McCain: You know who I respect? Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore
posted at 3:54 pm on July 30, 2008 by Allahpundit
People keep e-mailing about this. Why?
“I respect Speaker Pelosi. I think she’s one of the great American success stories,” McCain said during an interview with The Chronicle prior to a fundraiser at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.
“We talk about (New York Sen.) Hillary Clinton and her inspiration to millions of Americans. Speaker Pelosi has been an inspiration as well” in a role that is “in many ways … more powerful than the president.”…
“I agree with his [energy independence] goal,” the Arizona senator said Monday of Gore’s idea. “I may disagree with all the ways of getting there. But I again want to emphasize my respect for the former vice president’s leadership on this issue and his continuous leadership. And I am in no way trying to get into a fight with him.”
Obama’s bounce is deflating by the moment, Hillary’s buddies are grumbling about Ludacris, and fully one-third of uncommitted voters are Dems. If tossing a few rhetorical bouquets at Pelosi and Gore endears him to would-be McCainocrats, what’s the harm? The more negative he goes on Obama, the more liberal ass he has to kiss to preserve the Maverick brand. Just paying a toll on the road to victory.
Exit question: I ask a version of this every day, but why are so many uncommitteds Democrats instead of Republicans? I still prefer the party identification theory — that a lot of these people are newly minted Dems who used to be centrists but have drifted slightly left, and are now caught between a liberal and center-rightist like McCain — but if you want to tease me with an argument about Hillaryite revolt, I won’t object.
Update: Tease me again!
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Good enough for me, he’s no Gore. I hope you folks who had, let’s just say for civility’s sake, nerves about McCain can concur.
HotAirJosef on July 30, 2008 at 3:57 PM
Puuuuhhhhleeeeeeez
Cicero43 on July 30, 2008 at 3:58 PM
I’m outrageously not outraged. Just like his remarks about Clinton doing wonderful things were to endear her supporters to him, this is an attempt to do the same with center Democrats.
amerpundit on July 30, 2008 at 3:59 PM
PLEASE HELP US>>>!!! and this is the best the gop has..my God
twiggman on July 30, 2008 at 4:00 PM
He’s gotta be bipartisan to get elected. =gag=
jgapinoy on July 30, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Oh McCain’s no Gore. Gore seems to have managed, after the 2000 election, figured out how to manage charisma.
Mew
acat on July 30, 2008 at 4:01 PM
McCain is a jacka$$. If he endorsed Ann Coulter for the Senate, I’d have to reconsider Coulter.
Snake307 on July 30, 2008 at 4:02 PM
McCain is no Dream Candidate, but Obamarxist is a nightmare.
jgapinoy on July 30, 2008 at 4:03 PM
F&ck it….Mccain 08!
SoCalInfidel on July 30, 2008 at 4:03 PM
I think McCain is right about Pelosi.
For someone with her limited intellectual capacity to have gotten as far as she has, she’s truly an inspiration to “fact challenged” people across the country.
JC in CA on July 30, 2008 at 4:04 PM
Oh he is just being civil.
McShame!
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carbon_footprint on July 30, 2008 at 4:05 PM
Throwing a few roses at the opposition is a lot classier and more nuanced than Obama’s jerks to the left, then right, then left again, not to mention his abject pandering.
Kafir on July 30, 2008 at 4:05 PM
I’m getting a thrill going up my leg thinking about these eco frauds getting what’s coming to them, i.e., THROWN THE F OUT!
marklmail on July 30, 2008 at 4:06 PM
Go on. Tell me he’s a conservative. Really. I need a laugh today.
MadisonConservative on July 30, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Not the road most posters would take, but then we haven’t been a senator for decades…scraps to the hungry dogs.
right2bright on July 30, 2008 at 4:08 PM
Ok, Mr Pundit, you have sent me over the edge, and I’m gonna let it all go:
McCain sounds like he is back in that prison camp cell, has just had his arms broken by his tormentors, and he is telling the men who just broke his arms how much he respects the North Vietnamese for standing up to the evil US Military (please don’t break my arms again). Why else would McCain spend so much time trying to appease his enemies and so little time trying to rally support in opposition?
John McCain is a beaten man, desperate to have people like him. Unfortunately, when they do, he abuses them.
Flame on, ban hammer as you wish..I’ve just about had it, I don’t care anymore.
rockhauler on July 30, 2008 at 4:08 PM
Now is the time for Allahpundit to put up the clip of Pelosi kissing Bambi yesterday. There’s just nothing but love all around.
Travis1 on July 30, 2008 at 4:08 PM
McCain is nobody’s choice, but he is still the ONLY choice. How does the most powerful nation in history get two of the biggest losers in the country to vie for the presidency.
“A great civilization cannot be conquered from without until it destroys itself from within.” We are working like hell to make this happen.
volsense on July 30, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Simply wonderful.
Allahpundit on July 30, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Nothing major to be worried about. McCain is simply not burning bridges, so to speak. When he’s President, he’ll need to woo the Dem’s. He can’t do that by alienating them.
JetBoy on July 30, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Laugh all you want…
He’s a moderate/conservative.
BO is a socialist/liberal.
jgapinoy on July 30, 2008 at 4:10 PM
If only McCain would fight…
Blaise on July 30, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Um, folks, there is a huge difference between “respect” and “agree with” or even “approve of.”
Pelosi and Gore are formidable people. Nobody gets to Capitol Hill without big brass ones. As much as we like to make fun of “San Fran Nan” and “the Gorebot”, we don’t have to deal with them in person (thank the Lord!) or try to thwart their schemes directly. John McCain does not seem like the kind of guy who would make the mistake of underestimating an enemy.
Mary in LA on July 30, 2008 at 4:12 PM
I don`t have a problem with this, you can respect your adversary.
ThePrez on July 30, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Fixed. It’s what he is.
MadisonConservative on July 30, 2008 at 4:12 PM
[asbestos underwear on]
Mary in LA on July 30, 2008 at 4:13 PM
F&ck it…McCain ’08!
SoCallInfidel on July 30,2008 at 4:03 PM
That has to be the bumper sticker of the year.
volsense on July 30, 2008 at 4:13 PM
“What’s this?” thought John McCain. “I can feel nothing warmer at all! That is terrible. Am I stupid? Am I a flat-earther? Am I a denier? Can you feel anything warmer my dearest Nancy Pelosi? Am I not fit to be President? That would be the most dreadful thing that could happen to me. “Oh, it is very hot!” McCain said aloud. “It has my highest approbation.” And McCain nodded in a contented way, and gazed outside, for he would not say that he felt no Global Warming. The whole entourage that he had with him looked and looked, and felt no warming, any more than the rest; but, like John McCain, they said, “It is so warm!” and counseled him to always say that he felt warm when he was out in public. “It is warm, hot even!” went from mouth to mouth. On all sides there seemed to be general warming, and John McCain gave Al Gore the title of Imperial Master of Global Warming Science.
So John McCain went in procession, and every one in the streets said, “How incomparable warm it is! What a warm day it is!” No one would let it be perceived that he could not feel warming, for that would have shown that he was not fit for his office, or was very stupid or a flat-earther or a denier. No day of John McCain’s had ever been as warm as this one.
“But I’m freezing my ass off out here!” a little child cried out at last. “Just hear what that innocent says!” said the father: and one whispered to another what the child had said. “But it is cold out here!” said the whole people at length. That touched John McCain, for it seemed to him that they were right; but the thought within himself was, “I must go through with feeling all the Global Warming. I do not dare to do otherwise as my beloved Al Gore and my beloved Nancy Pelosi would not approve.” And so he held himself a little higher, and his aides held on tighter than ever, and proclaimed the Global Warming which did not exist at all.
MB4 on July 30, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Good point, AP. I don’t have any problem with McCain giving a little lip service to the Dems – after all, he is a general election candidate.
Keep in mind that he can praise the achievements or intentions of people like Pelosi and Gore and still be a supporter of offshore drilling, which he is. So what’s the big deal?
TheNolan on July 30, 2008 at 4:14 PM
“I ask a version of this every day, but why are so many uncommitteds Democrats instead of Republicans? ”
They’re not. We all know it.
Al-Ozarka on July 30, 2008 at 4:15 PM
Sir, you never disappoint.
MadisonConservative on July 30, 2008 at 4:15 PM
If Maverick thinks that puckering up,and that being
nicey nicey with Nancy(It might take a woman to clean
the House)Pelosi,or being all bi-partisan kissy kissy,
with the Libdem’s,he’s got another thing a comin!
If Obama gets in,then the Libs will get (THEIR)power
back,and you haven’t seen powermad like,Reid,Wexlar,
Barney Frank,Charles Rangal!
And,don’t forget,the Dems have been bitter over these last
eight years,and remember the investigation attempt with
Nancy Pelosi,and Barney Frank ran the show,and reminded the
Republican on the floor of point of order,and who’s got the
gavel,who’s in charge!
So,McCain,um,if the Liberals are elected,the Liberals won’t
even acknowledge that Republicans exist,it will be a liberal
agenda,period!
canopfor on July 30, 2008 at 4:16 PM
Oh, stop.
JetBoy on July 30, 2008 at 4:17 PM
Simple: Obama scares the level-headed Dems.
MadisonConservative on July 30, 2008 at 4:17 PM
I have a feeling John does not want to be president.
Nancy P is a joke NOW no matter how she got there.
America provids a way for someone to work their way up but in the end it matters what you do when you get there.
TroubledMonkey on July 30, 2008 at 4:18 PM
I sent you Tancredo and you rejected him. I sent you Hunter and you rejected him. I sent you Fred Thompson and you rejected him. I gave you more chances than I should have. You are on your own now.
- God
MB4 on July 30, 2008 at 4:18 PM
Nancy Pelosi doesn’t deserve any respect. She’s an idiot. Almost as bad unscripted as Obama. Gore is a fat raving lunatic. He doesn’t deserve respect either; he should be put in a straight jacket and put on a thorazine drip. There are plenty of democrats that an accomodation can be reached with; but not those 2.
As to wooing Democrats Jetboy, he’s already doing that with shamnesty and his global warming nonsense. He’s been non committal on drilling, as far as actually doing anything himself; all he’s said is that the states should get it on it. He can turn his back on that once he’s safely in office. McCain has been a major league democrat a** kisser for the last 8 years. That’s why there are so many people who can’t stand him in the GOP. His problem won’t be getting along with dems if he’s elected. His problem is trying to give his own party a meaningful reason to vote for him. And stuff like this doesn’t help.
austinnelly on July 30, 2008 at 4:18 PM
P.S. I also sent you Mitt Romney and you rejected him too, so screw you all.
- God
MB4 on July 30, 2008 at 4:19 PM
We’re running Rockefeller. We’re running against Al Gore, without the paunch.
Vote? How about pray.
emailnuevo on July 30, 2008 at 4:20 PM
Yeah! God forbid the political Judas would stoop to listening to the conservatives in his own party when he can find ways to prove that he is just a Democrat running under false colors.
You liberal “Republicans” are really going out of your way to ensure an Obama victory, aren’t you? What is it about social conservatives and evangelicals that you hate so much that you find every way possible to alienate the GOP base. You out for revenge that your sad-ass candidate was sidelined for eight years? You hate Christians who openly talk about faith? What exactly is it that have turned you into such vile hate-filled creatures?
highhopes on July 30, 2008 at 4:20 PM
Even if it’s expected that Senators maintain respect for each other publicly, and even if it is smart campaigning, it’s still a bit nauseating to hear praise for someone as contemptable as Pelosi.
McCain isn’t doing anything wrong here, but it’s still a bit painful to read.
Hollowpoint on July 30, 2008 at 4:20 PM
DON’T TAUNT THE GORE.
MadisonConservative on July 30, 2008 at 4:21 PM
ya know, it’s easy to toss grenades on the internet, or in a printed article, or even on the phone. but when you face someone eye to eye, or work with them, or interact with them personally on a regular basis, the rhetoric has to take a back seat to civility. we can vehemently disagree on the issues without resorting to hostility. give Gore and Pelosi the respect that a retired US Senator and current Speaker deserves.
we complain about the lunacy the Left heaps on our President, and the lack of respect they show for his office. I’m proud that my AZ Senators, MCCain and Kyl, are gentleman who show respect to their adversaries.
DrW on July 30, 2008 at 4:22 PM
All the undecided woman will now support McCain. He is smarter that all of us combined.
luckybogey on July 30, 2008 at 4:23 PM
After reading quotes like that I wonder if McCain actually wants to win the election.
flyfisher on July 30, 2008 at 4:25 PM
McCain’s too damn old to be groveling. He’s not going to win POTUS and he’s got maybe one more term left in him when he mopes on back to his senate seat.
He needs to quit kissing @ss and start calling a spade for a spade and maybe put some GI boot marks on the hindside’s of those two talking monkeys, if anything.
SilverStar830 on July 30, 2008 at 4:25 PM
The uncommitted Dems are probably like me seven years ago. They aren’t convinced yet that the party has left them. I became convinced that all Dems are pie-in-the-sky morons watching the California Assembly debate/not debate driver licenses for illegal immigrants. It was surreal. I haven’t voted Dem since and officially changed my registration two years ago.
fleiter on July 30, 2008 at 4:25 PM
Because there are millions of Democrats who aren’t liberal elite like Obama, the nutroots, and the Congressional leadership.
forest on July 30, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Someone needs to hoist McCain back up in the air with his arms tied behind his back until he agrees to stop praising liberal demcRATs and understands that these people are out to destroy him! Good grief!
sabbott on July 30, 2008 at 4:27 PM
> The point being made
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No candidate can win with just their base or a subset of that base. Every winning candidate maintains an air of complimentary civility towards their opponents. Obama will express respect for Republicans. McCain will express respect for Democrats. To do otherwise would alienate all but their base, which is nowhere near large enough to bring victory.
Hollowpoint on July 30, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Lets see… the Republicans in the House are in a knife fight with Peolosi over drilling.
Her reasoning is that she can’t let us drill, because she’s “trying to save the world”… ie, taking the moral high ground over the Republicans.
McCain jumps in, says he RESPECTS Pelosi, who is using strong arm Dictorial practices in the house, and thus UNDERCUTS the Republicans who are fighting in the HOUSE.
I would comment on McCain’s leadership… but since I don’t consider him a Republican… it would be a moot point…
HE just threw the House Republicans under the Bus, and took away any chance of the Republicans using Pelosi’s Congress’s 9% approval rating as a campaign issue to regain House seats…
Way to go John…
Romeo13 on July 30, 2008 at 4:34 PM
Hibbedy Jibbedy Wibbedy Flibbedy
LimeyGeek on July 30, 2008 at 4:34 PM
Perfect evidence that McCain is outdated and has been in government too long is his thinking that Nancy Pelosi is one of the great American success stories.
Barf. That’s not Maverick, that’s demented. I’ll bet even Nancy’s eyebrows went up at that one, and that would be one tough trick.
Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Hank Aaron, Vince Lombardi, Bill Gates, Rush Limbaugh, Tiger Woods — those are American success stories.
BigD on July 30, 2008 at 4:35 PM
Big difference I would say.
MB4 on July 30, 2008 at 4:36 PM
Well stated, we can kick their *ss with good sound policy (like we are with energy), and still buy them a drink.
*
Broncos were in town to play the Chargers, we happened to be at the hotel with the Broncos. Sunday night, Broncos were still in town, having a drink in the bar with the Chargers. No animosity, just having a drink after the battle.
(And what I remember most are the groupies, my, my)
right2bright on July 30, 2008 at 4:37 PM
Stay classy.
Unbelievable.
hillbillyjim on July 30, 2008 at 4:39 PM
Why, indeed? Who in good conscience could put this fine country in the hands of this babbling turd?
At least with Obama, we’ll have a fight with clear battle lines and the infrastructure of elected conservatism will not be decimated.
Valiant on July 30, 2008 at 4:39 PM
From the McCain website:
Cap and trade is what is known as an emissions trading scheme. The problem with this, generally, is that it always induces an abatement cost and the idiots in Washington are the ones to set the “cap” of CO2 emissions. There is simply no way they will be able to figure out the correct amount. There is some good news for non-socialists in McCain’s plan, but the centerpiece of his assualt on “climate change” is simply bass-ackwards. True, it is not as egregious as a command and control structure ( although, depending on the inanity of the people in charge it could become one), but emission trading is a far cry from the sort of Coasian Bargain that would be best suited to combat “climate change”. That is, if you buy into CC in the first place.
No wonder he admires Gore…
VolMagic on July 30, 2008 at 4:41 PM
Pelosi is going to be Speaker for at least one more term. What good would it do for John McCain to trash her now, before he is elected President? She may still treat him as badly as she has George Bush, but at last he has been a gentleman and the ball is in her court to reciprocate. He is signaling that he wants to work with her after he is elected, not use her as a foil to score cheap political points with rabid right-wingers who despise her. I may not like it, but it is totally in character for John McCain. nd I’ll bet this quote surprised the hell out of Pelosi, maybe even humbled Herself.
It also could be interpreted as yet another backhanded slam at Barack Obama and his tissue-paper resume. He respects Nancy Pelosi, because, like him, she has paid her dues and risen through the ranks, and not cut the line at the front like Obama.
rockmom on July 30, 2008 at 4:41 PM
That said, F*&# It, McCain 08!
VolMagic on July 30, 2008 at 4:42 PM
One day, a man named John McCain looked around at the senate where he was a long time senator and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through caucuses and primaries. He climbed over some candidates and went around others until he reached the Republican nomination.
The coming Presidential race would be a tough one, and so John McCain stopped to reconsider the situation. He couldn’t see any way to win on his own. So he thought that he would probably lose. Suddenly, he saw some naive conservatives blogging at a conservative web site. He decided to ask them for help in winning the election. “Would you be so kind, my friends, as to give me a hand in winning the election?”
“Well now, Senator McCain! How do we know that if we help you, you wont betray us?” asked the conservatives hesitantly.
“Because,” senator McCain replied, “If I betray you, then I would fail too, for you see I cannot govern without your support!”
Now this seemed to make some sense to the conservatives. But they asked. “What about when you get close to being elected? You could still start to betray us and might still win anyway!”
“This is true,” agreed senator McCain, “But I might well not be able to get enough conservative turnout to win the presidency!”
“Alright then…how do we know you wont just wait till you get elected and then betray us?” said the conservatives.
“Ahh…,” crooned senator McCain, “Because you see, once you’ve helped to make me president, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with betrayal, now would it?”
So the conservatives agreed to take help senator McCain get elected president. He edged out Barak Obama in a nail-bitting race and was inaugurated in January of the year 2009. Now president McCain immediately got a big democratic majority in congress to enact full amnesty for all illegals in the United States and all of their relatives. He also nominated Hillary Clinton to the U.S. Supreme court along with Senator Teddy Kennedy’s wife and Nancy Pelosi. All three were confirmed. Juan Hernandez was named to be the new head of Homeland Security and Al Gore was named to both of the two newly created posts of Grand Economic Czar and Climate change Imperial Master.
.
“You fool!” croaked the conservatives, “You have betrayed us and you will never get a second term. Why on earth did you do that?”
Now president McCain shrugged and snickered and did a little jig..
“I could not help myself, my friends. It is my nature.”
MB4 on July 30, 2008 at 4:44 PM
Sir, you never disappoint …
the democrats.
wise_man on July 30, 2008 at 4:48 PM
What the he**? He needs to go on the attack! What happened to his famous temper??
sheesh
becki51758 on July 30, 2008 at 4:48 PM
You are a coward, not worthy of one drop of the blood Senator McCain shed for his country. Let me be clear: **** you.
The Race Card on July 30, 2008 at 4:51 PM
And you incompetent one, still have not earned a single McCain point now have you.
And you try so hard.
So sad.
MB4 on July 30, 2008 at 4:51 PM
Get a grip. That is not at all cool.
MB4 on July 30, 2008 at 4:54 PM
Whatever it is you are fantasizing about, again – it has no relevance to anything here.
wise_man on July 30, 2008 at 4:56 PM
Ok, if you insist. Ontheissues.org (if you go to the very bottom of their page) classifies him as a Populist-Leaning Conservative. Laugh away :)
Dawnsblood on July 30, 2008 at 4:57 PM
FWIW, I know a number of people in CA (including two people in my own family) who cast very enthusiastic votes for Gore and Kerry but who, to my great surprise, say they will NOT be voting for Obama. I think there may be a lot of that out there.
Infidoll on July 30, 2008 at 4:58 PM
THIS IS LOL:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/al_gore_places_infant_son_in
ParisParamus on July 30, 2008 at 5:00 PM
Trust me on this or not, you aint in my fantasies and you have no relevance whatsoever in doing McCain any good as you are incompetent.
Why don’t you go back over to MM’s main web sit and let them slap you around some more for a while, my arms are getting tired.
MB4 on July 30, 2008 at 5:03 PM
Nothing good can come from this………….
Seven Percent Solution on July 30, 2008 at 5:03 PM
Was St. Obama looking out for liberals on the FISA bill? His waffling on withdrawing from Iraq? Boasting about his (marginally) Republican supporters? Go to a liberal blog and you’ll see them whining about it much the same way.
I don’t like seeing McCain talk nice about Pelosi or Obama either, but it’s necessary. To do otherwise would please the base, but would look bad to everyone else. They all do it, and for good reason.
Yes, McCain is a moderate “maverick”. I’ll likely be sitting out the election because of it- but I also know better than to make this sort of thing out to be anything but the typical gamesmanship that all candidates engage in.
Hollowpoint on July 30, 2008 at 5:03 PM
Mountain out of molehill. So what if he says something courteous about the opposition?
Terrye on July 30, 2008 at 5:09 PM
From Wikipedia…
Antisocial personality disorder (APD) is a mental disorder defined by the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual: “The essential feature for the diagnosis is a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood due to the lack of love and care for the child.” Deceit and manipulation are considered essential features of the disorder.
Ding ding?
wccawa on July 30, 2008 at 5:10 PM
Beeeeeeeeeecause we actually give a s__t what our candidate says?
Spanglemaker on July 30, 2008 at 5:11 PM
It is not the same at all as Juan McCoot has taken it to a whole new level by an order of magnitude at least.
It is so obvious and has been for so McCain/Kennedy, McCain/Feingold, et all, long.
MB4 on July 30, 2008 at 5:13 PM
If Juan McVain were to literally pee on your head you would probably think that you were receiving holy communion.
MB4 on July 30, 2008 at 5:16 PM
Yo, geniuses:
go check out who McCain said this to!
At least he didn’t call them a bunch of lefty wet-brains to their faces.
MrScribbler on July 30, 2008 at 5:17 PM
Because the two individuals he named are loathsome, evil authoritarians and it doesn’t speak well of his character that he is willing to pander (if that’s what he’s doing), or judgment (if he genuinely believes they are worthy of respect).
There are more important things than getting elected, even when the opponent is Barack Obama. (Not to mention that choosing a side would actually help his chances.)
JDPerren on July 30, 2008 at 5:24 PM
I’m not defending every mavericky thing McCain has done, nor am I defending him in general; I’m not happy that he’s the nominee either. But in regards to the topic at hand- praising Pelosi in mostly generic terms- it means nothing.
See the new thread- the left thinks much the same about Obama. It’s true that Obama is closer to the Dem base than McCain is to the Republican base, but again- this is nothing new. I’m sure you could find Reagan saying nice things about Tip O’Neil and Walter Mondale as well.
Hollowpoint on July 30, 2008 at 5:25 PM
Snicker.
Connie on July 30, 2008 at 5:26 PM
Peloser call Bush a “total failure” and says his idea of off shore drilling is a “hoax.” In reply, McCain says Peloser is the second coming (albeit with different plumbing.) He is definitely going after the uncommited democrats to make up for the evangelicals he has infuriated by appeasing the loons.
volsense on July 30, 2008 at 5:26 PM
Really? Here’s a bit:
Wow. I’m sure that was meaningless in the quantification finding him conservative. That site is now officially my home page.
In other words, that site is worthless. I remember it placing Obama as less left-leaning than some of his peers running, even though he was determined to be the most liberal senator in America.
MadisonConservative on July 30, 2008 at 5:27 PM
He’s a hateful, spiteful little troll. Ignore him if you can, because he only survives when you respond.
MadisonConservative on July 30, 2008 at 5:28 PM
You finally looked in a mirror, MadisonConservative?
wise_man on July 30, 2008 at 5:29 PM
If McCain REALLY wants to have a civil campaign, I think he should have a press conference to endorse Obama.
Star20 on July 30, 2008 at 5:30 PM
Shock and awe politics? At this rate I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if McCain pix Shrillary as a running mate.
heroyalwhyness on July 30, 2008 at 5:32 PM
Your disgusting post has been up for over an hour, so I guess it’s gonna stay there. I was hoping Allapundit was going to wield the Mighty Ban Hammer for your especially putrid post, but I guess it ain’t gonna happen. More’s the pity.
hillbillyjim on July 30, 2008 at 5:34 PM
In case anyone missed it, you might want to read this:
and
McCain knows what he’s doing. And all of the ‘conservatives’ here acting like MoveON PAC members, McCain has more intelligence than all of you people put together.
wise_man on July 30, 2008 at 5:35 PM
Worth repeating.
misterpeasea on July 30, 2008 at 5:37 PM
Politicians are nauseating.
Hening on July 30, 2008 at 5:37 PM
Why on earth would you expect anything to be done about a disgusting comment about McCain on hotair?
I mean ….. really.
wise_man on July 30, 2008 at 5:38 PM
Actualy just struck me what really bothered me about this comment…
He either believes it, in which case he thinks a spitefull divisionist, authoritarian, politician should be held up as a success story for our children…
Or, as I really think, he’s been in Washington so long that he does not understand what Palomino Pelosi’s Policies will do to America.
I wonder when the last time either one of them filled their own gas tank, with their own money, was.
Romeo13 on July 30, 2008 at 5:38 PM
Lol. I know McCain is about as conservative as my dog is (I think she is a libertarian myself), but I took it as a challenge. I do like to use the site to see where folks stand on certain issues however.
Dawnsblood on July 30, 2008 at 5:39 PM
WHAT???? The ONLY way Pelosi gets another term is if no one bothers to fight her.
She’s led the Congress to a 9% approval rating… lowest EVER! Nothing is getting done… but if people won’t bother to fight against her, your right, she’ll walk back in as Speaker.
Romeo13 on July 30, 2008 at 5:40 PM
I certainly hope that the republicans in her district fight her, and elect a republican and throw her out of office, Romeo13.
wise_man on July 30, 2008 at 5:42 PM
It doesn’t matter who it is about; it is beyond tasteless.
hillbillyjim on July 30, 2008 at 5:42 PM
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