Tag: McCain
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Pride and honor
What’s the Pig Deal? So says the headline on a Washington Post headline. Funny headline by another group of people who see John McCain as this hero gone wrong. With a phony flap and a misleading attack ad, the McCain campaign sinks into silliness. Thursday, September 11, 2008; A16 IT’S HARD to think of a…
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His erstwhile friends
I promise to tell the truth always about my intention and my beliefs. Sen. John McCain, Republican presidential candidate Some of my fellow bloggers and pundits (the redoubtable Andrew Sullivan, for instance, Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter, and Time’s Joe Klein, to name just a few) had long labored under the illusion that John McCain was a…
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John McCain, that champion of women
As Republicans cry sexism at anyone who dares to question Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s qualification, here is a reminder of how craven Sen. John McCain has been in this whole quest to get the Republican nomination. He had an opportunity not to dignify a demeaning reference to Sen. Hillary Clinton and his answer was: “That’s…
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We should all be Republicans!
Alright, calm down. Let me rephrase. It just should not be possible that Republicans stand any ghost in heck of a chance of winning any office on Nov. 4, let alone the presidency of the United States. Yet, here they are and here we are. Sen. John McCain is buoyant, ascendant, barnstorming the nation, Alaska…
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Maverick chronicles, I
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Question
Does it matter that Sen. John McCain, (R-AZ), is, at best, a spent force who mortgaged any ideals and principles he might have had in a Faustian bargain for the Republican Party nomination for president of the United States? It was painful watching McCain last night and then listening to the empty suit media types…
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Thoughts on the Palin speech
If I had to pick one word to summarize my impression of Gov. Palin’s speech tonight, it would be “shrill.” It was a fiercely partisan speech, a mocking speech, a culture-war speech. It was ably written and ably delivered, but it came with a sneer. While it may be the kind of speech that plays…
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Palin-gate
What some conservatives are saying about the Palin selection TalkingPointsMemo had a the transcript … Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we’ll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We’ll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the…
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Palin, before being picked
In an interview with The New Yorker magazine two weeks before Sen. John McCain picked her as his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was sounding very much like an Obamacan: Before she was running against him, Sarah Palin—the governor of Alaska and now the Republican candidate for Vice-President of the United States—thought it was…
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From the weekend . . .
New York Times Op-Ed columnist Gail Collins had interesting thoughts on Sen. John McCain selecting Sarah Palin as his running mate: It is conceivable that some people will think John McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate because she is a woman. I know you find this shocking, but I swear I have…