Meet John McCain, a.k.a. Bush Apologist

[journalist3072]

"I take him (Bush) at his word" that the order was critical to saving lives and consistent with U.S. law and the Constitution."

"The president, I think, has the right to do this, and yet, I don't know why he didn't go" through court procedures."

- John McCain, loyal Bush apologist, speaking on ABC's This Week about Bush allowing the NSA to spy on Americans.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051218/pl_nm/security_nsa_dc_5

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1. hilarious

watching mccain squirming in his seat trying to hide his true neo-conness and disdain for civil liberties was a beautiful thing.

that man is truly dangerous.

[TK421]

2. This guy always made me sick...Bush's lap-dog. I'll never understand

what people see in this guy, since I've met several people who just love him to pieces :puke:

[AndyTiedye]

3. Come On Now, Give Him Another Hug, You Know You Want To

[journalist3072]

4. That picture sickens me..

And it really makes me wonder just how much John McCain values his own family.

Bush personally approved the plan that Rove, et al implemented in South Carolina.

"In a suite at the Greenville Grand Hyatt that afternoon, Bush's top aides came together to save the campaign, but they were really plotting a murder. It was the Bush high command, with its South Carolina auxiliary: Rove; spokeswoman Hughes, as well as Warren Tompkins, a longtime G.O.P. operative in the state; state attorney general Charlie Condon; Lieutenant Governor Bob Peeler; and former Governor David Beasley. As a participant put it later, this was the moment "we decided to take the gloves off."

The trick was to try to cast McCain as a phony, take a guy with a consistently conservative voting record and paint him as a dangerous liberal, suggest that the war hero was somehow un-American, or at least un-South Carolinian. Out came the antipersonnel weapons: "He's not one of us," and "He doesn't share our conservative values," and "He's outside the mainstream." On McCain's lack of "conservative values," Rove piped up to say, "We have to get in his face on that. He's vulnerable." Added Tompkins: "He's an insider. When I hear this populist stuff, it makes me wanna throw up."

But who could put out the message, given Bush's promise to be a uniter, not a divider? Several outside groups, including the National Right to Life Coalition, Americans for Tax Reform and the National Rifle Association, stepped right up. "Right to Life will do radio; A.T.R. will do TV ads," said one of Bush's South Carolina advisers. Even though coordinating with third-party groups is illegal, the discussion explicitly revolved around the idea that these groups could be counted on to do whatever it took--whether it was running ads, passing out literature or making phone calls--to destroy McCain and save Bush.

Briefed later that day in his hotel suite, Bush agreed to the battle plan. The next 18 days would be the ugliest of his political career. In the heart of the Confederacy, phone callers and leaflets attacked McCain's wife's drug addiction, made racial attacks on McCain's adopted Bangladeshi daughter and warned of "McCain's fag army." Bush won the state by 11 points."

- Time Magazine, November 20, 2000

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5. But where is the pic of McCain groping George?

That one is a bit more accurate.

McCain is a lameass.

[Spinzonner]

6. Because Dick Cheney doesn't believe that the Presidency

should have to ask anyone's permission to do anything.

All the way up through going to war.

[journalist3072]

8. They don't believe in any accountability

Remember how Idiot Son told the WaPo in January of this year that he already had his "accountability moment," and it was called the 2004 election.

[bridgit]

7. i used to think McCain had some potential somewhere...

but someone has clearly set him down & set him onto the bfee pathway...it will be hard to laugh at his 'joking' even about things that are funny next time around after seeing him kowtow so low :thumbsdown: he is marginalizing the key components of his philosophy & approach imo