The larger story is McCain's temper, which should be a concern.

That, my friends, is textbook misogyny.

Oh, and even with respect to disability legislation, you just can't lump all Republicans together.  Bob Dole, because of his personal experiences, was one of the prime movers in getting the ADA done.  I need to add, and I am a very left of center Democrat, that if we are ever going to address the important issues in a meaningful way, we need to at least attempt to forge connections to the other party where they may, may, exist, and not hunt for stereotypes that divide us.

http://www.abilitymagazine.com/dole_inte rview.html

I think the Arizona Republic(is that the name of the newspaper?) was trying to get police reports released from numerous calls to their house regarding domestic violence.  Is anyone surprised? Look at the poor thing.

and I don't believe it.  It seems very unlikely and even if true it was 1992.

What is real is Obama's insulting Clinton time after time in public, not on policy but on gender.  His wife does it too. It is now, it is documented and it is on video in many cases.

for Charles Dickens?  

It's weird. He goes from sounding like Margaret Dumont in a MGM melodrama, to sounding like a drunken sailor getting thrown out a bar.

And I doubt misogyny even begins to cover the psychological scars of a man who ditched his crippled wife to marry a trophy wife with a massive trust fund and political connections. An acquaintance in DC once pointed out that Chris Matthews was a fairly reasonable, lucid and insightful columnist for years. Then his wife became a high paycheck lead newsanchor in DC, and he morphed into the cable news nightmare we too often see before us.

dictionary, it is "a promiscuous, preferably female horse".

What is a trollop?  Is that a term from the days of McCain's youth in the nineteenth century?

You made me laugh out loud before bedtime.  Two points.

Really? Because that speaks to the kind of person who says it, too. This is NOT something between him and his wife, this is a huge red flag. If you were thinking of taking a job and heard your potential boss calling his wife that, would you just wave it off? If you were hiring someone and they said that, would you welcome them aboard?

John McCain's strength is in his character and good-natured personality, and this kind of thing puts all of that to bed.

The guy is running for an office that puts his finger on "the button".  He dropped a C bomb on his wife in front of members of the media.  Never mind, if possible, the despicable attitude towards the value of a woman (one he's supposed to love) and the pattern of self serving use of women in his personal life; it is further evidence that the man's temper leads him to imprudence.  Remember finger, button.

Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran...

Of course we now know that Tigh has been a cylon traitor all along.

Did anyone else notice that this diary is tagged cunt?  I was interested to see what a tag search would turn up, but this is the only diary so tagged.

Well, we still got some primary season to go, so we'll see.  

and, to be fair, any Obama supporter as well...

LBJ was in a tighter race for the Senate one year than he was comfortable with. So he instructed his campaign strategist to spread a story that his opponent - him being a rural type - had carnal knowledge of farm animals.

His strategist replied to LBJ (and I'm paraphrasing): "you can't possibly want me to go out and call candidate so-and-so a goat fucker, no one will believe it"; to which LBJ responds: "I know, but we'll make the son-of-a-bitch deny it".

The c-word is a third rail kind of thing with women. Even if it didn't happen, if McCain has to go out there and deny that it happened he still takes a big hit.  

If he used the term in a serious tone, and one of the reporters goes on record, this is a body blow to McCain.

If you are a Republican, you can call a Democrat a baby killer, a socialist or an asshole, but if you call your wife a "c-word", man that is a flat out something that you might never recover from. The  churchgoers that make up the base of the Republican party would never forgive something like that, not to mention the resounding thumping Independent women would give you.

Yeah, that tag brought me up short too. I guess I'm old fashioned.

This is what my wife thought, too.  I admit that I occasionally call her the c-word as a joke, and she understands that it is just a joke.  But I would never do that in front of people, if for no other reason than not wanting people to think I'm serious.

Besides, you can only make fun of your spouse for things that aren't true. Cindy McCain does slather on the makeup, so that "joke" would hit too close to home. It's like making a joke about her sagging boobs or something.

Of course, she bears some blame in this, as well. Surely she knew that making fun of her husband for going bald would unman him in front of reporters and employees. Again, a little too close to home.

Oh yeah, right.  He called her the cword in front of other people, and she thought it was hilarious.  Maybe I don't get the joke, and that's why I don't think it's hilarious.

Unbelievable.

Not in my house.  There are other ways to have fun, and mean language isn't included in the contract.

It's amazing how silent it get's from the most vocal Clinton supporters when there are stories about McCain.

Hello? Is anyone there?

because if this happened, which I doubt, the only difference is that his language is more colorful.  
Obama attacks Clinton over and over with sexist language and ideas and the fact that he doesn't use the word cunt doesn't excuse him.

I have said that if we have to have a sexist asshole in the white-house I would rather it be a republican.  I am done voting for sexist male democrats.

I agree.  We certainly don't want to set a precedent of using "anonymous reporters" as our evidence.  If we do, then where's our moral high ground the next time the GOP cites three anonymous reporters who saw Obama and Clinton at a flag-burning party?

And if my husband ever called me the "c" word, he wouldn't have eyes anymore, nor would he be my husband.  

And putting the blame on Cindy McCain is blaming her for his sexism.  

True or not in this case; I'm periodically stunned by how much shit these politicians' wives routinely put up with. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't get along well with a woman who could put up with that much.

I bet you can figure out what I think of an idiotic remark like that from the post. At least I'd hope so.

Michelle Obama blames Hillary for Bill cheating on her and says it makes her unqualified to be president.  Obama says Hillary cries to much to be president.  Want to address that?

No, I don't do it in front of anyone, but if you like I can do it in front of your children, seeing as how they enjoy a joke. I'd even be happy to call you the c-word, if you think they would like that.

If you are the kind of person who kids around in such a manner -- and it is clear that you are not -- you learn that it works only when you say something so outrageous or ridiculous that it can't possibly be true. I would never use the c-word in anger, or even as a general description of someone. I rarely say it at all, and I am a foul-mouthed bastard. If I do say it, it's because I'm being ironic.

Children, and you, aren't able to grasp that, which is why I pick my moments.

I wouldn't presume to talk down about someone else's marriage.  Maybe alvernon's wife calls him something seemingly horrible, too.  Some people have that sort of humor.  The real question isn't one of what's said but of intent.  If they're just joking, and both are ok with it, what's the big deal?    

A republican would go back 16 years to dig up dirt on a Democrat...McCain is a republican.  Anything we dig up on him is fair game.

you are being silly now.  the man said he says it as a joke.  It's wouldn't be funny to me, but even I can understand what he is saying.  Frankly the rest is none of your business.

We need to go after McCain, but we need to do it with credible information.  If we stoop to the same standards of poor argumentation and evidence that the GOP uses, then what reason does someone new to the scene have to believe progressives over the GOP?    I think the reason the blogosphere favors progressives over conservatives is because at some level most people are able to recognize what good evidence and good arguments are.  If we throw all that away to try to get in cheap shots at the opposition we'll lose in the long run.

of course they will.

who are Obama supporters with a major double standard.  What's up with that?

The point is that this story doesn't ring true and it is not realizably sourced.  Trying to make a big deal of it seems like a waste of time and frankly, hypocrisy.

As a connoisseur of colorful phrases, might I inquire as to what makes a shithouse rat crazy?

And don't say "Nam."

I believe the words were, "How do we beat the bitch?"

Schecter does his homework. He knows what the consequences are otherwise and he's got a long history of being credible.

And you know what? It'd really suck if all the thanks someone gets for scrounging for years to spread progressive messages and shine a light on Republican misdeeds is to get called a hack.

Looks like Cliff Schecter has already done the work with "The Real McCain". See Breaking Blue.

Oh, ok. See I was under the impression that strong words are often found in politics and have been for decades.

But that saying something like that about your loved ones said something really nasty about your personality.

What I like and hate at the same time is how all of you seem willing to do backflips to keep hating Obama more than McCain. Makes me sick.