I like branding McCain as a coward, especially a moral coward.

Moral coward = shameless publicity whore, sellout on reform and torture, Bush toady for power.

Moral coward ---> (democrats are not moral cowards, by contrast) ---> reality based, troop support (get out of Iraq, etc.), fairness, security (especially ports), clean up Washington (public campaign financing).

I've been working on a long post between Koufax crises on McCain's serious failures as Chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee.  Tribes used to think of him as an ally - now he is derisively termed the "Great White Father" for his autocratic behavior and attacks on tribal sovereignty.

But what should concern non-Indians the most (since most Indian issues just don't resonate with even Dems) is that McCain openly promised to protect his Republican Senate and House peers before starting the Abramoff hearings last year.  In all of the hundreds of Abramoff emails released, all the names of Congressmen were redacted, even in cases that it was clear they were involved in questionable activities, such as private fundraising dinners with Abramoff tribal clients and oil&gas industry lobbyists.  

McCain said that he would only investigate how Abramoff got the tribes' money, not where it went.

He's now using the Abramoff scandal in a frontal attack on tribal sovereignty, despite the fact that only six out of 562 tribes were clients of Greenberg Traurig.  He hopes to use such "reforms" as another feather in his war bonnet, to take to American voters to prove he can even be independent from his purported "friends" in Indian Country.  It's something more non-Indians need to watch closely, as few people listen to the alarms us Injuns have been raising for years.

Mc.Cain is pandering to the fundie right wing wackos. Remember South Carolina in 2000? He certainly does.

probably goes a long way to boost McCains image. I bet he so figured that it would destroy the Democratic party fundraising that it was safe for him to hook up with Feingold on the bill.

But you have to figure that that bill is driving a lot of the McCain is a moderate image that abounds.

Maybe Feingold can use that same association to blunt the he's too Liberal image he carries. Or maybe he already has?

McCain is a louse whose cowardly head is burrowed deeply up Bush's hind parts. Every Democrat needs to understand that a vote for McCain is a vote for Bush. Unfortunately, Kerry's shameful pandering in 2004 to persuade McCain to run on his ticket will make it harder to break the Dems fatal attraction for this louse.

I don't understand why there is no discussion in the media of McCain;s age and health. He's had melanoma and would be older on election day 2008 than Reagan was in 1984. There must be some serious question about his ability to withstand a grueling presidential campaign, one that will be longer than ever this year. Bob Dole's frailty and age clearly held him back in 96, more and more as the campaign progressed. And Dole was younger than McCain would be in 2008!

I know I could never, ever, kiss someone's ass who would say the things about my family that the Bush-Rove assassination machine spewed out in South Carolina in 2000.  Well, maybe 1 exception: If it was a dictator doing the spewing and he would let my family live peacefully thereafter.  It is obvious today that it is getting really hard to figure out where McCains head ends and Brush's ass starts.

Similarly, this is the second national figure that Brush has whored and whose credibility and respect has suffered,  I feel for Colin Powell; such a great future, a man of honor and repect, made to speak the lies of his plantation master.  What a sad situation for a great military man like Powell.  McCain: fuck him.  He is made out of the same cloth as the Bush Crime Family and deserves being thought of as the current Brush suckup.  With friend like Brush, who needs enemies; they are one and the same.

 The only legitimate reason to be a REPUG is if you are aq whore for money(tax cuts) or a sick religious right fanatic with the IQ of a 5 year old, which is how your Furher speaks to you.

Someone needs to start a website devoted to McCain's real record that cuts through his moderate image.

If McCain wins the GOP nom, I want to see commercials with him and Bush together every step of the way in 2004.  Tie the two of them together every step of the way (unless Bush pulls off a Clinton type rebound somehow... but I strongly doubt that will happen... although I said the samething about Kerry losing the 2004 election as well) and plaster him as Bush's boy.