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Forget what omney says about McCain, read what his Republican colleagues say about him
Though many Republicans have begun to coalesce around McCain in recent months, the statements they've made over the years are telling of their personal opinions of the Arizona Senator.
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"The thought of his being president sends a cold chill up my spine. He is erratic, he is hotheaded, he loses his temper and he worries me."
- Republican Senator Thad Cochran on John McCain
Tim Russert on MTP asks McCain about the quote. McCain throws his good friend under the bus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y23S33KrO5s
August 27, 2008 12:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think it would be a good ad for Moveon.org to make just use quotes from republicans stating why he shouldn't be president, raising doubts about him. McCain's ass needs to be kicked bad and I vote Bill Clinton as the attack dog. He needs a role. He's good at being nasty. I can't believe the stuff he said about Barack during the primary. Send Bill out their to take McCain out. Let him slam him on every count... it can't hurt him. Just give him the bottom line parameters. Tell him to always praise him for his service but criticize him for using it as an excuse for everything... Turn him loose and don't apologize for anything or renounce anyone anymore becaues McCain won't.
August 27, 2008 12:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
re: Bill Clinton aka attack dog...somewhere I heard that Mark Penn was helping Clinton write tonight's speech.
August 27, 2008 12:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
If Penn can remember who the enemy is, that might not be a bad thing. But that's a big IF.
I think Bubba will deliver. He's got to live up to Hillary's standard.
August 27, 2008 2:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
'If Penn can remember who the enemy is, that might not be a bad thing. But that's a big IF.'
that's what I was thinking.
August 27, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm still not exactly sure why praising him for being in the millitary over 35 years ago is helpful. It definately isn't job relevent to the duties of being president of the united states. His time in the senate is much more relevent, and honestly I think Democrats are falling into a trap by constant praise being leveled toward his time in vietnam as if it was some necessary preamble to any words directed toward the man. I don't know why we should bring it up, let the republicans bring it up at every opportunity, let them discuss it, let them talk about it, make them use it as their answer to every question. When they use it as their answer, say "yes, he was in the military, he served his country and why exactly is that an answer to a policy question?" Eventually people will see though the charade. If he wants to have his campaign make the excuse that the reason he cannot answer questions, or be accountable for his answers, or remember certain facts is because he was a POW, then fine. That sounds exactly like a reason he could be unfit for the job of president. Democrats work against themselves trying to reenforce the "legend" of McCains POW experience.
August 27, 2008 1:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Erm, was I the only one to expect some quotes? This being a Recommended post and everything?
August 27, 2008 3:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's hard to make friends networking when you're a POW.
August 27, 2008 3:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dems should definitely go after McCain's perceived strengths: his POW status and his so-called foreign policy experiences.
We should create a "spoiled POW" image of him --- someone who thought that he could come back from the prison in Vietnam victimizing his wife who had loyally waited for him --- sleeping around and finally dumping her for Cindy --- just because she wasn't attractive enough for him any more after a serious car accident and, most inexcusably, his own children; someone who thinks having been a POW justifies his having at least seven kitchen tables; etc. Better yet ask non-Dems like Ross Perot who knows every detail of this story to attack McCain's character. And invite Americans to compare and contrast McCain's family values and conduct with both Obama's and Biden's.
Absolutely agree that we should use his fellow Republicans' words to create a hot-tempered, trigger-happy, dangerously aggressive image of McCain. Also, I think I remember reading an article by Joe Klein (TIME magazine, May 22, 2008) that at an unguarded moment a few years ago McCain admitted that he would have, unlike JFK, chosen to act aggressively in response to the Cuban Crisis, which means he would have pushed the US into a war with the Soviets. Also link him to GW Bush who always prides himself on acting on his gut feelings and ends up adopting stupid and costly foreign policies.
August 27, 2008 4:16 PM | Reply | Permalink