MoveOn: Pack your bags; McCain is deporting you

[babylonsister]

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/12898.html

MoveOn: Pack your bags; McCain is deporting you
Posted September 15th, 2007 at 2:10 pm


MoveOn’s “betray us” ad was condemned in conservative circles for its “strident” rhetoric, which some Republicans have decided to match with even more over-the-top language.

At a crowded rally at a VFW hall in Hudson, NH last night, McCain — again — used the MoveOn “Betray Us” ad as a emotional crowd-pleaser. It was a boisterous event, so when I thought I heard McCain call for MoveOn to be “thrown out” — and then be drowned out by applause, I first went to the campaign and asked what the candidate said. They were at a loss as well, but said it seemed highly unlikely that he’d call for something so harsh. (”It goes against everything he believes in.”)

Today, a colleague from CBS News with better equipment played a tape from the rally. McCain did, indeed, let his passions run ahead of the First Amendment. The tape is clear. He said:

“It’s disgraceful, it’s got to be retracted and condemned by the Democrats and MoveOn.org ought to be thrown out of this country, my friends.”

Got that? Disagree with the Bush administration policy, question the credibility of a General executing Bush administration policy, and you should no longer be welcome in the United States. Wow.

If MoveOn is shrill, what’s John McCain?

[peacebird]

1. k&r - is it facism yet? It is far closer at least than I ever dreamed I would experience in America

[sandyd921]

2. OK then, what's good for the goose is good for the gander...

let's also throw out the Swift Boat crowd!

[Bitwit1234]

3. And fox and rush and malkin and drudge ---

I could go on for ever but you all know who I mean.

[babylonsister]

6. No, the rules only apply to liberals and progressives. nt

[opihimoimoi]

4. Is this all they got...to piont, denigrate? What about the Issues? WTF?

[babylonsister]

13. Ghouliani is doing the same thing; the important issues are irrelevant. nt

[rusty quoin]

5. McCain ain't the guy he use to be.

[KAZ]

7. If he really said that, then he should be a marked man.

As in fucking bulls-eye. I can't believe he said it.

[babylonsister]

9. McCain To MoveOn: Get Out

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/14/politics/main3262322.shtml

McCain To MoveOn: Get Out
Senator Blasts Anti-War Group In New Hampshire

(CBS) Arizona Senator John McCain has taken criticism of anti-war group MoveOn.org to a whole new level: He is suggesting that the organization “ought to be thrown out of this country.”

The liberal advocacy group angered Republicans earlier this week with a full-page ad in the New York Times criticizing Gen. David Petraeus as he prepared to testify before Congress. The ad, which asserted that Petraeus was “cooking the books” on the situation in Iraq carried the headline, “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?”

Republicans condemned the ad and the party’s presidential candidates have taken it up as a cause on the campaign trail. The campaign of Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani took out its own ad in the Times criticizing MoveOn and tying the organization to Hillary Clinton. McCain has begun carrying a blown-up, laminated poster of the MoveOn ad to his campaign stops.

And speaking at an event in Hudson, New Hampshire last night, CBS News’ Dante Higgins reports he once again displayed the ad and said: “It’s disgraceful, it’s got to be retracted and condemned by the Democrats, and MoveOn.org ought to be thrown out of this country.”

Today, the McCain campaign clarified the senator’s comments for CBS News. “Senator McCain, like most Americans, is appalled by the MoveOn.org ad. Last night he expressed his outrage in words that did not convey his intended meaning. What he meant to say was that MoveOn's smear of General Petraeus' character should have no place in the American political debate.”

[KAZ]

11. Okay then. I stand by my words. Thanks Sis. n/t

[babylonsister]

12. Anytime! nt

[rucky]

18. Are you sure he didn't say...

"Get off my lawn, you no-good whipper-snappers!"

[DaveJ]

22. Note his campaign's clarification

A campaign spokesperson clarified that he just spoke out of emotion, and that he didn't mean Moveon should leave the country, that they should just "have no place in the American political debate."

In other words, just leave Americans out of electoral process.

Notice, that's their well-thought clarification. Okay... that's much better.

:sarcasm:

[Sukie1941]

8. McCain, like Rudy,

has nothing better to work on concerning his campaign than bashing the MoveOn "Betray Us" ad.

How sad, with all the issues of far more importance, that these losers (and they will be) presidential candidates can spend even a minute on this bashing.

[BlooInBloo]

10. It's been proven time and again that republicans hate America.

[Swamp Rat]

14. McCain is Insane in the Membrane

:kick:

[old guy]

15. Can he possibly become less relevant?

[DaveJ]

16. I doubt "most Americans" are "appalled"...

At worst, some might think the ad is a little over the top, but "appalled" is stretching it. Republicans are making a big mistake if they think carrying giant laminated poster of the ad will help them.

It is a mistake to think Americans will consider anyone above criticism, only because they selected military careers and then rose up the ranks to live comfortable lives -- something most Americans don't have and never will.

[rucky]

17. Will I get a free ticket to Ireland?

where can I leave him my phone number?

[globalvillage]

19. All 3 million members?

Because if it's that easy to move 3 million liberals out of the country, bringing the troops home should be a cakewalk.

[moondust]

20. Dear Johnny Boy,

The Holy General became a "Bushie" sometime before 2004 when he published an article that effectively endorsed Bush's reSelection. That's why everyone in the Bushco crime family exalted him as the genius and final arbiter on Iraq. They all knew he was a Bushie! As such he's fair game.

His testimony may directly affect his own career, reputation, and future, creating a clear conflict of interest, and as such it should have never been made into a public circus. So who was mainly responsible for that? Bushies!

If Bush had any credibility of his own he wouldn't have to deceptively use his subordinates in uniform to sell his bullshit. But he did. And I did not hear any complaints from the general about being used as a front man. Ha!

Besides, Mr. McBush, you haven't even succeeded in deporting all that Swiftboat riffraff yet. Let us know when you get that done.

Xap

[tyedyeto]

21. It's ... 'America, Love it or Leave it' .... all over again

Didn't work then and it's not going to work now.

Fuck you, McCain, one of the 2 Senators from my state, sad to say.

[Akoto]

23. I'm still shocked that I once liked/respected McCain.

These last few years have really revealed his true colors to me. Apparently, I was quite ignorant.

[babylonsister]

24. You're not alone; I did once upon a time, too. He sold himself,

his family, and Americans out for political aspirations. It's sad.

[Downtown Hound]

27. You're far from alone on that

I always admired what seemed to me at the time to be his strong stance against lobbying. But now there are times when he seems even more dangerous than Bush, because he's just as callous but a hell of a lot smarter.

[Bluebear]

25. Hippy's MOVE TO FRANCE!!!

[Cheap_Trick]

26. asshat should have remained a guest at the hanoi hilton

fucking fascist prick

[babylonsister]

28. Well, your chaos and anarchy are working! Good cheer, not so much. nt