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McCain Making Talk Radio Hate Him Even More
This is awesome.
At a recent Ohio rally, John McCain was introduced by right-wing radio nutjob Bill Cunningham. Cunningham spent his introduction slamming Obama, repeatedly referring to him "Barack Hussein Obama" and calling him a "hack, Chicago-style, Daley politician." He made reference to "CBS the Clinton Broadcasting System, NBC the Nobody But Clinton network, the All Bill Clinton channel ABC, and the Clinton News Network."
The nutjobbery was bad enough that McCain immediately approached reporters after the event and denounced Cunningham's comments. His statement:
"I have repeatedly stated my respect for Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton, that I will treat them with respect... I want to disassociate myself with any disparaging remarks that may have been said about them…I did not set up the program but I take full responsibility."
Guess who didn't like that? Bill Cunningham. On his radio show, he went after the man he just introduced:
"He just threw me under the bus for the national media. I have had it... I'm going to endorse Hillary Clinton. I want Hillary Clinton to become the next president of the United States. I am going to throw my support behind Hillary Clinton."
Ha! Hahaha. Now Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and others are piling on McCain because of the incident. Let's make it a movement, folks!
You know how McCain was supposed to use this period—the couple months after he sewed up the nomination while the Democrats were still slugging it out—to solidify his support among the conservative base and the conservative elites who hate him?
Not. Happening.
Don't get too gleeful - those [deleted] on right-wing radio are not stupid. I think they are deliberately disparaging McCain to make mainstream America think he's more moderate than he really is. They will even make liberals like McCain more by stunts like this.
I respect McCain a fair bit, but he's definitely on the right. Don't let these dishonest tricksters like Coulter make you think otherwise.
This is a win-win and a lose-lose. It helps the Dem side because it causes the amplifiers for the GOP to turn against their candidate, but it reinforces the idea in the GOP that unless you stick to old-school Rovian tactics from the 90's and aughts, they'll flatten you. Plus, in his defense, it was the right thing for McCain to do. And it's unjust for someone to suffer a negative consequence for taking the more noble course. It coarsens our society further.
I've never heard of this guy in Cincinnati but only the emotionally unstable or politically ignorant could or would change their political affiliation to such an extreme. Part of me says that this can only be a good thing - to distance from intellectually little men such as this radio guy but I'm afraid that the bombastic nature of radio hosts will not let it die and will, in the end, hurt Mr. McCain.
As a democrat from AZ, I can still say good for John McCain...he's right on this one. The Democrats should be so gracious to one another. The fact that they are not may haunt them in November, especailly if, what's his name, Cunningham? endorses Hillary!! Poor Hillary!
Yo, just a heads up because Mc Cain wasn't at the event in Ohio he denounced it in Texas.
I think that they are still trying to get Hucka in as VP. They know that McCain will kick it soon and then Hucka will be their neo-con in the hot seat.
And meanwhile, rattling about in that McCain closet:
Cindy McCain's drug addiction...
"Did Cindy McCain get preferential treatment by the Feds?
"True, Cindy was a first-time offender, which partially explains the fact that she did no prison time; instead, she entered a diversion program.
"But at the time, defense lawyers told New Times that if Cindy McCain had been a poor minority and not married to a U.S. senator, she likely would have been locked up.
"And only a handful of people remember the details of Cindy McCain's 1994 "outing" for drug addiction and drug pilfering, and the work of the McCain machine to protect her. "
source: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/18/drugs/index2.html
I'm no big fan of McCain, but this is evidence that the ideological right is going to settle for no less than orthodox belief, which includes bare-knuckle alley brawling "in defense of the faith." The battle won't be worth the effort to many of the rhetorical grenade launchers if McCain continues to chide them like this.
This puts historically "Red States" such as Virginia and North Carolina very much in electoral play. And even if those states don't turn, the GOP runs INCREASED risk of losing Ohio and/or Florida because they would be spending more resources holding on to ground they assumed safe just a few months ago.