McCain calls for GOP loyalists to support Bush

[sabra]

http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2006/03/11/News/334826.html

McCain calls for GOP loyalists to support Bush

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - With President Bush's approval ratings at their lowest level, his possible successors and Republican Party loyalists rallied for their commander-in-chief's cause Friday.

In an event touted as the initial opportunity for Republican leaders to hear from potential 2008 presidential candidates, two possible contenders lauded Bush.

Arizona Sen. John McCain asked delegates to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference to cast write-in votes for President Bush in today's 2008 presidential preference straw poll.

McCain said it was too early to be discussing 2008 possibilities with the 2006 midterm elections just months ahead. And with the country at war, he said Republicans owe it to their leader to stand with him.

[Renew Deal]

1. McCain for Vice President.

Let the boot licking begin.

[mom cat]

35. I thought that he was licking higher up the leg!

[tularetom]

2. Dems need to keep running that picture

the one showing McCain trying to get his little short stubby arms around bush while he rests his head on bush's chest with a loving little smile on his little chipmunk face. As *'s popularity goes into the shitter, voters of both parties need to be reminded how much McCain really loves him and what a spineless little creep McCain is after the way his wife and family were trashed by bush.

[thinkingwoman]

11. OMG Yes! That's all Dems need to do

for the entire campaign!

Bush's acknowledged poll numbers by 2008 will be in the 20s at best. Of course his real poll numbers will be below zero.

[koopie57]

14. That is true ...

and the dems could also use all the talking points * used against McCain. Bring him down memory lane and remind him why he kisses * ass. Who knows, he might start loving the dems then. He seem to like abuse.

[UpInArms]

16. see my Post #15

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2160340&mesg_id=2160397

[rodeodance]

19. that is the most sillies, stupesti ect ect pic In the World (little over-

kill here but pathetic)!

[FightingIrish]

21. That picture will be McCain's "Mission Accomplished" moment

It will haunt him forever and remind voters that he might have had a chance to stop the madness in 2004 and opted to protect his political future.

[barbaraann]

3. Wait a minute. McCain is pushing GWB IN 2008???

"Arizona Sen. John McCain asked delegates to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference to cast write-in votes for President Bush in today's 2008 presidential preference straw poll."

THAT is scary. Will we be able to know the results?

[54anickel]

12. Sure, it would make great headlines, even though it's otherwise

meaningless. It's an attempt to shift the polls for Bush and the GOP in general. Get enough of Faux coverage on Bush winning this little "beauty pageant" and some folks may swing back. If they can get this in the news on top of Bush's latest propaganda media blitz they might get a little bump. But just like the last round - it won't last long.

The GOPers that can distance themselves from Bush are attempting to do that. But so many were in so tightly with this mal-admin they can't possibly distance themselves without incriminating themselves. They really do have to prop the little bastard up to save their own necks.

[adarling]

4. Oh please

Someone start attacking crazy John McCain, the guy is fine has a senator sometimes, but he is not presidential and isn't fit to be a president. Republicans will have a hard time electing this guy because people will remember what the boy prince said about him in 2000 being a crazy man from Vietnam and with recent events, it seems not far from the truth. Remember what Obama and him fought over? It was a misunderstanding and McCain went nuts, very creepy.

[LibDemAlways]

5. McCain has lost it. Why the hell would

he be urging these wingnuts to write in the chimp's name on a 2008 straw poll? His sucking up to the dumbass is nauseating. What do they have on him? After what happened to him in South Carolina in 2000, you'd think he'd have distanced himself from the Bush Crime Family. Instead he's become a fawning sycophant. Something very wrong here.

[Demeter]

7. He's Always Been Like That

He blows whichever way he thinks will benefit him. It's all about him, not about you or me or America or the world. Hope this puts the last nail in his coffin as far as the Democrats who were supporting him goes.

[Selteri]

25. Bingo... That and I think...

That they have something over him thqat he's afraid they will reveal if he steps out of line too much. Just from how he acts so inconsistantly.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Calls ? Calls on GOP loyalist?

or is it more like a plea?

Actually.. knowing republicans.. it's probably a threat.

[AldebTX]

8. I Get The Feeling

I get the feeling McCain is auditioning for vice-president when Dick Cheney steps down.

Lets see in the last few days he has reversed himself on abortion and is now RALLYING the troops for Bush.

Its amazing how far he has fallen....and some of my democratic friends were even "flirting" with the idea of voting for him a few years ago.

[patricia92243]

9. Wonder how low Bush's numbers will have to go before McCain starts backing

off and realizes Bush is a anti-midas - everything he touches turns to ashes - and McCain will turn to ashes too if he continues to be a Bush puppet.

[Texifornia]

23. Rubber Stamp Republican

McCain is just another "Rubber Stamp Republican".

He's totally sold out to the * Crime Family. Posters with McCain embracing * and the meme of "Just another RSR" may help take him down.

[BrklynLiberal]

10. I cannot help but wonder what the BFEE has on McCain to get him to

be such an asskisser after the public humiliation they laid on him and his family.
It would be pathetic if it were not so sickening.

[mandomom]

13. Selling his soul for campaign money?

Reelection Message from the GOP:

WAR!
BE AFRAID!
IRAN!
DON'T TRUST YOUR EYES OR EARS!
RICH GETTING RICHER IS GOOOOOOD FOR ALL AMERICANS!
MORALS MATTER WHEN THEY'RE GOP-DEFINED!
LOCK THE BORDERS BUT LET IN THE CHEAP WORKERS!
PROTECT AMERICA BUT SELL THE PORTS!
FIGHT FOR WORLD WIDE FREEDOM EXCEPT IN THE USA WHERE THE CONSTITUTION IS INVIOLATE EXCEPT WHEN THE GOP WANTS A DO-OVER!
BIG GOVERNMENT BAD, BIG GOVERNMENT GOODER.
SADDAM HUSSEIN IS BAD.
DEMOCRATS VOTE THEIR CONSCIENCES INSTEAD OF FOLLOWING THE PARTY BOSSES! OMIGOD!
RULE OF LAW, SCMULE OF LAW. OVERSIGHT SUCKS!

[rodeodance]

24. there was an article about McCain meeting with Bush financial backers

on DU not too long ago.

[UpInArms]

15. McCain and Bush disregarded Katrina and had their cake

and they loooove each other



while everyone else suffers and dies



while we torture and kill




McCain was a Cheating Keating Five

In the picture, which was taken in the Bahamas, McCain is seated on a bandstand while wearing an outrageous, straw party hat. Next to him on the dais, a bottle tipped to his lips, sits Charles Keating III, son of developer Charles H Keating Jr.

McCain calls the Keating scandal ''my asterisk.'' Over the years, his opponents have failed to turn it into a period.
It all started in March 1987. Charles H Keating Jr., the flamboyant developer and anti-porn crusader, needed help. The government was poised to seize Lincoln Savings and Loan, a freewheeling subsidiary of Keating's American Continental Corp.

As federal auditors crawled all over Lincoln, Keating was not content to wait and hope for the best. He'd spread a lot of money around Washington, and it was time to call in his chits.

<snip>

McCain knew Keating well. His ties to the home builder dated to 1981, when the two men met at a Navy League dinner where McCain was the speaker.

After the speech, Keating walked up to McCain and told him that he, too, was a Navy flier, and that he greatly respected McCain's war record. He met McCain's wife and family. The two men became friends.

Charlie Keating always took care of his friends, especially those in politics. John McCain was no exception.

Never forget that this man does not have the moral integrity and honesty to ever be a leader in any way.

[tularetom]

17. Goddamnit I love that picture!

Is that a TEAR running down McCains little chubby cheek?

[CatholicEdHead]

34. That pic of McCain hugging Bush should be reshown alot

as we get near 2008. That pic alone will sink McCain in any Presidental run.

[samplegirl]

18. No One and nothing can help

the sinking Commander in Shit. To many lies thus far and to many
yet being exposed.

[rodeodance]

20. "And with the country at war, he said Republicans owe it to their leader

to stand with him" says John M.

[The Backlash Cometh]

22. How can you respect a man who shills for the man who knocked him

out of the running for president? McCain has abused housewife syndrome.

[cantstandbush]

26. You can't or shouldn't. That's why i will never vote for him. n/t

[soleft]

27. There's a weird parrallel here between McCain and Clinton

McCain obviously believes he's so overwelmingly popular with the middle, that he can bold-facedly go after the 30% who still love Bush and not lose the centrist Republican and Democrat.

Clinton believes she's got enough of the left wrapped up that she can go after the centrist Republicans and Democrats.

He's got the middle but not the right of middle.

She's got the left of the middle but not the middle.

If they end up going head to head trick is going to be can McCain hold the middle and not lose it to Clinton.

[onehandle]

28. McCain calls for his own defeat in '08.

Keep your lips to Bush's zipper, thug,

Say hello to oblivion.

[salin]

29. Would seem that he has chosen this foolish course.

[springhill]

30. This should convince anyone.....

That he is just as much a part of the neocon movement as anyone. Pathetic really. Straight-talkin' John McCain, supporting the law-breaking, torture ordering, lying son of a bitches.

[bluestateguy]

31. This is a relief

McCain is the Republican I worry about the most, but these people may ensure that he is not nominated. Giuliani would also be a top general election candidate, but is even more un-nominatable.

The way things are now, Hillary could beat any other Republican nominee soundly, even if lefties like us take a walk on election day.

[stepnw1f]

32. What Loyalty, John$

[BlueStater]

33. What an asshole. God, I'm starting to hate him as much as Bush and the...

...rest of the slimeballs in his administration.

[SoulDrift]

36. I had some hope

I was thinking the fight against torture was a mark in his favor, but he didn't seem to object to the signing statement very much. Just a show?

[stlsaxman]

37. Didn't I hear somewhere that they found pictures of McCain in a...

stained blue dress?

I wish someone could locate it so we could begin the impeachment proceedings.