John McCain was booed passionately by the hard line conservatives attending the CPAC convention today as he brought up his position and support for Bush’s immigration plan which is a sore spot for many there. It seemed like his supporters filled the room for the speech and they quickly came to his aid by cheering loudly. Many conservatives don’t seem to be on-board the Straight Talk express.
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McCAIN: Surely, I have held other positions that have not met with widespread agreement from conservatives. I won’t pretend otherwise, nor would you permit me to forget it. On — on the issue of illegal immigration, a position which –
CROWD: Boo! Boo!
This morning, Politico reported that CPAC organizers had instructed conference attendees not to boo McCain. Last year, McCain was the only major Republican presidential candidate to skip CPAC.
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Wasn’t it Obama who said the Straight Talk Express got a flat tire or lost a wheel or something like that? LOL! Sounds about right.
Fine, let em stay home on election day.
Why weren’t these boo hooers giving Bush the same treatment for the last 7 years?
My friends…. What a terrible speaker he is. Wow. Just really horrible. I think I’d prefer to listen to Bush talk for an hour because even five minutes of McCain, my friends, is too much. My friends, this guy is going down to Obama in the general.
Dear Rush Limbaugh, my friend, rip this tool apart. My friends, the republicans are fractured and, my friends, unless we pick Hillary the Presidency is ours.
Thanks, my friends.
Mmmmm. I know we’re not supposed to be trite and spiteful around here, but this tastes so good in my ears.
CROWD: “Boo! Boo!”
QFT
And reich-wingers have been telling us for years they are the “Big Tent Party”. Reich-wingers [easily] debunked again.
cpac is basically an uppity elite version of ccc.
More proof that reich-wingers do not support freedom of speech.
Not to worry, McCheshire will be booed many more times before this thing is over.
Holy shit.
we may be able to beat Mccain even with Hillary…..na
Looks like Tancredo just made the short list for V.P.
The Repugs will never get the Hispanic vote because people are not inclined to vote someone that wants to deport Grandma.
ray @ 3:
That’s the crazy part. They were chanting “four more years” when Darth Cheney took to the stage. McInsane just isn’t whacked out enough for ‘em!
What a bunch of paranoid, angry, rich white haters. CPAC should be tossed into the dustbin of history right along with the KKK.
Those were just the guys in sheets doing their Casper the Ghost cheers of support…
You mean ‘frontrunner’ McCrazy got booed?
Where was Hillary booed? Was it NH?
CROWD: Boo! Boo!
Booing or pod scream?
Moon @ 13:
Except you know, the whole McCain/Kennedy…
He reminds me of an older Bob Dole.
IdahoMoe @ 21:
Are ads for penile dysfunction in McCain’s future?
goatsage @ 22:
Viagra…my friends!
Dr. Matt @ 9:
More proof that reich-wingers do not support freedom of speech.
Let’s see of the Democrats will remove the “the free speech zones” that have popped up all over the country… Don’t hold your breath.
Proud2bHumble @ 12:
The beautiful thing is that doing something like this will bite them in the ass too…….McCaine’s age being a consideration and all makes an enhanced possibility of the VP finishing his term.
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McCain can try, and pander he must, but never in a million years will he come close to the depth of evil that the Cheney and Bush combo reached so effortlessly… and if there’s one thing that the CPACers admire in this world, one thing that they willfully and jously bow down to in worship, it’s sheer, unadulterated evil.
ray @ 3:
Are you kidding? They gave Cheney a standing o today, and greeted him with chants of “4 More Years”. I mean, we’re really not talking about rational people here.
IdahoMoe @ 23:
No, Bush has the blue pill account locked up. He’s been practicing for years, “It’s hard work, It’s hard, It works it’s hard” etc.
►Dear Aliens from outer space, please come and attack earth and make it so the Democrat’s have to get along.
Maybe you can leave one of those Klatu guys to make sure we don’t self destruct.
McCain/Dobbs?
McCain/Rice?
McCain/Cheney?
I couldn’t care less what the crazies at CPAC think. Are we not going to hear any blatant racism from Coulter or Horowitz or Weiner? I can do without, thanks.
By the way, the economic stimulus plan passed after Reid et al. (at Pelosi’s urging) stripped out some of the aid to the lower rungs. So, unemployment benefits were not extended, but business tax credits went through - so, hoorah for the Democratic Senate.
Yesterday the cloture motion fell one vote short (thanks to John McCain among others) on a much better version of the bill.
Several of the 16 (or so) senators who voted against the bill today (even when stripped of unemployment benefits and other things) said that it cost too much. Sen. Gregg (R-NH) noted that the bill for all of this spending was going to be passed to our children. Incidently, the price tag for this bill was $161 billion. The “emergency” supplemental for continuing the occupation of Iraq (solely for 2007) cost in the neighborhood of $400 billion. Senator Gregg had no problem passing that bill.
The following are senators who voted against the economic stimulus plan, but in favor of the 2007 Iraq Occupation “Emergency” Supplemental bill:
Allard (R-CO)
Corker (R-TN)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
If you are unfortunate enough to be represented by these tools, please let them know what you think.
Old Billy @ 31:
Craig and Crapo both remind me of the TOILET. PITY ME! lol
I have to wonder if this whole thing isn’t a riff designed to make McCain look more appealing to moderates.
I can see it now - the tension gets so tight that the damn bursts and the Republican party explodes, McCain drops out, making the 2008 election an uncontested Democratic victory.
I don’t wish for such a scenario, but it would be interesting to see. Maybe a weird bizarro world repeat of 1968?
McCain Skipped Stimulus Vote, Other Senators On His Plane Returned To The Floor In Time
Yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) skipped the Senate’s vote on the economic stimulus package, which fell just one vote short of the 60 needed to end debate.
On the stump, McCain has repeatedly claimed that passing a package was a priority for him. Yet his missed vote yesterday was not an accident due to a late flight or scheduling conflict. It was deliberate. Some evidence:
1. He was already thinking about skipping the vote yesterday afternoon. Yesterday afternoon, hours before the vote, he hinted to reporters that he might not return to the Senate that evening. “I haven’t had a chance to talk about it at all, have not had the opportunity to, even,” McCain said. “We’ve just been too busy, focused on other stuff. I don’t know if I’m doing that.”
2. His plane landed in DC with plenty of time to make the vote. McCain’s plane landed at Dulles Airport at 5:00 p.m., “leaving plenty of time to make the 5:45 p.m. make or break procedural vote.”
3. The other senators on his plane returned for the vote. ThinkProgress has confirmed with Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (I-CT) office that both he and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) were on the same plane with McCain. Yet both Lieberman and Graham returned to the Senate in time to cast votes. (Lieberman voted for the stimulus, Graham voted against.)
McCain’s move was certainly not a profile in courage. His spokeswoman said that the senator would have voted against the package anyway. By missing the vote, however, he didn’t have to go on record denying benefits to 20 million seniors and 250,000 disabled vets — both key blocs of support for his campaign.
As ABC’s Jake Tapper notes, “In fact, in the 110th Congress, out of 450 votes, McCain missed 56.7% of them. The only one who missed more was a senator who had a brain hemmorhage.”
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Note he says he took these positions because they were in the best interest of his party and his country — in that order. This isexactly what is wrong with the GOP, and why the door inevitably will hit them in the ass on their way out.
All dems have to do to remind the waiverer’s in our party and independents who might somehow be enamored with McLame is this appalling picture from 2004: http://tbn0.google.com/images?.....3122-1.jpg
Screw this flip-flopping angry HAS BEEN McLame.
Look at what the real message is. 2 weeks ago, Rush and Ann started saying that McCain is too liberal. Now a bunch of others are jumping on ship. The real message is that they think McCain will take away independant voters away from the democrats. They are trying to soften his image. Today, Romney got his message to drop out from the right wing establishment. He’s only following orders. I know that you are very smart and will spread this message. Don’t believe anything the right wing establishment says. They are the party of misinformation. Now organizers are telling the sheeple not to boo McCain. The talking points went out early today.
This vividly illustrates just how sick some of the far right cowards behave. Maybe they should all go fight in the military for their country instead of running their mouths wildly and acting like little kids.
didn’t work, he still got booed
Ron @ 38:
Okay Ron, you’ve posted your same theory on every thread having to do with McCain today. What about the millions of righties who aren’t in on the conspiracy theory? Who is going to clue them in?
If they are really attempting reverse psychology it truly is going to bite them in the ass come November when the fundies stay home and sit on their bibles.
Old Billy @ 31:
hate to tell ya, but i agree with the senators that voted no
the stimulus package is all smoke and mirrors and to get the money, the gov will have to borrow it
so the senator was right…this is gonna be repaid by your kids
and what will you be getting? a few hundred bucks so you can run out to wallmart?
this will not stop the recession
I am thoroughly indoctrinated, e-metered, and cleansed of my contaminated ideas, so I’m fit to comment. My question is: Where do I get the double knit, bell bottom uniforms.
Needless to say, I’m so overly thrilled and knocked out about last week and the inevitable un-election of some of the more notorious egg sucking dogs that are (were) currently occupying seats in the hallowed halls of Congress. Haven’t felt that great since I managed to successfully evade a sobriety check point and ditch the cops whilst embraced in the cellular congress with any number of psychotropic substances. And with the news that the Demos are taking over, I guess all of you Republican fiends are going to have to put your Nazi armbands back in the drawer until the next time America succumbs to mass stupidity. I can’t really get my cut-and-runner type mind around how fucking great it is that the Demos are going to stomp inbred conservative mouth-breather ass. Probably as great as I felt when Rummy got packed off to some Defense Department related circle jerk commonly referred to as a corporation. I suppose as everything closes in on chimp boy, he’ll start cutting loose all his scumbag buddies, similar to what Tricky Dickhead did. I imagine he’ll come on the T.V. and say that ole bend-over Bob isn’t in that great of health and that as Americans, we (that obviously doesn’t include those that were killed in Iraq) all should thank whatever loser he rescued off the local skid row for all those years of great service for this country. And so it will go until there’s nobody left to take the rap, at which point one of daddy’s lawyer friends will attempt to keep chimp boy out of jail. But fuck that, let’s all get our party hats and special “favors” in hand for the upcoming “Up Yours GOP” yearlong celebration that is the upcoming election. I mean, just listening to right-wing talk radio on the way to work is more entertaining than I thought it could ever be. You know the end is near when even Rush is attempting to heft his bloated rotting carcass toward an exit.
Straight Talk Express - more like the Double Talk Express
As I have pointed out a number of times, if we can just get the thug conservatives out of power for this election (arguably they don’t have a candidate now), we will have put a stake in the heart of the beast……in 2012, the vast majority of the WWII generation (last great bastion of conservatism-celebrated by Rush Limbpalls and comprising Bill O’Lielies audience) will be gone and the new “old people” were (obviously I’m overgeneralizing) stuffing daisies into cannons in 1968…the world may survive even yet…..
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Just as HRC has been booed by the hard left…
http://thehill.com/campaign-20.....06-20.html
It’s not the last time McInsane will get booed. Obama or Clinton are being handed a gift with Romney dropping out.
Notice the very very bad choice and phrasing where he says “while I, and other Republican supporters of the bill” followed by “we failed…” “blah blah …to secure the borders”
lovely bit of speech to cherry pick edit together and do a max headroom negative clip on McCain.
I hope theres some democrat video wizard out there now mixing together that clip :)
umm, mccain’s views on illegal immigration and amnesty are exactly the same as the chimp’s
people are saying that the wingnuts are trying to use psych warfare to get indys and con dems to vote for mccain
they aint that smart….they really hate this guy