He may be a 25-year veteran of Washington politics, and he may be a two-time leading GOP presidential candidate, but John McCain apparently still needs to work a bit on his “message discipline” problem.
John McCain said Monday that to win the White House he must convince a war-weary country that U.S. policy in Iraq is succeeding. If he can’t, “then I lose. I lose,” the Republican said.
He quickly backed off that remark.
“Let me not put it that stark,” the likely GOP nominee told reporters on his campaign bus. “Let me just put it this way: Americans will judge my candidacy first and foremost on how they believe I can lead the county both from our economy and for national security. Obviously, Iraq will play a role in their judgment of my ability to handle national security.”
“If I may, I’d like to retract ‘I’ll lose.’ But I don’t think there’s any doubt that how they judge Iraq will have a direct relation to their judgment of me, my support of the surge,” McCain added. “Clearly, I am tied to it to a large degree.”
Clearly, he is tied to Iraq, which is possibly why he was right the first time.
I find it fascinating that McCain, even now, just blurts out the first thing that comes into his head. McCain has been on the campaign trail now for over a year — and that’s just this cycle — answering questions about, among other things, Iraq. But he can’t quite answer a question about what will happen if Americans reject his policy come November? As someone hoping McCain loses, it gives me hope that he has a habit of answering questions one way, and then wanting to give a different answer a few moments later.
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I’m feeling more confident every day.
I could have told him that.
I’ll vote for him if he streaks through Quabar Market without any military support.
c’mon John…how much do you want to be Preznet? Show your Patriotism. You were tortured for 6 years, how bad can a little naked jaunt be?
Another senior moment for Grampa McCain.
St.McBush’08™ knows he’s already won!
http://www.theonion.com/conten.....dded_video
He’ll never win in the You Tube age. All his spewings are on the record.
Translation: He must LIE!
Get your very own Pocket Barack-itizer.
Senility is such a tough thing.
he’s torturing himself and us, if he thinks he’s got a cat in hell’s chance of winning.
can I get an Amen…
Never interfere when an adversary is busy committing suicide!!!
Wait a minute…I thought the surge is working. Also, he said that the war will be over soon.
If all of that is true, why would Iraq cost him the election? Hmmmmmm……
The Cake is a Lie.
The occupation will fail.
What a tool. As I have always said. He won’t win, not just because he is like 900 years old, but he is such a friggin downer, even when he is trying to give a stump speech. What a frizzled up old lizard.
Remember way back, I believe it was on Hardball, he was asked his feelings on gay marriage and he said he was okay with it. Then the show took a break for commercials and when they came back he changed what he has said after talking with one of his handlers and he was no longer okay with gay marriage.
Imagine this man in a heated debate with Obama or Hillary. He’ll never make it.
He also said just yesterday that the war would be over soon but the insurgency would continue for a long time.
Johnny, if I fucked my girlfriend’s best buddy, I think she would leave me. Old man, go lay down.
Hey Acting Patriot, do I have to pay to use that trademarked title of yours?
The frumpy old white guy looks tired already…and the campaign didn’t even start yet.
McSurginGeneral: “My friends, I am here today to solicit your support and as a token of my appreciation for your support, I have instructed PrairieHill Retirement Lodge to allow extra games of Bridge and Bingo on Saturday afternoon. My first duty as President, will be to finally end the regime of those Vietnam….er……Korean…….er……..(whispers)what war are we into now? Anyway, let me continue by saying………B6….B6″
He’s going almost as schizo with his message/persona as Clinton has been lately. She’s all over the map right now, conciliatory one minute, attack-dog the next. With him, his persona stays the same but the message…well…
First it was we will be in Iraq for 1,000 years. Then it’s “the war will be over soon.” Now it’s if I can’t convince people to stay in Iraq for 1,000 years I lose. Well, I don’t lose, but I do…
He can’t hold onto one coherent line of thought.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/....._0419.html
bomb bomb bomb… bomb bomb iran…. come on mccain, everybody follow the bouncing ball…
I predict that stupidity may cost him the election. (Has anyone bothered to check this guy’s
dementia status lately?)
Of course, he does have one thing in his favor: his opponent will be a Democrat.
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May the words that proceed from your mouth illuminate your path, Mr. McCain. A belief and a believer equals a behavior. I’m so glad for the country that you realize that you need to lose the election. Your heart of hearts within you never lies. Be the loser that you need to become this November. We need more of this self fulfilling prophesy, Johnny boy.
I just saw a clip of McCain on tv sort of apologizing for one of his supporters who kept referring to Obama as Barack Hussein Obama.
A democratic strategist said he believes things like this are coming from the extreme Right. Are they the same extreme right who love Jesus? If they are, they aren’t showing a lot of love for their fellow man, here of late.
McCain predicts Iraq may cost him the election
You got that right chum
Something else you feed sharks.
“The voting public is a bunch of mindless morons.”
“Let me just state that I didn’t really mean mindless morons. I simply meant that they are a bunch of morons with no minds.”
Seriously, when Obama or Hillary goes up against this guy, there are really only a couple of things they need to do to neutralize him. Run the following clips of him in commercials non-stop with no voiceovers of that movie preview voice guy going “In a world where John McCain is president…” blah blah, and make sure to date every clip:
McCain saying he doesn’t really know much about the economy.
McCain saying he never met with Paxxon. Followed immediately by Paxxon saying he did meet with McCain.
Any clip of McCain denouncing torture. Followed by any clip of McCain defending his vote against the waterboarding ban.
The “bomb bomb Iran” clip. Twice.
Clips of McCain saying (now) that he critcized Rumsfeld heavily. Followed by a black screen that says “we could find nothing to support this claim”
Clip of McCain saying the 10, 100, 1,000 years crap, followed by McCain saying the war will be over soon.
End with the entire clip of the “I lose, wait, no, retract.”
Done.
pissed off patricia @ 25:
Too homocentric.
Lame, lame, lame.
Iraq won’t lose him the presidency.
he will lose because he’s mccain.
McCain is 70, when people reach that age they do things the way they wan’t to, not how they should for appearances.
ConcernedCanuck @ 19:
LOL
#351, thanks CC! ;-}
“I’m feeling more confident every day.”
I’m not. Every day I’m hearing more and more of this anti-Obama crap from otherwise reasonable people. “Gosh, I kinda like him but that thing about wanting to swear the oath on the Koran…” etc.
From here, it seems like the racist lies and smears have only just begun and yet they are getting traction already.
If Obama is the nominee… well hell, even if Clinton is the nominee, this is going to be the dirtiest, sleaziest nastiest presidential election in modern history - at least coming from the right anyway.
“My freinds, let me try to clarify what I mean..You know, my friends, I was speaking
before my mind got caught up, you know my friends,with the utterance of words. So
my friends, I’m sure you know,my friends, what I really meant to say, my friends,
was mininterpreted and my friends, I’m glad I got a chance to clarify this misunderstanding for my friends.”
mitt romney is so loving this…
The current McName List – In alpha order:
(347 total as of 12:01am pst Tuesday 2/26)
White male, 71, victim of 5-year abuse in North Vietnamese prison camp, presenting with:
Poor impulse control.
Unpredictable and/or inappropriate emotional states.
Forgetfulness.
Confusion.
Diagnosis: “senile dementia,” possibly related to Alzheimer’s Syndrome.
I hope the Democratic Party doesn’t pull a Cheney…and lose to the dead guy! LOL!
tzzzzz. Wrong Mr. McCain!
Try again asshole.
The economy is gonna cost you and your GOP fuckus the election.
Most Americans could give a rat’s ass about the plight of brown people living on our oil, or the tribulations of them poor army folk coming home death or broken. It is their pocket books that Americans care about first and fore most. And guess what jackass… no matter how much you keep on telling people how things are fine, you can’t lie about the reality of most people’s balance: negative.
Fuck McCain and the horse he rode on.
The only self pity you can find after supporting an illegal war, that has cost untold hundreds of thousands of innocent lives and destroyed scores of American servicemen and their families, is that it may cost YOU the election. Fuck you, really sir, fuck you…
Already he has the look of a loser!
This dude is just not Presidential!
McAintGonnaWin
1970cs @ 31:
If McCain should win the election, he will be 72 when he takes office. Some people function fine at 72, McCain is showing he will not be one of those people.
With all the stress of this campaigning, he has to be tired as hell. I’m sure that’s one of the reasons they wish Huck would check out. If he did, McCain wouldn’t have to campaign so hard.
I’m hoping he loses his temper at someone and it’s all caught on film. There were times at town hall meetings when he gave sharp answers to people asking him questions and that was early on in the campaign.
I sure hope we are not underestimating the racist, homophobic, bible thumping, war loving American voters.
By sharp answers in my comment #43m, I didn’t mean sharp as in smart, I meant sharp as in snide and angry.
I like the way he frames it, that he has to convince us that U.S. Policy in Iraq is succeeding. A lot of conservatives don’t realize that by this point no matter how good it may end up in Iraq, Bush & Co. and all their supporters are STILL guilty and wrong, for lying us into the war in the first place and the hundreds of thousands innocent killed so far. You can’t kill 100 people just to get that one guilty guy, then think because you got the guilty guy, your strategy of killing the first 100 was right. NEVER GONNA HAPPEN McCain. Doesn’t matter how it turns out, the war was wrong, it was waged with criminal negligence.
McCain will lose for that and many other reasons. Good prediction, you’re right!
I hope the millions of assholes who vote for McCain enlist.
I was talking to someone just yesterday who said that he felt sorry for McCain. He wondered how McC could have sex with the injuries sustained during torture.
EUUUUU, on both counts.
Big Dick Cheney @ 23:
Big Dick Cheney @ 21:
Yep, that’s the good stuff when running against a man backing a war that is opposed by 70% of the public.
At some point he will learn not to accidentally tell the truth. He ALWAYS has to backpedal, or Republicans will reject him.
That picture is so awesome. It looks like he’s doing stand up comedy.
He’s the freaking Rodney Dangerfield of politics.
pissed off patricia @ 43:
I agree but it didn’t stop Reagan, must have been the smile the old reprobate had.
203 homes in my small, strongly republican neighborhood. On my run yesterday I saw only one campaign sign; Obama ‘08.