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AMERICAblog: McCain launches negative ad based on lie: The new Karl Rove version of John McCain is now on full display

  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    This is exactly the kind of thing voting Republicans really believe.
  • bunnyjump · 1 year ago
    I hope the vet groups start speaking out against McCain and do it loudly and often.
    And if the vets don't get airtime, the blogosphere will make sure the mm gets pestered. Start writing, start calling, even the McCain camp....we aren't going to take this.
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    What a laugh if anyone thought that McCain wasn't going to get nasty. Funny thing the more nasty he gets the more childlish he comes off. I agree Vets need to go after him. He looks so desperate and unsure of himself.
  • Nigel Elliott · 1 year ago
    McCain is a desperate old man looking for a legacy. His campaign is imploding. That's the only reason for going negative (and outright lying) this early.

    Now we know where Rove's been hiding...in the editing room!
  • martha · 1 year ago
    Obama has to get out there every time and refute all these McCain talkng lies, - and he has to do it himself, NOT surrogates. He should not sit back like Kerry and think these lies will go away. FIGHT back!
  • Rab · 1 year ago
    Its time for all democrats to rear back and kick the repug party in the nuts. Shrub has a 27% approval rating and the reichstag repug party is about to have its nazi emblem blown up. The time to fight is now.
  • jr · 1 year ago
    Obama's too nice to be our nominee. He won't mention the Keating 5, Carol McCain, McCain calling Social Security a disgrace, it's always "I respect John McCain's service"
  • Milli · 1 year ago
    Hey, he beat Hillary by being nice. Its working for him.
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    McCain is not an honorable man, and never has been. An adulterer, a liar, a self-pitying victim of a distorted and even false vision of himself as having "integrity," which he inflicted on a nation through his "reforms" (remember the Keating Five), a bully, a shameless beneficiary of nepotism, a misogynist, a sycophant (keep showing that picture of him embracing The Decider), a flip-flopper, and a complete and utter shit to both of his wives.
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    And this: a hypocritical sponger on younger taxpayers and a sponger on his wife's mobbed-up wealth. Yeah, an honorable man...
  • rusty08 · 1 year ago
    Karen, well said. I agree with you 100%
  • Webster · 1 year ago
    Ads as ugly as McCain's wrinkled old ass can only backfire on him (so to speak).
  • ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago
    Obama's campaign needs to interview and FILM those troops. asking their opinion!
  • Milli · 1 year ago
    They are beyond desperate. Its sad really. I kinda feel bad for the old guy. I hope he finds a nice rest home after the election.
  • falloch · 1 year ago
    I'm waiting for McSame to get an 'invite' to Ramstein, to visit with the wounded troops - but that won't be exploitation; that will be an honourable visit from a war hero, won't it? Can anyone tell me if this is true: that if someone is a US combatant who is wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan, but who dies in Ramstein, that they're not considered to be a war fatality, i.e. not included in the statistics. Someone told me this the other day, but I want to think it's not true. Otherwise the number of US dead would be even higher - and that's not counting the Blackwater total (the Iraqi total being, of course, worthy of no comment at all....).
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    McRove CAN'T discuss the great issues of the day because he knows his positions on the issues are opposed by a majority of Americans.

    you name an issue and he's wrong on it.

    come on Obama!
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    Rove has experience foisting a sows ear on the American public. Let's hope this time it doesn't work.
    We simply can not afford another intellectually submarginal president.
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    Wow, we're all just really impressed with McCain's "respectful" campaign, I can tell you.
  • Wisco · 1 year ago
    The thing is, I don't see any of this stuff working. I know it's Rove's strategy to strike at an opponent's strength, but what do you do when his strengths are pretty much everything and anything?
  • kirkaracha · 1 year ago
    McCain Memo: 'Respectful Campaign':
    Throughout the primary election we saw John McCain reject the type of politics that degrade our civics, and this will not change as he prepares to run head-to-head against the Democratic nominee... Overheated rhetoric and personal attacks on our opponents distract from the big differences between John McCain's vision for the future of our nation and the Democrats'... Throughout his life John McCain has held himself to the highest standards and he will continue to run a respectful campaign based on the issues."
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    Dave, the only thing McCain has been successful with is showing he is a lying hypocrite. Straight Talk Express, my ass.
  • Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood) · 1 year ago
    Sadly, the ad is working with the repub base. I got into an argument with a women at Sam's Club today. She was espousing the media talking points. Then when pressed she fell back into the bullshit about "I don't like any of the candidates". That is the repub default when faced with sound arguments and reason. I hate these mother fuckers. Civility has nothing to do with anything. That is what we have been trying to tell you citizens for months!
  • Sage24 · 1 year ago
    They tried this in 2004, and in 2006, the Rethuglicans are Masters in this ugly, lying game. They have made fools out of the American people, by making them believe that only they, are the experts in foreign, and military affairs.
    What a load of Bull. After all these years, if the idiots in this country, don't realize that they have been lied to, and taken advantage of, by the rethuglicans, and that the rethuglicans are responsible for the bloody mess,
    this country is in, then, we have no hope for the US.

    McCain has started gutter politics, when he was once a victim of.
    Shame on this insipid old man.
  • kevinbgoode · 1 year ago
    And this will be repeated constantly on the MSM, which views any Republican campaign point, however manufactured, as "fact" and therefore creating "controversy". . .and it will be repeated on every right wing pundit program, and in every email sent out by that network, which in turn will be published without attribution in local newspapers as letters to the editor.

    Are we any better equipped to deal with this than we were in 2004? Obama won't stoop to the tactics used against McSame by Republicans during the 2000 campaign. . .is he going to be willing to stand right up to this crap? And what about us? What can we do?
  • maryinbelltown · 1 year ago
    Hitting back hard / Not hitting back hard - which is which?

    ". . .it's not worthy of Senator McCain." Hard/Not hard?
    "disingenuous." Hard/Not hard?
    "Senator McCain knows full well. . ." Which is it? Prissy or Not prissy?
    Tommy Vietor, go over to the DNC site and pick up some tips from the good doctor. http://www.democrats.org/johnmccain.html
    "Another week of bad news, bad reviews and campaign chaos for the McCain campaign. The only change: the campaign's increasingly desperate response."
  • maryinbelltown · 1 year ago
    http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/07/another_bad_...
    This is more like it!

    MEMORANDUM
    To: Interested Parties
    From: DNC Communications
    Date: July 25, 2008

    Re: Another Bad Week For McCain - Apparently it CAN Get Worse

    In what has become a recurring theme, McCain's week was dominated by foreign policy gaffes, misleading attacks, terrible reviews and new polls showing him lagging far behind among key groups of voters. Instead of addressing those challenges, the McCain campaign chose to lash out at the media and launch desperate new attacks. Despite starting his general election campaign by pledging "to conduct a respectful campaign" and run "the most positive kind of campaign," McCain has resorted to the kind of negative attacks that would make even Karl Rove blush--capped off with McCain himself questioning Senator Obama's patriotism.

    As observers noted, McCain's new line of attack "smacks of desperation," "undermines his brand" and makes him look "bitter to the point of nasty." Said Howard Fineman: "hard to imagine things looking much bleaker."
  • LanceThruster · 1 year ago
    Maybe the McSame campaign should switch to "quiet" desperation. Then they might not look quite so foolish.
  • News Nag · 1 year ago
    this new ad shows finally The Real McCain,
    the one behind the pleasant geezer persona on
    Leno, Letterman, SNL, at BBQs, and on the bus

    the real McCain's the grizzled shrunken soul that
    emerged with scarred psyche and barely repressed
    rage from Vietnam who slept his way to fortune
    and played off his victim status to fame and
    who so longs for revenge against "the other"
    he can't even stop himself from joking about
    mass murder of the type he was committing while
    being shot down bombing civilian areas of Hanoi

    the new ad is the rage on display and the pent-up
    venom unveiled for all to see, this emotionally
    disturbed charlatan showing his truer colors as
    he's enabled by the master slime merchant Rove to
    actually and finally be himself after all, Rove
    who is McCain's true partner as he was Bush's
    and would be for most modern-day Republicans

    and, yes, McCain does hate Obama and everything
    he represents, from even the early days of Obama's
    Senate days, and increasingly so now as Obama
    threatens to make all of his Vietnam suffering
    moot and all of his socializing and schmoozing
    for naught, all the strength it's taken to keep
    the repressed sadism in check all coming down
    to this election season

    the only question is what would McCain NOT do
    to keep Obama from rising to his natural position
    and the country from claiming its rightful redemption

    that's what I see
  • DCinDC · 1 year ago
    I think McCain is just a mean spirited person with a very negative outlook for the United States.
  • dad · 1 year ago
    This is Karl Rove's John McCain.

    This is John McCain's Karl Rove.
    This is John McCain.
    Same. Old.
  • arubyan · 1 year ago
    McCain is suffocating for lack of attention and will do anything to get it. So "hitting back hard" is exactly what McCain wants Obama to do. Even negative attention is better than no attention at all. Once Obama smacks him down, then he can wrap himself in the flag and with injured innocence accuse Obama of being disrespectful of all veterans or some such crap like that.