GOP Senator On President McCain: "Sends A Cold Chill Down My Spine"

Washington Post:

Many Senate Republicans, even those who have jousted with McCain in the past, say their reassessment is underway. Sensing the increasing likelihood that he will be the nominee, GOP senators who have publicly fought with him are emphasizing his war-hero background and playing down past confrontations.

"I forgive him for whatever disagreements he has had with me. We can disagree on things, but I have great admiration for him," said Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), a senior member of the Appropriations Committee who has often argued with McCain over government spending.

But others have outright rejected the idea of a McCain nomination and presidency, warning that his tirades suggest a temperament unfit for the Oval Office.

"The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine," Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), also a senior member of the Appropriations panel, told the Boston Globe recently. "He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."

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Comments

[Gary47]

Oh bull. They're just saying that so the moderates and independents will think it's okay to vote for him. The repubs love him just like they love george. Watch in November if you doubt me - but please don't wait that long to realize that these goons will try to manipulate you in every way possible.

[wmbear]

AT LEAST HE DOESN'T GIVE THEM...

A hot flash....

[PoliticalPolyanna]

Thad mean to say "McCain sends a chill down my back where my spine USE to be before I let Bush/Cheney/Rove and the GOP machine remove it".

[JAMES GORMAN]

SENATOR THAD COCHRAN OF MISSISSIPPI (i spelled it!!)
deserves the Linwood Avenue Gladiola Award (highest laurel In Kansas City for trying to garden in raunchy environs)--he has spoken what must be the chills, terror
and fear for John McCain ever entering the front door of
the White House under that huge lantern--a sanctuary
lamp to me until Bush blew it out.
McCain offers blood tears sweat gore and war/he voted against Medicare Part B which keeps me at 70 alive at the mercy of Pharmaceutic Giants financing
him--and a hundred years of Iraq as promised must
frighten not just Mississippi but every Arab who ever
glanced at a Crescent.
God spare us all--and Joe Liebermann is running along behind him ready to allow the Israeli lobby its
choice project--war with Iran. Thanks brothers of the
Judaeo-Christian "heritage" whatever that might mean. Gorman J.

[sufi0828]

Just about all the Senate Republicans worry me: cruel, stingy for others, no sense of compassion. Yes, they send a cold chill down my spine.

[realitytrumpsbull]

I think he's just another wallered-out politician with a firm lip-lock to the back of the miliscary...

[J.J. Hunsecker]

I like McCain, but he is just too old. There's no way he can withstand the exhausting physical demands of a presidential race. I predict a Romney/Hillary matchup-----picture two souless, unlikable robots in a boxing ring, spouting glib sound bites and taking mechanical punches at each other, sorta like the old kid's toy Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots. Who will be the one to get their block knocked off in November?

[condieshoes]

Well, if we have another 100 years of war with McCain, we've got to get the cannon fodder from somewhere don't we, mike 169? Oh, wait I forgot, illegal immigrants can't be drafted even though they vote.....curious set of circumstances eh?

The voting thing is why the drivers license is such a big issue with illegal immigrants and the GOP wanting to make drivers licenses akin to voter verfication.

You know, wars.....where do we get the folks to lay down their lives for wars of conquest and imperial USA.

[ObamaEdwards]

I know Barack Obama scares some voters. What "change" is he talking about, right? But Obama has never emptied your retirement account. He never sat on his front porch playing a guitar while you and your family waited for days on a rooftop in your ruined, flooded neighborhood to be rescued, only to slowly realize that no one was coming for you. In this great nation, with all our promise and all our power--no one was coming to help you.

Obama never gave you double talk about school vouchers and not leaving any child behind, while your child's school deteriorated beyond repair and your child's school could not afford books or sports equipment or musical instruments or decent lunches.

Obama didn't invade another country illegally and set up camp there and let thousands of young troops die without the basic armor they needed. He didn't give his friends license to set up companies in Iraq and make a fortune while our troops died all around them.

Bush did that. The Republican Party did that--to all of us. To even consider giving them the chance to do it again is crazy.

When Obama calls for change, he means change away from greed and hypocrisy and stealing and lying and screwing over the American family. He means change away from the interfering government of the Republicans, to a government whose resources SERVE US. He means change that will re-empower all of us, the American people, so that we will have our chance at the American Dream.

[SubparDude]

:
WAIT a minute, look what the London Times reports (why not in US press?):

"Mrs. McCain is a former Arizona rodeo beauty queen and daughter of a millionaire Phoenix businessman, Cindy McCain was 25 when she met her future husband at a cocktail party in Hawaii. John McCain was a 43-year-old naval liaison officer travelling with a congressional delegation, his sights already set on a political career.

He was also still married to his first wife Carol, although the couple had recently separated. Carol later attributed the breakdown of the marriage to "John turning 40 and wanting to be 25 again". McCain fell like a brick for Cindy, who was the heir to a brewery distribution business worth millions. For several years afterwards the McCains endured Washington gossip that he had dumped his first wife - who had been crippled in a car accident - in favour of a trophy bride to enhance his political ambitions.

It was in the late 1980s, after a series of miscarriages and giving birth to three children, that Cindy developed spinal problems and was prescribed painkillers after surgery. Her husband and family had no idea she was secretly taking pills stolen from a charity she had created called the American Voluntary Medical Team, which sent mobile surgical units to war zones. When federal agents began to investigate gaps in the charity"s records, Cindy telephoned her husband, a senator in Washington, and confessed."

--Sunday London Times, 2/3/08

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[richsmith]

One cannot deny that many of McCain's displays of rightful indignation have been accurately targeted, even if their delivery has been at times somewhat over the top. McCain is relatively honest, but also mad as a hatter. He will be completely unpredictable as a president. Democrats, independents, and progressives should also remember that McCain is essentially a right leaning Republican, capable above all else of appointing ultra-right Catholic judges to a Supreme Court that is already top heavy with them, and of willy-nilly starting a war with Iran that will drag the US deeper into debt and despondence. When it comes to the "war on terra", he's stranger than Doc Strangelove.

[Mike169]

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What the fuck is this about?

[Mike169]

I wonder what that chill is that the Repblican Senators feel. There's not a one of them with a spine to send a cold chill down.

[Y2KCockroach]

Yes, McCain is a hothead, and yes, that is going to make life difficult for anyone who has to work with him, BUT the idea that bandits such as Ted Stevens (how is that indictment coming along, by the way?) or that ideologues such as Rick Santorum should frame the debate are simply wrongheaded. McCain did right in fighting corruption and partisan zealotry in the Senate, and by doing so of course he was going to piss of the corrupt and overzealous within his party. I take that as a sign that McCain was doing something right through all of that time. Who else is complaining about McCain? Jack Abramoff? Duke Cunningham? Ralph Reed?

[Doofus]

Talk about 'Cold Chills' from Repos is all well & good, but when they click their heels & say 'National Security' three times, we are going to vote their ass back into the White House, $500B defense budget + $10T national debt or not.

When it gets down to it, Health Care doesn't matter, Deficits don't matter, Global Warming doesn't matter, Fraud & Incompetence doesn't matter. National Security *MATTERS*. Oh, and also gay marriage & flag burning. Wait, you'll see! It'll be almost like magic, with a little help from Karl R.