I think my dad is finally starting to see the real McCain

[rep the dems]

After hearing part of a statement from McCain on either CNN or MSNBC my dad came to me and said, "I'm beginning to think you're right about McCain. He really seems like a posturing phony." I was very glad to hear it.

[Indiana_Dem]

1. My hubby & grandpa have also seen through the BS. nt

[rsmith6621]

2. Just Keep reminding them......

McCain Has A Black Baby.....:sarcasm:

[City Lights]

3. My husband too.

He supported mccain in the 2000 primaries (but voted for Gore in the general) and has been on his "straight talk" :eyes: mailing list ever since. He's finally had enough, and last week sent off a nasty email to mccain. This week he opted out of the email list. :applause:

[oasis]

4. After McCain kissed Falwell's ass, my neighbor gave up on him.(nt)

[windy252]

5. I don't know how

but my mother saw this in 2000. She really didn't trust him.

[texpatriot2004]

6. I lost all respect for McCain when he sold out to this regime. nt

[Cosmocat]

10. I have children ...

and I can tell you for a fact, what they did to him in South Carolina ... My staff would not have been able to hold me back from driving to wherever Karl Rove was and beating the ever loving shiite out of him ...

NO WAY IN HECK, for any reason, would I embrass the people who went after my children ...

[BenDavid]

7. What is it about McCain that he

be called a "War Hero"? What have we read and seen about the story of McCain as a POW? From what I see as a "War Hero" McCain does not fit the bill. McCain did not risk his life. Hell, he saved his life. That is called in my book "self-preservation". No one is accusing Mr. McCain of not having a survival instinct, but a "war hero", No!

Just six years after denouncing Falwell as a symptom of what’s wrong with the Republican Party, McCain apparently wanted to smooth over his differences with Falwell and McCain kissed his ass. Hell,McCain has gone so far as to say he was "Proud Of The President's Leadership". McCain has attempted to project himself as “principled” for year. Yet who was one of the most influential voices in lending cover to Bush’s war? And why did he do it? To maintain viability as a future Presidential candidate.

Anyone watching McCain’s performance for Bush at the 2004 RNC in New York understands where McCain stands on “the ends justify the means.” Yes, I suppose one has to do dirty things in politics, but hug a man who arranged the smear of your entire family? I don’t think so.
****Rove conducted a quiz in South Carolina. I belive the question went something like this:Would you be more or less inclined to vote for John McCain if you knew that he has an illegtimate black child?What Rove forgot to mention was that McCain and his wife, years ago, has adopted said child from an orphange in Bangledesh.****

John McCain chose to make clear to America he is no different than any other of these new breed of GOP lying hacks. 6 years after of doing the opposite of what Bill Clinton suggested in North Korea- after more than half a decade of his GOP being at the helm - he sunk down to Bush's and Limbaugh's level and sought to BLAME AND LIE, dragging up the name Clinton from last millennium's retirement list, And this from a man who refuses to bring up the policies of Reagan and Bush I that built up Saddam and Osama.

McCain knows 2008 is his last shot and obvioulsy believes the the conservative base will carry him to the repub nomination. His advisors must believe that leaving his image as a “moderate conservataive” for a “compassionate conservative” will pay off for him. I hope they are wrong.

[CBHagman]

8. You should give him some quotes from today's speech.

McCain spoke before the Federalist Society, and the content of what he had to say affirmed my worst beliefs about McCain -- and believe me, even though I'm a Democrat, I had regarded McCain as at least principled. I think I was taken in by the maverick stances.

Here's a sampling of what was said:

"The election was not an affirmation of the other party's program. Try as hard as I could, I couldn't find much evidence that my Democratic friends were offering anythng that resembled a coherent platform of principled leadership on critical issues that confront us today..."

Oh, so implementing the 9/11 commission recommendations, raising the minimum wage, and finding a way to make health care affordable are NOT CRITICAL ISSUES? What planet is he on?

A good deal more of the speech was the usual "limited government" mantra and invocations of past wars and Founding Fathers. And there was the usual reference to government not being able to make us compassionate, etc. In short, it was a tad George W. Bush-like in parts, though delivered in a better fashion.

But the heart beneath it is NOT sound

[AlCzervik]

9. My Dad cannot stand McCain, "Bad news honey, Bush enabler"