Help me out would ya? Why Does RW Assbag Hannity hate McCain so much?

[AlCzervik]

I remember back in late 99 Bill Kristol was the only one on Faux news that liked McCain and everybody else there hated him, any reason why the hate goes all the way to 1999? Please and thank you.

[Recursion]

1. Most of the right-wing assbags hate McCain. I don't get it either

Part of me thinks it's simply because he had the temerity to run against * in 2000

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. I suspect that the powers that be hate the idea

that on some occasions, JM refuses to be an honest politician. You, the kind that once bought, stays bought, and he has this irritating habit of voting his convictions. That scares the corporate types something fierce. Even though he is with them on so many issue, and against the best interests of the country, and most of the population, they fear him almost as much as they fear Obama.

[Skittles]

3. well, for one thing McCain does not support torture

that's enough to get most conservatives foaming at the mouth

[AlCzervik]

6. but back in 99 that wasn't even an issue, this seems like old hate, currently i totally

get why they can't stand him but i wonder what his perceived infraction was in 99.

[LTR]

11. Would 'ending torture' mean an end to Hannity's show?

That's torture enough.

[goodgd_yall]

4. Well, because

he's dared to "cross the aisle" and work with Democrats on campaign reform (McCain/Feingold) and immigration (Kennedy/McCain). He just hasn't voted, as a senator, along straight Republican lines and has violated some Republican ideals, like laissez-faire for corporations and controlling the influx of latinos/as. And not supporting Bush's tax breaks was like sacrilege.

BUT enough registered Republicans out there seem to like him. I find it very interesting.

Romney is all about money, helping people like Hannity keep his money, helping him make more money, and preventing others from sharing some of the pie with him.

[tishaLA]

5. Because Rush does

and Hannity, who cannot think for himself, will always agree with Rush.

[AlCzervik]

7. sure now, but in 99? What was it that he did or didn't do that pissed them off all so much?

[goodgd_yall]

10. I got this from Wikipedia---Rush Limbaugh apparently hated him in 2000 also

On the South Carolina primary (which was the beginning of the end of McCain's 2000 presidential run):

On the other hand, a variety of business and interest groups that McCain had challenged in the past now pounded McCain with negative ads.<103> The day that a new poll showed McCain five points ahead in the state,<116> Bush allied himself on stage with a marginal and controversial veterans activist named J. Thomas Burch, who accused McCain of having "abandoned the veterans" on POW/MIA and Agent Orange issues: "He came home from Vietnam and forgot us."<103><116> Incensed,<116> McCain ran ads accusing Bush of lying and comparing Bush to Bill Clinton,<103> which Bush complained was "about as low a blow as you can give in a Republican primary."<103> But that was not the worst. A mysterious semi-underground campaign began against McCain, delivered by push polls, faxes, e-mails, flyers, and the like, and comprising a series of smears: most famously, that he had fathered a black child out of wedlock (a hurtful reference to the McCains' dark-skinned daughter Bridget, adopted from Bangladesh, and thought to be an especially effective slur in a Deep South state where race was still central<114>), but also that his wife Cindy was a drug addict, that he was a homosexual, that he was a "Manchurian Candidate" traitor or mentally unstable from his North Vietnam POW days.<103><113> The Bush campaign strongly denied any involvement with these attacks;<113> Bush said he would fire anyone who ran defamatory push polls.<117> Above ground, Bush mobilized the state's evangelical voters,<103> and conservative über-broadcaster Rush Limbaugh entered the fray supporting Bush and going on at length about how McCain was a favorite of liberal Democrats.<118> Polls swung in Bush's favor; by not having accepted federal matching funds for its campaign, Bush had unlimited money to spend on advertisements, while McCain was near his limit.<118> With three days to go, McCain shut down his negative ads against Bush and tried to stress a positive image.<118> McCain lost South Carolina on February 19, with 42 percent of the vote against Bush's 53 percent,<119> allowing Bush to regain the momentum.<119>

[AlCzervik]

13. i wonder if "They" found Ted Sampley or Ted Sampley found them, heard his rantings

and decided he was the perfect vehicle on which to end McCain's campaign in 99 which imo Sampley effectively did.

[Duke Newcombe]

8. It's a right wing example of the Purity Test mindset...

McCain isn't "conservative-y" enough to please him and his minions.

Unfortunately, the purity test mindset is at play in most political movements.

Duke

[hfojvt]

9. apparently he voted against the Bush tax cuts

plus, he only voted with his party 87.7% of the time in 2007 which makes him a fu$%ing liberal in Sean's eyes
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/senate/party-voters/

and he probably remembers 2001 when McCain only voted with the party 76.6% of the time

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/107/senate/party-voters/

less often than Olympia Snowe even!! Being a fu$%in maverick instead of goose-stepping in time with God's Own Party. It's insHannity!

[goodgd_yall]

12. "Democracy Now"

had an interview with a man who wrote a book about McCain. He also mentioned that McCain was critical of Falwell and some other evangelist whose name I can't remember. He pissed his own party off for not being monetarily conservative enough, and not being socially conservative enough.

[AlCzervik]

14. oh shit i forgot all about that Falwell thing.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

15. Shittens is Jeb's boy. That's why.

[AlCzervik]

16. Shittens? omg lol.

:rofl: :rofl:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

19. Trademarked!

:)

[Coexist]

17. He is the Joe Lieberman of the right.

Does that make things clear.

Can you imagine how we would react if he were about to sew up the nom, and all our protesting didn't do a damn thing about it.

[grantcart]

18. the main reason is that he is a conservative charlatain

Guilliani is liberal and they accept that. McCain is largely conservative but a few key issues he has gone to the other side (public financing, illegal immigration, etc.) and this has caused far more damage than any liberal. Public financing undermines their effort to dominate the public discourse with money and illegal immigration will bring in 5-7 million new democratic voters. You can see their point.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

20. It's because of oil

the major petroleum reserves to be found in Romney's scalp.