Login HereAs McCain is now chastising Barack Obama for pointing out the obvious--that he is Bush in an elderly gentleman's clothing, I surmised that providing what the John McCain of 2005 thought about their shared priorities might come in handy:
SEN. McCAIN: No. No. I--the fact is that I'm different but the fact is that I have agreed with President Bush far more than I have disagreed. And on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, I've been totally in agreement and support of President Bush.
Oh wait, but there's more! This instance of McCain's bragging about the inordinately high percent of the time he votes with President Bush just came across the tubes through the email:
"The president and I agree on most issues. There was a recent study that showed that I voted with the president over 90 percent of the time, higher than a lot of my even Republican colleagues." [Fox News, "Your World with Neil Cavuto," 5/22/03]
As is often the case, McCain says different things to different people at different times--whenever it suits him. Too bad they they have these recording gizmos now that can store visual information.
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Dumber than Bush.
McDumbya
McSame meant “and on the mavericky transcendent issues”.
“The president and I agree on most issues. There was a recent study that showed that I voted with the president over 90 percent of the time, higher than a lot of my even Republican colleagues.” ~ Johnny McTeleprompter
What an interesting statement. Did he not know before this study was done that he was voting 90% of the time with George Bush atrocious policies? Something tells me I doubt it. The man is delusional and for all we know when it was time to vote, Johnny McTeleprompter thought he was ordering a cheeseburger at McDonalds!
Thanks Cliff!
Good thing PunkinHead gives McCain a way out-
From the transcript at your link:
So there, Senator Obama!
my bold italic
McShame locks himself in. How much of a maverick is he? Maybe 5 to 10%. That’s didddddly. And when he’s being all mavericky, he’s doing it with Lieberman. That’s a laugh….or a tear.
Accuracy has not been a guarantee by the media over the last eight years. Mainly they’ve been stenographers for the Bush White House. Sad, really.
If we call him that, maybe he’ll learn to use one (eventually).
Oh — those portable Victrola-pods the young people use to record the every move of their elders? David Broder hates them too.
We really need to go back to the good old days when David Broder could lie about Edmund Muskie crying, thus ending his candidacy, instead of actually comparing what Presidential candidates said at one time or another. The Village filter is there for a reason, you know!
My favorite part is when the teleprompter reads, “(TURN HEAD & SMILE)”, and then he does 4 seconds after completing the last sentence! Hysterical. I’m hoping a person from the Obama campaign can sneak in one night and change the script to read, “(SLAP YOURSELF VIOLENTLY)”. Bah hahahahaha! Good times.
He looks downright creepy when he tries to smile. I think he’s had too much Botox to be able to do it without making a Herculean effort. He just follow Victoria Beckham’s example and not even try to smile at all.
I just want to know where the campaign strategy is here. Its almost as if he’s trying to resolve two mutually conflicting issues: how to bring in funds from shrub’s corrupt corporate financiers (by channeling shrub) and how to keep disenchanted rank-and-file rethugs on the reservation (by proclaiming himself not-shrub, and by trying not to appear with shrub on campus)… hopefully he finds this act of schizophrenia increasingly untenable.
… and if he wants a candidacy he needs to get it through his head that all the rules have changed on the Christian base side. The grand alliance of evangelicals and fundies crafted by Ralph Reed (which delivered evangelical/charismatic votes to a fundie led coalition itself misnomered by Reed & Co as the ‘new’ evangelical coalition, but really one in which the (original) evangelicals themselves had no voice whatsoever) is now officially broken. The fundies can shout all they want about the importance of electing whoever is the rethug candidate (and even some of them aren’t on the reservation anymore, like Dobson), and the evangelicals will just stay home, write in Hukkapoo, or cast secret votes for Obama. Those corporate donors (and right-wing Catholics) may be the only base he has left.
McCain agrees with Bush that no one from the Bush family should ever have to serve in Bush’s war of revenge and plunder.
John McCain has such strong credentials as a maverick that he can still agree with Bush and the conservatives on everything important and still remain one.
This reminds me of a joke about the French, that they are a nation of individualists, but they are all individual the same way.
I think he is so seriously brain challenged that he really does not recall what he has said. He likes the think on his feet approach, so that is generally unplanned. He simply forgets, confabulates, and smiles. Not to say senile….he just speaks his mind. That does not mean he thinks or remembers.
Is Johm McCain too Tailhook for the American people? Too Sun City?
1,870 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen Cliff Schecter and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:
Thanx for the post, I jest hope that the Obama machine ken coordinate with non-party groups like MoveOn and others to cover every state with specific issue related ads showin’ the slippery “flip flopper” for the lyin’ sack of shit that he is…the 50 state strategy should include citizen groups organized and funded in every state ta keep the debate focused on issue positions and “character” and not racist and sexist bullshit.
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THE WAR IS NOT OVER BUT THE LAST BATTLE HAS BEGUN!!!
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Plus he thinks that if he says something, it must therefore be true.
Just like Bush.
Seems worth noting that it’s very likely McCain is going to get away with all this contradictory bloviating for one reason: confirmation bias.
GOP voters especially are profoundly affected by confirmation bias. They take in only that which validates what they already believe about anything, and reject everything else. I’ve seen this so often, in person and in media, that it seems something of a Universal Law among conservatives.
So, for the Base, at least, McCain’s impressive ability to be on all sides of any issue works beautifully, since members of the Base simply pick and choose which set of responses most closely matches their own views of the issue involved, and of McCain himself. It’s a version of Build-a-Politician that only a GOP wingnut could love.
The problem is, independents and undecideds who are too ignorant, or just too stupid, to figure out who to vote for, will also suffer from confirmation bias. The question is, just how badly will they suffer from it? Many independents may pick one of McCain’s responses, and reject all others, thinking that the response they select is the one McCain REALLY subscribes to, and all his other responses are simply pandering that they can live with.
It will pay not to take this problem lightly. McCain is getting away with this shit so easily right now because the MSM is just not calling him on it. It’ll be interesting to see if they ever do.