McCain: Obama Attacks Succeeding At Painting Romney As Unacceptable

[ProSense]

McCain: Obama Attacks Succeeding At Painting Romney As Unacceptable

Sahil Kapur

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Sunday slammed President Obama’s reelection campaign as one of the most “disgraceful” and negative he’s ever seen, but conceded that the attacks have “succeeded to a certain degree” at disqualifying Mitt Romney with voters.

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“In 2008, this president and the people around him promised hope and change, a new environment in Washington,” McCain said. “And now it’s probably deteriorated into the most negative, most unpleasant, most disgraceful campaign that I have ever observed, and I’ve been intimately involved in them since 1984.”

“I’ve got to give them credit, they have succeeded to a certain degree, of painting — with nothing but attack ads — Mitt Romney into something that’s not an acceptable alternative, because he can’t run on his record,” McCain continued.

It’s a remarkable admission that Romney’s other surrogates haven’t made. The Romney campaign and its supporters insist voters will punish Obama for the negativity.

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Wait, worse than your campaign against Obama ("palling around with terrorists" ring a bell)? How about the swiftboating of John Kerry? How about Bush's campaign against you in 2000?

Romney attacks on Gingrich similar to Bush-McCain 2000
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2012/01/31/romney_attacks_of_gingrich_similar_to_bush_mccain_2000/

Oh, and thanks for letting us know the Obama campaign ads are working. You're the worst surrogate ever

Mitt: Worst. Candidate. Ever.

[RKP5637]

1. Dems are just fighting fire with fire, that's all, McCain. You don't like losing at the

republican's own game, do you.

[tk2kewl]

35. 'cept our fire is the incessant burning of facts rather than lie bombs.

[VWolf]

39. 'zactly. Fire-vs-fire is a false equivalence. n/t

[RedStateLiberal]

2. I'm so sick and tired of this kind of Rethug hypocrisy.

The entire Romney campaign is based on lies about Obama. All rethugs do is run negative campaigns because they have no solutions other than to double-down on things we've tried in the past which have failed miserably.

And to attack Obama for negative ads but then admit they are working is a whole other level of hypocrisy.

[Historic NY]

3. Great job Team Obama, says McCain.

[CabCurious]

37. Exactly. Mccain is openly hedging away from Romney with this...

[spooky3]

4. more false equivalency

Obama's and Dem PAC ads tell the truth. The ugly truth. That's why they seem negative.

Here in VA, I have seen many Romney ads, over and over again. Not a single one is truthful. All are misleading at best and downright lies at worst.

[Motown_Johnny]

5. Anything about Rmoney's taxes? McCain and his campaign would know the truth.

[Brother Buzz]

6. McCain, why didn't you just stop your life, light you hair on fire, and run to Romney's campaign...

and 'splain how you saw his tax returns and there is nothing in them and how he should release them and embarrass Obama, Reid, et al.. Simple, no?

[Jamaal510]

8. He's bald, though.

[mindwalker_i]

7. "In 2008, you promised hope and change, but now you're acting like us!"

Obama wanted to change Washington so that we could have honest debates and improve the country. After getting kicked in the teeth for the umpteenth time, he finally learned better.

Deal The Fuck With It!

[ProSense]

9. Not even.

"In 2008, you promised hope and change, but now you're acting like us!"

In 2000, they questioned McCain's sexuality and accused his wife of being an addict. Rove claimed he fathered an illegitimate child with a black prostitute.

The pro-Obama Super PAC simply showed how people's lives are destroyed by vulture capitalist and why health care is important.

[coalition_unwilling]

10. McCrazy must have forgotten his own campaign against Bushie-boy in 2000, when

McCrazy was accused by Rove's whisper campaign of, among other things, fathering an illegitimate black baby.

Accusing Romney of failing to pay taxes is worse than that????? Really????? McCrazy is so full of shit, it makes one's head hurt.

Obama doesn't give them hell. He just tells the truth and they think it's hell. (with a tip of the hat to Harry S. Truman)

[EC]

11. The only negativity I see is from their side with

the constant lying. I haven't heard a true ad come from them yet. To me, it's not a negative ad if it's telling the truth and all of Obama's have been truthful - therefore not negative.

[Va Lefty]

12. If it's Sunday it's John McCain

Seriously, this guy is on TV like ever other week! I can't remember a defeated Presidential Candidate given this amount of air time

[nc4bo]

13. Grumpy and growling like always. nt

[heaven05]

14. HUH?????

[Dawson Leery]

15. "Disgraceful" would be your military service, John.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

16. It's not an attack when you're telling the truth!

[Ruby the Liberal]

17. Oh, John. He can too "run on his record".

Call him up tonight and tell him that. All he has to do is release The Records on where and how he made his money, defend that, and his "record" is all his to champion and promote. OFA isn't stopping him - HE is stopping him.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

18. I expect Mccain condoned the 'Swiftboating' of John Kerry

however, for some reason I don't think McCain wants romney to be Prez

[Lone_Star_Dem]

19. I'm bookmarking this for the next "Honorable McCain" post I see.

Yes, even here I've seen people attempt to paint him in that revisionist light.

[part man all 86]

20. Can't we all get along will be their talking point next week as President Obama rises in the polls.

[billky]

21. McCain need to just shut up..

The Republicans can dish it out but they just can't take it. It's that simple. The President has been called everything and blamed for everything; but he's still standing.

[mckara]

22. Whaaaaa!

[Octafish]

23. Swiftboat Liars were much, much worse.

The liars lying about war hero and outstanding Democrat John Kerry got more free air time in 2004 than the piddly amount given now to those asking "Did Mitt pay taxes?"

[SHRED]

24. here's a newsflash for ya John...

...HE IS UNACCEPTABLE.

[kitt6]

25. Mitt has already been defined.

It's all downhill for the republicans now.

[Xipe Totec]

26. Nothing succeeds like the truth nt

[sendero]

27. Your party..

.. has lied and obstructed and disrespected the president at every turn and now you are just POUTRAGED that he has taken the gloves off.

Fuck you idiot hypocrite.

[gkhouston]

28. LOL, I'm starting to think McCain wants Obama to win so McCain can say,

"See? That guy's unbeatable! It's not my fault we lost in '08!"

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

31. Bin<fucking>go. I haven't seen Grampy McSame go all out the way he did for Jr. in 04.

He really doesn't like Wittens.

[kestrel91316]

29. Time to ramp it up MORE, lol.

[txwhitedove]

30. I always find this insulting. It can't possibly be that intelligent voters see through Rethug lies.

[JDPriestly]

32. Republican supporters in the corporations like Merve Adelson

promise hundreds of millions in money to secret organizations to support the Republicans.

And we saw during the Republican primary how vicious their ads will be.

Obama should continue to point out the truth -- the Republican Party has nothing to offer the American people.

All the ideas they bring are old and have been tried and failed.

They get rich. We get poor.

The 99% is voting its own interests this time. Forget Romney and Ryan. Their ilk is history at least when it comes to politics.

[Samantha]

33. Sure, and McCain has totally forgotten all about George W. Bush's campaign in the SC primary

when these two faced off for the Republican nomination for Election 2000. Remember the whispering campaign started against McCain that he had fathered an illegitimate child with an African-American woman? Played the race card throwing down a total untruth to rile both the family-values crowd as well as the prejudiced.

At least the Obama campaign's commercials are fact-based.

Shame on you, John McCain, for saying these are the worst ads you have ever seen....

Sam

[CabCurious]

34. mccain loves this chance to bash romney

it's that simple.

[CabCurious]

36. Mccain just wants a cover to call Romney "unacceptable" :)

Mccain is old school.

This statement was about hedging on Romney, not about Obama.

[BumRushDaShow]

38. And where was he when McCain-Feingold was overturned by Citizen's United?

He should have been out there every single day fighting his own colleagues to put campaign finance reform BACK on the table.

[MaynardGeeKrebs]

40. Yes Sen. McCain, you're 100% correct.....

The ads are in deed "disgraceful". The problem for your party is they correctly reflect on your disgraceful candidate. No swift boating required.

Welcome to the 21st century John. We dems are feed up with your (party's) BULLSHIT. Hows it feel to take a punch? And we don't have to lie. When your party speaks, all that it spews out is lies, hate and more lies. Your latest BULLSHIT about Obama trying to curtail the military's access to voting in Ohio makes me want to PUKE. Supply side economics is the greatest con job ever. Hope you lose the House and the Senate as well (you can forget about the White House).

PS
Boo-Fucking-Who

[matt819]

41. How dare those Democrats!!

They are being as disgraceful now as we Republicans have been for the past 30 years. Damn them.

Hey, John, it ain't disgraceful if it's all true.

Now get off my lawn.

[berni_mccoy]

42. And yet, McCain says nothing about Romney's returns and won't say that Harry Reid is wrong... hmmm.

[Doc Holliday]

43. I don't believe

that the man who gave us Caribou Barbie and the rest of the Klondike Kardashians is competent to criticize how others campaign.

Really.

[Katashi_itto]

44. Thus spake the fake war hero...

Wait wait, don't forget his killing 167 sailors aboard the USS Forrestal

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=119707

When I was serving aboard USS Whitney "Songbird" McCain showed up a couple of times, half the flag staff would always find other things to do rather than turn to to meet him. Had "other duties" they did

No one could stand him.

[lunatica]

45. When a Republican tells you your ads are disgraceful it's a real compliment

They know from disgraceful!

[obxhead]

46. The truth hurts.

Pointing out exactly what Romney has said and done isn't negative. It's pointing out the truth.

[adicortez]

47. Politics as usual

Political ads are always distortions and soundbites. Debates are where substance (or lack thereof) is displayed. Glad the ads are working though!! Obama/Biden 2012!