The most interesting thing about that article was this sentance:

"Republicans also turned to McCain, the occasional party maverick with the gold-plated reformer's resume and a demonstrated appeal to independent voters."

I've always heard the 'maverick' label applied to him, but the 'occasional' modifier is new to me. Maybe the MSM is starting to prep the battlefield for future elections by gently moving McCain back to a more mainline GOP status....or maybe I'm just reading too much into things?

Gold-plated reformer's resume?!? Mister Keating Five? Mister McCain-Feingold? I'd chew off my voting arm before I'd pull the lever for that asshole.

I'm with S. Weasel. This is not a man who embraces the 1st Amendment. Plus I think the elevator stops a little short of the top floor.

Second the emotion of S. Weasel and BrewFan. "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech." If Johnny McInsane can't get that one right ( lets remember that it is the first on the list) he does not need to go to the White house except for maybe the standard tourist tour.

I wish that bigwigs in the Republican Party would read this blog.

Like several others before me, I could never vote for McCain. Even if it led to another dreaded Clinton presidency, I still wouldn't do it.

In my opinion, a moderate sleaze like McCain would hurt the Republicans more than four years of Hillary.

Everytime they think there is A Republican Scandal™ they tell me I'm suppose to Embrace Maverick© McCain®.

Bullshit. I'd rather have Hillary-care.

While I personally favor full transperancy, their IS a case that can be made against it.
If you're dealing with a punitive sort of congress critter and he actually influences some sort of purchasing decision, if he knows you tried to hurt him, you can kiss your contracts goodbye.

And there still is no way in hell I'd vote for McCain.

Let the voter decide who is dirty and who is clean, instead of relying on this endless cycle of ethical pin-dancing.

Not to point a finger of blame or anything, but did you parrot the silly kabuki routine about how the Swift Boaters were completely independent actors?

I. Don't. Like. McCain.

I voted for him as the, "least objectionable candidate," in the last election. I am embarrassed by a lot of his shenanigans, but until the Rep. Party in AZ comes up with another candidate, I'm stuck with this RINO! Maverick? I'm thinking of another, "M," word.

So scar,
What is it that matters to you?
Whether the Swifties were truthful or were independent?
Your boy Jaques produced what, one guy who contradicted even a part of their story on his lies?
I guess in that case, it would be better to argue their independence rather than the inconvenient facts of his history.
And then the voters decided, leaving you in a long-term bitter tailspin which you seem only too glad to share with masses of people who don't give a shit about you.

We should demand that Vietnam return his brain.

McCain is too much of a risk for this country he is the author of the CAMPAIGN REFORM FINANCE FERORM BILL

Not to point a finger of blame or anything, but did you parrot the silly kabuki routine about how the Swift Boaters were completely independent actors?
Posted by scarshapedstar at January 20, 2006 09:13 PM

The Swiftboaters weren't independant - they relied on my $60 donation.

I voted for McCain in the 2000 primaries and sent him money. Everything since has convinced me the man is a egomaniac extrodinaire. I'd chew off Weasel's arm before pulling the lever for McCain ever again.

You're all nuts. McCain is wrong about a lot of things. His faith in campaign reform and his trust in regulation not the least of which. But if you have that level of distaste for a career Republican which has rubbed the GOP wrong but never failed to stand alongside in the end, then you need to spend your time straddling Drudge's fence.

And take it from a 16 year Marine, do not even compare John McCain to that disloyal piece of shit John Kerry. His willingness to befriend that fucking turd is simply more misguided and wishfull thinking. But John Kerry was and is an opportunistic asshole while John McCain was and is a bona fide American hero.

God knows what took McCain to the point of being so overly optimistic and insistant on believing the best in people (as I frequently do not). I can only imagine that survival of his ordeal in Hanoi required the rejection of all negative thoughts and the insistance on pursuing the end of the rainbow.

Finally and most emphatically, if you would support that shrieking mechanical Communist Hillary! over John McCain, then take this from the bottom of the Gunny's heart:

Fuck You

Biff, "McCain is wrong about a lot of things." That part about sums it up.

Agree about Hillary though. Just thinking about her as President feels like someone dropped a fresh popsicle down the back of my neck.

Doctrinaire Stalinists tend to be a little rough on the republican form of government.

Oh, and one more thing: "But John Kerry was and is an opportunistic asshole". If only that is all he was and is.

I want to see what his military personnel file really says about his separation from the service.

I strongly suspect that if full disclosure were operative in the recent talk-up of supposed conservative lust for McCain, we'd find that McCain's pimps--oops, excuse me--his "consultants" have begun strategically planting stories and spreading a little green (including to a few conservative bloggers).

I credit McCain with integrity, selflessness, and beneficient intentions about equal to the same character traits in Shrillary, and support his candidacy with the same enthusiasm I feel for hers. Driving stakes into the hearts of their ambitions and campaigns is less important than removing the threat of Iran's apocalyse-yearning leadership, but not by so wide a margin that I can significantly lessen my anxiety by turning from consideration of Iran's current intentions to consideration of McCain's or Hillary Rodham's.