Comments on: Friends of John McCain

By: likwidshoe

likwidshoe — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:45:28 +0000

“liberals are accepting of different kinds of people”, which is why so many of them attack McCain as being “too old” and Republicans as “rednecks”.

Straight from this thread.

“Liberalism”, thy name is hypocrisy.

By: Briar

Briar — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:55:22 +0000

See, it’s *patriotic* to be a xenophobe: the far right can always drape itself in the flag and does so quite sincerely. They really believe they are the real deal. And since we live in a nationalistic culture, attacking people draped in the flag is something the MSM (and most centrist liberals) don’t do. The xenophobes attack people whom they designate “enemies of the American people” or some such formula, and therefore the MSM (and most centrist liberals) don’t defend them – that would be unpatriotic. The centre left expends a lot of energy on claiming the flag and flourishing their patriotism. It’s a good way of ensuring that Change never actually happens.

The right starts with this inbuilt advantage: most human societies are hierarchical, tribal, belligerent as their default positions. Anyone whose social ideal runs in opposite directions has to fight twice as hard just to be heard, and will never be heard without some kind of subverting qualification.

By: n5p7q

n5p7q — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:55:54 +0000

RE: McCain’s courting of right-wing white bigots on Quinn’s show and elsewhere.

McCain apparently believes that his only chance of beating Obama in November is by galvanizing white racists to get out and vote. McCain himself is no longer a plausible candidate for any voter, whether on the issues or on the basis of his character. McCain is obviously too old, he’s out of touch on domestic issues, and his courting of the Christian far-right has alienated moderate Republicans and independents. So the race card is all he has left to play.

In other news on Yahoo! AP, McCain once again cited Sarah Palin’s command of the Alaska National Guard as evidence of her foreign policy experience. Sarah Palin has already turned his campaign into a joke. What a sad end for McCain.

By: Yet another reason why I won’t be voting McCain/Palin « Natalia Antonova

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:37:05 +0000

[...] Yet another reason why I won’t be voting McCain/Palin Jump to Comments So McCain goes on John Quinn’s show, to court conservative votes. Who is John Quinn? Why, he is the guy who told a journalist to “get an American name.” [...]

By: ThickRedGlasses

ThickRedGlasses — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:21:40 +0000

For some reason, conservatives can get away with this kind of hate talk because, for some reason, being full of hate has become a tenet of the philosophy. It’s like, liberals are accepting of different kinds of people, so conservatives have to be the opposite and hate everyone who doesn’t look or sound like them. Democrats don’t have to stoop to the level of Republicans, but they can borrow something from the Republican playbook. The Democrats really have to juxtapose John McCain with this Quinn guy in the same way Republicans try to pretend that Rosie O’Donnell is practically a member of the Democratic controlled Congress.

By: oh!press pass

oh!press pass — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:59:45 +0000

Radio does give a lot of lee-way. If those comments were made on television, there would be a lot more attention given to the white supremacist remarks.

I could hardly listen to the speeches of RNC, let alone right wing radio.

By: Rhonil

Rhonil — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:50:27 +0000

The problem is that pointing this out to people would make little difference to the election. Republicans tend to fall into one of 2 camps: the fiscal conservatives/foreign policy realists OR the right-wing nutjobs. The first camp is fully aware of the second camp and is happy to use the second camp to win elections. Maybe it’ll change this time around, but I doubt it. McCain isn’t stupid – he is betting that whatever marginal numbers of potential Republicans in the first camp he might win over by not catering to these cretins, he will gain much more support in key swing states like Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida (all of these states are full of rednecks) by pandering to their crazy sensibilities.

By: Fiendish

Fiendish — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:15:32 +0000

This makes me feel sick to my stomach.

How can McCain justify his position to the middle-ground floating voters, when he appears on these shows to court the fundamentalist demographic? I wish this kind of thing got more publicity. It certainly deserves more than Jeremiah Wright.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:45:11 +0000

More rightwing nonsense,

mediamatters.org:

Calling into Sean Hannity’s radio show, Mark Levin said of the National Organization for Women:

“It’s not the National Organization of Liberal Women. It’s the National Organization of Ugly Women.” Moments later, after Hannity stated, “[a]pparently [Sen. Barack] Obama took a shot at me again,” Levin responded, “Obama’s obsessed with you. … Maybe he’s attracted to you.”

By: FashionablyEvil

FashionablyEvil — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:19:50 +0000

it might be worth our time to point out who Republicans are associating with and actively courting in the political arena

Well, there was that whole John McCain/James Hagee thing. For whatever reason, it just doesn’t get the same kind of traction in the MSM. Of course, Hagee and others are white and tend to be a bit older and play that sort of grandfatherly aspect. Jeremiah Wright? He’s just an angry black man. Each fits so neatly into a stereotype that it becomes an easy narrative to excuse some and not others.