New McCain ad: You cannot be serious
posted at 4:10 pm on May 10, 2010 by Allahpundit
I don’t know what to say, guys. I’m genuinely speechless. Pandering is one thing, shameless careerist pandering is something else, and then there’s John “Goddamned Fence” McCain marching along the border in a badass Navy baseball cap looking like he could choke out a coyote with his bare hands. And you know what? If he thought he’d get a few points’ bounce from it, I bet he’d do it too. How long before he’s spotted on the trail wearing a “Viva Los 1070″ t-shirt?
Consider this a preview of the 2014 “Re-elect Lindsey Graham” ad campaign, featuring Grahamnesty piloting a Border Patrol chopper and lending a hand on an oil rig.
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To watch Lou Dobbs on McCain Kennedy.
Ugly.
The Rock on May 10, 2010 at 4:52 PM
I wish the AZ Tea Party peeps had been able to make a difference in the GOP candidate for Sen here but we have JD or MAC.
As a Dem, my side is so far gone on koolaide now I was pretty sure if I showed up looking to get on state level cmtes that the Obots would point and do that Invasion of the Body Snatchers shriek thing…
whomever the GOP puts up to run against idiot Terry Goddard is who I will vote for but I would rather have JD who always answered my annoying DEM emails than MAC who will lie to our faces apparently..
ginaswo on May 10, 2010 at 4:52 PM
Yeah, McCain has definitely outdone Romney on the FlipFloppingProgressiveRINOmeter.
FloatingRock on May 10, 2010 at 4:52 PM
JD HAYWORTH. DONATE NOW!
STOP JOHN MCCAIN FROM PASSING AMNESTY! YOU KNOW HE WILL.
tetriskid on May 10, 2010 at 4:52 PM
midlander on May 10, 2010 at 4:52 PM
Flip-Flop-Flipitty-Flop-Flop-Flop!
McCain is perhaps the biggest panderer in the GOP! Anyone else remember this?
joncoltonis on May 10, 2010 at 4:53 PM
mord that is the rev manning of harlem :0) he calls O a long legged mac daddy
ginaswo on May 10, 2010 at 4:53 PM
That just shows that orientation can change? Just ask Charlie Crist.
Mr. Joe on May 10, 2010 at 4:54 PM
..FIFY
The War Planner on May 10, 2010 at 4:54 PM
we old guys get cranky. Prostrate and all that.
off topic, but is Elana Kagan really Chastity Bono in disguise?
pgrossjr on May 10, 2010 at 4:54 PM
One of us….
One of us…
One of us…
Army Brat on May 10, 2010 at 4:55 PM
He’d best check with the former Governor of his state. She/he seems to think the border is more secure now than it’s ever been!
repvoter on May 10, 2010 at 4:55 PM
This is the first year that he actually stopped and listened to the people of Arizona, instead of doing what he knew was best. Don’t worry though, right after the election he will suffer selective amnesia and, “the fence, what fence?”.
Good luck Arizona, you deserve what you elect, but I don’t deserve what you elect.
belad on May 10, 2010 at 4:56 PM
McCain: I was never a maverick, and I have always wanted a fence. Hardy-har-har
mobydutch on May 10, 2010 at 4:56 PM
Other than Maverick getting up in a Navy jet and pretending to strafe the border for the TV cameras to show his toughness on illegal immigration, I can’t think of an ad more insulting to Arizona voters’ intelligence than this baby.
jon1979 on May 10, 2010 at 4:56 PM
Can I have my vote back?
Bishop on May 10, 2010 at 4:57 PM
Juan Shamnesty McVain just hit another low.
I don’t care if Hayworth is the Son of Satan, whoever runs against McVain gets my vote & support.
Norwegian on May 10, 2010 at 4:57 PM
I think McCain will win despite the fact that he’s not that popular. People are not too sure about JD. A better candidate would have finished Maverick off.
sandee on May 10, 2010 at 4:58 PM
McCain/Crist 2012
Bishop on May 10, 2010 at 4:59 PM
McCain will say anything to get elected. Once in power he’ll sell anyone and anything out to keep it. The man is a loose cannon in the traditional sense… a five ton chunk of metal sliding around on a wooden deck a danger to ship and crew alike.
Cut him loose. Do it with respect… but the man has had more then his fair share already.
Karmashock on May 10, 2010 at 4:59 PM
Heckuva job, Schmidty.
hoosiermama on May 10, 2010 at 4:59 PM
McCains wifes politics opened my eyes to John three years ago. Jeb Bush marries a latina and tries to maintain impartiality too. Same crop of oppurtunists taking advantage of the situation. These guys are weak very weak!
sonnyspats1 on May 10, 2010 at 5:00 PM
There was nothing resembling a “natural flow” in the converstion. Too scripted. If it had to be scripted,could it be sincere? Are the border patrol agents also the ones building the wall? If not why did he tell the Border guy to do it? McCain, great guy, Needs to go spend time with the family and enjoy the golden years.
Guest1.1 on May 10, 2010 at 5:00 PM
No, Romney/Crist 2012!
FloatingRock on May 10, 2010 at 5:02 PM
Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha. AllahPundit, that was a great lead in.
onlineanalyst on May 10, 2010 at 5:02 PM
McCain and Charles Durning (Governor, “Best Little Whore House in Texas”) seem to have a lot in common.
Johan Klaus on May 10, 2010 at 5:04 PM
You’d be hard-pressed to find a bigger cheerleader for McCain than I…and lemme say that ad made my eyes roll.
Not because of the message…John McCain has ALWAYS been for being tough on illegals. But because it’s so friggin’ campy. And COME ON Allah! “Grahmanesty”? Et tu?
JetBoy on May 10, 2010 at 5:05 PM
McCain/Palin 2012! Dumb and Dumber.
hanzblinx on May 10, 2010 at 5:05 PM
If Romney can change his pro-abortion stance to pro-life, so can McCain go from pro-amnesty to pro-whatever he is now.
lonestar1 on May 10, 2010 at 5:06 PM
.
More like Glenn Beck’s brother
crom on May 10, 2010 at 5:06 PM
I support McCain but that ad is gross. Plus it is probably a violation of law for a uniformed law enforcement officer to appear in it. McCain should know better.
rockmom on May 10, 2010 at 5:07 PM
time to retire to sedona mav…
Aug 24th can’t come soon enough
cmsinaz on May 10, 2010 at 5:07 PM
Shush up. You will never, ever hear me say “Hayworth? That’s my guy.” How anyone could prefer him of Mac…I mean, really?!?
JetBoy on May 10, 2010 at 5:08 PM
LOL!
FloatingRock on May 10, 2010 at 5:08 PM
It took a woman Governor to give McCain some cojones on the border. What does she have that Sarah Palin (another woman Governor) didn’t?
Yes, this does look like shameless pandering by McCain when he suddenly realized that Arizona WANTS the danged fence! But, for all the McAmnesty haters out there–can Hayworth keep a Democrat out of that Senate seat? Who knows, maybe McCain really means it this time, and even if not, would Goddard vote for the fence?
Steve Z on May 10, 2010 at 5:11 PM
Hey, I don’t care whether it’s Hayworth or McCain as long as it not whichever one of these Dems wins the primary:
Glassman – who was an aide to the chair of the Congressional Progressive and posts on Daily Kos, among other things
Garcia – supports illegals earning citizenship and is Executive Director of the Willie C. Velasquez Center
Parraz – a community and a union organizer, Arizona State Director for the National AFL-CIO
And of course all three of these Dems are against the new Arizona law.
Deanna on May 10, 2010 at 5:14 PM
I’ve seen miraclulous transformations before but this McCain makeover makes the raising of Lazerus look bush league. Makes me want to head back to Arizona just to vomit!
Don L on May 10, 2010 at 5:15 PM
scary
*shudder*
cmsinaz on May 10, 2010 at 5:15 PM
Where is the sarcasm tag?
Johan Klaus on May 10, 2010 at 5:17 PM
Amnesiatics for McCain!
As soon as the camera stopped rolling McShamnesty probably helped a group of illegals across the border and told them that the damned nativists and racists and bigots were forcing him to make this terrible ad.
Adios, amigo.
profitsbeard on May 10, 2010 at 5:21 PM
She looks like Kevin Spacey in drag to me.
teke184 on May 10, 2010 at 5:22 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
He’s a RINO and a comedian!
Tim_CA on May 10, 2010 at 5:24 PM
I’m sticking with Hayworth.
Tim Burton on May 10, 2010 at 5:25 PM
The UnMaverick is MASS COMMUNICATIN!!!
catmman on May 10, 2010 at 5:25 PM
In other words….
midlander on May 10, 2010 at 5:25 PM
You could see McCain biting his lip, thinking: “Three more months; three more months; three more months….”
logis on May 10, 2010 at 5:28 PM
ditto
cmsinaz on May 10, 2010 at 5:28 PM
Same here.
Desert Gardens on May 10, 2010 at 5:36 PM
That is actually nauseating. Yuck…
Son of Satan, the lesser of two evils? lol You know things are bad…
pannw on May 10, 2010 at 5:38 PM
MacGruber!
RD on May 10, 2010 at 5:43 PM
Freudian Slip of the clip award goes to:
“It’ll work this time.”
This time?? What other time, pray tell, did they build a fence (let alone try the other shizzle) across AZ?
RD on May 10, 2010 at 5:49 PM
Well, I’m convinced.
The Ugly American on May 10, 2010 at 5:50 PM
Well, I’m convinced. /s
ElectricPhase on May 10, 2010 at 5:52 PM
Get out of my head!
ElectricPhase on May 10, 2010 at 5:53 PM
The only missing is McQueed’s BFB – Lindsey Graham walking with him – holding his hand.
jake-the-goose on May 10, 2010 at 5:54 PM
Hey Allahpundit and others who sneer at the ad, John McCain has always been a military and national security man, and he sees clearly the national security crisis we have on the southern border. Northern Mexico has descended into a lawless state rule by naro-terrorism, and it is spilling over the border into this country.
John McCain got the message back in 2007 that the majority of Americans want law enforcement first and backed off what had originally been the Reagan approach of comprehensive reform. Since then, the law enforcement problems have become worse. Add in the related national security issues, then what John McCain is doing is very logical and right.
Phil Byler on May 10, 2010 at 5:55 PM
LOL…. too funny.
The Ugly American on May 10, 2010 at 5:56 PM
Wow, no shame what so ever.
Vigilante on May 10, 2010 at 5:58 PM
John McCain’s Gold Medal Flip-Flop Performance on the border fence is an instant classic!
This eclipses his previous classic of ‘I’m not a Maverick!’ for flip-floppery, which is now moving into the Silver Medal category.
Obama has given him stiff competition this year, and may yet pull it out with the WH declaration that they really aren’t after your 401(k) plans.
There will be, of course, plenty of time left for McCain to do even better, and in the race with Obama you never know how fast the flip-flops will come. As it now stands these two fine performers are working extremely hard at shifting directions so often as to leave past supporters with whiplash and past detractors unable to say ‘I told you so!’ fast enough.
Tune in next week to ‘Can you top this flip-flop?’ to see who else will dare to enter the arena of verbal mendacity to see if they just might be able to do better than Sen. McCain.
ajacksonian on May 10, 2010 at 6:02 PM
As with most of the shysters in DC, it’s about them, not their constituents, or the Country. Sorry state of affairs.
ultracon on May 10, 2010 at 6:04 PM
Good point. Also, if McCain was President he’d have passed a bill by now to solve the other greatest issue of Our National Security: ManBearPig.
July 10 on May 10, 2010 at 6:04 PM
Observing a trend….
CFR was my biggest mistake.
midlander on May 10, 2010 at 6:10 PM
no no no no and no!
moonbatkiller on May 10, 2010 at 6:10 PM
Seven Percent Solution on May 10, 2010 at 6:12 PM
What a bag of bullcrap.
McCain can’t be removed soon enough, and I recommend recall. When he (and his asinine liberal of a daughter) is out of here, the GOP will be getting back on track.
Oh, and unless you’re counting Marines, the Navy is most certainly not “badass”.
Virus-X on May 10, 2010 at 6:13 PM
If we could get all the politicians in the country to go to the Gulf coast, they could suck up all the oil and save our beaches. This man does not have an honest bone in his body.
Kissmygrits on May 10, 2010 at 6:14 PM
Hilarious. And thanks for linking to the old “goddamned fence” post. Its great to see the old posts and find that 3 years hasn’t changed most of us very much. (I miss Entelechy and Soothsayer tho’).
Gotta rehash this old post because I’m proud of myself for this one, ha ha:
NTWR on May 10, 2010 at 6:16 PM
If the US Senate were a one-year term, St. John of Tucson would be a great candidate.
Knowing that he’ll turn it all around after election for a term of six long back-stabbing, media-pandering years — fuggedaboutit.
Nichevo on May 10, 2010 at 6:16 PM
Pfft. Bye, McCain.
Key West Reader on May 10, 2010 at 6:16 PM
Why does the thought of MeggieMac flip-flopping bring the image of a Beluga breaching to mind?
Aviator on May 10, 2010 at 6:18 PM
FIFY
Onus on May 10, 2010 at 6:23 PM
McCain is flopping more than a landed fish.
ya2daup on May 10, 2010 at 6:44 PM
His most recent campaign performance said enough for me. Stick a fork in him, ’cause he’s done.
IrishEyes on May 10, 2010 at 6:55 PM
What is the Sheriff of Pinal County doing along the border in Nogales, AZ – which is in Santa Cruz County? This is a real crock…
microfiction on May 10, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t this the sheriff who said he would not have his deputies enforce the new immigration bill in his county? Seems to me I remember some such.
AgCOtter on May 10, 2010 at 7:09 PM
Lindsey better remember history before he repeats it.
Oldnuke on May 10, 2010 at 7:11 PM
This is a bit much… Since I know Mac will revert to his RINO ways if elected, I really won’t be heartbroken if he doesn’t win…as a matter of fat I’d prefer it… though… J.D. ain’t a great candidate either…
CCRWM on May 10, 2010 at 7:14 PM
Robert Louis Stevenson with his “The Strange Case of Dr.Jeckle and Mr.Hyde” had nothing on John Sidney McCain III with his “The Strange Case of Sheriff Joe and Mr. LaRaza”. Nothing. The man is demented.
MB4 on May 10, 2010 at 7:15 PM
I was wrong, it was Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik who was opposed to the new law, not Sheriff Babeu. I apologize for the mistake.
AgCOtter on May 10, 2010 at 7:16 PM
I was going to send a link of this to my hubby, but I’m afraid he’d stroke out on me.
No. Just no.
di butler on May 10, 2010 at 7:20 PM
haha. How quick McCain can flip as soon as the polls change. Remember this? …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VmCHcOy-Y4
Organizers at the Republican Convention told to take down the signs which read, “Build The Fence”.
jjcarrillo on May 10, 2010 at 7:22 PM
And that was the GOOD take!
BHO Jonestown on May 10, 2010 at 7:24 PM
McCain’s new new ad: How far do you think John McCain can spit Arizona? I, John McCain can spit out of the right side of the issues as far as August 24th, halt, hover, and listen to the moderate spitters thoughts… move back to the center and still bring it home by November…
Everybody knows McCain just can’t wait to work together with his true co-sponsoring friends like Lieberman, Schumer, Lindsey Graham, and John Kerry.
It will be Lindsey Graham and John McCain together again in the 112th congress stabbing conservatives in the back till 2014 because that’s when it’s Lindsey Gramham’s turn to act like a conservative. It’ll be the rinse and repeat 2010 McCain republican primary campaign.
Americannodash on May 10, 2010 at 7:25 PM
SHAMELESS………And Palin endorsed him, NOTE TO SELF.
PappyD61 on May 10, 2010 at 7:27 PM
Reporter: Senator McCain, is it true that if you are reelected to the senate from the great state of Arizona you will work hard to see that a real fence is put up along the border with Mexico rather than just some phony so called “virtual fence”? And a follow up question sir, if so what will the physical fence look like?
John McCain: That is a very good question and yes when I am reelected to the senate I will see to it that a physical fence is put up along the border if I have to build it myself! . What will it look like? Well it will run the full length of the border and have special security gates every 100 feet.
All the security gates will have on them:
1) Press one for Spanish (with a response of “Welcome Amigo, my country is your country and please take a free map to the wonderful plantation owner employer of your choice. Also please feel free to enroll you children in our schools and demand that they be taught in Spanish and please also feel free to avail yourself of all the free medical care that you want. If there are any Gringos in line in front of you, just go to the head of the line. If you want to fly any Mexican flags plese feel free to just take down an American one and use it’s flag pole”).
2) Press two for English (with a response of “#uck you! I know more than any of you damned bigoted nativist lazy madre fornicario gringos who do not want what is right for America del Norte!!!”).
MB4 on May 10, 2010 at 7:27 PM
stupid baseball cap…trying to look like the average joe who knows something about what the mainstream tea partiers want in a candidate.
take it somewhere else johnny….
jbh45 on May 10, 2010 at 7:30 PM
People complained that McCain was not on their side. They were upset that he did not get what they were saying. He gets a lot of really nasty feedback for his immigration stance, he states he got the message people want the border secured first and foremost…which is what people claimed they wanted him to say…and then they complain that he actually has the audacity to support the fence, after he saying he had the audacity to not support the fence.
It would seem that if you want this thing done, you want all the support you could get.
Terrye on May 10, 2010 at 7:35 PM
So if you are wrong on an issue, if McCain is being honest now, you can not change your mind? Ok so, if he wins, hold him to his promises AZ.
I would a love a liberal to change his mind, isn’t that what we are trying to do?
Not a big McCain guy here but if the constituents have made him reconsider his position what we are doing is working. Nice job!
igglesphan on May 10, 2010 at 7:40 PM
This site needs a “pander of the year” contest so John McCain can win it. Not even Mitt the Flip can equal a mega-back-flip with total contempt for voters’ intelligence like that.
David Blue on May 10, 2010 at 7:41 PM
McCain has reveled himself to be a two-faced pathological liar. He is worse than Crist or Specter, maybe even worse than Obama, in that regard. No one in their right mind can trust him. He is like a scorpion.
MB4 on May 10, 2010 at 7:41 PM
Voters who believe in enforcing the law against illegals would have to be stark raving mad to support two-faced Jeckle and Hyde McCain. John Edwards’ wife wouldn’t have to be that crazy to take him back.
MB4 on May 10, 2010 at 7:47 PM
Translation: McCain’s suck up to La Raza
By Michelle Malkin • July 14, 2008 12:04 PM
While John McCain’s lips move this afternoon during his speech to the Race’s open-borders lovefest, let me serve as your interpreter:
MCCAIN: My friends, you are right. Those people who killed my shamnesty bill have ill intentions. They are bigots, just like my friend Lindsay Graham told you they were when he spoke before you two years ago.
My friends, I don’t want to talk about securing the border any more than you do. But trust me, when the “border” is “secure” (wink, wink, nudge, nudge), then we’ll do what we all want to do: Formalize our Sanctuary Nation. Rejoice that illegal aliens are serving in the military. And sanctimoniously demonize and marginalize all those pesky bigots who keep obsessing about immigration enforcement and national security. I’m as committed to peddling sob-story platitudes and whitewashing your ethnic nationalism as you are! (What was that about the 15 things about The Race you should know? Shhhhhhhhhhh!)
Just work with me here, ok? Brother Obama may have marched with you at the Chicago May Day illegal alien parade. But I have a lifetime commitment to Hispandering! And you have showered with me with honors for my open-borders work.
Remember?
They don’t call me La Raza’s voice in Washington for nothing.
MB4 on May 10, 2010 at 7:49 PM
OT: AZ Senator Sylvia Allen on the state senate hearing on border violence. Interesting article!
http://tucsoncitizen.com/the-cholla-jumps/2010/05/01/state-senator-sylvia-allen-responds-to-sb1070/
About McCain, if we could hold him to his promise of border security I’d be more comfortable voting for him. JD is a big blowhard and I wouldn’t vote for him til pigs fly.
GrannySunni on May 10, 2010 at 7:52 PM
It’s the new John Mccain issuing a Mavericky slam against the old John Mccain.
painfulTruthDisciple on May 10, 2010 at 7:54 PM
I wouldn’t trade our Senator Franken for Senator Maverick because I can trust Franken to gain attention by giving cartoon lectures and making his party look foolish where I know McCain will vote to gain MSM attention while sticking it to his own side.
Hey Arizona–take a lesson from Utah. Bye, bye Bennet!
Adios, adios McCain.
chickasaw42 on May 10, 2010 at 8:01 PM
“I’m john McCain, and I had to be dragged kicking and screaming to this message.”
Akzed on May 10, 2010 at 8:05 PM
McCain kicks A$$…
equanimous on May 10, 2010 at 8:05 PM
I’d be willing to accept 1000 more illegals aliens if only Mexico would agree to take John McCain and seal him inside one of those abandoned Mayan pyramids — somewhere in an undisclosed location on the Yucatan peninsula where everything is hidden by all of the jungle overgrowth.
My collie says:
John McCain would you please go now.
CyberCipher on May 10, 2010 at 8:11 PM
McCain ki
cksses A$$…equanimous on May 10, 2010 at 8:05 PM
Fixed!
cableguy615 on May 10, 2010 at 8:12 PM
RE: The McCain ad at the top of the page.
It is to barf.
trapeze on May 10, 2010 at 8:21 PM
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