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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jane4IceCream who wrote (129541)	7/21/2008 7:33:53 PM
From: Don Hurst	Respond to of 173976

After all the below in 2000, McBush then goes out in 2004, hugs and campaigns for the scumbag that did this to him. What kind of man is McBush??... Yup, just another typical repug! >>" After he upset an overconfident Bush by 19 points in New Hampshire, it appeared that McCain might take South Carolina too, ending Bush's bid. In a Greenville, S.C., hotel room the day after his New Hampshire loss, Bush's high command agreed to attack McCain as a double-talking Washington insider and closet liberal. They also discussed the help they could expect from outside groups not legally permitted to coordinate with the campaign. Said a Bush adviser: "We gotta hit him hard." They did. While the campaign itself launched a fusillade of negative attacks, a network of murky anti-McCain groups ran push polls spreading lies about McCain's record. They papered the state with leaflets claiming, among other things, that Cindy McCain was a drug addict and John had fathered a black child out of wedlock, complete with a family photograph. The dark-skinned girl in the photo was, in fact, the McCains' daughter Bridget, whom they adopted as an infant after Cindy met her on a charity mission at Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh. It was, even by G.O.P. standards, unusually foul stuff. Up to that point in the campaign, McCain had been more or less ambivalent about Bush personally. "He thought Bush was a lightweight but a nice enough guy," says a close McCain associate. That ended in South Carolina. During a commercial break in a debate there, Bush put his hand on McCain's arm and swore he had nothing to do with the slander being thrown at his opponent. "Don't give me that shit," McCain growled. "And take your hands off me." McCain lost South Carolina and, eventually, the nomination. He endorsed his opponent - but mocked the ritual, robotically telling reporters, "I endorse George Bush, I endorse George Bush, I endorse George Bush." And months would pass before he would campaign for him against Al Gore. "The tension was palpable," recalls Scott McClellan, the Bush aide who went on to become White House press secretary. "The two were cordial, but McCain would get that forced smile on his face whenever they were together." "<< news.yahoo.com

To: Jane4IceCream who wrote (129541)	7/21/2008 7:38:02 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 173976

McCain is the one running negative ads now, and they are really STUPID negative ads too which have nothing to do with reality. Literally, McCain is running on nothing but a continuation of Bush's wars. That's his only issue. The problem is our military is totally exhausted, we have no reinforcements and our government is broke and badly in debt. Plus,. Iraqis want us out, as Maliki stated when he endorsed Obama's plan. SO McCain loses. I predict he will lose by a larger landslide than anyone imagined. No more straight talk from McCain. He is now pretty much wrong on every single issue and everyone knows it. Plus, no one has any idea what he really stands for, not even the rightwing.