JohnLocke
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Sun Aug-22-04 12:22 PM
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I'm convinced Bush has something on McCain. |
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There's no other explanation. McCain must has some sort of dark secret that we don't know about.
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Mayberry Machiavelli
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Sun Aug-22-04 12:24 PM
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1. It could be that he still wants to be Prez in 2008 that he needs to play |
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the Party Game, as distasteful as it may be to him.
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Bush was AWOL
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Sun Aug-22-04 12:29 PM
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4. He has to know he has zero chance of getting the nomination |
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His outspoken nature has put him at odds with many in his own party.
There has to be another reason he is supporting Bush.
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Sun Aug-22-04 12:32 PM
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5. McCain has a chance in 2008 (nt) |
Jackpine Radical
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Sun Aug-22-04 12:27 PM
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2. Oh, I wouldn't say there's NO other explanation. |
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If I were really nasty, I'd make some Repug-style comment to the effect that his time as a POW twisted him to the point that he identified with his abusers, and, like many victims, still clings to the perpetrators who humiliated him in 2000.
But I'm not that nasty, so I won't plant that notion here.
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Sun Aug-22-04 12:32 PM
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if it wasn't so possible.
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Sun Aug-22-04 12:29 PM
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3. I don't recall who said it, but McCain's relationship with the |
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Republican party is the same as his relationship with his captors in Vietnam. Spurts of defiance met with beatings and followed by forced "confessions." It's some sort of masochistic addiction brought about through serious trauma.
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Jackpine Radical
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Sun Aug-22-04 12:43 PM
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8. Kind of like the battered-spouse syndrome. |
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Many (I believe most) battered spouses come from families-of-origin in which they were abused. They go on to marry people who help them to replicate the pathology of the FOO. They then go on to re-enact the early abuse ad infinitum. Sometimes, though, they break away from the victim role and play perpetrator.
It has been said that the three major products of abusive families are victims, perpetrators, and psychotherapists.
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Sun Aug-22-04 12:33 PM
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Bush is a Republican, McCain is a Republican Bush is ultra-conservative, McCain is ultra-conservative Bush wants to be prez until 2008, McCain wants to be prez from 2008
Makes perfect sense to me.
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Sun Aug-22-04 12:44 PM
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9. My small voice from Pennsylvania |
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also says that * must have something on Specter, as well. He used to think for himself.
BTW, I was just at the Somerset stop of the Hoeffel caravan. Reasonably well attended, for this part of the state. (to the right of just about everywhere.)
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Sun Aug-22-04 12:56 PM
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10. or... Bush promised him something |
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