TagsTagsUnfortunately, it's no longer shocking to hear Republican presidential candidates enthusiastically endorse the use of torture to gain information from terror suspects. At Saturday's debate, the audience erupted in applause each time a candidate promised to waterboard the hell out of Al Qaeda. After that spectacle, Sen. John McCain was moved ...
John McCain, Waterboarding, Torture, Republican Party, Debate
John McCain should really just accept the fact that the Republican Party has bought tickets on the Crazy Train; today he's castigating the Tea Party for 'foolish' demands in the debt ceiling debate, but what's the point? They're not listening to people like McCain any more.
Tea Party, John McCain, Debt Ceiling, Economy, Republican Party, Bad Craziness
It's amazing to watch one potential Republican presidential candidate after another melting down in public. Yesterday it was Rick Santorum's turn: Santorum: John McCain wrong on torture. Rick Santorum said Tuesday that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, "doesn't understand how enhanced ...
John McCain, Torture, Rick Santorum, Bad Craziness, Republican Party
John McCain has a piece in the Washington Post today, definitively refuting the Republican talking point that torture helped find Osama bin Laden: Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture. Former attorney general Michael Mukasey recently claimed that “the intelligence that led to bin Laden . . . began with a ...
Sen. John McCain is now calling for Hosni Mubarak to step down. Regrettably the time has come 4 Pres. Mubarak 2 step down & relinquish power. It’s in the best interest of Egypt, its people & its military.
Egypt, Tunisia, Protests, Demonstrations, Mubarak, John McCain
Somebody please hurry up and invent a time machine so I can travel back to 2008 and talk myself out of voting for this guy and his idiot running mate. [Video]
That John McCain campaign advertisement about the border fence is even more ridiculous than we thought: McCain Counsels the Wrong Sheriff. The TV ad – shot in the border town of Nogales, Arizona – shows McCain talking with Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu about the need for tougher border security. ...
John McCain, Arizona, Tea Parties, J. D. Hayworth, Right Wing, Republican Party, Immigration
Every once in a while, you see a video that makes you want to sweep everything off your desk, put your head in your hands, and sob, “Why? Dear God, why?” John McCain’s latest campaign advertisement is one such video. [Video]
John McCain, Arizona, Tea Parties, J. D. Hayworth, Right Wing, Republican Party
John McCain is cranky about that “maverick” thing. Damn it, why won’t people just stop calling him that? Ix-nay on the averick-may, ummie-days! John McCain — who built his political persona and his 2008 presidential campaign around the claim that he’s a “maverick” — told Newsweek recently: “I never considered ...
John McCain, Arizona, Tea Parties, J. D. Hayworth, Right Wing, Republican Party
You probably heard about John McCain’s latest pathetic attempt to rebrand himself as a good ol’ right winger, by claiming he has never considered himself a “maverick.” Ahem. Worth the Fighting For: The Education of an American Maverick, and the Heroes Who Inspired Him, by John McCain. McCain’s primary opponent in Arizona, ...
John McCain, Arizona, Tea Parties, J. D. Hayworth, Right Wing, Republican Party
May I be blunt? The idea that legalizing same sex marriage will lead to bestiality is one of the most stone-dumb reactionary talking points of the religious right. Do these people really think the only reason humans don’t “marry” animals is because it’s against the law? Good grief. Maybe this says ...
John McCain, J. D. Hayworth, Arizona, Religious Right, Idiocy, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Fred Flintstone
The craziest Birther of them all, Orly Taitz, has posted an attack on John McCain at her blog, raging about McCain’s advertisement playing the Birther card against J. D. Hayworth. Taitz called the ad — which she misspelled as “add” throughout the post — “despicable” and “appalling.” She went on to challenge the ...
Birthers, Nirthers, GOP, Republican Party, Arizona, John McCain, J. D. Hayworth, Conspiracy Theories
John McCain is playing the Birther card against his opponent J. D. Hayworth, comparing Hayworth to Orly Taitz and Philip Berg. A comparison that is richly deserved. Gotta love this. [Video] (Hat tip: Thanos.)
John McCain, Arizona, Tea Parties, J. D. Hayworth, Birthers, Conspiracy Theories, Right Wing, Republican Party
Yesterday the always dependably rage-filled Michelle Malkin went off on Bill Bennett — and actually called John McCain a “radical progressive.” The Republican party “lost its way” on core limited government principles because of McCain’s radical progressive agenda. Heh. I sometimes wonder if she doesn’t know how crazy this kind ...
Right Wing, Michelle Malkin, John McCain, Outrageous Outrage
John McCain’s Republican opponent for his Arizona Senate seat, former right wing talk radio host J. D. Hayworth, has a new twist on the Birther theme — he says he’s concerned about President Obama’s citizenship because it’s an issue of possible identity theft. [Video] In 2006, J. D. Hayworth made it into ...
John McCain, Arizona, Tea Parties, J. D. Hayworth, Birthers, Conspiracy Theories, Right Wing, Republican Party
Joe the Plumber sounds bitter: Joe the Plumber goes off on McCain, says he ‘screwed up my life’. “McCain was trying to use me,” Wurzelbacher said, according to public radio correspondent Scott Detrow. “I happened to be the face of middle Americans. It was a ploy.” Really? Ya think? What ...
Former John McCain campaign strategist Steve Schmidt now says Sarah Palin has trouble with the truth. John McCain’s top campaign strategist said in an interview Sunday that Sarah Palin was dishonest as the GOP’s vice-presidential nominee and that her untruths have done long-term damage to her public image. “There were numerous ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, John McCain, Steve Schmidt, 60 Minutes, Video
In his new radio ads for the US Senate campaign in Arizona, John McCain is using the kind of language he spoke out against in 2008, and pretty obviously making an appeal to the tea party crowd. “President Obama is leading an extreme left-wing crusade to bankrupt America. I stand ...
Some of John McCain’s top campaign aides are not happy about Sarah Palin’s book. Top aides to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign hit back at Sarah Palin Friday and Saturday, calling the former vice presidential nominee’s soon-to-be-released book “revisionist and self serving” “fiction.” Campaign manager Steve Schmidt, who emerges as Palin’s ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Steve Schmidt, John McCain, Rogue, Alaska
It won’t be officially released until Tuesday, but the Associated Press has an advance look at Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue.” She complains that the McCain campaign deliberately kept her “bottled up,” and coached her to give non-answers. She portrays herself as a down-home simple kinda gal who resented being forced ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Steve Schmidt, John McCain, Rogue, Alaska
As Glenn Beck does his best impression of Joseph McCarthy and tries to get White House Communications Director Anita Dunn hounded out of office for quoting Mao Zedong in a speech at St. Andrews Episcopal School, all I can say is, “Uh oh.” [Video] (Hat tip: Dave Weigel.) UPDATE at 10/16/09 12:13:05 pm: Oh ...
Nontroversy, Chairman Mao, John McCain, Glenn Beck, Anita Dunn
In an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, John McCain finally admits there was tension between his campaign manager Steve Schmidt and the Sarah Palin camp: McCain weighs in on Palin in 2012. He had to admit it because Schmidt forced his hand by saying recently that a Palin candidacy ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Steve Schmidt, John McCain, Video
A new book on the 2008 presidential campaign reveals that Sarah Palin’s (in)famous line about Barack Obama “palling around with terrorists” apparently came straight from the McCain camp: ’Pals Around With Terrorists’: Palin Wasn’t That Rogue, After All. On the subject of linking Obama to ex-Weatherman Bill Ayers, it turns ...
Sarah Palin, John McCain, Campaign, controversy, Email, Rogue
CBS has obtained internal McCain-Palin campaign emails that show a lot of infighting between Sarah Palin and campaign staffers. Internal campaign e-mails exchanged three weeks before Election Day offer a rare look at just how frustrated then Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin had become with the manner in which ...