Tag: john mccain

Ralph Reed, former business partner of Jack Abramoff, will be holding a fundraiser for John McCain. Democrats should have fun with this one.

John Edwards has admitted to the rumors of his affair, and already the right is in a frenzy. So, can anyone refresh my memory? When was it John McCain started dating Cindy? When was it that they applied for their marriage license? Oh yeah – while McCain was married to the woman who waited for […]

John McCain yesterday: Earlier Thursday, McCain, who has contended that Obama is willing to lose in Iraq to win the election, said his rival would forfeit the war as part of an agenda that also promotes big government and high taxes. Doesn’t McCain read a newspaper? Iraq and the U.S. is close to a deal […]

Questions are being raised about a lot of money donated to John McCain’s campaign and how legitimate it really is.

That title is not by me, but rather Dan Savage, who also wrote this great piece today: We’re wasting our time beating up on John McCain for suggesting that his leathery ol’ wife should participate in a topless/bottomless beauty pageant. Yes, Obama couldn’t say it—but then Obama isn’t a notorious ladies man and adulterer that […]

John McCain is the most absent Senator, so does he have the right to tell Congress to get back to work?

So many pundits are asking where the landslide is in the presidential race. With the polls so close, it is raising the question even more. David Brooks latest article even asks this: Why isn’t Barack Obama doing better? Why, after all that has happened, does he have only a slim two- or three-point lead over […]

So McCain is trying to compare Obama to a celebrity? The Smirking Chimp brings up what everyone seems to be ignoring: Oh really? Where was John McCain to decry celebrity status when Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California as a Republican? Where was John McCain when pop icon Sonny Bono, and actors Noble Willingham, […]

It looks like a lot of Republican Senators are scared to be seen with their ilk: Nine of 12 targeted Republicans running in the most competitive Senate races this fall are either skipping the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., or have not decided whether to attend. Among those who will not attend are Sen. […]

And it isn’t siting well with some in the GOP: “I think John is treading on some very thin ground here when he impugns motives and when we start to get into ‘You’re less patriotic than me. I’m more patriotic,’ ” Hagel said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “I admire and respect John McCain very […]