Comments on: A McCain Presidency Wouldn't Be So Bad

The New Republic: Ariz. Senator Would At Least Put An End To The Politics Of Karl Rove

[old300d]

The current dem congress is spending more money faster than any congress in US history ! Who can stop them ? McCain !

[rrcn-2009]

The article overlooks an important point. This country has suffered severe damage in many ways from the last eight years of the Bush administration. The next president has to repair this destruction, an amount of damage both foreign and domestic that can only be done with full cooperation of Congress. Thats why the only rational choice for America is Obama. He has the brains and he is capable of generating the support among the people to return us to our former position in the world.

[rrcn-2009]

The article overlooks an important point. This country has suffered severe damage in many ways from the last eight years of the Bush administration. The next president has to repair this destruction, an amount of damage both foreign and domestic that can only be done with full cooperation of Congress. Thats why the only rational choice for America is Obama. He has the brains and he is capable of generating the support among the people to return us to our former position in the world.

[old300d]

McCain would be able to keep that spend happy dem congress in check.

Obama would not be able to I am afraid.

I am for a pull out in 16 months. In 16 months I want half the govt workers to be laid off. Pull them out ! ! !

[ioweign]

A McCain Presidency Wouldn''t Be So Bad


Has McCain ever received a paycheck that wasn''t written by Uncle Sam?

[mycomment-2009]

Also, he had an affair with a woman while his first wife was recovering from an accident which left her with a limp, the same wife who stood by him all the time he was in Nam. He dumps wife #1 and marries the woman with whom he had the affair; of course wife #2 was an heiress.
Posted by abby0802 at 02:21 PM : Jul 19, 2008

Your right...he should have just stayed with his wife for political reasons and kept messing around on her for 20 years. Does that sound familar?

[abby0802]

I wouldn''t elect McCain for any position.
He has already admitted he "knows nothing" about economics, had an economic advisor (Phil Gramm) who said that we were a nation of "whiners," thinks we should keep our troops in Iraq for 50 years and yet voted against an improved GI Bill for our troops, during an interview couldn''t keep straight the difference between Shia and Sunni (and had to be corrected by Liberman), and when asked if insurance companies should pay for birth control when they pay for Viagra stood silent for a long time and then said he didn''t know enough about it.
Also, he had an affair with a woman while his first wife was recovering from an accident which left her with a limp, the same wife who stood by him all the time he was in Nam. He dumps wife #1 and marries the woman with whom he had the affair; of course wife #2 was an heiress.
If I lived in Arizona I won''t elect him for dog catcher.

[therealest4]

McCain to put and to Rove politics? Are you freaking kidding me? His top campaign staff is full of Rove disciples! So sorry to see that you have been bought and paid for.

[joyous88]

McBushSAME,

his name says it all,

if you like bush, if you like failure

you will love McSame

[keithhoffma1]

Be honest. You really like McCain because he looks like a cuddler.

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/funnypictures/ig/Funny-Pictures-of-the-Week/McCain-Hugging-Bush.htm

(See cute pic of McBush together...)

[akhajawall]

Dear American Citizens and the Press

As a concerned citizen, I consider it is my duty to bring following message to you all.

"We the citizens of the United States of America have the ultimate responsibility to elect the " Right Candidate" to lead our nation, out of our huge present and future internal and external challenges as well as opportunities. This is to prevent depression and isolation in-spite of being the only superpower in the world morally, democratically, economically, and militarily.

We need to consider the "critical qualities and characteristics" of our presumptive presidential nominees at the time we vote.

In my personal and professional opinion the critical considerations are as under:


1. Calm, cool, and collected " temper " [ Presidential Temperament ].
2. Sound and sustained "Judgment and Caliber".
3. "Thought-fullness and togetherness" of purpose and positions.
4. Minimum "ex-poser and exploitation" around "Washington and Washington insiders".
5. Renewed " Vigor and Vision " for our Greatgrand Nation.
6. Foreign policy based on " American Values, Virtuous, Vastness".

Stay informed, stay involved, and stay engaged. Do not allow some partisan media, pundits, pollsters, and perpetual political opinion makers effect your vote in the wrong direction.

[keithhoffma1]

Sir, when you write articles like this your credibility as a liberal goes right out the window. Does this even matter to you?

[fury_nick]

Mr Chait,
How can you honestly state (with i''m assuming a straight face) that McCain would put an end to Rove''s politics when less than a month ago, he put Steve Schmidt (a known Rove protege) in charge of the day-to-day operations of his campaign.....Sigh....With Schmidt now in charge, I expect that we will no doubt here more false rumors about Obama''s muslim background and what a "loony left wing, tax & spend liberal" he is....you are no doubt another washington media elite enthralled by the "Myth of McCain." You should really reflect upon this and realize what a dis-service you do to the rest of U.S.

[captainkona]

Oh yes it would.

McBuzzkill is an idiot just like the one we have now. Out of touch, out of style and out of time.

We''re not abandoning our troops in that hell hole to die for oil and Israel. John McCain is a thief and a liar and he will not be president of the United States.

[davepullin-2009]

One question about McCain''s potential presidency is "who will be in charge?". Since Chenney was quite obviously in charge of Bush. Would McCain just be another front man for the Republican "king makers". Since Chenney obviously relishes unlimited, unaccountable, power exercised in secret, what makes any voter think he will surrender it? He may "disappear" but that does mean he isn''t still pulling the strings. The Republicans selected McCain as the "least unelectable" Bush successor, just like they selected a goofy frat boy with a famous name. That doesn''t mean he will be in charge!

[Mark701]

Mr. Chait:
I''m beginning to suspect you are one of those "journalists" who is paid by Republicans write nice stories about them.

[CraigSLewis_I]

Yes, McCain has his problems, like all people do, but at least he knows that only American Citizens can vote for the President of the USA. Obama must feel that the whole World is citizens to be campaigning in foreign capitals. McCain has a lot of faults but is a whole lot better than Obama.
It would be nice if one of the two major parties would run a truly good candidate some time.
McCain, with all his faults, is the only one of the two major party candidates worth voting for.
If you want to remain American not part of the UN, and it is anti-American beliefs, you can not vote for Obama.

[pvperson]

Chait says, "Here was a Republican saying things no other Republican would say and fighting, Teddy Roosevelt-style"

McCain recently said in an interview: %u201CI count myself as a conservative Republican, yet I view it to a large degree in the Theodore Roosevelt mold%u201D

Heres''s a few of TR''s 100 year old statements:

"I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one"

"The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages."
"The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages."
"American and Indian, Boer and Zulu, Cossack and Tartar, New Zealander and Maori, %u2014 in each case the victor, horrible though many of his deeds are, has laid deep the foundations for the future greatness of a mighty people."

"The world would have halted had it not been for the Teutonic conquests in alien lands; but the victories of Moslem over Christian have always proved a curse in the end."

An example of TR''s fairness:
In Brownsville, Texas, racial tensions were high between white townsfolk and black infantrymen stationed at Fort Brown. Two white townspeople were murdered and the townsfolk blamed the infantrymen. Roosevelt immediately dishonorably discharged all soldiers in the three all black companies.

I think we need a president that''s of the 21st century rather than the 19th.

[highgrade1]

I registered to this site just to tell you how big of an idiot you are. It''s dumbasses like you that sit idly by as politicians lead our country into war and down the tubes, just because they seem like "good guys" - completely ignoring their terrible policies. Your head is so far up McCain''s *** that you actually believe that the candidate who has said and done just about ANYTHING to prove that he is the second coming of Bush, represents a "shift" away from Bush politics.

[irliberal]

Saying that a McCain presidency "wouldn''t be so bad" is akin to saying that waterboarding isn''t torture. It''s an outright lie.

Posted by shinxy at 12:38 PM

Exactly right.