McCain: Daughter Says How Could You Support Bush!

[JPZenger]

Senator John McCain is quoted in this week's Life magazine about his daughter Meghan's reaction to McCain campaigning for Bush:

"I received a voicemail . "Dad, how could you? I've never been so angry at you. How could you embarrass me this way? None of my friends will speak to me. I'm so mad at you. I can't talk anymore. Click."

[popstalin]

1. Just because McCain is campaigning

Doesn't mean he'll cast his vote Bush's way! Obviously his daughter won't be.

[magnolia]

8. So what!

Who cares about McCain's single vote. How many votes is he getting for Bush with all the back patting and support!

He is either completely spineless, being threatened or looking for a 2008 run himself.

[DemDogs]

52. 2008 and nothing but

If he stuck with Kerry or even stayed neutral, the Republicans would never ever nominate him (might not anyway), but his best chance is to be the loyalist. It is all about 2008.

[Jacobin]

23. You are one of the funniest posters on DU

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You ARE kidding, right? right?

[liberal N proud]

36. True, but he has been seen with the shrimp too many times

Thursday he was on the news from AIR 1 with shrub's arm around him while sjrub talked to reporters.
He did not look like he wanted to be there, he kept looking up and rolling his eyes and sighing.
I thought, If you don't want to be there then buy your own ticket.
The bush's must have something on this man.

[delete_bush]

41. I saw that too... it was

priceless. One of those picture/1000 words moments.

[DeaconBlues]

2. Funny

I wonder the same thing every time I see him on the tube.

[still_one]

is there a link

if this is true his daughter is right

[PA Democrat]

11. Can't access the article on line

But here is the cover of the current issue:



http://www.life.com/Life/

[SidDithers]

19. mmmm, Tina Fey...be still my heart...nt

Sid

[Borgnine]

35. Back off. I saw her first.

Although I hope she washed her hands after touching McCain.

[LynnTheDem]

3. We'd all like to know, too.

Especially after the incredible crap bush pulled on McCain in 2000.

[CBHagman]

43. Good point, LynntheDem.

During the primaries in 2000, especially the run-up to the South Carolina primary, the Bush team went after McCain especially hard, and it was mind-numbingly sleazy -- lies about his family, his sex life, his stance on breast cancer research, etc.

Many of us at DU have wondered aloud whether the Bushes have something on McCain which forces him to get on board. What did the Bushes do, hold one of the McCain children hostage or something? The authors of a book on Karl Rove and Bush suggest that it's loyalty to the party and that of course McCain and Bush despise each other.

Anyway, Mark Leibovich's article from today's Washington Post finally captures the viciousness of Bush-Cheney rally crowds in a way no article has previously done. And look how they treat McCain.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33624-2004Oct14.html

[fujiyama]

4. Is this for real?

THat's great. His daughter has some dignity, unlike her father. McCain is a pathetic fool. He sold out his family for the love of his party members...

Either he's been promised something great, or he's a freakin masochist.

[noonwitch]

9. I always wonder if the Bushes have some type of dirt on him

Or on someone in his family, that they are holding over his head. He always looks so uncomfortable whenever he's with Bush.

Good for his daughter! And good for him for mentioning it to "Life".

[Pattib]

24. I think he may have made a deal with the "DEVIL" (bush)..I'll support you

but when your term is up you have to support me. Face it, Cheney is not going to run...I actually wish he would. Bob Dole all over again, yet worse. I am disgusted with John McCain. He sold his soul to the rethugs.

[lolly]

48. If so, he's a sucker.

AWOL doesn't support anybody but himself. If McCain is counting on him to reciprocate, he's too stupid to be a senator.

[snippy]

54. Very true. Bush will not even consider supporting McCain in 2008. n/t

[Cha]

59. I think it is utterly amazing that he talks about

this..that is the real story here, imv.

How freakin' embarrassing for bush..I think!

[RubyDuby in GA]

5. That's exactly how I feel about him too

Wow...I do have something in common with a Republican after all. Although, she doesn't sound like she's been drinking their kool-aid.

[endnote]

6. McCain looks like a whore

I hope he is sabotaging GW underneath...

[Dawgs]

7. Be careful...

You may be accused for being the "scum of the earth" for making a comment about his daughter.

[LizW]

10. Would that be the daughter whose parentage and race were

slandered by the Bushistas in 2000? If so, I hope she never speaks to McCain again -- well, except to call him a craven Bush boot-licker maybe.

[fujiyama]

14. No

This is his older daughter. I think she was like 14 or something in '00.

She's probably in HS now or in college.

[King Coal]

12. No, this is his way of giving a message against Bush, and remain

or appear to remain loyal to his party. He is going to be a contender in 2008.

[pacalo]

16. I agree. I'd be willing to bet that when he steps into the voting booth

he'll select KERRY.

[Child_Of_Isis]

13. Really! How could he?

And go home and look his family in the face every evening? If it was my husband, and the father of my child, be she adopted or not... his life would be most miserable at this point. It gives me great pleasure when I reflect on the possibility of this scenario. Which is probably the case. You don't walk all over a Mother's child without dire consequences.

[stubertmcfly]

15. i feel the same way

i thought mccain had some dignity and served a higher purpose. no, i didn't agree with him on many issues but he seemed to stand for more than partisan politics. once he started his bush support, i lost all respect for the man. and sent him a letter to that effect.

where once i might have considered voting for him and even considered the rumors of him being kerry's running-mate an interesting if not supportable idea, i WILL NEVER vote for mccain.

[GRLMGC]

17. I'm surprised he admitted this n/t

[Neecy]

18. ahhhh, the 'Great Uniter' strikes again

This scenario has been played out in families all over America. Thanks to the right-wing, this country is more fractured, more divided, more hostile to the other side - and yet, our Fearful Leader didn't have one positive solution to healing this divide in the third debate. If anything, his current campaign tactics are widening it. After all, I'm a liberal and I'm SICK TO DEATH of being smeared for it by the so-called POTUS.

McCain, welcome to the America you're helping create by working for this evil man. Eat shit.

[in_cog_ni_to]

20. I agree with his daughter and she SHOULD be upset!

LOOK at what the chimp did to McCain in the 2000 primary. Yesterday I saw a news clip of the chimp, Mrs. stepford, John McCain and his wife, walking out of a restaurant in AZ and Mrs. McCain actually put her arm around the Bush's for a photo op! SICK! Those people tried to destroy her and her husband and now they're all kissy face? :puke: Totally disgusting. I feel sorry for McCain's daughter. I would be embarrassed too.

[foo_bar]

22. "keep your friends close and your enemies closer"

[JI7]

21. I hear his son hates Bush also

Meghan is old enough to vote so that's at least one McCain vote for Kerry.

[fujiyama]

29. I would assume

that his wife will also vote for Kerry considering Rove smeared her (didn't they talk about her addiction to pain killers?).

McCain is one sad, pathetic politician.

[speedoo]

25. F*** McCain.

This is just his attempt at trying to have it both ways.

Sorry, but I'm not buying it and he will never get my vote, and I will always work against him.

[helpisontheway]

26. McCain is a whore

nt

[ciaobox]

27. Blast this quote across the universe.

[KC21304]

28. Did you see Bush yesterday hanging around McCain's

neck ? You could see McCain wanted to climb in a hole, and if he is going to continue to let Bush do this, I wish he would.

[Doosh]

30. when your family is on you like this...

I mean, how can McCain go on with this charade supporting Bush?

[LuminousX]

31. Hey McCain, good reason to pull a Darth Vader conversion

and come back to the Light Side of the Force.

Just say you were woken up to the truth by your family. Ahh, what am I saying, you fucking puke shill. I lost all respect for McCain awhile ago.

[HootieMcBoob]

32. He raised a smart girl

she has a spine and self respect. Her father seems to have misplaced his somewhere along the line.

[cmf]

33. They must have something really good on him

after what they did to him in 2000, I can't imagine even the whoriest whore campaigning for them now. It has to be blackmail.

[mcg]

34. He's a bad person for outing his daughter as a L...

Librul

[Buck Rabbit]

37. You guys just don't understand McCain!!

In 2000 Kkkarl Rove snipped off McCain's balls and presented them to * as a trophy. * keeps then in a little traveling case in a back holster.

If McCain tolls the line * has promised to give them back after the election. The funny look on McCain's face when when he sits behind Bush at rallies and stares at the the lump in the jacket containing the missing jewels is ... well its pretty pathetic actually.

[hippiegranny]

38. I just found out that my fave restaurant in Phx

was contaminated by the Shrub, thanks to McCain. While here for the final debate the McCains and the Bushes had dinner at Richardson's, my ONCE favorite restaurant here. Bastards.

[Eurobabe]

39. yeah McCain looks real comfortable

George put your arm down, the war's over (NOT!)

[Princess Turandot]

50. I wonder if it has something to do with his wife..

in addition to being addicted to prescription medications, was she obtaining them illegally? I know she did not go to jail, but wonder if she had been on probation and did something to violate that.

[northzax]

40. don't buy the McCain hype

Anyone remember the Savings and Loan scandal? hmm?


McCain is screwed. He has supported Bush enough, now that he knows it's a losing cause, he can't go back on it. His whole thing is based on 'honesty' and he can't say, now "Bush is a weenie" Plus, if Kerry wins, and the Dems take the Senate, you think John McCain will have any power at all? he's hitched his Star to Bush, and he's power hungry enough to ride it on down.

[Leilani]

42. Funny, how everyone here hates McCain

But Kerry & Edwards mention him every chance they get.

Kerry referred to him in the last debate, as McCain was seated in the front row.

Maybe Kerry & Edwards know something you all don t.

[tjdee]

46. They're trying to get middle of the roaders--but McCain is a mess.

Not everyone follows politics as much as we do.

This is a man whose DAUGHTER was maligned by the Bush people.
And he continues to kiss Bush's ass.

The GOP wants to bitch about Mary Cheney, I wish McCain would say something about when HIS young child was talked about by his own party. But he won't. He's got problems.

[autorank]

44. At least he did one thing right in his life! The good daughter.

[grace0418]

45. Well, McCain must've done SOMETHING right

He may be a politcal whore but he raised a smart daughter.

[Pithy Cherub]

47. It would be most excellent,

if-when the entire McCain family voted for Kerry!

[Bongo Prophet]

49. It wouldn't surprise me if McCain was supporting Bush

to keep harm from that very daughter.

"Nice looking family there. Be a shame if something happened to them."

I'm just sayin'...

[Logansquare]

51. Moby is friends with Sid McCain and was quoted as saying

that Sid said that his dad actually hates Bush.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/225425p-193615c.html

[JI7]

58. he sure looked disgusted with Bush last i saw them together

[Malva Zebrina]

53. McCain is no Jeffords

He has sold his soul to the party even though that party has attacked his family. Obviously, the "party" deserves more of his loyalty than his own family. He is really a screwed up, pathetic man.

There is no respect in my mind for McCain.

He lacks the ability to get in touch with his soul, regardless of the consequences. He is just another spin doctor for the liar Bush and would put Bush ahead of his own wife and his children.

[snippy]

55. Unlike McCain, Jeffords put his country ahead of his party.

McCain knows perfectly well that Bush is a foul piece of filth and a miserable failure as president. But McCain has chosen to sacrifice all personal honor and integrity, and even refuse to defend his wife and children, just for the sake of political power. McCain is a failure as a Senator, as a husband, as a father, and as a man.

[Disturbed]

56. McCain and Bush despise each other

[snippy]

57. Understandable since both are despicable people. n/t

[Chelsea Patriot]

62. McCain's Bi..Doing Daddy and Daughter..

[Erika]

61. Agreed. McCain Knew Bush Attacked His Family...

but he still supports him (although regularly knifing Bush in the Back). Probably a psychological syndrome of 5 years as a POW.

[deadparrot]

60. I really feel for her.

That's really gotta suck.

"Well, honey, I know the guy inferred that you were the product of an illicit biracial affair, but...I really want this nomination..."

[secular_warrior]

63. McCain has no integrity-even his own daughter has no respect for him.(NT)