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McCain showed how limp-wristed and malleable he is with the Palin pick, and his railing against his own policies, stances, proposals and bills - and now, in order to keep his upper position within the GOP, he needs to continue saying things he doesn't believe.
I have no doubt that McCain is at a point where he never thought he'd be: he's become the type of politician that the younger McCain hated: ultra partisan, using lie upon lie upon lie to make his arguments, and regardless of the public's choice via elections: he fights whomever his masters have told him to fight.
I bet he cries himself to sleep, terrifies at how manipulated he has become.
And to the unsympathetic political observer: he's a laughing stock.
It's going to be interesting to see whether Steele continues to allow the GOP to be driven by the far right.
If he does, he's simply allowing the traditional republicans who voted for Obama last election, to switch sides entirely.
And I'm sure he'll be proud of himself for sticking to what he calls principles - and the rest of us consider gutlessness.
I hope my fellow Arizonans join me and vote his a/s/s out of office.
'New' Partisan Style?. If you look at McCain's votes during GW's reign you'll see that his independence has always been a media myth.
This is a broken man, looking for relevance.
Partisanship for John McCain means havingno ideas and staying by the wayside and criticzing everything without coming through with anything new. Whata silly old man he is and what a political coward.
McCain you have already been discovered to be at the very least incompetent, at the very most a fraud.
I hope you and the GOP continue on your current path, it will continuously demonstrate to the people of tthis country just how severly out of touch the GOP is with the people of this country.
McCain never has and never will be bipartisan, go away please.
Irrelevant
after mccain's campaign for president, i can't imagine that anyone could possibly consider him to be bipartisan. who cares what he thinks?
All about John. John, John, John--no mention of the people of Arizona.
he's not worried about them his wife has 100 million dollars he could care less
Let's see, didn't McCain vote over 95% with all of the Bush policies? (that's bipartisan?)
Didn't Bush start with a hefty surplus and end in an economic collapse?
Didn't McCain support and promote the useless Trillion Dollar war in Iraq?
Didn't McCain say he wasn't too swift when it comes to the economy? And thought the economy was
fundamently sound?
Isn't Phil Gramm, the deregulation Guru that caused the meltdown, McCain's advisor?
Didn't we try tax cuts for the past 8 years and end up in utter economic failure?
Didn't McCain lose this past election (in a big way) promoting the usual Republican policies?
So, why is anyone listening to McCain on this go around? And why does Lindsey Graham have
to watch over McCain everywhere he goes?
Why don't the Democrats just do the right thing and stop this Republican scheme to ruin Obama?
Yep.
True that!
All republicans are beginning to see that the election loss was a total failure from stem to stern. They cannot find someone else to blame. At first McCain thought that he would be able to lead the republican side of bipartisanship. Then he found out that there wasn't going to be any republican bipartisan
"Partisan style"="Bitter old coot holding a sore-loser grudge style"
LOL!
Sadly true.
McCain and his Republican Croonies still do not see the picture for the old cob webbs persisting in their brains. He and his friends do not have a clue on the middle class hardships and what a foreclousure, and loosing their jobs, with nothing to fall back on, does to the spirit of the American people. They are from the Bush era and will remain in the same thinking frame of 30 years ago. They are a pitiful lot of representatives of the American people and I have no doubt come the next election, they will be retiring at home trying to figure out where they went wrong. Out of all the Republicans in the Senate only 3 had the guts to stand up and know what is the best for our future and this country, to those 3, I tip my hat to you and know you will remain in office when all is said and done for the economy of our country. You 3 have a vision which the other Republicans do not. McCain and his croonies only want self gratification and their egos to swell to match the size of their peanut sized brains. I will be watching to see how they perform going forward with President Obama's Recovery package for the poor and middle class people.
McCain has a chip on his shoulder!
and a head up his @ss.
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Los Angeles Times | Janet Hook | February 7, 2009 02:30 PM