Where did McCain's integrity go?

[babylonsister]

From one of his constituents~oops, busted!

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/2010/03/01/20100301monlets014.html


Where did McCain's integrity go?

Mar. 1, 2010 12:00 AM


To read that Sen. John McCain is now denying that he knew the intended use of the TARP money is sad.

We all so admired McCain's integrity all these years, even Democrats like myself.

The TARP money vote is nothing to be ashamed of. President Bush and his party's leader supported it, and economists then and now believed it saved the country from financial disaster.

McCain's stand on immigrants, now under fire from the right wing, is also principled.

Are there no Republicans left in the center to support you, John? Is getting the right-wing vote in the primaries more important than your principles? Apparently, so.

Why not stand firm? And if you lose, do what your buddy Joe Lieberman did. Run as an independent in the general election. - Ruth Moyerman, Scottsdale

[saltpoint]

1. I think McCain's integrity may be hiding in the same spot as those

weapons of mass destruction.

Maybe Bill Kristol and Richard Perle, if they aren't too busy with the peak oil thing, could join the posse to look for McCain's integrity. They'll have to bring some food and water, as it's likely to be a very long hunt.

In the news clip yesterday when McCain called for a fresh start on health care, he sounded like a trousers-ablaze liar. His voice oddly rose and fell with words he plainly didn't believe.

I'm glad we didn't elect John McCain to the presidency.

[babylonsister]

3. He sold his soul a long time ago; I'm glad some people are

finally seeing this man without a moral compass for who he is. How many examples do they need?

I remember the term flip-flopper attributed to him during the primaries, and how appropriate that was. Someone even started a long-g-g list...

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/flipflops

[saltpoint]

4. Yep. And that's a whole lotta flip-floppin' for someone McCain's age.

Slow down, John! Yer makin' us dizzy!

[Zoeisright]

7. Leaving your disabled and disfigured wife for a slut gave it away.

I have no respect for a 'man' who does that.

[muffin1]

2. For me, he lost all credibility

when he picked Sarah to be his running mate. It all went downhill from there. I appreciated that he didn't want to exploit the Reverend Wright issue, but that was about the only decent thing he did on the campaign trail. He was part and parcel of the whole "palling around with terrorists" meme. He abandoned all of his principles to win the Presidential election, and he's continuing that path now. For repealing DADT if recommended by the generals? Not anymore. And now this TARP bullshit?

Screw you, John McCain. I am SO glad you are not the President.

[madokie]

5. McGramps is not a good american

He is only where he is because of who he is. Couldn't fly a plane worth a shit, Sang like a canary when he was captured by the enemy at the detriment of his fellow prisoners. Screw him and the white horse he wants to ride on.

I have ZERO and I mean ZERO respect for him

[Hubert Flottz]

14. "I have ZERO and I mean ZERO respect for him"

When he hugged Bush after what Bush and Karl had said about him I had to believe that he sang like a bird at the HH too.

Then there was the offer to put his old lady up for grabs at the biker show...(Miss Buffalo Chip)

Then threre was Sarah Palin...

And now he wants to dictate to Obama.

[lunatica]

6. Integrity? What you see is what he's always been

His own party can't stand him. But he's untouchable because of his prisoner of war status and because he was tortured. You'd think that today he would stand for being against torture. You'd think wrong.

[Raschel]

30. I agree.

[NightWatcher]

8. where's the integrity of a man who tried to get Charles Keating off the hook after taking bribes?

Keating 5 ring a bell with anyone? Failed Lincoln Savings and Loan? a 2.8 billion bailout?
He took more than 100K dollars (chump change) from convicted racketeer Keating in exchange for trying to get him off the hook. Keating bought off 4 other congresscritters as well.

[blondeatlast]

24. Yup. That crime destoryed some otherwise fine politicos but McC played dumb

and survived.

He honestly claimed that he didn't understand why taking Chuckie's private plane to Washington for Senate banking committee testimony raised anyone's eyebrows. Covering his own ass or too damn stupid to be in the Senate?

I vote both.

[11 Bravo]

9. The day he oozed across the stage to hug George Bush, that trail of slime he left behind ...

was the tattered remnants of his integrity. Bush, whose entire South Carolina primary campaign consisted of push-poll phone calls about McCain's "nigger daughter" deserved a kick in the balls, not a fucking hug!

[Bluenorthwest]

10. You claim he had integrity. I do not agree.

I first heard his name in 76 or 77. One of the world's great musical geniuses told me about the racist politician from Arizona. So this idea of McCain's principles is an unproven theory. I say he had none, never did. He voted against the holiday honoring Dr King, claiming that at age 47, he had not really heard of King, who was killed when McCain was 32. I was 7 or 8 and I remember the day with clarity, I remember what my mother said to me, what I asked her. McCain said he was from a State without many African Americans, so he'd never known of King. I grew up in OC CA, at the time as white as rice in a blizzard. Yet I knew of King before he was killed and his murder had a large impact on me.
So principles? Not going to play that one, sorry.

[saltpoint]

11. The poster quotes from this source:

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/2010/03/01/20100301monlets014.html

-- and that newspaper is the high-profile newspaper of Arizona's most populated area.

It's significant for this kind of talk to be circulating because McCain is under what may be a strong primary challenge this cycle.

[Bluenorthwest]

19. Sorry, I still will not agree that he had principles that vanished

He never had any to begin with. Some of us have long memories. I will not be claiming that a racist, adulterous, anti gay Republican hack had principles to lose.
If others want to clutch their pearls and claim he used to be a great man, well, I simply will not join in.

[saltpoint]

31. Your misgivings might be best directed at the support he receives

from his constituents in Arizona.

I doubt seriously that any of us are what ya might call big John McCain fans.

[blondeatlast]

25. "...state without many African-americans..." McCain think Arizona is strictly Phoenix,

Sedona, and Camelback and 24th Street.

He likely doesn't even know that Coolidge, Eloy, and Randolph even exist.

[mmonk]

12. I was unaware he had any.

[spanone]

13. i'm not sure he had any.

[Jennicut]

15. He was always scum. Even Nancy Reagan knew that from the way he treated his first wife.

[SoCalDem]

16. McCain's a desperate little toady..flailing around

He's probably not all that eager to have to stay home with Princess Moneybags in AZ, and apparently likes his bachelor-style life in DC..

[graywarrior]

17. Just because he's a POW, people have assumed he had integrity

He's a crotchety bastard who needs to retire. There's not a genuine bit of kindness in that guy.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

18. Did he ever have any?

Most days I can't even figure out what is position is on any particular issue!

[rurallib]

20. Based on his bio he has never had integrity, conscience or compassion

[Proud Liberal Dem]

29. And yet it is assumed- totally uncritically- that he is some kind of paragon of integrity

mostly- or maybe solely- because of the fact that he served in the military, was shot down (while attempting to attack civilian targets I might add), captured, and tortured/imprisoned for several years. Of course, it wouldn't be like that if we actually had a free, fair, and independent press in this country but there you go.

[NJmaverick]

21. He sold his soul for a chance to be President

[mulsh]

22. he never had any integrity. He had some very good PR guys

working for him. that's all he's had in his political career. haven't you been paying attention ?

[kentuck]

23. J.D. drank it with his milkshake...

:-)

[belpejic]

26. Title sort of begs the question. Assumes he once had integrity. n/t

[blondeatlast]

27. What McCain doesn't get is that people respect him for the tortured POW thing, but

are smart enough to know that's not really good enough qualies for a President.

He feels entitled to the CiC, regardless of Keating 5, his personal moral stupidity, and inability to face an argumentative challenge without hostility.

[olegramps]

28. McCain epitomizes the degeneracy of Republicans .

He doesn't have one shred of decency in his entire being. He is one nasty little fucking piece of garbage.