John McCain says Bush should be afraid of debate

on Hardball now... touting Kerry's debate skills

can't figure that guy out....

He's like Tweety.

Multiple personalities.

Hi Maveric, I'm the Raw Hide Kid. :thumbsup:

Remember 2000? The expectations were SO lowered that all Bush had to do was show up and stay awake.

So if Chimpy can get through all three debates without pissing all over himself, everyone will be wowed by his debate prowess.

They play this game every time and the media eats it up every time.

of the Repuke party

Mcain is playing the expectation card so basically all * has to do is show up and speak Kindergarden english and he wins.

Reverse Psychology

and the Judy Woodruffs of the world would swoon with the conviction and bravery with which he said it. Shrub is too chicken to participate in anything but a rigged debate.

so that if bush "stays even with him" the media will say wow bush came in the underdog and did a great job keeping up with him!

it's all about setting expectations

bush has never lost a debate. he is so good at debating.

keep it up

snarky creep!

I used to think her had a modicum of integrity, then all of the sudden he and Bush are hugging each other..........KKKarl must have found something in his background to use.

McCain is positioning himself for 2008.


MDN

Don't EVER trust McCain. I just wonder what bush has on the guy. They sure are chummy these days.

Kerry has been "friends" with Mc Cain for a long time, but when the Vets who now support Kerry supported Mc Cain in 2000 after Kerry recommended they support Gore, Kerry told them that Mc Cain will not support additional funding for anything for Veterans if he is elected. Kerry told them honestly that he liked Mc Cain, but that Mc Cain would tell them what they wanted to hear while campaigning, but would turn against them when it came to providing funding for VA hospitals or any funding for anything veterans needed. He made it clear that first and foremost Mc Cain was a fiscal conservative before he was a veteran.

When it came time to decide who to support this time they supported Kerry, and a great deal of it was because of Kerry's honesty with them during that period in 2000 in which they supported Mc Cain, and afterwards. They stated that Kerry had been totally hones with them about anything they dicussed. always did what he said he was going to do, and always told them was not possible to do when they asked, He was always an up front guy accornd to the vets. Mc Cain was not and the vets decided that they could never trust Mc Cain again.

I dont think they have anything on Mc Cain. But Bush neded Mc Cain desperately for credibility with moderates and conservative Veterans. Had Mc Cain come out against Bush and for Kerry, Bush would have only had a handful of votes from veterans this year. The membersip of Swift Boat Veterans and that is it.

Mc Cain does need the support of the Republican Party to run, and flat out, they probably thrteatened his re-election campaign if he did not support Bush.

Even then, Bush had to agree to in some way acced that Kerry served honorably, or Mc Cain would not have supported him

Mc Cain may feel that Bush did not do enough to honor his side of the deal and now is making negative statements about BUsh's handling of Iraq (when at the convention he claimed that Bush was doing the right thing in Iraq)

Maybe its just plain vindictiveness for what Bush did to Mc Cain in 2000. He may simply turn against Bush to get revenge.

Why the hell else would McCain let Bush hit him with a 2X4 every couple of weeks??

David

played with poll bounce predictions. I don't respect McCain anymore.
Not since cozied up to shrub and put the wood to real veterans.

Even though Bush lied through his teeth in 2000, the fact he spoke in complete sentances made all the talking heads proclaim him the winner.

I don't know why Bush would be worried, he has never lost.. McCain is just being polite:)

right now all mccain is giving bush is a squatting ovation

I'm sorry, but McCain talks a good game, but when the chips are down, he's a solid Bush/NeoCon backer all the way. Somebody name ONE instance where he's actually voted like a liberal, not just given lip service to a handful of liberal "friends."

Fuck McCain.

I agree with you. McCain is a solid Republican and will not go against Bush, when it really counts.

He's no help to America

I can respect any vet, especially a POW. I'm sure it was a fucking living hell to be trapped there.

But that doesn't mean I agree with him. I DO tire of this constant mantra from the media that "Both sides love him! He's a straight-talker!"

BULLSHIT!

If he's such a straight-talker, how come his tongue is forked? His voting record is consistently republican. Sure, here and there, he says "John Kerry served honorably..." But it means NOTHING. He's playing the media like a fiddle. He uses his image as a "maverick" like a handful of mayonnaise...so that when he needs to ram some RW legislation down our throats, it'll go down easier than if Tom DeLay does it (bare-handed).

That's the bottom line for me.

They can move.

hence, if Bush does mediocre, it will be seen as a victory.

Cmon folks, dont be fooled, we ALL know which side McCain's Bread is Buttered.

a bit when his master is not around.

to make Kerry seem like a debate bully and poor little b-word will seem to be so pitiful that he'll get the sympathy vote.



Peace

or issue that requires W's attention so he will have to miss them

and everyone will give him a pass as he is the President and a dimwit

plays both ends against the middle. I do not respect or trust him at all.

What can the candidates say that we haven't heard non-stop already?
Debates are just a waste of time in my opinion.:shrug:

The politics of "Low Expectations" can only work for a newcomer. Not when you've been president for four years. People do expect that you have a modicum of knowledge about what's going on.