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McCain to Me in 1999: Bush "As Dumb as a Stump"

Posted May 9, 2008 | 06:01 PM (EST)

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As a lawyer might say (OK, I am one), I have no personal knowledge of whether John or Cindy McCain voted for George W. Bush in the 2000 election. However, now that that has been called into question by Arianna Huffington (who says no) and Huffington's truthfulness has in turn been questioned by the McCain campaign (although not yet by the McCains), I can offer the following anecdote as admissible hearsay shedding a little light on the subject:

Over the Fourth of July weekend of 1999, I had the good fortune to accompany my then fiancée (and now happily my wife) to the McCain vacation home in Sedona where she was interviewing them for a Home and Garden Television show. The interview itself was entirely apolitical, focusing on fabrics and furnishing in their lovely Oak Creek abode, topics about which I do recall the senator was less than comfortable discussing.

Always the goods hosts, the McCains also invited us to spend the day with them, including for barbeque, a favorite of John's. And as McCain flipped burgers, I could not help but ask his views about then candidate George W. Bush.

"He's as dumb as a stump," McCain offered. We then went on to discuss other matters (including Vietnam) but that quote remains seared in my memory.

So how the McCains actually voted that November is between them and their voting booth. But if John McCain did end up voting for Bush, then by his own admission he voted for a stump.



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collapse MSMBlowTorch See Profile I'm a Fan of MSMBlowTorch

AWESOME!! Thank you.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:52 PM on 05/13/2008
collapse Tator See Profile I'm a Fan of Tator

IF Bush is so stupid....How has he kicked Liberals butts at every turn?

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:36 PM on 05/12/2008
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If you ask Europeans that, they will simply tell you that stupid Americans voted for Bush.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:08 PM on 05/13/2008
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With bribes, lies, and false patriotism. All you have to do is wave the American flag and a very large number of people will do anything you ask them to. They imagine this demonstrates a love for their country, but it only demonstrates fanaticism. If you really loved your country you'd look at what the Republicans have done to America, admit it's a mess, and vote for someone else. If Republican policies worked, we should be in tall cotton after seven years of total Republican rule. Instead we're going down the tubes in every way. That's all you need to know. The Iraq War is completely Bush's making. Every reason he gave was a complete lie. Now we're stuck there, bleeding and bankrupt. Any rational president would do all he/she could to keep the nation OUT of war. Bush ignored every lesson of history and happily plunged in. McCain should know better, he actually served in Viet Nam, but his pride is typical, he learned nothing from Viet Nam. He's as stupid as Bush is, just in a different way.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:16 PM on 05/13/2008
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Because the people who voted for him twice see themselves in him. STUPID!!

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:53 PM on 05/13/2008
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Do you think that things have been bad with eight years of George Bush or stump brain as you call him? I am glad that it wasn"t eight years of Al Gore and his idea of using our food for fuel or eight years of John Kerry who said that our military is brainless and that is why they are in Iraq fighting our war. Four years of Jimmy Carter was bad enough. Global warming started during his administration while burning the American flag all over the world. Mr. President Peace Carter the whole world laughed at us. Guess what, we are not going to have eight years of Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton either. I am confident that the citizens of our nation will do what they are suppose to do when they cast their ballot during a presidential election by voting for honesty, integrity, experience, good judgment and patriotism. If they remember to vote for the person best qualified and not for politicians empty promises, we will have eight years of John McCain.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:30 PM on 05/12/2008
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Will be just as stupid as they were 4/8 yrs ago. Maybe some will but the repulicans can not cheat and not count votes like they did 4 yrs ago. Scalia says get over it, so you will just have to suck it up that you voted for a stump and he had to cheat to win.....

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:48 PM on 05/13/2008
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Do I think things are bad after 8 years of Bush ? YES YES YES YES YES - He totally blew our national budget surpluses, sunk us into two unwinnable wars, gave everything to his rich friends and drove us into the poor house ! He's completely polarized the world against us, he's been beligerant and arrogant, he's lied about everything he's ever done. We'd be in MUCH BETTER SHAPE if Al Gore had been president, and if you valued honesty, integrity, experience, good judgement and patriotism, you could not POSSIBLY vote for John "sell out" McCain, who stupidly cannot understand the disaster that is the Iraq War, who doesn't know a Sunni from a Shiite, and who needs Joe Lieberman to lead him through the Middle East by the hand. And that's a disaster, too since Lieberman leads him right to Israel's rear end, which they both kiss, leading to more hatred of the U.S.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:29 PM on 05/13/2008
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Projecting eight years of McSame: ten thousand dead. U.S. debt: 30 TRILLION. Yeah, that's just what this country needs...

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:02 PM on 05/13/2008
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Makes you question the "judgement thingy" huh!

He could have put this to bed by saying "I didn't and so
what!...they went after my family and it's blood before
politics ok skipper!'

Or something maverick like that!

No big deal! More than half the country doesn't like GW any way!
NEXT!

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:15 AM on 05/12/2008
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In the pinball game of life, George Bush's flippers are a little farther apart than most, that's all!

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:10 AM on 05/12/2008
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Yes, but his daddy had a permanent bumper installed right in between said flippers, ensuring the ball continues in play long after the time Georgie's quarter should have bought him.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:53 AM on 05/12/2008
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Bush has given Americans what they want--more weapons, more bombers, more military bases, more war than anybody else. Because when the whole world knows you're an asshole, you have to have the means to protect yourself.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:59 PM on 05/11/2008
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Hey, I ordered some fries too but I didn't get that. What gives?

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:57 PM on 05/13/2008
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If Bush is so stupid then why did McCain stick his nose so firmly up his posterior?

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:33 PM on 05/11/2008
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Are you sure McCain wasn't doing a self evaluation?

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:39 PM on 05/11/2008
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That's it? That's the whole story?

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:10 PM on 05/11/2008
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That is not the whole story, you're right. W is also corrupt. Put dumb and corrupt together and you have the last eight beyond belief miserable years. Of course, had W a brain in his head, things would be way worse. Dumb as a door nob, at least even Joe Sixpack eventually came to realize that King Shrub has no clothes.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:31 PM on 05/11/2008
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Voted for a "Stump?" I thought they all voted for a "CHIMP!" Oh well, potato, potahto...

Wilbur

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 07:12 PM on 05/11/2008
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Many, many people voted for a stump. The European headlines in 2004 said it best - "Can 55 Million Americans be That Stupid?" (Not a perfect quote, but I'm too lazy to go look it up.)

Additionally, many people voted for someone as smart as a can of cat food (Bush), as smart as a rock (Bush), as smart as a bump on a log (Bush), ....

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:21 PM on 05/11/2008
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"How can 59,054,07 people be so DUMB?"

DAILY MIRROR, Thursday, November 4, 2004

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/V/_/bush_daily_mirror_dumb_people.jpg

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:57 PM on 05/11/2008
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.....because a plurality/majority of Americans salivate at anyone who strokes their not-very-latent cultural NARCISSISM!

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:09 PM on 05/12/2008
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McCain and Clinton (Hillary) ambition to be the president is more intensely manipulative, position changing, and pandering than in any campaign I can remember. Perhaps it is the internet and 24/7 cable news that makes this so incredibly apparent. It is sort of like the slogans that are constantly repeated, eg, the "Day One" thing that we have heard ad nauseum. I suppose the thought is by these candidates is that it is being heard for the first time by at least two people? I think that they really do not see how we see what they are doing. Or they have the attitude that they are speaking to the masses who have no political acumen.

Bush is dumb as a stump but McCain gives him will a big old kiss for all of the world to see, photographed so that nobody could ever forget it. I believe Arianna about his not voting for Bush; he probably wrote himself in. It is enough to make a person wonder if there is anyone in government that does not do things that are politically expedient.

I think Obama sees this, knows this is the game, tries to do it as little as possible, and really wants to clean up this ugliness that has gripped our government.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 05:29 PM on 05/11/2008
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Hasn't Cindy McCain also nixed Jeb Bush for her old man's running mate?

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 05:22 PM on 05/11/2008
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dammit! many of you beat me to the " Stumps are insulted" routine!

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:24 PM on 05/11/2008
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McCain clearly upholds Stumpy's war policies now, always did, and apparently they just disagree on the strategics of war, not whether or not they should do something so stupid in the first place.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:59 PM on 05/11/2008
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I think Mr. McCain is being unfair to stumps everywhere. At least a real stump was once a valuable contributor in its own way.

Bush doesn't even have that going for him.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:55 PM on 05/11/2008
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Bush has logged more hours in the "not-responsible-for-anything-because-I'm-a-C-student; wouldn't-you like-to-have-a beer-with-me" political fallout shelter than he ever did in his deserted Alabama National Guard aircraft trainer. Bush knows when to turn it on and off (watch some pre-2000 political campaign tapes), but I do agree that he probably has some kind of learning/cognitive disability and perhaps brain damage from excessive alcohol and drug use. He might even be on some self-prescribed medications now. One thing is certain - he ain't no genius nor is he a nice person.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:49 PM on 05/11/2008
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"Bush is as dumb as a stump?"

According to The Congressional Quarterly, McCain supported Bush in 95% of his votes.

Hence, McCain only uses 5% of his brain.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:07 AM on 05/11/2008
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GW Bush ,FOR SURE is DUMB AS A STUMP

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:39 PM on 05/11/2008
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Here we have another shining example of the inherant flaws of the electoral college and the two party system!
This country has suffered through incompetant after incompetant as it's cheif executive and commander in cheif since J.F.K.!Why?because they are placed in power by an extremely archaic election system coupled with a public that is uninformed and educationaluly chalanged in selecting an individual to the most powerful and most fraught with peril position in the world.
I am convinced the public as a whole is incapable of electing a cheif executive and commander in cheif,not to also mention the architect of the most influential foreign policy on the planet.Yet we continue to do so by nothing more than a popularity contest.
The rest of the"free world"after many errors has found the most intelegent way to elect a leader is through a parliamentary Democracy,where a Prime minister is picked to form a coalition government by an elected parliament (or privy councel,diet,knesset,whatever name you want to use)this leader or prime minister can be replaced by parliament through a vote of "no confidense",rather than allow him/her to continue colossal blunders until the end of his term.
Alas we will not learn the errors of our ways until we become bankrupt,something that is comming closer and closer to inevitability.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:52 AM on 05/11/2008
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Senator, I served with a stump, I knew a stump; a stump was a friend of mine. George Bush, you're no stump.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:35 AM on 05/11/2008
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Correct. gwb is a knot-hole.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:11 PM on 05/11/2008
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Makes you wonder what his price was to convert to being a bUshite, or, if he was so clearly contemptuous of bUsh - then what does the "party" have on him, for his flip flop does require an explanation?!

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:34 AM on 05/11/2008
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His price is a shot at the Presidency.

Lincoln said something about the horrendous ambition that takes hold over an individual when he/she thinks the Presidency is a possibility.

McCain's ambition has taken over his common sense.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:26 AM on 05/11/2008