McCain describes American people as "right of center"

[kevinbgoode]

In another one of his amazing circus performances, Senator John McCain, on the tails of his presidential exploratory committee announcement, dropped by the wingnutty Federalist Society to do some brown-nosin' of the ole white heterosupremacists club. At an occasion where they were honoring the golden peepee possessin' judicial icon of their century, Antonin Scalia, McCain's tongue started playing to the Far Right:

WASHINGTON - In his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, Arizona Sen. John McCain courted Thursday the group that vets conservative judicial nominees, the Federalist Society.

The powerful lawyers’ group, which is holding its annual convention in Washington this weekend, has spawned such conservative nominees of President Bush as appeals court Judge William Pryor and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.

The group is staging a tribute to Justice Antonin Scalia Thursday night, an event at which Alito will speak.

In his speech to a packed ballroom at a Washington hotel, McCain assured the group that despite last week’s sobering election returns for Republicans, “the election was not an affirmation of the other party’s program. Try as hard as I could, I couldn’t find much evidence that my Democratic friends were offering anything that resembled a coherent platform.”

McCain asserted that “the majority of Americas still consider themselves conservatives, or right of center.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15751724/

The link has another link to the text of his remarks. . .perhaps someone can archive them here somewhere as I'm sure they contain lots of statements to remind the public of just where McCain really stands. . .er. . .sinks. . .

[driver8]

1. I think McCain's head is "right of center" of his ass...

When did McCain become such a freakin' tool??

I used to have a lot of respect for this guy because of his service in Vietnam. He used that respect up a long time ago.

[Vorta]

2. Totally off topic, did you go to Kennedy High School?

[kevinbgoode]

9. um...no....

I went to high school in Bloomington...

[Vorta]

16. Thanks. I thought you might be an old schoolmate.

[Mythsaje]

3. The majority of Americans

would like more opportunities, less money out of their pockets going to Corporate swine who like to fly on their private jets, decent food to put on their tables, clean, safe drinking water and air to breathe, and the chance to see their children do better than they have.

Unfortunately, those "right of center" are actually interested in NONE of these things.

[wisteria]

4. He is out of touch and he is wrong. This is actually what he is hoping for. n/t

[Cha]

5. Yeah, that's why we beat those

right of center out of office..heck, we even beat ol' Lincoln Chafee out.

mccain is now the shit talk express.

[aquart]

6. Define "center," John.

And do they lean right when you tell them the truth, or only when you distort, smear, slander, and lie?

[VelmaD]

7. VelmaD describes John McCain as...

a bloviating gasbag.

[Sapphocrat]

8. I describe McCain...

...as a spineless, opportunistic, self-aggrandizing, racist bigot.

[VelmaD]

11. Oh...I like...

yours better. :yourock:

[Sapphocrat]

15. Oh, I dunno...

"Bloviating gasbag" brought a bigger smile to my face. ;)

:yourock: too

[VelmaD]

17. We could combine them...

Bloviating, spineless, opportunistic, self-aggrandizing, racist, bigot gasbag.

Hell, they work in any order. :)

[Sapphocrat]

18. Works for me! LOL n/t

[BuyingThyme]

10. "The average American is below average."

Too stupid to teach fifth-grade math, but smart enough to be a Puke president.

[Rex]

12. Wow, it is amazing how you just make up some bullshit

like 'conservatives won this election' and watch as the hopeless RW runs it into the ground! :rofl:

They believe anything. :rofl:

What should we say next to make their little minds blow a gasket?

:rofl:

[Graybeard]

13. John McCain = Bob Dole redux...

...he keeps saying things that can only be described as
"goofy". 

[More Than A Feeling]

14. Why don't you go meet some average Americans, Senator McCain?

Just advertise that you are offering $50 to pick lettuce, and you'll have most of America on your doorstep.

[Postman]

19. Is it "conservative" to lie about a war and spend like a drunken sailor?

McCain is an idiot. Period.

GI Bill, Unemployment Insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, Federally guaranteed student loans/aid, Social Security Insurance, FDIC, SEC, FDA, HUD, etc., etc......do the majority of Americans who, according to knuckledragger McCain, are "right of center" approve of these programs?

I would say - yes. Those really aren't "right of center" policies...in fact they are "progressive"...

What knuckledragger McCain means is....

The majority of Americans or "right of center" on issues of foreign policy because, for most people, the only news they are allowed to see is the stenographic journalism brought to their living room tv's by the corporate masters who own/control/set government policy.

Only in rare instances, either through informed public dialogue or when the group in power at any given time has screwed things up soo badly a blind man can see a change needs to be made, does the electorate act in ways that make America more democratic.

[originalpckelly]

20. McCain is right out of his mind.(nt)

[TheCowsCameHome]

21. Center of what?

[DemonFighterLives]

22. I feel sorry for him

His previous torture combined with bushco torture has taken his mind.
Proof that brainwashing does work for mindless bush clones.

[insidious]

23. I describe McCain as a "dick"

Maybe he can start an exploratory committee for that.

[zulchzulu]

24. Johnny, I hate to tell ya...but the Repigs will destroy you again in 2008

That's the saddest part of watching McCain. He will be utterly destroyed in many ugly ways if and when he tries to run for President in 2008. He lost the "maverick" label when he drank the Chimpy Koolaid. The Far Right can't wait to cook him in a slow broth of the same recipe that they did in 2000.

The Keating Five Ghosts await your soul in Hell, Johnny. You took the bait. You sank. Goodbye.

[Disturbed]

26. He also spoke of principles.

He said that the Rethug Party had lost those and that is why they lost Congress. This guy is such a pathetic person.

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

[kevinbgoode]

27. Now that ticks me off. . .

We are going to see some of the heaviest flipfloppin' ever in political circles as this tool puts together his campaign. And I want him to be caught on every one of them!

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

25. McCain is a Horse's Ass.

I just cannot picture this war hero without reflecting on his abject submission to The Man Who Would Be King after being slandered and defamed by same.