McCain gets bitch-slapped on taxes by Club for Growth, WSJ. Folds like a cheap suit!

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Whatever happened to the "Straight Talk Express?" McCain has gone from the 'maverick' to a full bore 'panderer,' who runs scared and folds at the first sign of criticism from the far right crowd--even stoops to having a plant (a little girl, no less) ask him if he'll raise taxes in a townhall yesterday. Pathetic!

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/mccain-no-new-taxes-redux/

July 30, 2008, 2:49 pm

McCain: No New Taxes (Redux)

By Michael Cooper
John Mccain - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog

AURORA, Colo. – Senator John McCain, whose recent suggestion that an increase in the Social Security payroll tax would not be off the table infuriated some fiscal conservatives, sought to reassure people here Wednesday that he opposes tax increases.

“I want to look you in the eye: I will not raise your taxes nor support a tax increase,’’ he said here Wednesday at a town-hall-style meeting at the Wagner Company, a Caterpillar dealer. “I will not do it.’’

Mr. McCain has been attracting criticism from the right ever since he said that “nothing’s off the table” when he was asked Sunday on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” whether raising payroll taxes would be an option for Social Security.

Pat Toomey, the president of the Club for Growth, an influential anti-tax group, called the statement “shocking” and issued an open letter to Mr. McCain asking him to clarify his stance and to “reaffirm your commitment to eschew all tax increases.” And an editorial in The Wall Street Journal called Mr. McCain’s statement a “blunder,’’ and added that: “Such mistakes also help explain the continued lack of enthusiasm for Mr. McCain among many conservatives.’’

Mr. McCain has resisted being drawn out in any detail on what he things should be done to shore up Social Security, except to call for convening a bipartisan group to fashion a solution. At his meeting Wednesday, he criticized his Democratic rival, Senator Barack Obama, for supporting raising the payroll tax on high earners.

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1. What a big ol' manly MAVERICK! he is.

I may swoon.

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2. Grandpa Grumpy campaign is showing desperation--hoping that negative, untrue ads will work.

The media is certainly doing its part to run this tripe. It's been on MSNBC all day long--beginning with "Morning Jerk," of course.

Negative ads do often work, particularly with a voting public as uninformed as ours. Let's hope they "can't get fooled again," as George W. Bush once said.

"Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." Geroge W. Bush

We will see.

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3. When Obama is president..

mccain can go back to the Senate and hide his head in the cloak room while Obama presides.

This is still July..mccain will keep the lies going until November.

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5. Karl Rove lives! Time to lock him up on contempt charges in the Capitol Hill jail!

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4. that ain't nuttin' but the viagra talking. nt

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6. LOL!

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7. The Straight Talk Express morphed into the Forked Tongue Rocking Chair. nt

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8. Ha! Good one!