Tool McCain goes for the gay-baiting robocall in Florida

McCain's divorce

What a laugh.  Where is the "sanctity of marriage" in divorce.  While still married to Carol Shepp, a model from Philadelphia, McCain began an adulterous relationship with his present wife Cindy. He married Cindy in May 1980 -- just a month after dumping Carol and securing a divorce.  

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by: Dunkindonuts @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 12:58:20 PM CST

Link to McCain divorce

http://www.usvetdsp.com/mcaind...

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by: Dunkindonuts @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 13:01:32 PM CST

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of course they are

Are the Log Cabins going to line up behind McCain...of course they are.

Dunkin, thanks for th info about McCains sanity lite...didn't recall that.

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by: Karen in Kalifornia @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 13:13:49 PM CST

Pathetic

What I find most offensive about this crap from McCain is that in 2001 he was more than willing to celebrate the life and heroism of the gay man who helped bring down United 93, Mark Bingham. Bingham was a Republican, and IIRC, supported McCain in 2000 exactly because he wasn't a typical gay-baiting GOP asshat. McCain appeared at his funeral and praised Bingham, thanking him for saving the Senator and all those at the Capitol that day.

Truly despicable. Although, it would make for a great campaign ad against him.  

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by: CPT_Doom @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 14:00:24 PM CST

But you are, Blanche

Romney has treated social issues voters as fools

The GOP in general has treated voters as fools.  And a quarter of the population has fully acted the part.

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by: scioto @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 14:05:56 PM CST

Log Cabinettes are totally irrelevant

both to their own party, and to everyone else.

What a group - they could get together with Jews for Jesus and hold a sing-along :)

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by: tiponeill @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 14:28:16 PM CST

I machine-translated "Log Cabin Republican" into Thai and back again

...and it came out "Small Log House of Uncle Thomas."  

Here's what I find about compromise--
don't do it if it hurts inside,
'cause either way you're screwed,
eventually you'll find
you may as well feel good;
you may as well have some pride

--Indigo Girls

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by: Hypatia @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 17:56:47 PM CST

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Thai sweetness

I think their politics are just as dirty as ours, if not more so.  It's all about people getting power and having control over one another.  I am sick of it.

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by: Dunkindonuts @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 20:01:40 PM CST

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What's scary is

McCain could easily win the election. I know people who would consider voting for McCain over Clinton if they are the nominees, but would otherwise vote Democrat. Nothing I say can convince them otherwise.

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by: alexa @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 15:54:13 PM CST

I despite Romney's betrayals so much

that I was kind of rooting for McCain.  I admired McCain's praise of Mark Bingham as well as his "agents of intolerance" comment.

But now this.

Wow.

Talk about stooping.

The irony is that it makes McCain as sleazy and unprincipled as Romney.

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by: KC @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 16:21:04 PM CST

And the "special rights" comment

is a lie.  I am certain Romney never, ever said he would be a "stronger advocate for special rights."

I am on the verge of conniptions from even seeing that phrase "special rights" re-emerge.  Please, once again, what are special rights?

How does whomever writes this stuff sleep at night?

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by: KC @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 16:24:02 PM CST

We get no Federal benefits

Any group in America that is benefiting from and defending special rights for themselves, it's McCain, Romney and religious believers. Why do Christians favor restrictions on gays which they would never accept for themselves, such as being tax exempt.

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by: Dunkindonuts @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 17:26:49 PM CST

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Not Gay-Bashing

I've read the text and this is not gay-bashing but rather Mitt-bashing. If the Democratic Party nominee doesn't suit me, I'd be proud to vote for John McCain.

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by: Holly in Cincinnati @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 17:47:02 PM CST

Divergent perceptions

How do you interpret the two phrases in bold in the excerpt above?

My own interpretation is that the robo-call is Mitt-bashing that most definitely includes gay-bashing.

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by: KC @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 19:37:44 PM CST

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"I'd be proud to vote for John McCain"

I'm not a single-issue voter, but I would not be proud to back a man who supported Arizona's 2006 effort to ban same-sex marriage, and who continues to maintain that ..."open homosexuality within the military services presents an intolerable risk to morale, cohesion and discipline."

And as hard as it is to make generalities, I'm tending toward the belief that most anyone in his 70's is just too compromised by the vicissitudes of age to do this job properly.

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by: Pollyanna @ Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 13:19:49 PM CST

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earth to holly.

U might want to re-read that.
i think holly is usually pretty ok. what happened?

http://EQFL.org

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by: banshiii @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 22:15:34 PM CST

If history is any indicator,

and if McCain is the eventual nominee, you'll see him return to being more of a moderate after the primary season.  The rules being that you have to appeal to your base, in this case, the American Taliban community, and then you appeal to everyone else.

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by: Jon Michaels @ Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 22:51:46 PM CST

From Massachusetts

I'm all for anything to remove Mittens from the ticket.  This man will say anything to anyone.  He supposedly has no problem with any groups yet when the plantiffs in the Goodridge case met with him when he was trying to stop equal marriage in Mass, when he was asked "What do we tell our daughter?" he replied "Just tell her what you've been telling her before"  The man has no compassion for anyone and even dogs.

I don't always agree with McCain, however, I respect him.  I have no respect for Mitt.

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by: BB @ Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 08:50:14 AM CST