Grampy McBush offers a "blistering indictment of Barbara Boxer’s record" at Fiorina event

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., wears a Navy hat given to him by a member of the Patriot Guard Rider as he and Republican senate candidate Carly Fiorina prepare for group picture in San Diego, Calif. on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/David Brooks, Pool)

At Fiorina event, McCain doesn't hide disdain for Boxer -- she's 'bitterly partisan' and 'anti-defense'
October 16, 2010 | 1:40 pm

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/10/at-carly-fiorina-campaign-event-john-mccain-calls-barbara-boxer-bittery-partisian-and-anti-defense.html

Former Republican presidential contender John McCain reunited with his onetime advisor Carly Fiorina on the campaign trail Saturday in San Diego, offering a blistering indictment of Barbara Boxer’s record on military issues and calling her the “most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today” -- an assessment he said he’d made while having “the unpleasant experience” of serving with her.

“When you hear her say that she supports the men and women in the military, my friends, she does not,” said McCain, a former Navy pilot who was held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam for five and half years after his plane was shot down in 1967. “Because she has never supported the mission; she has never supported victory whether it be in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or anywhere else in the world. Barbara Boxer wants to wave the white flag of surrender and endanger this nation’s national security. It’s time she went back to San Francisco with Nancy Pelosi.”

Appearing before an audience of several hundred veterans and supporters at the Veterans Museum in Balboa Park -- where McCain, his wife Cindy, and Fiorina formed a tableau of red, white and blue on stage -- the Arizona senator praised Fiorina’s business background and sought to reinforce her efforts to portray her rival’s voting record as anti-military.

Boxer has long been a hero of the anti-war movement after getting her start in politics advocating against the Vietnam War. She has called her vote against the Iraq War her proudest moment and vowed to keep the pressure on President Obama to bring troops home from Afghanistan.

[emulatorloo]

1. "my friends" - I'm not your friend, asshole.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. You mean Gramps McCain?

I wouldn't expect anything less from that has-been.

[spanone]

3. johnny boy's way past his sell date

[RC]

5. And he is well past the Use By Date also.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. "she has never supported victory" Once upon a time that kind of comment was beyond the pale.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. We KNOW what the Repubs would be saying about anybody saying THAT

with a President McCain in the WH
:scared: :puke:

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Look at the photo

Those behind florin and gramps...

[Brother Buzz]

7. Patriot Guard Riders

They love waving flags.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Of course, also a biker gang

I know what they do, but...these are "law and order republicans" in front of a gang, hell of a visual.

[Brother Buzz]

10. Oh but it's a jingoistic 'My country, right or wrong' flag waving motorcycle gang

They generally congregate at the far right side of The American Legion bar.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. I know, I'm concentrating on the visual...

Not even five years ago. This speaks to the radicalization.

[Brother Buzz]

12. Speaks volumes of the republican base

Big tent, they have; a mile wide and an inch deep.

[BlueStater]

13. That fact that this dickhead doesn't like her means she must be doing something right. N/T