Just when he'd appeared to have recovered among conservative talk radio hosts by finding a common enemy in the New York Times, John McCain may have shed all of that good will by feuding with one of them earlier this week.
McCain blasted a radio talk show host in Ohio who had warmed up a crowd for him earlier this week by repeatedly saying Barack Obama's middle name, Hussein. McCain said he wasn't going to allow personal attacks to be part of his campaign.
The talk-show host, Bill Cunningham, was not pleased, and neither were top hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, who sided with Cunningham and blasted McCain.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reported earlier this week that feud could cost McCain votes in Ohio, maybe the most important state in the general election.
— Stephen Dinan, national political reporter, The Washington Times
Comments (8)
I am so sick of McGrampers stabbing the GOP in the face. It's not even in the back anymore - it's a full frontal assult.
I'm never voting for McCain.
Posted by Jimmy Crackcorn | February 28, 2008 2:55 PM
McCain has come down on the side of political correctness. He is telling the MSM I am not going to run on Obama's leftist views on open borders, affirmative action and multiculturalism. I don't want to listen to McCain yap on about how much he loves the war and his beloved surge.I want a tough candidate who discusses how dangerous a Barack Hussein Obama presidency would be .McCain is a pc wimp. Apologies,apologies and more apologies will not get the job done.
Posted by Charles | February 28, 2008 5:53 PM
McCain out -> Ron Paul in.
Posted by Eric Nordstrom | February 28, 2008 7:59 PM
Oh come on. What was McCain supposed to do? This is a minor issue, but to not correct it just opens him up to a "Macaca" moment from the press. Everything he does with Barrak is going to be looked over with a microscope by the leftist press. It was not worth it to make this a fight in which all he can do is lose.
Posted by Joe | February 28, 2008 9:45 PM
Since all of the candidates are from the Congress, none of them are my preference. McCains stand on defense and spending are two pluses the others don't have. Pulling out of Iraq is geopolitically stupid (Clinton and Obama) and will provide the world and the Iraqi people with another 'Vietnam" abandonment scenario, this time it will be a presidential decree, not congressional financial cutoff. Reserving the right to send troops back in is strategic and tactical military suicide (Obama). Trust and human intelligence will be gone, and the logistical lines of communication will be severed. The economy is in a tailspin and you aren't going to stop it with more spending. Someone needs to hold Congress accountable.
Posted by Larry Stone | February 29, 2008 1:59 AM
Let's tell it like it is. These right wing hate mongers need Obama to win so that they can have something with which to fuel their radio shows for the next 4 years. They don't care about what's best for the country, which is Johnny Mack (as was the case in 2000).
Posted by Johnny B. Goode | February 29, 2008 9:07 AM
The reason Cunningham was emphasizing Obama's middle name was to raise the specter that he is a Muslim or maybe even a terrorist. If Obama's middle name was Ralph, Cunningham would never have mentioned it. In other words, Cunningham was not addressing the issues between the candidates, but trying to raise some false fears to win the election. McCain is too honorable to go that route. The people who want to slime Obama with non-issues just don't think they can win on the merits -- the don't trust the American people with the real Republican message. Or maybe they just have gotten so used to "swiftboating" that they have forgotten how to do a real campaign. McCain was brave, and correct, to stand up to it. He has my admiration.
Posted by Jenna Kennedy | February 29, 2008 12:21 PM
I have served the last 14 years on active duty status with the USAF. But I write to you as a fellow citizen.
McCain, Obama, and Clinton are all tremendous benefits to liberty and freedom. They will usher in a new era of constitutional rights and peace.
They will do this by increasing the size of government, increasing the operations tempo by the military, increasing the amount spent to corporate america, they will increase the amount of war-dead in Iraq and find new locations to expand US empire. An exponential increase in the amount of hatred for the United States around the world will balloon the amount of terrorist activities, then requiring additional spending. This will then continue to increase the amount of inflation of the dollar, increase the size of the lower class, decrease the size of the middle class, increase the amount of constitutional infractions, demand a reduction of liberties by the people and eventualy cause an economic depression of the likes never before seen.
Chaos will be the average day for the average citizen. Obtaining fresh water and food will be an issue, a quasi-civil war between states will erupt, many will detach from the union to form smaller republics. Like the former USSR, the United States will be forever lost.
But hold on...
Out of the ashes will come a stronger nation, one that will have learned from the death toll and grief brought on by McCain, Obama, and Billary. We can all look forward to the day that the reformation of the Great United States happens again. Thanks John, Barack, Billary and thanks to you, fellow Americans, who had the foresight to elect one of the prized globalist candidates to usher in the Republic of New America.
Thanks goodness the populace doesn't know about how McCain hid his vietnam pow records.
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com
or how Billary are actually very advanced political grifters who break laws at every opportunity.
http://www.theindustrystandard.com/article/0,1902,27348,00.html
or that Obama is tight with the Nation of Islam.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/01/obama_distances.html
or that America is the poorest nation in the world and that Ron Paul has the tools to fix it all.
www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2187rank.html
www.ronpaul2008.com/Prosperity
Why, if voters knew these things, the GOP may have to back the only conservative running for office and we can't have that nonsense going on.
Yes, if you want to pull the United States out of it's current nose dive. Vote Ron Paul. When you go to the polls vote for him even if he isn't on the ballot. Your vote is not wasted on Ron Paul.
It's your chance to salvage our country from economic ruin.
Rule Number 1: Don't believe anything you hear or see on television, it is all either entertainment or social programming. None of it is true.
Rule Number 2: Do your homework because we are in a real bind. The housing market, price of gold, price of oil, you name it... the house of cards is shaking and our economy is buckling under it's own weight of debt. The main reasons: Dollar not backed by Gold (fiat monitary system), the 16th amendment needs to be repealed, IRS needs to be abolished, the Iraq War, sustained military involvement with countries such as S. Korea & Japan, involvement with the United Nations and the CFR and socialist (liberal) taxation to support massive social welfare programs.
I was you 4 months ago and I'm not laughing any more. Read. I don't blame you for misunderstanding what you see in the press or understanding the misrepresentation of Dr. Paul in the press.
I just ask that you do some homework as I did and form a true decision based on knowledge versus opinion or popularity.
Posted by Eric Nordstrom | March 10, 2008 9:05 PM