McCain to raise money for Santorum

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

:puke: Whoring for W simply wasn't enough for McCain...now he's selling what's left of his soul for (P)ricky.

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WASHINGTON - Arizona Sen. John McCain will attend fund-raisers this week in Pennsylvania for fellow Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, a Santorum spokeswoman said Sunday.

"Sen. McCain asked how he could help Sen. Santorum in his re-election effort, and Sen. Santorum is pleased that Sen. McCain is willing to support him in this capacity," said Virginia Davis, a campaign spokeswoman.

Polls show Santorum, the No. 3 Senate Republican, trailing Pennsylvania Treasurer Bob Casey Jr., his likely Democratic challenger next year.

The events will be held Friday at private homes in Media and Villanova in suburban Philadelphia, Davis said. The events are not open to the public, she noted.

[Arkana]

1. Well, if whoring for Dumbass in '04 wasn't bad enough

whoring for Little Ricky will cause him to lose whatever credibility he has left.

[skylarmae]

5. I certainly hope so. I can't believe he has any left after last fall..

and lest we forget where ole georgie porgie was the day Katrina hit and the two following....

[Richard Steele]

2. This should help finish off McCain.

Every little bit helps.

[calimary]

9. Works for me. I was done with mccain after he refused to fight back

when his wife and adopted daughter were smeared by the bush machine. And then four years later he's out there smooching with the guy for whose sake his wife and adopted daughter were smeared. Nice guy. I wouldn't still be married to him, if I were Mrs. mccain. It's painfully clear where his loyalties lie. HORRIBLE man. I already loathed him for that. Didn't think I could go any lower in my estimation of him, but then again, I didn't think he could, either.

Fine. Let him whore for santorum. Maybe that'll take them both out!

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

12. Ditto. My thoughts exactly.

Being that (P)ricky is public enemy #1 in this state and losing by 15 to 20 points to Dem challenger, Bob Casey, in EVERY poll, I hope McCain gets (P)ricky's STENCH all over him during his visit.

Between the W-hugging pix of McCain and the anticipated (P)ricky-hugging to come, it should at least guarantee that McCain will NEVER win Pennsylvania.

[shenmue]

3. Oh no

There goes my last shred of respect for Sen. McCain.

Why did you have to become such a disappointment? Why? Why oh why why why?!?

:cry:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. I thought this kind of thing wasn't done. Didn't Frist break ...

... some sort of conduct code when he campaigned for Thune? Or is the rule just to not campaign AGAINST a sitting fellow senator?

[MarianJack]

6. In All Truth,...

...I NEVER trusted mccain.

I'm amazed that he so blatently kisses the ass of a man he HATES!

[tx_dem41]

7. Why is this a surprise to anyone?

They are both Republicans...and simpatico on most issues.

:shrug:

[quaoar]

8. Santorum must need the money

to outfit his van with one of those wheelchair lifts so he can go on parking in handicapped spaces.

[dusmcj]

10. McCain wants to be a Daddy, and Sanatorium is chief son

Positioning himself as elder patron and holder of chits, and making a peace arrangement with a young up-and-comer ? (Who here hasn't seen Sanatorium's dopey Hitler Youth visage glotzing out from over the shoulder of various chief GOP worthies at various photo ops lately ? The boy's being groomed, don't you know.)

[Hoosier Democrat]

11. Senatore McCain, put on your fishnets and tube top....

you are now officially a WHORE!!

[Sparkly]

13. Photo from yesterday

You know the image of a little devil on one shoulder, and a little angel on the other? That's what this picture reminds me of. (Except, no angel.)

[quaoar]

14. It must have just killed Santorum

to have to ask McCain for help.

Santorum is the darling of the evangelical right-wing and McCain is the black sheep of the GOP herd. What does it say that Santorum has to resort to asking McCain for help? Where are all his fundie friends and supporters?

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

15. Oh, he ALWAYS plays "moderate" during an election year...Always!

He's RW zealot all the rest of the term even placing himself at
Schiavo's bedside but during an election year, he's ohhhhh sooooo moderate....that's what all his campaign ads in PA will show.:mad:

Of course, McCain believes that life of the mother, not health should be the only reason for an abortion...hardly a moderate.

[Meldread]

16. Once upon a time I used to respect McCain.

No, we didn't agree on everything - hell most things - but I believed him to be a decent guy. In 2000 I was hoping he'd win the Republican Nomination because I believed that if Al Gore didn't win that McCain would have been a respectable alternative. I genuinely felt bad for him when the Rove Machine smeared his family.

In 2004 he shilled for Bush which disappointed me. He lost all but the last bit of my respect. He only maintained it by doing his best not to trash John Kerry. I told myself "Well at least he has some integrity, he can't really LIKE Bush after all."

Now this... Well, I no longer have any respect for him. I never really agreed with him on much - if anything - but I believed him to be a decent guy with principles. That's what I respected. It now seems he has decided to sell those principles for whatever unknown reason. Welcome to Whoreville John McCain. I hope you are enjoying your stay.

[yellowcanine]

17. Apparently McCain wants the Repeb nomination for prez badly enough that he

will do just about anything to get it. I wonder if he realizes that some things are just not worth having if the only way you can get them is to be a whore?

[BlueStater]

18. He'll be about as useful to Santorum as he was to Ahnuld in California

I'm defenitely not worried.

[Disturbed]

19. John McCain, Hypocrite

John McCain, Hypocrite
by Doug Ireland

John McCain, the media's darling, has found a clever way around his own campaign finance reform law to take big corporate bucks in furtherance of his political ambitions while carrying water for the corporate mammoth providing the dough. But the national press is ignoring the story.


The Associated Press first ran the story of John McCain's odorous but lucrative Senatorial service to the communications giant Cablevision on the afternoon of March 7. But, while some local papers in McCain's home state (like the East Valley Tribune) have run the story, nothing has as yet made it into the print editions of the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Washington Post, or any of the half-dozen other big city dailies I checked (although, if one searches the hundreds of AP stories available on the Post's website on its Politics page by clicking on "Latest Wire Reports," one can find it there--but how many readers would bother to do that?) One notable exception: the Kansas City Star.


Here's what the AP's investigation found:


McCain repeatedly intervened on behalf of a policy Cablevision favored -- one which "congressional and private studies conclude could make cable more expensive" -- while his chief political adviser, Rick Davis (who's masterminding McCain's probable '08 presidential rerun) solicited $200,000 in contributions from Cablevision to an institute that promotes McCain and pays Davis a $110,000 annual salary.


The Reform Institute was set up to promote McCain and his issues--especially campaign finance reform, embodied in the famous McCain-Feingold law. This Institute is "a tax-exempt group that touts McCain's views and has showcased him at events since his unsuccessful 2000 presidential campaign," and it "often uses the senator's name in press releases and fund-raising letters and includes him at press conferences," the AP says. And, of course, it provides a cushy sinecure with no heavy lifting for McCain's main man, Davis, as he prepares the pontificating Senator's next presidential run. Cablevision's contributions account for a whopping 15% of the Institute's budget.


http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0309-35.htm


** I am going to post this for a few months everytime I see McCain's name on DU.

[Jacobin]

20. Seems he hasn't learned his lesson from the Keating days

He almost got in very serious trouble over taking bribes to help out crooked S&L mobsters.

He's at it again

(Please do keep posting that every time you see McCain's name mentioned.

It needs to haunt him like a bill collector