Mccain Quotes - Page 3

• John McCain is a liar and flip-flopper and panderer and bully and whiner. And it seems to be working.

  Michael Tomasky

  Liars, Bully, Flip

  "Does being a jerk work?" by Michael Tomasky, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2008.

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• The whole straight talk thing, which John McCain kind of turned into a slogan at one point in one of his presidential campaigns, what that is, is a symptom of somebody who has no time for messing around. Because he`s trying to get stuff done constantly.

  Rachel Maddow

  Presidential, Trying, Done

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• I really think that everything that's known about Hillary has been dissected, rehashed. For some people that is an argument that she would be the better candidate against McCain.

  Maria Echaveste

  Thinking, People, Argument

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• [John McCain] didn't believe me. I think anybody who's been in a POW camp for five years can - take eight minutes on The Daily Show.

  Jon Stewart

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• He [John McCain] is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren`t captured.

  Donald Trump

  War, Hero, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Sarah Palin had a big op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, and she said she's against death panels. And I thought, 'Really? She's the one who pulled the plug on the McCain campaign.'

  David Letterman

  Wall, Campaigns, Pieces

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• It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current President....Bush goes bumbling along, grinning and spewing moronic one-liners, as though nobody understands what a colossal failure he has been....I fear to the depth of my being that John McCain is just like him.

  Jack Cafferty

  President, Depth, One Liner

  "Current Wisdom", spectator.org. August 19, 2008.

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• It`s hard to think of John McCain without thinking about what a ball of energy he is. I remember when I was working in the Senate, he just, enters every room and went down every hallway at the highest speed possible and just was always that way. I think people saw that when he was running for president, that that`s the way he handled everything. It`s just this constant never let up attitude.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Running, Attitude, Thinking

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• What John McCain didn`t realize was that Sarah Palin was his demographic. He thought he was appealing to younger women, and in fact, Sarah Palin appealed to people who were like McCain, old white guys, who thought she was sexy to skin a moose. That was a miscalculation, it didn`t work. They didn`t do the vetting, they didn`t do the polling.

  Howard Dean

  Sexy, People, Guy

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Senator McCain is all for John Kerry. Do you know they're buddies? McCain is in favor of Kerry being secretary of state. Somebody the other day suggested, maybe it was just today, a bipartisan compromise and nominate Colin Powell to be secretary of state again. What would be bipartisan about that? He's not a Republican.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Would Be, Favors, Today

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's the rising tide of enmity in the country, Donald Trump attacking judges, Donald Trump attacking John McCain, Senator [Richard] Blumenthal, the town halls, the riots in Berkeley. You have got the incivility on the floor of the United States Senate. You have got just a rising tide, every single story.

  David Brooks

  Country, Judging, United States

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• [John McCain] stopped connecting and just looked at my chest and decided, "I'm just gonna continue to talk about honor and duty and the families should be proud," all the things that are cudgels emotionally to keep us from the conversation. But, things that weren't relevant to what we were talking about.

  Jon Stewart

  Talking, Honor, Proud

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There's a statement from several members of the Senate, both Democrats and Republicans, including the Democratic leader, Charles Schumer; John McCain, the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee; and Lindsey Graham, also a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. They write that recent reports of Russian interference in our elections should alarm every American. They say Democrats and Republicans must work together to investigate this.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Writing, Leader, Working Together

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The media cannot come separate [Donald] Trump from his supporters. Only Trump can do that. They're trying, they're gonna keep trying because they think they can. They did it with [George W.]Bush. They did it with [Mitt] Romney. They did it with [John] McCain. They did it with Bob Dole.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Media, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm an American, first and foremost, and I'm very proud - I said, I've said to my beloved friend and colleague John McCain, a friend of 25 years, "John, I love you, but I'm not just going to vote for you on the basis of our affection or friendship." And I've said to Barack Obama, "I admire you. I'll give you all the advice I can. But I'm not going to vote for you just because you're black." We have to move beyond this.

  Colin Powell

  Moving, Love You, Years

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• John McCain famously has been incredibly loyal to Sarah Palin ever since he picked her as his running mate.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Loyal, Mates

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• What I`m starting to think of as the mythical beast of the Republican establishment, which is the sort of inchoate idea that we keep talking about what they`re going to do and it never seems to have much impact or be manifest in very visible ways, obviously, it is one thing for Donald Trump to have taken a shot like he did early in his campaign at John McCain, calling him not a war hero.

  Rachel Maddow

  War, Taken, Hero

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• He [John McCain] hit me - he`s not a war hero.

  Donald Trump

  War, Hero, War Hero

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I supported John McCain for president. I raised a million dollars for him. Still a lot of money. I supported him. He lost. He let us down. So I never liked him as much after that because I don`t like losers.

  Donald Trump

  President, Dollars, Loser

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• John McCain from the very beginning has been unflinchingly loyal to Sarah Palin. He has never thrown her under the bus. He has never conceded it was a bad decision to pick her. He has never ever said a bad word against her.

  Rachel Maddow

  Decision, Loyal, Said

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It is about something personal and specific, because when the John McCain campaign in 2008 decided to elevate Sarah Palin from total obscurity to make her his vice presidential running mate, they knew they were making a big strategic gamble.They knew they were taking a big risk and it turned out in the end to be a bad choice. It hurt John McCain`s chances.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Hurt, Choices

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• A "New York Times"/CBS poll found 59 percent of the country didn`t think Sarah Palin was prepare for the job that John McCain had picked her for.

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Jobs, New York

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon, for this summer's travel season. This is not an energy policy. This is money laundering: we borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks. What a way to build our country.

  Thomas Friedman

  Summer, Country, Cutting

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• The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain-Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [...] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.

  James Fallows

  Party, Ignorance, Hands

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• In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obamas 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

  Bob Beauprez

  Stars, Victory, Voters

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