McCain revives "Straight Talk Express" bus tour

[JI7]

i was wondering whether this belonged in the lounge.


<DES MOINES, Iowa The "Straight Talk Express" is back, hitting the road on a two-day bus tour of Iowa.
John McCain says it's "deja vu all over again," as the Republican presidential candidate brings back a tool that worked in his 2000 primary campaign.

This time, McCain is hoping to steer his campaign out of an early rut, although he insists he's "very happy" with where it is right now.

McCain is seeking momentum in Iowa, an early voting state that he bypassed seven years ago.

He gets on another bus this weekend in New Hampshire, where he won the 2000 primary before ultimately losing the G-O-P nomination to George W. Bush.>


http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=6232177

[deacon]

1. What gall - "Straight Talk Express"- I'm happy where he is now too

...spinning his wheels going nowhere.

[Chipper Chat]

8. Any spraypainters around?

"Straight Talk Express...
....with Forked Tongue Excess"

[opihimoimoi]

2. Gramps McLimp should go fishing...he is Toast....too little too late

[Berry Cool]

3. The wheels fell off that bus long ago.

All further departures for the Straight Talk Express have been canceled. Please contact your travel agent.

[opihimoimoi]

4. His biggest mistake was to hug the Devil and not cleansing himself properly w Holy Water

That photo of gramps hugging Bush is a KILLER

[rocktivity]

16. I've always said that defeating McCain was as easy as running these photos

He hugged a man who called him crazy, then let him eat cake while New Orleans drowned.

:headbang:
rocknation

[ClintonTyree]

5. "he's "very happy" with where it is right now".

In the stinking toilet and he's HAPPY about it? Talk about a man in denial. :eyes:

[Bluebear]

6. PHOTO: Weathervane McCain & his idol

[RogueTrooper]

7. I think

Look! Shark!

[geardaddy]

20. LMAO!

:rofl:

[BootinUp]

9. This thread made my morn...

rofl.

[City Lights]

10. It passed thru here the other day and I was lucky enough to snap this pic:

:evilgrin:

[demnan]

11. He should call it

"Bush's Lap Dog Express"

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. His bus weaves all over the road. Better check the nut behind the wheel.

He's going nowhere...............

[skipos]

13. "The Weathervane McCain Train" sounds more accurate. nt

[JoFerret]

19. Weathervane McCain

Perfect

[hatrack]

14. Well lah-dee-fucking-dah

Nobody cares any more, Senator Weathervane.

[TankLV]

15. Irony ISN'T dead after all!

I hope and pray that SOMEBODY, ANYBODY graffitti's a "sarcasm" disclaimer on that gas guzzling piece of shit...

[semillama]

17. my reaction:

[JoFerret]

18. Where does karma suggest that this bus will end up?

.

[geardaddy]

21. I'm sooo glad Timmy the Tool has hooked his

wagon to this star.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/03/14/pawlentyiowa/

:evilgrin:

[Canuckistanian]

22. What a rebel. You never know what he's going to do.

I'll bet his toilet paper unrolls from the wall side.

[BenDavid]

23. The Flip Flop Express

Let’s return, once again, to McCain’s flourishing flip-flop list, which is now a Top 11 list.

* McCain criticized TV preacher Jerry Falwell as “an agent of intolerance” in 2002, but has since decided to cozy up to the man who said Americans “deserved” the 9/11 attacks. (Indeed, McCain has now hired Falwell’s debate coach.)

* McCain used to oppose Bush’s tax cuts for the very wealthy, but he reversed course in February.

* In 2000, McCain accused Texas businessmen Sam and Charles Wyly of being corrupt, spending “dirty money” to help finance Bush’s presidential campaign. McCain not only filed a complaint against the Wylys for allegedly violating campaign finance law, he also lashed out at them publicly. In April, McCain reached out to the Wylys for support.

* McCain supported a major campaign-finance reform measure that bore his name. In June, he abandoned his own legislation.

* McCain used to think that Grover Norquist was a crook and a corrupt shill for dictators. Then McCain got serious about running for president and began to reconcile with Norquist.

* McCain took a firm line in opposition to torture, and then caved to White House demands.

* McCain gave up on his signature policy issue, campaign-finance reform, and won’t back the same provision he sponsored just a couple of years ago.

* McCain was against presidential candidates campaigning at Bob Jones University before he was for it.

* McCain was anti-ethanol. Now he’s pro-ethanol.

* McCain was both for and against state promotion of the Confederate flag.

* And now he’s both for and against overturning Roe v. Wade.

It’s not exactly a newsflash that McCain is veering ridiculously to the right in a rather shameless attempt to reinvent himself, but Dems should take advantage of the situation and help establish the narrative now. Despite his rather embarrassing record of late, we still have major media figures telling the public that “no one would accuse McCain of equivocating on anything.”

Now is the time to begin characterizing McCain — accurately — as a man with no principle beliefs. Dems should not only criticize McCain’s constantly evolving opinions on nearly everything, they should openly mock him for it now, so that the storyline becomes second nature (like the GOP did with “serial exaggerator” Al Gore).

And the best flip and flop took place within 47 second time span:
On ABC’s This Week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said it is unrealistic to expect the escalation strategy to change the situation in Iraq in “a few months”:

MCCAIN: Took us a long time to get in the situation we’re in, and to say that — and somehow assume that in a few months, that things are going to get all better I think is not realistic.

Just 47 seconds later, McCain said we’ll know whether the escalation strategy is working “in a few months”:

STEPHANOPOULOS: You say it’s all in. How long are you going to give it to work?

MCCAIN: I think in the case of the Iraqi government cooperating and doing what’s necessary, we can know fairly well in a few months.



Thanks to Carpetbagger