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I take strong, strong, strong, STRONG exception to Jim Antle’s statement here: “A lot of criticisms can be made of McCain, but the way he’s run this race isn’t one of them.” Now maybe you can say that McCain ran an effective campaign. But you can’t say that his campaign merits no criticism. Instead, he has run an utterly scorched-earth, cheap-shot, vicious race against J.D. Hayworth. If he had done the same thing against Obama, the establishment media would have had not just a cow but a cow, three ducks, five alligators and 5,000 massive conniption fits. Plus, he probably would have won and spared us this horrible presidency we are now enduring. (Frankly, I think he could have won if he had ran a tough, tough campaign withOUT being vicious or doing cheap shots against Obama — but I digress.) Yes, there is no love lost between Hayworth and McCain, but that doesn’t excuse ads so vicious and dishonest as to be dishonorable. Those are the sorts of ads John McCain has run. It looked like he took all of his outrageous F-word bile that he usually aims at his poor wife and instead channeled it into the ads against Hayworthy. John McCain was right about the surge, and he usually is right on defense issues, and he is right on pork, and he endured torture in captivity with heroism — but aside from that, he is a thoroughly unpleasant, bullying, nasty little piece of work.
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Derek Leaberry| 8.24.10 @ 10:41AM
For the country he allegedly loves, it would have been better had McCain died in Hanoi.
Teflon93| 8.24.10 @ 11:20AM
This is unduly harsh. John McCain was a hero in the hell that was the Hanoi Hilton. I doubt very seriously you would have had his guts and fortitude in enduring years of abuse and torture while refusing parole when offered. Few men indeed have.
This doesn't mean that he has any right to hold high political office beyond the will of the people of Arizona that he do so. He is a representative of the people, not a court Mandarin, and he serves at their pleasure alone.
It does mean that you need to get some perspective.
Derek Leaberry| 8.24.10 @ 12:14PM
If McCain-Kennedy had passed, the USA would have become a Third World country within a generation. A reelected McCain will likely pursue a resurrection of McCain-Kennedy. McCain has acted to destroy the historic American nation and given another six year term, he will likely do so again.
McCain's toughness and courage in Hanoi was commendable and honorable. However, let us remember that McCain wanted to be in Vietnam. And it was the hubris of men like McCain's father that got us into Vietnam where we blundered away 58,000 men for a non-strategic morass of rice paddies.
Ryan| 8.24.10 @ 12:24PM
To wish such to ANYONE on this side of Hitler, you have some serious issues.
Honestly. What gives you the right?
Derek Leaberry| 8.24.10 @ 1:19PM
The First Amendment.
Ryan| 8.24.10 @ 2:36PM
True enough.
Does it mean you should?
Derek Leaberry| 8.24.10 @ 2:58PM
He has helped to ruin the country and is a bad man. He plans to do more destruction. As a father of six children, I am bitterly angry at McCain and absolutely despise him.
But if it makes you feel better, I will add that America would have been a better country had Ted Kennedy drowned with Mary Joe Kopechne off Dike Bridge 40 years ago. Can any conservative not agree that Ted Kennedy spent his 39 years after Chappaquiddick trying to destroy America?
MikeN| 8.24.10 @ 10:59AM
No way McCain wins. Obama outspent him 10 to 1 in the closing weeks, so he probably wins even without the bailout.
Also, the median state was Minnesota, a state Bush never won. So you have to believe he would have won that state or a state he did worse in.
Oldefarte| 8.24.10 @ 12:35PM
Quin, I agree 150%! I supported/voted for McC. in 2008 as the only sane choice available, but he truely disappointed me. Hillary C. did more to honestly call out Obama's history/character than did McC., who tried to play the nice guy/queensbury role [all to his and our demise]. Palin wanted to go after Obama and was stiff armed/prevented from doing so by McC. The POLITICAL CORRECTNESS [not only in this election but in all political situations today] has simply got to stop. If political information is false speculation or bullexcrement, then it should be prevented from being said; but if it's the TRUTH and FACT, then the public has a right to know and consider same in their voting decisions. McC. lost most of my respect when he took off the gloves concerning Obama, since the country's welfare was/is at stake. I will always respect his military bravery and devotion to his duty; but beyond that, he has shrunk in stature big time, as far as I'm concerned. A principled person/candidate has to give his opinion on what is right/just nomatter what the political consequences involved to him personally in order to gain my vote. I can disagree with another person if I respect his reasoned argument as being honestly derived [otherwise that person is a lying SOB of which the world is full of these days]!!!!!
Lesser Weevil| 8.24.10 @ 3:11PM
I put on my clothespin and voted for McCain, but if he had won, it would have been the death of the GOP. We would have gotten the same bill of goods in a "bipartisan" wrapper.
Quartermaster| 8.24.10 @ 7:40PM
Juan McCain is a small dishonorable man. What he did in Hanoi really doesn't amount to much. he did what the country expected of a military officer under those circumstances.
Since he has been back home he has thrown over an honorable wife who waited for him, has consistently betrayed his party and his constituents by being the small "mavericky" twit he plays so well.
Derek is correct. It would have been better for the country if he had not returned from Hanoi. Harsh it may be, but true it is.