McCain: "What's wrong with sucking up to everybody?"

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McCain Says Iraq Could End His Career
CURT WOODWARD | AP | February 23, 2007

SEATTLE — Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said Friday that British Prime Minister Tony Blair has sacrificed his career to support the Iraq war, and the Arizona senator acknowledged that he could face the same fate.

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"I believe that if we fail in Iraq, you will see chaos and genocide," McCain said.

The state Democratic Party criticized McCain for his support for the war, calling him "worse than Bush" in a statement.

After the speech, McCain was asked by an audience member if he was "sucking up to the religious right." He drew laughs by responding: "What's wrong with sucking up to everybody?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070223/on-the-2008-trail

[Kutjara]

1. The fact that he doesn't know the answer to that question...

...says everything I need to know about the man's character and ethics.

Can't wait to see him sucking up to the KKK next.

[Mz Pip]

2. Umm, because it

makes you look like a disingenuous panderer??? But then if that is who you are, then I guess there's nothing wrong with it. :shrug:

Mz Pip
:dem:

[rocktivity]

3. This guy is getting more like Reagan by the MINUTE!

And given his age and that fact that he's been tortured as a POW, that's NOT good.

:headbang:
rocknation

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

4. OMG What A Statement That Is.

I would be a lot harsher on it had it not been a joke and it had been stated like a serious comment instead; but still, jesus LOL

[badgerpup]

5. "What's wrong with sucking up to everybody?"

Well...for one thing, anything you might have had resembling 'credibility' is sucked away.
Get it? Sucked away? :rofl:

You might also want to consider that attributes such as 'respect' 'gravitas' and 'honorable' just don't jive with the image conjured up by the phrase 'sucking up to everybody'.
They really, really don't.

And...:blush: whether you realize it or not...
you're disgracing yourself and everyone who knows you. :hide::yoiks:

[Cobalt-60]

6. just a little close order drill for the backwash

Even a lump like McCain knows the fanatical fringe isn't enough in itself to get him into the white House.
He's trying to prevent the erosion of the Republican backwash by chanting absolutely anything to keep them in formation.
If they have time to think about anything but goose stepping for God they might just realize that they're being played. They might even dare to draw their own conclusions rather than those supplied by the Cons.
And the Cons can't have that.
Should Freddie Fundie wake up and realize that he's a wage slave with a diminishing future, they might even vote Democratic. Last time that happened the cons spent an entire generation out of power.
And the Cons can't have that, either.

[Colobo]

7. The guy keeps putting himself down. He needs no help...

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8. what a transparent politician he has revealed himself to be -

I actually voted for him in the SC primary in 2000 - just to try to stop bush. I had some respect for the guy at the time.

How could I have been so wrong?