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Mitt,I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon. MmmmmHa! Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday Morning, January 30th, 2008
John McCain has faced down plenty in his life - including a cascade of conservative critics, as well as the tin-foil hat crowd of Progressives, Libertarians, Trotskyites, and Body Thetans. Large in this body of antagonists is Rush Limbaugh - the Sidney Greenstreet of Loudmouths.
Rush is the litmus test for folks who use the radio waves as their Political Sam's Club: Buy in Bulk, Freeze and Use. Rush got it down. To Rush Mr. Newt was the Lord Xenu of Conservative Doctrine and hung from Gingrich's fanny through the 1990's. 'Mr. Newt' exited politics - stage right - to compose Civil War Novels and treatises on deep political thought.
What's a shill to do? Square pegs stay in square - whadyacall'ems? -holes, I guess and round pegs in the round ones. Keep it simple. stupids! T'aint simple, Rush.
Radio is simple. Has been since Father Coughlin, Aimee Semple-McPherson, Billy Sunday and Nero Wolf. Sidney Greenstreet played Nero Wolf on the old radio. He also played a great villain in old Warner Brothers movies. He was fat, oily, and glib. Like Rush.
Rush has influence as well as political flatulence and John McCain has been his target for a long time. Limbaugh surrogates like Hannity and his Mother Hubbard side-kick Colmes toss vitriol at McCain, like four year old girls with bad arms. But Rush is masterful.
McCain appeals to most Americans, folks who vote Republican and folks who vote Democrat. Most Americans lead complex lives and deal with complex problems. Politics is nothing compared to a sick kid, a daughter on her third deployment to Iraq, a layoff at the newspaper, an evaporating 401(k) Plan, and rising taxes.
Straight talk beats a script every day of the week.
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John McCAin = Amnestys best friend!
05/18/2007 -— How soon we forget.....
“During a meeting Thursday on immigration legislation, McCain and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) got into a shouting match when Cornyn started voicing concerns about the number of judicial appeals that illegal immigrants could receive, according to multiple sources — both Democrats and Republicans — who heard firsthand accounts of the exchange from lawmakers who were in the room.
At a bipartisan gathering in an ornate meeting room just off the Senate floor, McCain complained that Cornyn was raising petty objections to a compromise plan being worked out between Senate Republicans and Democrats and the White House. He used a curse word associated with chickens and accused Cornyn of raising the issue just to torpedo a deal.
Things got really heated when Cornyn accused McCain of being too busy campaigning for president to take part in the negotiations, which have gone on for months behind closed doors. “Wait a second here,” Cornyn said to McCain. “I’ve been sitting in here for all of these negotiations and you just parachute in here on the last day. You’re out of line.”
McCain, a former Navy pilot, then used language more accustomed to sailors (not to mention the current vice president, who made news a few years back after a verbal encounter with Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont).
“[Expletive] you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room,” shouted McCain at Cornyn. McCain helped craft a bill in 2006 that passed the Senate but couldn’t be compromised with a House bill that was much tougher on illegal immigrants.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1836042/posts?page=1
BTW, MCCAIN CALLED IT AMNESTY before the American public put him in his place.
McCain called plan ‘AMNESTY’ in 2003
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59567
But in a May 28, 2003, press conference in Tucson, the Arizona senator said Congress should pass a guest-worker program that includes “amnesty” for illegal workers in the U.S.
“I think we can set up a program where amnesty is extended to a certain number of people,” McCain said. “Amnesty has to be an important part, because there are people who have lived in this country for 20, 30 or 40 years, who have raised children here and pay taxes here and are not citizens.”
“He used the word,” noted GOP rival Gov. Mitt Romney during the Fox debate, referring to amnesty.
It is legend about McCains temper. Has everyone forgotten how he cursed Cornyn out last spring? He has no business in the senate much less the white house.
Every year, the congressional staffers vote for congressmen. Here’s what McCain earns from those who have to work around him.
Show Horse
1. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
2. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
3. Joseph Biden (D-Del.)
Getting votes from both sides, the New Yorker is the subject of the old joke: The most dangerous place in DC is between Chuck Schumer and a TV camera.
Hottest Temper
1. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)
2. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
3. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.)
Stevens, known for wearing an Incredible Hulk tie to intimidate friend and foe, and McCain, known to snap at staff when the cameras are off,
Worst Follower
1. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.)
2. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
3. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.)
Chafee’s the most liberal member of the GOP. Close behind are McCain, a little less of a maverick as 2008 nears, and Lieberman, a Bush ally on the Iraq war,
So every election year we survey top aides on both sides of the aisle—administrative assistants, press secretaries, legislative directors, and chiefs of committee staffs—to get their up-close and personal, and anonymous, views.
This year, we sent out some 1,700 ballots and received back a nearly identical number of Democratic and Republican responses. For each we donate $1 to a charity: So Others Might Eat or the Metropolitan Police Boys and Girls Clubs.
Our survey shows that while there may be lots of partisan backbiting among the senators and House members, their staffers seem far more capable of putting politics aside and making honest judgments. It wasn’t unusual for aides in both parties to name one of their own as “spineless” or give the “workhorse” nod to someone across the aisle.
http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/mediapolitics/1666.html
You sir aptly named your blog "The Town Crier" surely sums you and all that you represent up.Wah! Wah! Wah! the only thing that is true is that you and your cronies are so afraid that Senator McCain is going to win nomination as well as the presidency that you will stoop to any level and spread any tale that you think people will believe. And may I be the first to say Sir that you and your cronies have reason to be afraid because Mac is not going away.Biggotry is no longer in style and you need to pass that along. The moonbat reign is over and as for Senator McCain's temper you and your cronies would try anyone's patience.
Rush, you will recall, is the chubby gent who passed off GWB as a conservative.
I understand why. He wanted the Republican Party to avoid the Doleful campaign of 1996, so he compromised early.
I think folks like TownCrier and Rush actually want to lose this election to the Democrats, and that is why they are gunning for McCain. They want to lose so that they can have 4 years of blaming the Democrats, I almost sure of that now. The fact that any right thinking person would put Romney or Huckabee above McCain is truly beyond me.
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