Why is McCain Whoring for *?

[NAO]

What could possibly be in it for him?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. VP's office next month.

[Patchuli]

2. You lie down with dogs,

you get up with fleas! You notice how all the other repubs that want to be elected or re-elected have conveniently 'distanced' themselves? I can't imagine what good McCain thinks kissing that sonova*'s butt is going to gain him. Eeewwwwuuuuu...

[charlyvi]

3. Because he's a whore.

And that's what whores do.

[OzarkDem]

7. Why does any Dem think McCain's different from the rest?

He's GOP, period.

[LiviaOlivia]

9. Exactly. Who here cares a flying F about the evil and stupid McCain?

God, enough is enough.

[charlyvi]

10. Yep.

I've lost all respect for them.

[Hippo_Tron]

25. Because like it or not, he served his country honorably

And that alone shows that he has 1000 times the character that any of the chickenhawks in this administration have. Until I can honestly say that I could go through what he did, I am not going to call him a whore.

That being said, he is the one who is going to have to live with his decisions. Was it worth it to suck up to the asshole who called all of the bigots in South Carolina and reminded them that you have a black child? Was it worth it to stand idly by while the Swift boat liars trashed your friend John Kerry? McCain is ultimately going to have to look back and decide whether all of it was worthwhile.

[yurbud]

4. his life, his wife & kids lives, and a chance to be president

[Armstead]

5. Trying to seem like a Real Republican

I think he's trying to fit in, to win over all those who don't think he's a real Republican. That maverick thing was fine in the past, but I guess he thinks it's a weight around his neck now.

Of course, he may be a day late and a dollar short, if the rest of the Republicans are turning awy from Bush.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. I think it's to try to get some of the lunatic fundie vote in '08.

Bush's dead-ender 30% that still actually support him seem to be mostly the TaliBorn-Agains who think Jesus sent Bush to save America. McCain didn't do at all well with this crowd in 2000, but no Republican nominee can afford to alienate these loons and still expect to win the next election. In fact, he can't win the nomination without them -- they are much more likely to support, in knee-jerk fashion, somebody like Frist or Allen. So I think McCain is kissing Bush's ass in order to keep that bunch from turning on him. They still love Bush, so McCain has to love Bush.

[charlyvi]

11. Then he'll have some explaining to do.....

Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and a few leaders of the pro-life movement call me an unacceptable presidential candidate. Why? Because I don’t pander to them, because I don’t ascribe to their failed philosophy that money is our message.

We embrace the fine members of the religious conservative community. But that does not mean that we will pander to their self-appointed leaders. are corrupting influences on religion and politics. They shame our faith, our party and our country.

Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Robertson or Falwell on the right.

Source: Speech in Virginia Beach, VA Feb 28, 2000

Like I said in my post above, he's a whore.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. Of course he's a whore.

McCain isn't a fundie, and he dissed them in 2000 as that speech shows. I don't think he realized at that time how powerful they are in the GOP, but now he knows, and now he has to suck up to them in order to get the nomination. So he fawns all over Bush, and you can just bet he'll figure out a way to disavow or recant his 2000 remarks.

He might as well dress up in fishnet stockings and a leather bustier and go lean on a lamppost.

[charlyvi]

16. Bwahahaha! Good one.

Unsettling image, but funny as hell!

[lovuian]

8. He wants 2008 ...

thats why... and I bet Jeb is Vice prez

[radio4progressives]

13. he made a bargain with the devil and his name is KKKROVE

he gets to have Rove's mailing lists and data bank resources, funding, and pr. McCain is running for 08... what's so hard to figure out?

[NanceGreggs]

14. Had this discussion with some friends the other night ...

McCain was seen as the outsider, the maverick, the guy who wasn't going to go along with the generally-accepted Neo-Con philosophy being espoused by the Republican Party.

But wait, there's more. Apparently he was promised that if he came 'back to the fold', like the prodigal son, all would be forgiven and forgotten, and he'd have the support of his colleagues (and the WH) should he want to run in 2008.

But then FATE intervened ... little did McCain envision that just as he was grabbing at the lifeline back to Bush, his fellow GOPers would be jumping ship, trying to DISTANCE themselves from this Administration.

Looks like McCain finally decided to put his life's savings into BU$HCO stock on the very afternoon everyone else in the country was dumping it. He stopped being the rebelious maverick just around the time that his party was looking for EXACTLY THAT.

I hope he DOES run in '08. He'll have a hell of a time explaining how he chose to run back into the arms of the very party that besmirched his reputation, as well as that of his wife and daughter, during the 2000 primaries.

It will be used as a clear example of why he doesn't have the wisdom of judgment necessary to lead a nation. And he'll NEVER live down that photo of himself and Bush lappin' up the birthday cake on a day when American citizens were desparately trying to survive the onslaught of Katrina.

As another poster said, "When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas." And McCain is going to be scratching himself all the way to political obscurity ...

[Kahuna]

15. It's his nature. He will whore himself no end to obtain his goal

of being president.

[madrchsod]

17. stockholm syndrome

it`s getting clearer everyday

[AndyTiedye]

18. The Folks at Hollywoodliberal Explain It Quite Succinctly

http://www.thehollywoodliberal.com/comics_part_2.htm

[sandrakae]

19. Karl Rove's help getting elected in 2008.

[aden_nak]

20. He wanted to be Bush's prodigy.

He figured if he sucked up now, he could get an endorsement in 2008. Of course, now he's screwed because that endorsement would be a death wish.

Ha ha!

[candice]

21. He wants to be President, but whatever for?

Imagine the mess that is going to have to be cleaned up.

[Neil Lisst]

22. I think he's already made a deal with Bush

don't know what it's for, but I think they made a deal some time in 2005

[oasis]

23. Undisclosed info on what a sellout he was while at the Hanoi Hilton

may come to light. The "Swiftboating" of McCain will be based on fact.

[hang a left]

24. Just making a wild guess.

He will replace Cheney before the 06 primaries. Something happens to ** in 07/08. McCain gains the presidency by succession. Runs with Warner as his Veep. They steal 08....again.

My imagination going crazy.

[dorkulon]

26. The political alliance revealed! (pic)

[Azathoth]

27. Because the GOP base (the ultra-nutjobs) despises him

The only way McCain can gain the support of the wackos and have a hope of winning the primaries is to tie his boat to someone who already has street cred with the way-out-right (Dubya).

[Minnesota Libra]

28. Has anyone considered the fact that McCain is in this........

........because he's trying to get the 2008 neocon nod and also because he might be suffering some post traumatic stress?

Every time McCain's name comes up the first thing I always think about is the ghosts the Viet Cong must have left him with. It can't be easy on him and he knows his political life is running out.

Maybe Bush reminds McCain of his captors and so McCain is trying to stay on Bush's good side. After Bush called into question McCain's military service I can't think of any other reason McCain would suck up to the boy king like he does.

[blindpig]

29. Because of that night in Bangcok......

OK, bootless speculation, but I often wonder how the reich wingers nearly always get their way. Blackmail cannot be left out of consideration. Not that I have any belief in McCain's supposed good qualities, while he sometimes comes out on the right side of an issue it is not nearly often enough for me to consider him a "good guy".

[gasperc]

30. Can't piss off the right wing wacko base

with their W bumper stickers and lemming alligance to Bush Inc.

Your talking about a sizable chunk of Republicans that may privately detest Bush yet are so fanatically Republican that an attack against Bush is an attack against them. Sounds bizarre, yet true. It's like the man/woman who hates their spouse but the second anyone insults them they'll knife you in a second.