Want more Bush? Elect McCain By HELEN THOMAS

[kpete]

Sunday, April 9, 2006

Want more Bush? Elect McCain

By HELEN THOMAS
HEARST NEWSPAPERS


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With his "hail fellow well met" persona and tendency to jaw with the media and pundits in the back of the campaign bus, he has created the impression in some quarters that he is a "moderate."

Forget it. His voting record speaks for itself.

McCain is working hard to prove his staunch conservative credentials as he woos the far right in his party.

If he wins the presidency, the country can expect a continuation of Bush's aggressive foreign policy and ultra-right domestic programs.

much more Helen at:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/265950_thomas09.html

[Felix Mala]

1. Wasn't he one of the Keating 5?

Can't wait for the 527 commercials on that issue...

[blondeatlast]

11. Arizonans couldn't effing care less about that. Sad to say, but it's true.

Not to mention how much of the Keating 5 stink is on many of our politicos by degrees of separation.

All my fellow Zonies see about McCain is that he's an ex-POW hero who has an "R" by his name.

That's it, that's all they see.

[long_green]

2. I have some friends who admire McCain and talk about how

they would vote for him...Thank God his Potomac Fever is so incurable that he would stoop to speak at Liberty U, it makes my job of talking them out of it much easier.

[Flying Dream Blues]

3. Something doesn't smell right with this guy. I mean, Bush

went after him and his family in the most despicable way, and now McCain can't get enough PDA photo ops with the man. There is no other logical explanation for me except that there's some kind of shady deal between the two of them.

Does someone who knows more about care to help me understand this?

[blondeatlast]

12. My take on my senior Senator:

I used to buy into the "he's a moderate" BS. On some issues, he does tend to vote a bit more moderate than your standard issue R.

But, he's moving farther and farther towards NeoConism (even though he started out as a Goldwater Republican) and even though I don't believe that he truly believes in it.

He knows that's where the money and the power to get him the White House is--and he will absolutely abandon his principles once he's in the Oval Office; he already has.

He's a walking, talking mass of PURE POLITICAL AMBITIOON. He wants to be president so badly that he's swallowed every gram of principle he's ever had.

Hell, if they went after his wife again he'd probably join them.

Yes, I believe the RNC has pulled in the riens on him some, but that can't explain all of it. His LITERAL embrace of Bunnypants after what Rove did to him imeans he has no principles left whatsoever.

[TexasLawyer]

4. Paul Krugman absolutely scewered McCain

a few weeks ago in the NYT. McCain is on the far right, and Helen Thomas speaks the truth once again.

[phoebe]

5. John McCain is Chairman of International Republican Institute

Of course, the propaganda put out by the IRI is miles away from its real objective.. more of that Iraq "democracy" anyone??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Republican_I...

snip

The International Republican Institute, or IRI, is a Washington, DC-based political organization in the United States. The IRI is loosely affiliated with the Republican Party and works closely with other rightist think tanks and foreign policy groups, as well as the National Endowment for Democracy. The majority of its funding comes from the United States federal government.

IRI's stated mission is to "support the growth of political and economic freedom, good governance and human rights around the world by educating people, parties and governments on the values and practices of democracy." However, it has also been linked to efforts to foment a violent coup d'état in Haiti (See 2004 Haiti rebellion).

IRI maintains offices around the world, including in Africa (Abuja, Luanda and Nairobi), Asia (Dili, Jakarta, Phnom Penh and Ulaanbaatar), Latin America (Caracas, Guatemala City and Lima), Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans (Belgrade, Bratislava, Bucharest, Istanbul, Skopje, Sofia, Tirana and Zagreb) and the former Soviet Union (Almaty, Baku, Belarus, Kyiv, Moscow, Tashkent and Tbilisi).

The staff and board of directors of the IRI include many prominent Republicans, most of whom are involved in various capacities in foreign policy or international business.

[onehandle]

6. McCain would be Worse than Bush.

He's always been a right-wing thug. His "recent" pandering to fundies is just politics.

McCain would use nukes on other nations with no hesitation.

McCain would turn the United States from a virtual police state into an actual police state.


I've said this before. Imagine if Joseph McCarthy had become President.

[Meridian]

7. Keating 5 McCain? That John McCain?

He will be worse than Bush because people think he's a "moderate".

[blondeatlast]

13. He's the one--see post #12.

And welcome to DU. :hi:

[ruggerson]

8. Is she trying to tell us we'll all get laid more if we vote for McCain

n/t

[dalaigh lllama]

15. No, just more F@#ked

n/t

[mainer]

9. RIGHT NOW is the time to start saying this. Good for helen!

Too many moderate Democrats are telling me they think McCain is a "good guy." We need to set them straight now, while we still have time before the election machinery gets rolling.

[countryjake]

10. Way too many people are saying he makes sense...

he's an opportunist of the worst kind and some are falling for his spiel.

Recommended reading; Ms. Thomas has him pegged!

All who think he's sincere should read this!

[Snotcicles]

14. Maybe this kind of winger stuff might start recycling

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14821

[cynatnite]

16. Anyone who is this desperate for the office should not be trusted.

McCain said bush should condemn the swift jerk ads and talked about how rotten he was done in 2000. Next thing you know, he's in a bear hug with bush and stumping for him.

Cozying up to the RW extremists tells me that Helen is right on the money.

[mzmolly]

17. She's right - again.

;)

[Pierzin]

18. Helen Thomas should get

a special award for upholding democracy, free speach and common decency. Of course she is right. Again. I am just continually amazed that the Repukes can continue to back an administration full of lies and deceit.
Who does McCain think he is fooling? Everyone who was paying attention knows Bush played down and dirty with him during the 2000 campaign.
:woohoo: :woohoo:

[malaise]

19. Thanks Helen

You're a rose among thorns. 100% correct.

[petgoat]

20. I would have voted for McCain over Gore in 2000

But no more. Not after this:




I was disgusted with filegate, Waco, the Elian Gonzalez affair.

[cynatnite]

21. Same here

But only because at the time I liked McCain over Gore and thought he would be a better president.

I didn't blame Clinton or Gore for the RW frothing at the mouth over those issues you named. Elian belonged with his dad, WACO was a no win situation that the FBI fucked up and filegate was just plain stupidity.

But since McCain didn't get the nomination, and I didn't trust bush any farther than I could throw my house, Gore got my vote.

[B Calm]

22. Make no mistake about it, McCain is a cheap labor con through

and through!

[KAT119]

23. How Do We Love Thee, Helen, Let Us Count The Ways-THANK YOU!!