DISQUS

ctmatt · 1 year ago

How great would it be if McCain lost in his home state?

kwaayesnama · 1 year ago

Hi John McCain:



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scrapinbyinmesa · 1 year ago

I live in the Phoenix metro and have been predicting this for a long time. Many people here despise McCain because he's spent the last number of years concentrating on his political ambitions instead of representing his state. Even the Phoenix newspaper, the right-leaning Arizona Republic, runs articles periodically on this very topic and is critical of McCain and his fellow buffoon, John Kyl, as well as our various criminal and otherwise ridiculous Republian congressmen. Also aggravating Arizonans is McCain's lie that he is a Goldwater Republican. Most Arizonans I talk to considers McCain completely out of touch with us rank and file Americans, you know, the ones who are not in the top 1% financially. Many here know better, including Goldwater's descendents who are supporting Obama Barack. We feel there's no doubt McCain will pick Romney for VP, not just to try to get control of Michigan but also to try to get control of his home turf since there are many mormons in the Phoenix area. Pretty embarrassing for people in your home state to smack you down. I support Barack Obama and I approve this message.

verafromsedona · 1 year ago

I'm a white 61-year-old Republican Grandmother.

My home is few miles from John McCain's ranch in Northern Arizona.

And No - his ranch is not in Sedona, as the press likes to state, it 22 miles away in Cornville. When I moved to Sedona I registered as a John McCain Republican. Unfortunately it was the OLD John McCain, before he became a clone of George Bush. Today because of my fears for the economy. Bush's war of revenge. And my fear of the control of the Radical Conservative Republican's, lower taxes for the wealthy - the hell with the economy. I have been donating to Obama's Campaign. Why? because I could afford to pay a little more in taxes, I would rather pay a bit more today then leave the bill to my grand children, great grandchildren, great - great - great grandchildren.

lezlie · 1 year ago

I'm a white 62-year-old Democratic Grandmother, and I'm with verafromsedona! I always voted for Barry Goldwater, but this pretender to that throne is just a fake. I hope Barack takes Arizona right out from under McCain... he was a carpetbagger when he came here and he has done nothing for the state since!

arizonamom · 1 year ago

Hey, John Dougherty!! Love me some John Dougherty since his days at Phoenix's only REAL newspaper, The Phoenix New Times. Great story. Hope it's true. I know many are working here to turn AZ blue!!!

phyllie · 1 year ago

I live in AZ and I hope Obama beats McCain here in AZ. He didn't do anything for AZ. The way he is messing up I dont think he will win in too many places. He cannot keep his stories straight. Some days he is for an issues and the next day he is against the same issue. McCain just has those senior moments and I hate to say this but I am the age of McCain and I would not like to take that responsibility of the president and I just think his age is going to go against him.

smarterthanmccain · 1 year ago

Absolutely nothing written about this idiot would surprise me anymore, It has to be so embarrassing for the republican party to know this is all they have, let alone all the misspoken words, usually not even knowing what he's talking about, having a wife who steals cookie recipe's and then has the nerve to copy and paste them into a magazine would be enough for me to crawl under a hole and hide. I think the only thing he does know how to talk about is national security and he can't even get that right. Nothing thrills me more than to watch Keith Olberman mock him, it isn't too hard but he does it better than anyone. I think McCain, Bush, Rove, Graham and all the other idiots should all move to Pakistan. They couldn't get it right the first time and cost us trillions of dollars in the US, there couldn't be a better place for all of them!!!!! Anyone with a brain will vote for Obama, funny when his plane made an emergency landing he sat around and figured out the numbers of McCain economy plan and yes what economy plan was that!!!! If McCain got landed suddenly he probably wouldn't even know where to go. One pitiful man and please stop talking and trying to smile, both are soooooooo boring and the smile is like looking at the grinch who stole Christmas, or perhaps we could call it the grinch who stole everything Obama talks about and tries to switch it around to his words. One worthless man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please McCain make up some lies they are so entertaining. Pretty sad when you can't even win your own state!!!

jamesb · 1 year ago

I had a lot more respect for McCain when he was truly a maverick and moderate Republican -- the McCain who ran against Bush in 2000. In my opinion, he sold his soul in order to win the Republican nomination, and now he's just another Bush Republican. And when I say "sold his soul", I mean that, in order to win the support of Bush's neoconservative base, he started embracing policy positions that he previously opposed, and vice versa. Everyone criticized John Kerry for being a flip-flopper in 2004, and that's part of what cost him the election then. Obama has flip-flopped on a few issues, but McCain has turned it into an art form.

littlequeenie · 1 year ago

Great news!! I used to support his past service in Vietnam and though I disagreed with some of his issues (I've always been prochoice) I respected the man who ran against Bush in 2000 for standing up to neocons and later for being against the Bush tax cuts.

But he is just going to give us another Bush term. What has really surprised me in the last few months is that he sounds as clueless and stupid as Bush.

This country, this WORLD, cannot afford another Bush term.

sidjo74 · 1 year ago

I AM SOMEWHAT SUSPICIOUS OF YOU SO CALLED REPUBLICANS. I AM A CONSERVATIVE/REPUBLICAN & DO NOT REALLY CARE FOR EITHER CANDIDATE. HOWEVER, I DO NOT TRUST OBAMA IN ANY WAY. (GOOGLE FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS OBAMA). DAVIS IS THE FRANK MENTIONED IN ONE OF OBAMA'S BOOKS, WHO IS BARRACK'S COMMUNIST MENTOR. FURTHERMORE, BARR WAS IN HIS YOUNGER DAYS AN VIETNAM ANTI-WAR DEMOCRAT, UNTIL HIS MILITARY PARENTS THREATENED TO DISOWN HIM. OH, BY THE WAY HE NOW IS A PAID ATTORNEY FOR THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (ACLU). HOPE, MY FELLOW CONSERVATIVES APPRECIATE THIS. WHO IS THE REAL BARRACK H. OBAMA; I BET IF YOU FOUND OUT YOU WOULD NOT BE TOO HAPPY WITH HIM. PLEASE, DO NOT THROW OUT THE BABY WITH THE BATH WATER.

NICE TRY; OBAMA SUPPORTERS. A BLIND MAN CAN SEE THROUGH YOU GUYS.

serena1313 · 1 year ago

McCain evidently is enjoying the same media deference given to Bush. The media rarely made demands on Bush to answer questions surrounding his scurrilous past and dropped the ball on his (scrubbed or destroyed) military records. The media's silence on McCain's refusal to release his entire naval record and Cindy's complete financial records is puzzling and implies a double-standard: one for McCain and Bush and the other for Kerry and Obama.


Uninformed voters went to the polls unknowingly elected a media creation to run the country might do so again unless reporters hold McCain to the same standard as they do Barack Obama.


Had voters known beforehand every business undertaking went bankrupt Bush probably would not be in the WH today and our economy would not be in a meltdown on the brink of recession.


How confident can we be that the next President will refrain from manufacturing intelligence to wage unnecessary war; will not suppress, censor or hide reports containing environmental, science, medical information; will not make decisions based on ideology for political gain, etc. etc. etc... Separating the wheat from the shaft is an impossible task when the media withholds pertinent information and/or frames a narrative couched in terms intentionally meant to obfuscate the facts.



While Obama receives unrelentless criticism for alleged policy changes based on a false media narrative, yet McCain's 180 degree changes on 61 separate issues concerning national security, the economy, immigration, energy, domestic and foreign policies, et al goes scott free... See here:


http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/1...


In addition to the 61 reversals, earlier this week, McCain originally agreed with Phil Gramm that Americans are whining about a recession that amounts to nothing more than a "mental" recession. Of course later he sought to distance himself from Gramm's remarks. But understand, Gramm, McCain's senior economic advisor, has been advising McCain, I believe, since the inception of his campaign. [painting Barack Obama as out of touch and elitist gives new meaning to hypocrisy and hubris].


However not all voters are in the dark. After touting a record for supporting the troops McCain found himself in an awkward situation with a Viet Nam veteran who took umbrage at McCain's audacious dishonesty. With documented evidence in hand the vet effectively disassembled McCain's entire speech. I do not know how many times McCain has purported to have done one thing when his record and other evidence clearly illustrate the opposite, however, it's well-documented that was not his first time. Voters need to know this.


The upside is ultimately the media's double standards along with McCain's unpresidential and unstatesman-like conduct, ever-changing positions, conflicting statements will become wider known thru YouTube and alternative sources of information that will suffice, at least for now, for a media in absentia.

ajamo · 1 year ago

Eleven post, and only trashed Obama.

I wonder how many people know that McCain draw Social Securtity probabley more than some worker get a month.

Was it McCain that said in 1999 that if elected he would do everything he could to destroy the teachers union? I kind of remember this.

Bob P. · 1 year ago

Good!

Aww the poor teachers are so over worked that they need a Union to protect them... Bwahhhh!

Obama will bankrupt this country: Morally, fically, and racially!

Kwaayesnama · 1 year ago

I am a 60 year old, registered Republican grandmother from Sedona, AZ. It’s funny how your world view changes when you have precious grandchildren. The reason I am supporting Barack Obama is because I feel that John McCain is out of touch with Arizona and the American people. As an Arizona Republican I received a fundraising letter from the McCain campaign. I sent it back with a note that says I will donate exactly the same amount that John McCain has requested in earmarks for our state. McCain’s call to fame is that he is the only representative in Washington never to request any earmarks for his home state. What does that prove? In my estimation John McCain has been the laziest representative in Washington in the last 26 years! To me it shows that in McCain’s mind Arizona does not need any assistance from Washington. He is happy to see all the tax dollars that we send to DC go to other states. Arizona has Indian Reservations with unemployment over 60%. Wouldn’t a call center in Indian Country be better then one in INDIA? We have beautiful rural areas that would greatly benefit from an increase in tourism. McCain’s lack of concern for Arizona shows that when John and Cindy fly over our state in their private plane that they do not pay attention to the people that live outside of Scottsdale. Lets see if in November the citizens of Arizona will send him a message and not vote for him. So this educated, white, Christian, Republican grandmother will be donating, ZERO, NOTHING, NONE, NADA! To the McCain Campaign. I did donate to the Obama campaign….

Bob P. · 1 year ago

You pompus arrogant money hungry traitor!

How dare you judge McCain based on getting money for your State.

You people make me sick! ITS THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA Lady!
Each state operating for itself and we band together for protection!

What an idiot you are!
Got your hand out and nose up, yep, your a liberal!