take the oath of office will his given name (Hussein) be off limits there, too? Please!
Wake up and smell the coffee. It doesn’t matter who wins in November, we’re all doomed.
jdawg on February 27, 2008 at 10:45 AM
McCain personally knows Cunningham. McCain has been a guest on his radio show several times.
stenwin77 on February 27, 2008 at 10:45 AM
Yargh! My spleen is going to pop over this, I swear. It’s clear from McCain’s apology he had no freaking idea exactly what Cunningham had said. I didn’t much like Cunningham’s remarks, either, but that’s totally irrelevant.
It’s Senators versus peasants. Shut up, peasant.
S. Weasel on February 27, 2008 at 10:46 AM
Do you normally go around using people’s middle names?
Slublog on February 27, 2008 at 10:46 AM
The first thing out of Cunningham’s mouth in that clip is that the McCain people told him to give the crowd “red meat.” If that’s what McCain’s people are telling the local rightwing talk show hosts before these events, it’s pretty disingenuous for McCain to distance himself from the comments afterwards.
That said, anyone who uses “Barack HUSSEIN Obama” as a way of implying that he has secret Muslim loyalties is sleazy. Some people might say, “It’s his middle name, what the big deal?” The big deal is that you’re clearly appealing to Christian chauvinism if you’re dropping “Hussein” at every opportunity. It’s a filthy sop to the lowest common denominator of American politics.
There are PLENTY of legitimate reasons to criticize Lefty Jesus, but implying that Obama’s some kind of closet caliphate junkie is simply gauche. This Cunningham is a creepy bastard, I wouldn’t want him giving my crowds “red meat.”
Enrique on February 27, 2008 at 10:46 AM
funky chicken on February 27, 2008 at 10:47 AM
I don’t see how that justifies throwing his support, out of vanity, to a candidate you disagree with on every fundamental issue. How many different MSM outlets did he derisvely link to Clinton, by name?
Mark V. on February 27, 2008 at 10:48 AM
before Allah fixes it, go look at the comments to the LA Times/McCain winning poll numbers thread.
funky chicken on February 27, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Slublog on February 27, 2008 at 10:46 AM
Hillary Rodham Clinton
George Walker Bush
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Or, when I would really be upset with my daughter I would use her full name to get her attention.
Barak Hussein Obama is the man’s full name. It’s absolutely insane and ridiculuos to get all bent out of shape because someone used it. If he wins, will his middle name be off limits then, too?
Gawd, this stuff is driving me absolutely nuts! PC is killing us.
jdawg on February 27, 2008 at 10:49 AM
The fact that McCain’s campaign knowingly asked Cunningham to “warm up the crowd” and then stuck a knife in his back speack volumes about McCain’s credibility and LOYALTY.
stenwin77 on February 27, 2008 at 10:51 AM
I never heard Reagan’s middle name routinely used by his political opponents. Nor do I hear Bush’s. Clinton seems to have gone the first-name route.
Is your point that these people have middle names? Point made. But you still have yet to point out why Obama’s middle name should be an issue when, in normal political conversation, middle names are rarely used.
Slublog on February 27, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Dude. It’s not that using his middle name is “taboo.” It’s that it accomplishes nothing. You think conservatives don’t know? You think they need reminding? You think liberals don’t know? You think they care? All this does is make conservatives look like idea-challenged name callers. It’s mindless, lame crap. Okay, we got it the first 20 times. Next.
Sugar Land on February 27, 2008 at 10:53 AM
Why would anyone on McCain’s staff think of inviting this tool to speak on his behalf?
freevillage on February 27, 2008 at 10:53 AM
jdawg, I’m with you. The same problem with an actual undoctored picture of Obama in full Muslim headgear.
faraway on February 27, 2008 at 10:54 AM
Dude, what are you talking about? Were it, say, Ted Kennedy introducing Barack Obama and Obama’s opponent in the election were any of those guys, he wouldn’t be screaming about the need to defeat “Ronald WILSON Reagan!” or “or “George WALKER Bush!”
Because those are normal names and wouldn’t turn an eyebrow or make people start to “wonder.” No one buys your dishonest arguments.
amkun on February 27, 2008 at 10:55 AM
Bingo! What did he say that was inaccurate in any way? Nothing!
davenp35 on February 27, 2008 at 10:57 AM
People, think about what we’ve come to.
We are arguing here about whether we should call a man by his own name.
God help the Republic.
faraway on February 27, 2008 at 10:58 AM
Oh, good grief.
Slublog on February 27, 2008 at 10:59 AM
Cunningham looks like Jim Bakker on meth.
infidel4life on February 27, 2008 at 10:59 AM
The Media is going to call us bigots anyway.
We need to do that as well. And, for the people who are not that much into the issues, or that smart, play up the “islamic Obama” angle. Whatever it takes to defeat him (including voting for McCain). The Left does whatever it takes to win. Why don’t we? I’m sick of conservatives who don’t answer fire with fire!
fight fight fight
pseudonominus on February 27, 2008 at 10:59 AM
McCain saw that having one of your supporters play the Hussein card on TV was a losing strategy….remember the Bob Kerrey interview?
Why would you want the GOP candidate to repeat an obvious losing strategy?
Because you want the GOP candidate to lose the election?
funky chicken on February 27, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Barack ‘Hussein’ Obama passes for ‘red meat’?
whoow.
That being said, ‘normal’ names.. lol. Barack and Obama just aren’t ‘not-normal’ enough , hmm?
Eh, bed.
Reaps on February 27, 2008 at 11:00 AM
funky chicken on February 27, 2008 at 10:25 AM
fc – you don’t have to be from Cincinnati to know who Cunningham is or what he does. McCain pays people to find that kind of info out at every stop. So either he employs idiots, or they intended for this to happen. If McCain had made those comments in front of that crowd, he would have been booed off the stage. Lets see if he uses that tactic again.
btw – did you ever hear the warmup for Obama or Hillary?
ctmom on February 27, 2008 at 11:00 AM
I think Hillary Clinton used “Rodham” early on in her first lady career to show how strong and independent a woman she was, even as the wife of a powerful man.
“Walker”, or just W., is sometimes used to differentiate the current president from his father or all the other George’s in the clan.
I never hear anyone use “Wilson” in talking about Ronald Reagan, except to bear out that stupid leftist theory about Reagan being the antichrist (6-6-6).
There’s no reason to use Hussein to identify Barack Obama by using his middle name. There sure as hell is no other notable “Barack Obama”, and he has ALWAYS referred to himself by just his first and last names.
Mark V. on February 27, 2008 at 11:00 AM
A tempest in a teapot. Publicity for both of them.
TooTall on February 27, 2008 at 11:01 AM
Yeah. Hillary’s playbook went nowhere. We’re going to have to rip every strategy of hers out and use what’s left. Namely, not attacking on substance, not using identity politics.
Touche..
amkun on February 27, 2008 at 11:04 AM
Yup. If McCain had just ignored Cunningham’s rather careless comments, we would not have heard anything about it.
I don’t think I would have said the things Cunningham said, but he was asked to deliver “red meat”. It is pretty sad that all this fuss is over a man’s real name. He could have called him “Dumbo Ears”!
stenwin77 on February 27, 2008 at 11:08 AM
Cunningham’s right. Politics are hardball and he’s an entertainer. End of story…
This Obama is one very dangerous lefty, and he has got to be stopped. All he’s gotten so far is the velvet glove treatment, why let that continue? And why should we conservatives supplicate ourselves to this hands-off cultish idiocy?
This is war, and all holds are barred. Look at the NYT hit pieces last week. Now Howard Dean is trying to smear and bring legal heat onto McCain as well.
Remember when Obama made that snide little “I want to thank Senator McCain for 50 years of public service” last week. Now what the hell was THAT implying? Where was McCain when his “good friend” strongly implied that he was just an old senile bastard?
If Obama becomes POTUS, you can kiss your own tuchis (and those of your family members) goodbye.
Stop whining, and get a sense of humor. And one more thing -grow some freaking gonads and get into the fight!
TexasJew on February 27, 2008 at 11:11 AM
Oh, well. At least it won’t be Hillary. I don’t think I could take six months of pretending she’s an honorable American.
S. Weasel on February 27, 2008 at 11:11 AM
LOYALTY? Respectfully, stenwin77, how does McCain owe any loyalty to a radio talk show host who has deferred to Clinton because he had his feelings hurt? Also McCain took full responsibility for the content of Cunningham’s remarks and said he did not condone them—–sounds “credible” to me. Was Mr. Cunningham stabbed in the back? Possibly, but I would submit that John McCain’s loyality is to the Republican Party and its unification—-not to Mr. Cunningham’s ego.
Rovin on February 27, 2008 at 11:12 AM
So what’s your solution? Act like bigots? Are you sure you want to roll like that?
Drink your coffee. Jesus.
And there are plenty of simpletons and others who aren’t really concerned with issues who despise hardcore socialism and moral equivalence between ourselves and totalitarians.
As for “fire with fire”, the only real “fire” I’ve seen Obama use against conservatives is hitting us with the war in Iraq, diplomacy, the health care system, offshoring, and other economic issues for which his only solution is more government intervention. We can do perfectly fine hitting with that, as well as his extreme lack of experience and specific solutions.
Mark V. on February 27, 2008 at 11:13 AM
Exactly! Just reading these comments you can see how many complete cowards there are who call themselves conservatives. You don’t win by playing nice. You win by doing whatever it takes and always fighting hard.
davenp35 on February 27, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Great. Our unity candidate has us at each other’s throats.
S. Weasel on February 27, 2008 at 11:15 AM
Cowards, why? Because we dislike Clinton enough to not want to be like her? Or any of her menagerie of character assassins?
Mark V. on February 27, 2008 at 11:16 AM
Believe it or not, you’re actually making an excellent point here: If George Bush’s real name actually were “McChimpyHalliburtonHitler,” then yes, of course anyone would have to be a complete gibbering moron to complain about people “insulting” him by using that name.
logis on February 27, 2008 at 11:19 AM
Does this guy remind anybody else of the SNL sketch where Will Ferrell keeps yelling that he “CAN NOT CONTROL THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE!”
Yoosaion on February 27, 2008 at 11:20 AM
O/t: William F. Buckley dead at 82.
Slublog on February 27, 2008 at 11:21 AM
We should only target the 0.0001% of the general public who have deep understanding of the core issues, and leave the others to empty Hope’N'Change slogans without any countermeasure. After all, acting classy is the goal, not winning.
Aristotle on February 27, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Hillary didn’t “attack” Obama on substance. How could she? She is less leftist/liberal extremist than Obama, but it’s the leftist/liberal extremes who vote in dem primaries.
She flailed around and got caught up in nondenial-denials and days wasted on stupid stuff, instead of talking about substance.
McCain doesn’t want to do that, so he stopped it now. It was good strategy, IMHO.
funky chicken on February 27, 2008 at 11:24 AM
Slu :-( sad news.
funky chicken on February 27, 2008 at 11:24 AM
A pillar. Held up a corner of our western civilization. We will feel his absence.
JiangxiDad on February 27, 2008 at 11:30 AM
I don’t give a rat’s backside if that jackass endorses Hugo Chavez.
rplat on February 27, 2008 at 11:30 AM
Unfortunately, his loyalty lies more with the Democrats than the Republicans in the last decade. That’s why lots of us are very worried.
I’m no fan of Cunningham, nor of McCain.
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Saltysam on February 27, 2008 at 11:33 AM
Tell me, was it the “Dumbo Ears” comment? Oh, I’m so, so, sorry. Please, give me back the 1st Amendment and I promise I won’t call BHO names anymore.
stenwin77 on February 27, 2008 at 11:36 AM
“Yup. If McCain meant it he would have said it IN FRONT OF THE CROWD… not after he gave his boring stump speech and was talking to reporters. Yawn”
No he would not have. By commenting after the crowd was gone, McCain made the topic what was said. If he had corrected Cunningham to the crowd it would have been a personal attack on the man. McCain did the right thing. Cunningham did not and has continued NOT doing the right thing as his 15 minutes of fame will help him increase ratings for his radio programs, which is all he ever wanted in the first place.
ilitigant on February 27, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Welcome to the McCain campaign’s patented three-step program.
STEP ONE: Cut yourself loose from that disgusting conservative base and kowtow to the liberal media so they won’t trash you until after the nomination.
STEP TWO: ???
STEP THREE: VICTORY!
logis on February 27, 2008 at 11:37 AM
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