SO BUSH AND McCain ARE BUDDIES AGAIN.

[newscaster]

Question......
Does this mean that McCain is weak willed and can be forced back into line?
Does this mean somebody has something on him that could be unveiled to the public?
Does it mean that he really is a wild-eyed neocon?
or
Does it mean he doesn't have a clue?

This leap by him back into the arms of * makes no freaking sense.

[sallyseven]

1. Weak Willed

That is my guess. He is a conservative and cannot abide the repukes losing.

[bloom]

2. My guess is that he is being WELL COMPENSATED...n/t

[Dogmudgeon]

3. He's a loyal Republican

What did anyone expect?

I respect the guy, but face it, he's part of the opposition. He may be a lot more honorable than the jackass who's setting his party's direction, but he's not a Democrat.

--bkl

[scared]

15. I can't respect anyone........

Who would make this country go through four more years of this crap and probably worse. He should be impeached along with Bush as far as I'm concerned.

[ant]

4. loyalty, maybe?

I kind of think this is what keeps Powell in the admin, too.

These are military guys. They're very, very, VERY loyal. From what I understand, McCain could've been released from that prison in Vietnam but chose to stay because it would be wrong to leave the others behind simply because he was the son of privilege.

Similarly, he had the option to leave his current prison in the Republican party but chose to stay. The Republican party is his party, and he's in it for the long haul.

Just my buck fifty.

[PATRICK]

10. Powell, McCain exactly

People wondered about David Brooks too. These are people indelibly conservative, usually deeply flawed, that make any flaws in our guys look like specks compared to logbeams. Arnold is another incredible hype job.

Ideologically, temperamentally, on fundamental issues(if liberal in the moral area) these guys will never "switch over". If our tent ever got that big, beyond the two color dogs of some very odd Democrats, you can forget it having any meaning except as a ruling coalition.

No, this is a bit of predictable blowback from Kerry cruelly using this as a wedge. Still, making McCain HAVE to emrace Bush for his political GOP future should be a learning experience and a source of some insider humor.

Not back to the business of good old partisan politics as it is honestly neeeded. How many times do supposedly honorable and decent GOPers have to kick dirt in your face as they grovel to Bush and the extremists for anyone take them off their macho pedestal? Some of our guys too should be wondered at when it comes time to serve the people, the nation or some nauseating disappointing "greater interest"?

[Demeter]

16. MisPlaced Loyalty

I thought the whole point of military loyalty was to the country, which means the individual citizens and families, not one individual, one Family, and to the rule of law, not of a coup leader or figurehead. But, hey, I am an American; what do I know?

[ashling]

5. It means that Kerry allowed himself to be used

by McCain to get where he wanted to be all along.

It means that he is a hypocritical neocon Repthuglican who can't be trusted.

The only thing surprising is that anybody is amazed by his ass kissing ways

[Paradise]

6. i was wondering the very same things???

but i don't have a clue. i do know that i don't think of him in quite the same way since his, and biden's meet the press interview when he said the same things to joe, and, now, this. :thumbsdown:

[LittleApple81]

7. For me: he is channeling Scott McClellan:

Did you hear his statement? Bush working to "make the world a better, safer and freer place." That is Scotty's mantra, repeated during 80% of the time dedicated to "press briefings" (I bet they are called briefings because the exchanges are "brief" in truth).

Or BushCo has the "goods" on him.

[taxidriver]

8. it means that all the people having a Kerry/McCain circle jerk were fools

the plethora of McCain VP threads posted here for so long were starting to get to me. of COURSE McCaIN is a loyal repub. He never was anything else.

[blueknight]

9. he's setting his self up....

for dumbass rummy's job.he knows rummy's ass is going to get fired. but what he dont see is that bush is going to lose in november

[69KV]

11. he's a partisan Repub.

McCain is a partisan Republican. He's a hard right conservative too, who just likes to play the maverick card every once in a while. He's had a feud going with Bush ever since the dirty tricks in the 2000 primaries but in the end he will do the party loyalty thing and be a team player, even as he continues his feud with Bush on some single issues. That's standard practice in any political party.

[neebob]

12. It means he's a selfish, amoral, stupid jerk just like Bush

and it's all part of the plan to make John Kerry look like a boob. What's to make sense of?

[bushwakker]

13. It means they offered him the Vice Presidency

one or two years into AWOL's second term when Cheney resigns and the heir apparent is selected.

[leesa]

14. They have never NOT been friends. McCain works for the neocons

just like Powell does. His role is as 'the moderate' to give the impression that they are not all totally out to lunch.