Googlebomb John McCain!!!

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

If you are anything like me, you are sick and tired of the national image of John McCain as some sort of independent, principled, Republican moderate. Examples of McCain's departure from the Bush administration's agenda are truly few and far between. Despite reports to the contrary, he has consistently supported and facilitated the most egregiously radical aspects of that agenda. Further, in an attempt to improve his prospects for the Republican nomination in 2008, he has spent much of the last three years sucking up to the theocon wing of the Republican Party that he once decried. Most famously, this included retracting comments he made about Jerry Falwell and then speaking at Falwell's Liberty University. Pandering to extremists you once denounced in order to improve your electoral prospects hardly sounds "principled" to me.

What especially irks me about McCain's pure as the driven snow national image is how the Washington pundit elites have continued to help manufacture it. McCain is the most frequent guest on Sunday morning talk shows, whose hosts clearly have done a terrible job of exposing the truth about him. We simply can't trust the gatekeepers of our conventional wisdom to treat John McCain with any skepticism whatsoever. I am sure we will see much of the same lapdog treatment from the pundit elite when it comes to the McCain doctrine, otherwise known as escalation in Iraq. Already, pundits are bending over backward to label this idea serious, and the people who support it as principled.


Well, I say enough is enough. The line on McCain's national image will be drawn here, and drawn now. Today, I am proposing a long-term, anti-McCain googlebomb project similar to the Googlebomb the Elections campaign I founded in 2006. The goal on this project is the search engine optimization of articles from established news sources that tell the truth on John McCain. I want to make certain that when people search for information about John McCain online, that they are presented with the truth on John McCain. I hope you will join me in this campaign.

Read the whole thing here:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/1/12/13116/7025

And then help with the googlebomb!

Also, if you believe in this project, please K&R, so as many people as possible will help with the McCain googlebomb.

And hats off to Chris Bowers, author of this fabulous idea!

:applause:

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

1. kick

:kick:

[NewJeffCT]

8. You're doing well - I tried similar with Lieberman last year here on DU

and got el zippo in terms of responses.

[blm]

2. Here's a sample of good info on McCain you can find in DU's Reasearch Forum, too.

McCain hypocrisy:


http://www.alternet.org/story/28266 /

The Bushification of John McCain

By Ari Melber, AlterNet. Posted November 15, 2005.



The bad blood between the two men has been infamous since 2000, when Bush's campaign lied about McCain's family and war service, and McCain told Bush to "get out of the gutter."

But during Bush's reelection in 2004, McCain strained to embrace his former rival -- literally. In their first joint appearance, they hugged dramatically before 6,000 soldiers at a Fort Lewis rally. Those events made for great campaign visuals. Yet while most Americans saw McCain's big heart, Republican leaders saw hungry ambition.

Rich Lowry, editor of the conservative magazine National Review, recently described that campaign bear hug as nothing but proof of "the senator's presidential ambitions." Lowry argues it's just part of McCain's scheme to get "the Right to stop loathing him." In targeted moves since the election, McCain has continued his Bushification by changing positions on conservative priorities like creationism, gay marriage and tax cuts.





As the costs of Hurricane Katrina mounted, McCain went on national television and told Chris Mathews the Bush tax cuts must be maintained. But McCain voted against those tax cuts.

In fact, he was one of only two Republicans to oppose Bush's signature 2001 tax cut. Given the surging costs of Katrina, Iraq and Medicare, there is no policy rationale for reversing his position now. The only rationale is political pandering. And that's exactly how some influential conservatives see it. Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, recently said that although McCain has "flip-flopped on a number of issues," he is still "anti-taxpayer" because "he's voted against every tax cut."

Yet the mainstream media is so attached to McCain's maverick image, most journalists didn't cover the tax reversal.

Ari Melber served as a national staff member of the John Kerry presidential campaign and as a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate.

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

3. good info

thanks for posting

[blm]

5. You're welcome - Many DUers forget about the Research Forum here, but it really is

a great place to collect the facts and the analysis we'll need in our future battles.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

4. I support this

McCain is a spineless political hack. The media refers to him as a "maverick" which is just sugar-coating the fact that he's a self-serving hack who surrendered his principles for power.

[NewJeffCT]

6. Here is a google bomb for McCain

Thanks for posting the alternet story...

John McCain

[blm]

12. EXCELLENT - stopping McCain means stopping McCain/Lieberman 2008.

.

[NewJeffCT]

7. It is very easy to do, but just "preview" first, as their HTML differs slightly

from DUs...

Just change the <> that they use in their samples to < >

so, it would be
[a href=" instead of <a href="

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[orleans]

17. i don't get it. how do you hyperlink? thanks in advance. n/t

[NewJeffCT]

23. It's pretty easy

Let's say you want to use the Alternet story posted above...

http://www.alternet.org/story/28266

In front of the URL, you put the <a href= (quotation mark)URL

After the URL, you close it out with another (quotation mark)>

Then you put the name of the person you want to google - in this case John McCain

Then you close out the google bomb with </a>

The only difference is that you change the <> brackets to the DU style mentioned above the subject line in Message Options.


John McCain

[orleans]

32. okay. thanks. now i'll try it

nope. can't do it. maybe i'm tired. or stupid.

[NewJeffCT]

20. ack, I screwed up my demo

It should be change the <> style brackets to the DU style mentioned above in "Message Options"

If I type in the style above, it goes back to <>

[David Zephyr]

9. And please have some fun with this linked story about McCain being the AntiChrist

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2738982

Is John McCain the Anti-Christ? Perhaps Fundamentalists Should Ponder This:
(Posted at the DU on November 16, 2006 by David Zephyr)


First, I am not a believer in end-time prophecies. I do not profess to know anything about the future whatsoever. It’s not my “thing”. Still, for a great percentage of Americans, it is their “thing”. From the best-selling “Left Behind” series of end-time fiction to the continual release of block-busting movies about "the antichrist" such as the Omen, it is apparent that may of our citizens are, at the least, curious, and at the most, smitten with this subject.

So, I suggest that maybe fundamentalist Christians, who weigh mightily within the Republican Party in the United States, might ask themselves this question before 2008: Could John McCain be the Anti-Christ? Sounds outrageous, doesn’t it? Stay with me here.

Maybe it’s not outrageous at all. Since a great many Americans are inclined to believe that we are living in the last days and that the Anti-Christ is now among us, should not some consideration be given to the fact that the forerunner for the GOP’s presidential nomination is John McCain…and that his very name means “the son of Cain”? In other words, the son of Satan? Stay with me for a moment more.

Mac or Mc is the Irish and/or Scottish Gaelic word for “son”. In other words, the name McDonald or McHarris would imply the “son of Donald” or “the son of Harris”. The English would have said Donaldson or Harrison, but the Irish and the Scottish Gaelic used the prefix of Mac or Mc.

So John McCain’s family name means the “son of Cain”. Why would this be of significance to those who subscribe to fundamentalist Christian eschatology? Because both the Old Testament and the New Testament are replete with references that make clear that the “son of Cain” is the son of the devil. Indeed the “Mark of Cain” is commonly interchanged with the phrase the “Mark of the Beast” among Christians.

Could it be that the Republican Party might be coalescing toward the eventuality of making a gentleman named McCain, a very son of Cain himself, the most powerful single man on the face of the planet?

With the recent international fascination with the royal bloodline of Jesus as evidenced with the Da Vinci Code, I began to wonder about this fellow from Arizona, a son of Cain. After all, the Holy Scriptures clearly instruct us that from Abraham to King David to Jesus, the bloodline is a critical component as to just who is the Christ. And if so, I ask, isn’t the corollary then obvious? Isn’t the bloodline of Cain to the Anti-Christ also important? Would not the sons of Cain be just a little suspect to Christians?

Yes, what about the bloodline of Cain, the man who slew his brother and who from the “the beginning” was marked as the first murderer? Where does the bloodline of Cain, and the Children of Cain take us?

Genesis 4:15 "...and the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him."

Jesus himself referred to Cain in John 8:44. “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a MURDER FROM THE BEGINNING, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Genesis 4:15 "...and the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him."

I John 3:12 “NOT OF CAIN who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother…”

Jude 11: "Woe unto them! for they have gone in the WAY OF CAIN, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core."

Clearly, the concept that the son of Cain is the son of the Devil is a theme woven from Genesis to Revelation. And here today, are we not witnessing a McCain, a Son of Cain, aspire to the most powerful position on earth itself? As a non-believer, I must admit that it all sounds quite fantastical to me. But if I were a believer, I would give at minimum, a second thought about participating in launching a son of Cain to a position of imminent world power.

Modern day evangelical eschatology hinges on the fact that in the last days Satan’s son will walk among us in the flesh. Indeed the Book of Revelation in Chapter 12 says “Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing he has a short period of time."

What little is written about the Antichrist and his attributes is found in the Book of Revelation:

Revelation 3: 3 “And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.”

Revelation 13:16 “He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.”

If the mark of Cain is the mark of the Beast, and if we know that the name McCain literally means the son of Cain which is used interchangeably with the term the “son of the devil”, maybe those that are “searching the scriptures” and “watching and praying” for that sign of the time, maybe they might pause in their enthusiasm for putting a Son of McCain into the highest seat of power on God’s earth.

If I believed, I would.

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

10. heh

[NewJeffCT]

15. Here you go:

John McCain Anti-Christ

[StrictlyRockers]

28. McCain sucks! Don't believe the hype. He is wrong almost every time.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

11. This method works best, if you find articles already in Google's top 50..

...results for a search for John McCain...then we can re-shuffle the top results, like this article from Vanity Fair, on John McCain...
which is on the bottom of page #2 in Google, but will be moving up..(something I know about)

[liberal renegade]

13. just another shithead

that'd be a Bush ass kisser with no brakes.....

[12string]

16. John McCain

Just how much of the kool-aid must one consume to support
torture?This from a former P.O.W. that had been tortured
personally.That fact alone tells me that this is an individual
with a twisted rationale.Initially grandstanding as a critic
with the unarguable right to speak on this abhorrant
practice,then rolling over to support "the Torture
Bill".It strikes me as a deep-seated character flaw.I
still respect and have empathy for John McCain,American
P.O.W.,However,I don't trust Senator McCain,Republican.

[orleans]

18. i'd love to help but really don't know how to hyperlink. help? n/t

[Hawaii Hiker]

19. McCain is definitely no moderate

www.electoral-vote.com has a listing of the 2008 likely presidental candiates....Here is their summary of McCain:

"John McCain is probably the front runner for the Republican nomination right now, but his nomination is no sure thing. McCain tries very hard to cultivate his image of a moderate, despite being very conservative. (Some recent ratings: ADA: 0%; AFL-CIO: 14%; Chamber of Commerce: 72%; Christian Coalition: 83%; NAACP: 5%; NARAL: 0%; NOW: 0%; Nat. Taxpayers Union: 78%). Nevertheless, that's not good enough for The Base, which distrusts him because he voted against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. He is opposed to gay marriage; he is just against amending the constitution for this. He is spending a lot of time cozying up to Jerry Falwell and friends, but their love is easily withdrawn if a "movement conservative" is available (think: Sam Brownback or equivalent). McCain is also to the right of Bush on the war: he wants to send more troops. If the war is still the dominant issue in 2008, he's got a problem. But if domestic issues dominate, he may not be electable. Age could also play a role as he will be 76 at the end of a first term, three years older than Ronald Reagan was then. Nevertheless, even with these drawbacks, he is perceived as a moderate and in politics perception is everything. He is probably the Republicans' best shot."

[Roland99]

21. I would add the word "maverick" as part of your link, too.

Seems that word is often tied to John "I'm a Whore" McCain

[ck4829]

22. RW Infopedia page on John McCain

http://rw-infopedia.pbwiki.com/John%20McCain

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

24. Totally agree...Pretense to 2008

I don't give this administration the credit for conjuring up a "new way forward." (I can't even write that without laughing.)

I see this whole dog and pony show dressed up as a “surge” as a ploy by the administration for its second chance at a “Mission Accomplished” photo opt. Specifically, they’ll send in some troops, tidy up a bit and when the presidential race heats up, only then will they start bringing troops home. "Hurray for the neocons! They’re listening and responding to the people! Alas, the troops are coming home!" Lamely transparent: they are positioning themselves for 2008 by resuscitating the credibility of their lone ranger, the formidable John McCain. He’ll continue to parse his words purposefully—‘Err...when I said success would be fairly easy, I was merely referring to the military operations. That was easy. I never said...’ and he’ll be viewed as a masterful military prognosticator fit for Commander in Chief. And all the while, the Democrats will continue to look helpless in their attempts to affect any of this.

[NewJeffCT]

25. welcome to DU

some good points.

[newyawker99]

27. Hi WhaTHellsgoingonhere!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[crappyjazz]

26. I don't agree with these kind of tactics

But I'm glad the internet is free for people to do what they want with it ... at least for now :)

[seabeyond]

29. my very republican uncle lives in phoenix. clear back in 2000 he really

disliked mccain. said he was a crook and ranted about the man. not because he was not enough republican like so many feel today. but because of what he knew on the state level about the man. i need to find out exactly what it is about the man he so detests.

[Imagevision]

30. McCain supports Bush, the trouble is, what has Bush done to brag about? -- bombing Afgan? that

was a given, any flunky in government would have retaliated after 9-11, now what has bush actually done?. he's been a total failure invading Iraq but he didn't fail to get 3019 US. troops killed maiming 22,000+ more .

Saddam killed 300,000 plus Iraqis over 30 years, Bush killed 660,000 in less then 4 years!

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

31. kick

[DesertRat]

33. Good idea

:kick:

[Quantess]

34. What does a googlebomb accomplish?

I'm a little embarrassed to ask.
Is it sort of like when you google "miserable failure", Bush is the first result?