Media pundits suggest John McCain could be ‘the new Ted Kennedy.’ (insulting and ludicrous)

[ProSense]

Media pundits suggest John McCain could be ‘the new Ted Kennedy.’

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Ted Kennedy said “Americans want the choice of enrolling in a health insurance program backed by the government for the public good”; McCain says we have to “abandon the public option.” Kennedy joined with McCain to push aggressively for comprehensive immigration reform in 2007, a bill that McCain “would not” vote for anymore. Kennedy is remembered as a passionate gay rights advocate; McCain thinks discrimination against gays in the military is “working well.” See the similarities?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. ROFL

:spray: :rofl:
The lunacy of the corporate mediawhores NEVER ceases to astound, amaze, and depress me.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. There is only one way they could be "alike", that would be if he passed away.

[CBGLuthier]

3. I would be happy if he assumed Sen. Kennedy's current position.

Which is to say, drop dead of a painful disease.

Normally i try to hold the hate back but fuck McCain. Best part of him ran down his mamma's legs and left a greasy spot on the mattress.

[av8rdave]

4. What doesn't occur to these %$#@ing morons...

Is that McCain has had decades to develop the kind of gravitas and human skills Senator Kennedy had.

However, he hasn't. Do they really think he will suddenly and magically morph into a responsible, caring, hardworking servant just because Senator Kennedy passed away?

Good grief!

[ErinBerin84]

5. McCain has been especially a douchebag this week

and fuck the media for drooling over him constantly.

[Cha]

6. US tv pundits are good for one thing..

whoring for their masters.

Fuck 'em if they don't know the difference between a facist and a Liberal.

[LittleBlue]

7. Hahahaha Wolf Shitzer thinks so

So laughable. The man is insulting the dead.

[grantcart]

8. Since the election McCain has voted more Republican than ever in his history

He has passed Mitch McConnell for god sake (too tired to find the link).

[karynnj]

18. Passing McConnell is something not that easy to do

Not to mention he ran an incredibly nasty campaign - only his vp was worse. The media clearly wants to rehabilitate him back to their fictitious nice guy 2000 McCain, but his sheer nastiness gets in the way.

[pscot]

9. Let's see Teddy was a gracious, good natured

and much beloved man. McCain is a bad tempered, foul-mouthed curmudgeon. I guess I don't see it.

[Hansel]

10. Huh, I missed it when media saying that Ted Kennedy would be the new Reagan

because that would have been an equally repulsive and asinine statement.

How absolutely f*cking insulting to a great man and his supporters.

Personally I think Al Franken is the most likely to be the new Ted Kennedy. The longer he stays in the senate the more like him he will become. Franken has passion and a cause. He is carrying on the torch for Wellstone and if the right keeps on with their BS about "Wellstoning Kennedy" he will pick up the torch for Kennedy as well. I don't think there is a chance that we will sit back and act like the most junior senator.

[karynnj]

20. I don't think anyone will be the new Ted Kennedy

because no one is ever really the "new" anyone unique. I think the only one who I see who could become like Kennedy a leader on issues with the ability to craft good compromises and the seniority to have a leadership position is John Kerry. Kerry has been leading on the global warming issue, which will be much harder than healthcare, which started with a high percent of the population in favor of it. Even on healthcare, it may be a Kerry proposal that will be used to get a significant chunk of the funding. Though less flashy than the design of the plan, it is critical to passage that there are funding mechanisms that are acceptable. Kerry's outreach to potential opponents was impressive.

It is way to early to know what Franken will do as a Senator and for a while he will just be learning the ropes.

[Tippy]

26. Have to agree.......Kerry has what it takes he's a people person

While I have very high hopes for Franken it's just to soon possibly in the future he could fill Senator Kennedy's shoes, but now is not the time...

[Hansel]

27. You are right, it's not a very apt comparison.

I've met both men. Kennedy acted like I was the only person in the room and that he had all of the time in the world to talk to me. He made me feel special just in those few moments we spoke.

Franken seemed somewhat annoyed that I was speaking to him.

They are not the same and I shouldn't have implied that. But I do think that Franken is motivated to take over the liberal leader role. He has a very long way to go before he could ever fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, if ever. But I think he is the closest we have at this point and I don't think he is afraid to speak up. Both have a similar passion in that they are motivated to carry on the work of someone very close to them that died too young and under tragic circumstances. Franken was very close to Paul Wellstone and his family, and it was the way the Limbaugh and company treated Wellstone's passing that motivated him to write one of the Limbaugh books and to run for senator.

[karynnj]

30. I seriously doubt that as the most jr Senator in the Senate he

could be the leader. Seniority is very important in the Senate. Other than Kerry, there are people like Leahy, Dodd, Feingold, Boxer - all of whom have years working on these problems. I don't think Franken is more liberal than any of these people. The only politicians I have met and talked very briefly to are Senators Kerry and Bill Bradley.

What Franken does have that Kennedy has is an ever present sense of humor.

[Bleacher Creature]

11. Not sure whether to laugh or be violently offended.

Cause I feel both.

John McCain wasn't worthy to carry-out Ted Kennedy's garbage.

[southernyankeebelle]

12. LOL, give us another laugh for today. McCain is a freakin loser -

I will be happy when he leaves or dies out of office. I don't hate him, don't get me wrong. I just want to see what he is hiding by not release files on the MIAs.

[Mad_Dem_X]

13. Three words:

Oh, HELL no! :crazy:

[onenote]

14. everytime someone talks about the "new" (or 'next') Teddy, I ask them: who was the last one?

Teddy was one of a kind. I've spent my entire life working in Washington and my father spent most of his career here as well. There have been other giants in Congress, but none like Teddy. Unlike most "big" men (and they've always been men in this town) on Capitol Hill, Teddy was not afflicted with the disease of self importance. Over the last couple of days it seems like everyone I've spoken to has a "Teddy story" - for example, a story about how they were out with their elderly parents and encountered Teddy who was engrossed in reading something while for a car to pick him up at the airport and how their parents insisted on "disturbing" Teddy and ended up having a ten minute conversation filled with smiles and laughter with him. That is how he was and I cannot think of anyone else I've ever encountered in this town who was consistently that generous with his time and that gracious.

[Bleacher Creature]

15. You would have never seen THIS from Teddy Kennedy during a national emergency

[karynnj]

24. Wow, I would bet that Kennedy would have told any

President, Democratic or Republican, who didn't cancel their photo op exactly where to go -- in this case, New Orleans. That picture showed McCain was completely unconcerned about the catastrophe.

[karynnj]

16. Not to mention, there is a meaness just under the surface

in McCain. I don't think Kennedy, or any moral human being, would have sung "bomb. bomb. bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran.

What I thought really weird is that both Blitzer and Larry King led up to it the same way - acting as if it were a new idea that just entered their minds. They both mentioned that like Kennedy, he was a Presidential candidate who lost. In addition to all the character and issues differences, Kennedy was young enough that he had 29 years in the Senate after that loss.

I heard McCain on Larry King Life, and he was a total contrast to Senators Kerry and Dodd. McCain was mostly about McCain and he took the time to lie about the healthcare bill, saying it would pay for abortion. Now, he was on the committee - he knows this is not true and he is willing to say this before Kennedy was even buried. Here is the link - http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/08/28/lkl.kennedy.long.cnn - it is worth it just to hear Dodd speak of a very ill Kennedy making rabbit faces out the window to amuse Dodd's very young kids. (I think they edited part of McCain from what aired yesterday. )

[msanthrope]

17. Does this mean he'll get brain cancer? Soon? n/t

[progdog]

19. Oh my!

:evilgrin:

[politicasista]

21. Ted Kennedy = G.O.A.T.; McCain = B.L.O.A.T.

eom.

[MissDeeds]

22. Yeah, and my bichons

can sing back up for Aretha Franklin at the next inaugural.

[debbierlus]

23. McCain isn't fit to lick the bottom of his boots - he is the antithesis of Ted Kennedy

Gross.

[FrenchieCat]

25. McCain as the New Kennedy equals Wolf Blitzer as the New Walter Cronkite!

Not even fucking close!

[Phx_Dem]

28. Give me a fucking break. John McCain isn't even very well liked.

Half of his own party doesn't even like him. And what the hell has he EVER done to help anyone but rich people who wanted tax cuts? I'm surprised they didn't suggest Palin could be the next Kennedy.

These pundits are fucking delusional. No wonder they love watching loonies at town halls -- it makes them feel at home.

[ProSense]

29. Daily Kos post nails it.

Ways in Which John McCain is like Ted Kennedy

:rofl:

[mitchum]

31. So do I; I wish it would it happen very soon

[undeterred]

32. He could be the next to get a brain tumor and die.

That's not unreasonable.