Jerry Falwell: "McCain may be on the road to redemption"

[Bluebear]

PS to media: Cut the "maverick" shit. He idn't anymore.

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The ignoble art of pandering

By PHILIP GAILEY
St. Petersburg Times
03-APR-06

What are we to make of the strange mating dances going on in presidential politics?

Sen. John McCain, who not so long ago denounced the Rev. Jerry Falwell as an agent of "intolerance," has lately been cozying up to the conservative preacher. The two met recently, and Falwell has suggested that McCain, once lost, may be on the road to redemption. Next month, McCain will deliver the commencement address at Liberty University, which Falwell founded.

McCain is a maverick Republican who has been more popular with Democrats and independents than with GOP conservatives. Will Falwell's flock forgive him for standing with Democrats against President Bush on tax cuts and torture? Or for defending Democrat John Kerry in 2004 against the Swift Boat ads attacking his Vietnam War record?

Miracles happen, I guess....

http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=GAILEY-04-03-06

[shoelace414]

1. and the American people are going to end up with the cracker

[BOSSHOG]

2. When is McCain scheduled

to host Karaoke at a Gay Bar in New Orleans? I truly respect the man for his military service but No doubt he has lost his political mind. Very, very sad.

[blm]

5. McCain will likely do that as he runs to the left right after the primary

McCain lost his soul in 2001.

[tridim]

12. Kind of Like the Dukester eh?

I watched a show about Cunningham's service on the History Channel yesterday. obviously it was produced before his big fall.

[Cyrano]

3. The photo was cropped so you can't see McCain's knee pads.

[rocktivity]

4. On the road to redemption, yes. On the road to the White House, no.

Not that I'm discouragaing him--this makes it that much easier for Dems to claim that he truly is a Bush clone at best and truly is mentally unstable at worst. If Kerry is a flipflopper, McCain is a gyroscope. So I say, go, McCain, go!


rocknation

[Cyrano]

17. Be careful what you wish for. There are still a lot of people who think

that McCain is an "honest, straight-talking guy."

My guess is that there a lot of Dems who don't pay much attention and would vote for him. There's no shortage of imbeciles on our side of the fence.

[rocktivity]

25. I doubt such people are really serious about voting for a Dem anyway.

I mean, why would they pick a Dem lite? Someone figured out fifty years ago that voters prefer real REPUBLICANS to fake ones. And the best part is, we wouldn't have to do anything to McCain that Bush didn't!

:rofl:
rocknation

[electropop]

23. Falwell and McCain are both on the road to Hell.

But it's paved with good intentions. :sarcasm:

[Missy M]

6. For the life of me I can't figure out how McCain could be....

popular with Democrats. I think that is just the media talking. I don't know any Democrats who McCain is popular with.

[IsItJustMe]

24. I think it is because he seems more bi-partisan than most Repukes and has

sponsored several bills with liberal democrats. Feingold Kennedy

People have to look behind the curtain.

[mzmolly]

7. They are going to run McCain because he's seen as a Republican

with different values than Bush. They need to woo some discouraged independent voters. However, with McCains NEW style, I'm not sure he'll get very far?

[Bluebear]

10. McCain may be the last "Bush Republican"

Admittedly, he came to kiss Bush butt late in his career, but whilst other Republicans are now saying they are "Reagan Republicans" to have the slightest hope of getting elected, McCain keeps cozying up more and more to Chimpolini.

[mzmolly]

14. LOL

Funny ey? He's kissing up to the captain of a sinking ship. :evilgrin:

It's not becoming of him at all *tsk tsk*

[rocktivity]

28. DING DING DING! Bluebear, you're our grand prize winner!

...McCain may be the last "Bush Republican"...other Republicans are now saying they are "Reagan Republicans" to have the slightest hope of getting elected...

EXACTLY!!! And that's why he (and Frist AND Jeb) are DOOMED if the Dems play their cards right. McCain has just made it possible to be ACCUSED of being a "Bush Republican," and for us to warn swing voters that NOTHING WILL CHANGE if he wins!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Norquist Nemesis]

18. A possibility just occurred to me about running McCain

McCain wants to be at the White House sooooo badly. But would he settle for VP? I can see the Falwell Followers nominating George Allen with McCain as VP.

Hmmmm....just a thought. :shrug:

[mzmolly]

27. Could be?

:shrug:

[Ouabache]

39. no, McCain-Jebthro in 08, I'm telling you

McCain gets to stay just long enough to quit for health reasons, so that Jebtro can finish HIS term and get elected for TWO of his (Jebthro's) own. Diebold guarantees it.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

8. He can run right all he wants.

He's already dead in the eyes of a large, LARGE portion of Republican primary voters. No way in hell he makes it to the general election.

[WI_DEM]

9. McCain has never really been a maverick--an opportunist, yes, but

not a maverick. He proved he has no integrity when he decided to embrace those who attacked his child in 2000.

[wavesofeuphoria]

11. When I read the title post ..

I couldn't help think of AC/DC's ... "highway to hell" .... :headbang:

[Bluebear]

30. :)

[Bluebear]

32. OMT

[asjr]

13. Try as he might, McCain just can't get his

little short arms around to pat Shrub's butt. Much less kiss it.

[Canuckistanian]

15. "... as soon as the check clears..."

Hallelujah!

[megatherium]

16. So Falwell gets to speak for God, in deciding who is going to be saved?

What an asshole. This morning's NY Times had a column by Paul Krugman. He began by saying "I'll be damned!" and then explained that that's what Falwell recently said -- Falwell said that Jews cannot be saved unless they first become Christian.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

19. anyone ever consider that the Bushistas were right?

when they spread rumors questioning his sanity and stability?

Amazing.

[salin]

20. From the "Straight Talk Express"... to the "Straight to %^$$ Express..."

So I wonder what Keating is doing these days...

Remember, McCain's involvement (seen to be as less direct than DeConcini's), is what - as the story-line goes, brought his awakening to the danger of the influx of money into policy making, a stand that allowed him to carve out his "Maverick" image. With all the other pandering reversals... just made me wonder about ole Frank.

[otohara]

21. I Hear A Giant Sucking Sound Mr McMaverick

hypocrite ass kisser!

[tatertop]

22. Newt will be on his way to redemption next!

[Sensitivity]

26. Average Joe/Jane still believes Sadam did 9/11 and McCain is Independent

Don't under-estimate McCain for President campaign. If he get the Puke Nom the Democratic
candidate could be in a world of hurt.

Bush is now irrelevant, except as a weight around the Pukes congressional neck.
Any thought of 2008 must assume John McCain is the Republican opponent with a lot of independents
in his corner.

[Initech]

29. I think the message is clear: keep Jerry Falwell out of politics!

[Disturbed]

31. On the road to Perdition.

Perdition (n.) Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin; esp., the utter loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death.

The more Fallwell bloviates about McLame, the better.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

33. Globalists' wetdream ~ McCain vs. Hillary 2008

the only one sure to win is the NWO. They got it covered in either event. Globalization Baby!!

[ncteechur]

34. Nothing like a little teabagging to stir the Republican soul!!

[cboy4]

36. BWAHAHAHA!!

:blush:

[DemGirl7]

35. McCain was never a "maverick"

I would get so sick when they refered to McCain as a "maverick", because he never was one to begin with. But over the years McCain has proven himself as one thing in particular, and you know what I mean. And that picture of him & * says it all.

[cboy4]

37. There will be a "Jesus on Board" bumper sticker on McCain's

Straight-talkin', I'm full of shit campaign bus this time around. :puke:

[Bluebear]

38. 'Straight-talkin', I'm full of shit campaign bus'

:rofl: