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McCain’s fabled temper…

Posted on May 28, 2008 | Comments Off on McCain’s fabled temper…

…is just that, a fable. You could also call it The Big Lie. Originated by and beloved of the news media. Here’s more proof. As I have said before, he could not have survived torture as a POW if he couldn’t control his temper. Something very few journalists today would know about because almost none of them have been through training to resist torture. The military calls it SERE, for Survival, Evasion, Resistence, Escape.

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Stuck on stupid

Posted on April 15, 2008 | Comments Off on Stuck on stupid

John McCain is simply the best of a bad lot of politicians now running for the White House. I’ll take him over the other two anytime. But I’m with the critics who call stupid his previous remarks about vaccines allegedly causing autism, and, lately, his pandering to the MSM on the federal "shield law" they’ve wanted for so long. I used to think the law was a bad idea because it was better to rely on judicial interpretation of the First Amendment than some law that could just be rewritten or overturned altogether. Now, with the rise of new media to challenge the old, I agree with Instapundit (a constitutional law professor) that it will be problematic to pass such a law. It will have to apply to everyone who reports news, including bloggers, not just the employees of the MSM, howsoever a lawmaker could figure out how to define them alone. But I also have come to think that empowering reporters to hide the news, i.e. which CIA agent helped them violate national security, is just plain wrong. Not to mention stupid.

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Egg on its face

Posted on March 7, 2008 | Comments Off on Egg on its face

Its collective face. The NYTimes. In the transcript, especially when their reporter asks McCain "Why are you so angry?" it looks bad. But this video of the confrontation makes it clear the question was a phony, the whole incident staged for the effect in the print transcript of that one query. McCain is annoyed, sure, but clearly not angry. Putting the egg on the NYT’s face. Where it belongs.

Via Instapundit 

Wow. The Associated Press bares its bias on the "incident," calling McCain "Senator Hothead." These guys must be really upset to see Barry and Hilarity losing face with their infighting. Time for slime. Watch the video. See for yourself how despicable the media is on this. They can’t squirm out of it this time.

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The other Navy McCain

Posted on March 4, 2008 | Comments Off on The other Navy McCain

You’ve probably heard about Jimmy McCain, the son of presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain who’s an enlisted grunt in the Marines and recently returned from Iraq. Now meet the one who’s got another year before he graduates from the Naval Academy. Jack McCain provides a good (if probably varnished) look at his father. I hope he’s right that dad’s temper is pretty much a myth. It wouldn’t surprise me.

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The eight-year-old scandal

Posted on February 21, 2008 | Comments Off on The eight-year-old scandal

So what is the NYTimes up to? Bashing McCain for something that happened eight years ago, now, before he’s even nominated? Why not wait until, say, October? Could it be they want to give Huckabee a better chance, figuring Barry (or even Hilarity) will have a better chance against the Huckster than McCain? For once I agree with CNN: it seems this is more a story about the NYTimes than it is about McCain.

UPDATE:  The fact that the NYTimes offered NO PROOF for its assertion that McCain actually had an affair with a female lobbyist didn’t stop the Associated Press from picking up the story and expanding it for its clients. In addition to having no accuracy, they obviously have no shame.

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Graham to Iraq

Posted on February 14, 2008 | Comments Off on Graham to Iraq

Republic nominee-to-be John McCain says he relies on Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from my birth state of South Carolina, to keep him informed on Iraq. If, as some are speculating, McCain chooses lawyer Graham to run as his VP, Graham’s new employer, the Air Force, will have to send him home again. Shouldn’t be a problem, of course.

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Sounding the Right notes

Posted on February 6, 2008 | Comments Off on Sounding the Right notes

Arizona Sen. John McCain’s post-vote speech last night hit all the points intended to mollify his party critics. It could be the start of a reconciliation that stops the rather-sit-home whining before it gets out of hand. As he said: "We are the captains of our fate.  We can overcome any challenge as long as we keep our courage and stand by our principles. I intend to make my stand on those principles, and trust in the judgment of the American people I serve." It’s been said that after eight years of one party, voters normally want another in the White House. But the times are unusual, and the Long War continues, and it may be that people won’t want its stewards to change–particularly when the only choice is the controversial husband-wife team of the pre-war administration. We’re going to find out.

UPDATE:  Hugh Hewitt, who kept me sane in 2004 by never doubting that Bush would win re-election, has the right idea: "There are seven reasons for anyone to support the eventual nominee no matter who it is:  The war and six Supreme Court justices over the age of 68." 

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