To think I use to like John McCain????

[Quixote1818]

What was I thinking???? Now I look at his photo and just want to throw up! What a flip flopping, hypocritical, spineless, weak, religious right and neo-con, brown nosing apologist NUT!

[yourout]

1. Same here.......what the hell was I thinking.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. I did too...

back when the only thing I knew about him was that he was a POW and Bush was smearing him and his family. Then he hugged that POS like a long lost brother, and I heaved. so pitiful. :(

[Katherine Brengle]

3. McCain did a great job for a long of painting himself as somehow...

"different" or more moderate than the rest of his ilk.

[AlCzervik]

4. i hate to admit this but i the interest of full disclosure---

i was actually a campaign volunteer for him in 99. i really wish i could go back and undo that.

[rubberducky]

5. I can`t imagine that I used to respect him!!

My biggest dissappointment, though has been Colin Powell. Back in the day I would have supported him for pres. The day he went before the UN I lost all respect for the man.

[charlie]

6. You did?

He was regarded as an unhinged winger during the Reagan years. It's only due to the rise of other unhinged wingers in his party that he's come to be seen as a moderate. He's the same bellicose shithead he's always been.

[varkam]

7. I used to really like him, too. I used to think he had values.

And principles. I used to think that he wasn't just another politician. Then he took off the mask.

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[napi21]

9. I did too. I really was impressed by the "Straight Talk Express"!

For the first time in a very long time, a candidate APPEARED to be honest. He wasn't doging reporters questions, and sure sounded like he was answering everything truthfully.

Where did THAT McCain go?

Today I heard someone on a talk show call him "Insane McCain". Sounds like a great campaign slogan to me!!!!

[Disturbed]

12. McLame is a hypocrite..

John McCain Hypocrite
by Doug Ireland

John McCain, the media's darling, has found a clever way around his own campaign finance reform law to take big corporate bucks in furtherance of his political ambitions while carrying water for the corporate mammoth providing the dough. But the national press is ignoring the story.


The Associated Press first ran the story of John McCain's odorous but lucrative Senatorial service to the communications giant Cablevision on the afternoon of March 7. But, while some local papers in McCain's home state (like the East Valley Tribune) have run the story, nothing has as yet made it into the print editions of the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Washington Post, or any of the half-dozen other big city dailies I checked (although, if one searches the hundreds of AP stories available on the Post's website on its Politics page by clicking on "Latest Wire Reports," one can find it there--but how many readers would bother to do that?) One notable exception: the Kansas City Star.


Here's what the AP's investigation found:


McCain repeatedly intervened on behalf of a policy Cablevision favored -- one which "congressional and private studies conclude could make cable more expensive" -- while his chief political adviser, Rick Davis (who's masterminding McCain's probable '08 presidential rerun) solicited $200,000 in contributions from Cablevision to an institute that promotes McCain and pays Davis a $110,000 annual salary.


The Reform Institute was set up to promote McCain and his issues--especially campaign finance reform, embodied in the famous McCain-Feingold law. This Institute is "a tax-exempt group that touts McCain's views and has showcased him at events since his unsuccessful 2000 presidential campaign," and it "often uses the senator's name in press releases and fund-raising letters and includes him at press conferences," the AP says. And, of course, it provides a cushy sinecure with no heavy lifting for McCain's main man, Davis, as he prepares the pontificating Senator's next presidential run. Cablevision's contributions account for a whopping 15% of the Institute's budget.


http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0309-35.htm

[deadparrot]

10. Watching him actively campaign for * in 2004 after what was said about his daughter

was more then enough for me. Then I found out what he'd said about a young Chelsea Clinton. He's not even a slimy politician, he's a nasty human being.

[Erika]

11. Yep, I gave him $75.00

And then saw him hug W after W eviscerated McCains' family. He now makes me sick. He allowed W to down his wife and family and then hugs the bastard? Sick.

[Quixote1818]

15. That's not much different from giving Tom DeLay $75

Now how do you feel?

[Bluebear]

13. "I'm a MAVERICK! I'm INDEPENDENT!"

[renate]

18. something about that picture really bugs me

Maybe it's the way W's pants have THREE PLEATS PER SIDE. That's just greedy.

Also, he seems to have some sort of appendage attached to him that looks like it was once a human being.

[illinoisprogressive]

14. alot of people, me, John Stewart, ect., use to like McCain

then he sold his soul to the W.

[skipos]

16. http://www.TheRealMcCain.com

http://www.TheRealMcCain.com

[TN al]

17. Has everyone forgotten that McCain is one of the Keating 5?

Straight talk express? He should have called it the "I'm not George W. Bush express." That's all he ever had going for him.

[moondust]

19. He was a better choice than Bush in 2000.

Granted, that's sloshing around at the bottom of the barrel but...he did at least gain some experience while Bush was collecting beer cans and death row appeals. But Corporate America had already decided on the frat boy knowing he was a failed blue-blooded corporatist who would enthusiastically hand over the U.S. Treasury and appoint fellow foxes to guard the taxpayers' chicken houses. McCain couldn't have done worse.

[Imagevision]

20. Didn't Bush/Rove claim mccain adopted a black baby in 2000 primary??

[Kahuna]

21. I never liked him. Basically I always realized that if someone touts

themselves to be one way (in McCain's case, a straight talker), they are usually the opposite of what they say they are. And McCain has proven to be a two headed snake that talks straight out of both sides of his mouth.