David Brooks on John McCain: "Democrats actually do like him, which is helpful..."

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David Brooks Bombshell: Democrats Like John McCain

By: Logan Murphy on Sunday, November 25th, 2007 at 10:00 AM - PST



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This morning’s Chris Matthews Show rendered few surprises, but I couldn’t let David Brooks off the hook on this one. No longer seen as a maverick to Democratic and Independent voters, McCain is now viewed as a pandering disappointment, but Brooks doesn’t appear to have gotten the memo. David fawns all over McCain, giving him glowing reviews using the one issue that has been more repellent to Americans of all political stripes than any other — his staunch support for George Bush and his surge in Iraq.

To believe that any demographic outside the hardcore, far right wing of the Republican party will vote for McCain in any significant numbers borders on delusional — but what else can we expect from this guy?

Brooks: “…Independents actually do like him, Democrats actually do like him, which is helpful if you’re going to run in a general election. And fourth, he passed a character test recently. When the Iraq war was in it’s darkest days, chaos everywhere, he was for the surge when a lot of his competitors were sitting around, waiting for someone else to take the lead…”

[BridgeTheGap]

1. I don't Democrats like his position on the Iraq War

and on several other issues also.
Who in their right mind would vote Repub at this point?

[Bitwit1234]

2. Democrats might have like him in 2000 but they think he stinks as of today.

[aquart]

3. Ah. The "surge" was a "character test."

Yes, a man who wants to escalate an already lost war would absolutely be my choice.

Why is he even discussing McCain? Because the other Republican candidates give even David Brooks nightmares?

[tularetom]

4. I know lots of Democrats

and none of them like McCain. Maybe they remember this:

[Vickers]

12. Any time there is the faintest whiff of McCain love here, it warms

my heart to see that photo. It embodies everything there is to know about the man.

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Cha]

5. Where's that pic of mccain with

his arms sucked up around bush? And the other one with bushit and mccain eating CAKE while New Orleans drowned?

[Chipper Chat]

6. MCain lost me with that "Baghdad is safe - see?" trip.

His credibility went right down the tube (pun intended) when he 'broadcasted live' from a purportedly-ultrasafe market in good 'ol Downtown Baghdad purportedly with no troop protection.
John, you can pull the wool over all the bushbots' eyes, but you can't fool this here savvy Outdoor Indiana Market shopper.

[Supersedeas]

7. McCain lost me when he expressed support for the Libby commutation

[Vanje]

8. I hate McCain less than I hate Bush.

That does not mean I like him.

(David Brooks is an empty suit.)

[gratuitous]

9. I think that covers it

I mean, I don't have an overwhelming urge to kick McCain in the nuts like I do most Republicans (and that includes Dr. Rice and Sen. Hutchison), so maybe that qualifies as "like" in Brooks' world.

[Redneck Socialist]

10. Uh David, no they don't. And here's a clue, even pubs don't care much for him anymore.

My dad, long time republican voter, voted for McCain last time around, not can't stand the guy. Why's that you ask? Because he's spent the last seven years kissing up to bush. If there was even the semblance of the "maverick" McCain left he'd be cleaning up in the poles. Now? Now bush is an albatross that mccain draped about his own neck.

[BridgeTheGap]

11. If McCain wanted ANY credibility with Dems, he should have done what Chuck Hagel did

But, no, he sucked up to Bush instead. How pathetic! Having been held in a p.o.w. camp, even tortured, does not make you politically astute.

[Cosmocat]

15. The funny thing about that is ...

McCain is not one of them, and he will NEVER be one of them ... You have to be a special kind of scumbag to be "in" with Bushco, and McCain ain't that ... I said it at the time, when he started sucking their rear ends, that they WOULD NEVER back him, NEVER ...

Sure enough, today, they are splitting the support behind Romney and Ghouliani, with McCain sitting on the outside looking in ...

That is what happens when you sell out, and he DID sell out after 2000 ... He knew these people to be the scumbags they were, but after losing to them, and at his age, he figured he had to rub elbows with them and try to make nice and get their support for his one last run ... But, again, these are not people who you get "in" with if you aren't in with them to begin with ... And, as noted, along the way, he lost what made him OK to begin with ...

[Inuca]

16. I agree

by nature he is not "one of them", but in recent years he wanted to become one, or appear as one, because of unfiltered political ambition. In a way, this is even worse.

[spooky3]

13. I love my dad, he's a Republican, but I'd never vote for him.

Please give voters credit for sense or at least for having a learning curve, Dave.

[sniffa]

14. would he consider running with Kucinich?

[saltpoint]

17. McCain's victory over Dubya in New Hampshire in 2000 was refreshing,

at least as refreshing as it comes for Republicans.

McCain was smeared in South Carolina, although he did go on to win more primaries.

The Bush machine just had a whole deck of higher cards to play.

Since then it seems to me McCain has been little more than a bootlicker for Bush and the neocon agenda four days of each week and a pandering dicktuck to the far-right fundies the other three days.

I got no use for John McCain. He still has some support, and a few pundits will try to resuscitate his candidacy, but at this point I'm not seeing him nominated or elected.

Brooks can't help himself. Smart guy, good writer, and politicallly delusional.