Saturday, November 4th, 2006...8:08 pm
Once Again, Memo to All of My Liberal Friends: John McCain Is Not Our Friend
I recieved an e-mail from a reader (you never can really trust them readers, can you?) who was miffed that John McCain is now featured in ads endorsing proposition 107.
It really shouldn’t be suprising. The thing that suprises me is the blinders that so many of us have regarding just how conservative McCain is and the lengths he will go to to keep the far right happy.
Back in the early 1990’s, there was a spate of anti-gay measures that in many ways were worse than the current marriage ban proposals. McCain went and met with the Oregon Citizen’s Alliance, the main group that pushed one of the more onerous proposals in that state. McCain claimed that he was only trying to get them to be more moderate, which was probably the silliest thing he had ever said. Straight talk indeed.
Needless to say, I am totally unsuprised that he is in the ads. He is basically a conservative Republican who needs these guys to get a presidential nomination. What do y’all expect?
NB - Am I the only one who has noticed that the McCain ads endorsing Len Munsil and Jon Kyl are nearly identical? Yeah, the Kyl ad features one reference to water legislation, and you can’t do anything similar with Munsil because, well, he’s never done anything. How effective can the ads be if the message doesn’t even seem tailored for the candidate?
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November 4th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
It’s even worse when it IS tailored to the candidate. I got a message on my answering machine supporting scandal-ridden corrupt congressman of mine Rick Renzi, and he praised Renzi for tenacity, honesty and integrity beyond reproach.
That could come back to bite McCain if and when Renzi is indicted and makes national headlines (though of course it still won’t be very visible to readers of the Arizona Republic), and if ‘Mr. Straight Talk’ is running for President at the time he could be very embarrassed by having issued that particular endorsement (though I hope that when it happens, Rick Renzi is an ex-congressman instead of being a congressman.
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