"McCain: Miller May Cost Bush"
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-mccain3sep03,1,5146607.story?coll=la-headlines-nationSen. John McCain, who has pushed for more civility in this year's presidential race, is warning that the biting attack on Sen. John F. Kerry by a fellow Democrat at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night might harm President Bush's efforts to woo swing voters. McCain (R-Ariz.) said the keynote address by Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) could prove as controversial as a speech by Pat Buchanan at the 1992 GOP convention in Houston.
Comments:
Reply 1 - Posted by: eliza, 9/3/2004 3:20:43 AM
Poor John. Really feeling overshadowed, is he?
Someone stroke him, please.
McCain is useless. This is how he repays the terrific slot and opportunity he was given? By carping about someone who shared the podium with him?
Put a sock in it, John; you're not calling the shots here.
Reply 2 - Posted by: StoneP, 9/3/2004 3:24:22 AM
Didn't he hear about Frank Luntz' focus group, who was particularly swayed by Zell Miller because as a Democrat he had credibility? They didn't think it was over the top and they were the undecideds that everyone wants! Zell hit a home run!
Reply 3 - Posted by: arikari, 9/3/2004 3:24:39 AM
Doesn't he ever get tired of sucking up to the media?
Reply 4 - Posted by: JHSMom02, 9/3/2004 3:30:13 AM
I have had an epiphany about John McCain today. I'm not a psychologist and I hate psycho babble, but I heard Rush mention on today's show how McCain always seems to side with or try to appease the media. Could this be a manifestation of a condition common to people who have been held prisoner? I wonder if this a mechanism of survival, agreeing with or attempting to side with in some manner his interviewer / interrogator? Could this be Stockholm Syndrome? Just a thought.
Reply 5 - Posted by: ZurichMike, 9/3/2004 3:37:24 AM
I think #4 hits the nail on the head. Excellent!
And there's a big difference between Buchanan and Miller. Buchanan was a Republican when he gave that speech trying to rally the conservative GOP base. Zell is a Democrat, appealing to conservative Democrats and independents. And as far as "costing" him the election, that can be summed up in two words in 1992: Ross Perot.
John McCain really needs to retire . . . to a retirement home.
Reply 7 - Posted by: anonymous, 9/3/2004 3:44:23 AM
I thought Zell Miller's speech was far too bombastic to be effective in the overall scheme of things. And he's not entirely credible because I believe he's spoken out in support of Kerry in the past. The follow-up stoush with Matthews reinforced my feelings about him.
Reply 8 - Posted by: AHerald, 9/3/2004 3:45:32 AM
He's always got to pee in the pool just when everyone else is having fun.
Reply 10 - Posted by: pub_crawler, 9/3/2004 3:47:31 AM
McCain is no team player.
Reply 12 - Posted by: ScienceMike, 9/3/2004 4:05:36 AM
Re: #4, it sounds like Rush has been casting about a bit. The crew on National Review Online's "The Corner" noted the McCain suckup factor to the journalistic "clerisy" a ways back.
Either way, it's getting long past time for McCain to shut his damned trap. It isn't all just about him.
Reply 13 - Posted by: ZurichMike, 9/3/2004 4:16:04 AM
Gee, #7, I guess it surprises you that a Democrat like Miller would support a Democrat like Kerry on lots of issues. But we're not here to discuss Miller's voting record. He's not running for the most powerful position on earth. In fact, Miller is retiring and he has NOTHING TO GAIN by saying what he did.
The one and only issue, by which all else is measured, is who is better at protecting the country. The answer is clear, and Zell said in loud and clear. Bush.
Reply 14 - Posted by: Joe Friday, 9/3/2004 4:19:43 AM
The truth is hard to take! Most especially when you are trying to hide from it!
Miller sounds good to all us straight shooters!
Tricky McCain is a loser and a suck up to the MSM! He is not entirely trustworthy!
Reply 15 - Posted by: Sid Shovel, 9/3/2004 4:23:53 AM
If ya can't trust a maniac, who can you trust? What maroon
Reply 16 - Posted by: AbingtonJim, 9/3/2004 4:38:32 AM
#7 As Zel has said in the past, he was a freshman senator, Kerry needed someone to stand up and say something nice about him and Zel read from the script the Kerry people gave him.
As for John ''The Prisooner'' McCain, he should fade into the sunset and keep his mouth shut. Another John that won't sign a 180 and let the truth be told, he's just P.O.'d cuz Zel has a bigger set of stones and says the things he doesn't have the courage to say.
Reply 17 - Posted by: TheTech, 9/3/2004 4:45:34 AM
I agree with #4.
As for Zell Miller. He did more than reach out to Undecideds and Reagan Democrats. He demoralized the Dimocrat Party and they know it. He laid out the agenda and path for justifying the majority of decent people in that party to come to their senses and vote for W.
They will.
Reply 18 - Posted by: Momma Walton, 9/3/2004 5:05:14 AM
Read Zell's book and it will clarify what he said. He realized what the Dems/Libs were doing to his party and he was ashamed and decided to retire from politics but hoped to change them - not an easy task - with Kennedy/Kerry/Edwards still there, but hopefully Daschle will be a thing of the past comes November.
God bless Zell Miller and may many more Dems come to their senses and realize that their party is veering too far left.
McCain hasn't decided who he is for - he flip-flops too!!! Must be his association with Kerry!!
Reply 19 - Posted by: USA Yasmine, 9/3/2004 5:12:33 AM
I watched "The Spew" the other day when McCain was on with his wife Cindy. I thought Id hear him let those liberal b^%&$s have it, instead, he pandered and bloviated and sounded for all the world like a rhino running for office. Im sick of him and his camera hogging.
Reply 21 - Posted by: punkinpie, 9/3/2004 5:19:39 AM
zell spoke the plain truth, a refreshing clarity in the fog that is kerry
Reply 26 - Posted by: LEPhunt, 9/3/2004 6:04:16 AM
Hey, I have a little different take on things...I think McCain May Cost Bush...someday GW may learn that being nice to the "enemy" will eventually come back to bite him in the rear end...I hope it won't be too late...my only hope is that REAL REPUBLICANS in Arizona will make their feelings known to this "TRAITOR"...I truly believe he is the Manchurian Candidate planted in the Republican Party to wreak havoc on it...JOHN, SHUT UP !!! Even Zell Miller didn't seek the nearest camera to say "Kennedy May Cost Kerry", or "Gore May Cost Kerry", or "McAwful May Cost Kerry"...anyone hear a DIM come out of the Dim Coven in Boston and make such a comment about any of their seakers ? Of course not.
Reply 27 - Posted by: paiso, 9/3/2004 6:12:08 AM
McCain sounds like a jealous little kid who has been upstaged by someone with courage.
Reply 29 - Posted by: LEPhunt, 9/3/2004 6:15:44 AM
Too bad he is such a coward that he has to vilify an old man...he was also"upstaged" by Giuliani, Swartzenegger, and Laura Bush, but methinks he figured if he slammed them they'd of kick his arse.
Reply 30 - Posted by: geo11, 9/3/2004 6:22:13 AM
McPain wants to remain in the limelight and will say anything to keep the cameras rolling. Bush knows this guy can't be trusted but is using him as best he can. Keep your enemies close.
Reply 32 - Posted by: West Side Irish, 9/3/2004 6:47:00 AM
McCain is ticked off because nobody can even remember that he spoke at the convention just four days ago. He was upstaged by every other speaker at the convention and he knows his sun is setting.
Reply 33 - Posted by: Buzz Crawford, 9/3/2004 6:52:42 AM
The truth is powerful when spoken with passion. Passion that comes from the heart.
John McCain needs to stop being a critic and start campaigning for President Bush.
He can't make everybody happy.
It's called FREEDOM John.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
I haven't heard Republicans crying about the months of negative lies about our President.
Reply 34 - Posted by: mulhaven, 9/3/2004 7:00:50 AM
I saw McCain on TV and the first thing he did was lie. He said Miller questioned Kerry's patriotism - that never happened. I turned to another station. McCain is untrustworthy.
Reply 35 - Posted by: MHR, 9/3/2004 7:02:09 AM
It's simple McCain is out for McCain....