Posts tagged “John McCain”
Mitt Romney Is A Liar
This has got to be the most shameful thing anybody has said thus far on the GOP presidential campaign trail: “First of all, ads are propaganda by definition. We are in the persuasion business, the propaganda business…. Ads are agitprop…. Ads are about hyperbole, they are about editing. It’s ludicrous for them to say that an [...]
Occupy Iraq comes to an end much to the dismay of John McCain
I’m not too sure why anybody is giving John McCain news coverage anymore, but apparently he’s not too happy that the Iraq War will come to a definitive end when the last American troop returns home in December: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says an agreement could have been reached to keep more American troops in [...]
Failure Is An Option
So apparently it’s okay if the Super Committee fails to reach an agreement on deficit reduction. According to John McCain, the automatic “triggers” that were put in place to force congress to negotiate a deficit reduction plan don’t really matter: If there is a failure on the part of the super committee, we will be [...]
Rehashing the “elitist” attack
(1) During the 2008 presidential election, the Clinton campaign, and then later on the McCain Campaign, often characterized Obama as a Harvard-educated elitist who was out of touch with regular working-class Americans. This talking point was enlivened when Obama nonsensically called Western Pennsylvanians “bitter” while trying to sympathize with them over their economic difficulties. For [...]
Is there room for a moderate Republican?
This question has been baffling the political scene since John McCain ended his campaign as a fringe right-winger, claiming that Obama had ties to terrorists and America-haters, and refused to temper outbursts of “Kill Him!” at McCain-Palin rallies. We all know the story after that – the Republican Party erupted with a new wave of [...]
The Politics of Middle Earth… er.. the Debt Ceiling
A recent back-and-forth between Senator John McCain and the Tea Party reminds us all about the fun metaphors that can be used to understand Conservatism’s Manichean worldview of good v. evil. From CNN: In a Senate floor speech laced with sarcasm and stings, the Arizona Republican aimed especially harsh fire at the tea party Wednesday. McCain [...]
The McCain Anomaly
Christine O’Donnell‘s victory over moderate Republican stalwart Mike Castle yesterday raises all kinds of questions. And since early last night all the obvious ones have been asked. Over and over. So here’s the one I want to ask: in this primary season of Tea Party Davids repeatedly toppling Republican establishment Goliaths — often, as last [...]