Tag: straight talk

Joe Klein is booted from the Straight Talk Airline. I guess Straight Talk means talking points, and since Klein won’t echo them McCain wants nothing to do with him.

I missed this article by Thomas Frank yesterday in the Wall Street Journal: Last week, Republican presidential candidate John McCain called for a commission to “find out what went wrong” on Wall Street. It was an excellent suggestion: Public inquiries into Wall Street practices served the country well in the 1930s. And Mr. McCain has […]

Just another example of how McCain says one thing and does another: Given Senator John McCain’s signature stance on campaign finance reform, it was not surprising that he backed legislation last year requiring presidential candidates to pay the actual cost of flying on corporate jets. The law, which requires campaigns to pay charter rates when […]

Two new items up at Straight Talk McCain. The first is about another gaffe John made yesterday, this time in Israel. He compared the Jewish holiday Purim, a time to celebrate the Jewish people being saved from mass execution while living in Persia, to “their version of Halloween“. Secondly – it appears that this weeks […]

John jokingly said he “would commit suicide” if the Democrats won control of the Senate in 2006. Is that something to joke about if you want to be President?

I love how everyone always refers to McCain as a “maverick”. Is aligning himself with the GOP on a majority of issues a maverick? Today’s Washington Post gives us the answer, by the family the term Maverick was branded for: Arizona Sen. John McCain happily donned the “maverick” mantle in 2000 as he climbed aboard […]

Or should I say “victory yawn”. I watched it last night and it really got me thinking. He was talking about a need for change and how he would deliver it. So why does McCain think we need change? Wasn’t it his party that has held the White House for the past seven years? Is […]

Robert Novak has a column today questioning McCain’s conservative credentials. Nothing shocking there – all the neo-cons are doing the same, but something did catch my eye: McCain as the Republican nominee would need those “very conservative” voters. He will encounter some of them at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington Feb. 7-9. His […]