More McCain Attacks: Murtha ‘Sentimental,’ ‘Never Been a Big Thinker’

More McCain Attacks: Murtha ‘Sentimental,’ ‘Never Been a Big Thinker’

On Sunday, Sen. John McCain — regularly lauded for his nonpartisan “straight talk” — attacked Rep. John Murtha for having “become too emotional” over the Iraq war.

McCain was simply repeating the line he had given Byron York in an interview for the New Republic. That piece is now online, and as you’ll see below, McCain was even more personal when speaking to York:

John Murtha is “a lovable guy,” but “he’s never been a big thinker; he’s an appropriator.” Using language that Bush never could, McCain tells me that Murtha has become too emotional about the human cost of the war. “As we get older, we get more sentimental,” McCain says. “And has been very, very affected by the funerals and the families. But you cannot let that affect the way you decide policy.”

We’ll put aside whether 69-year-old John McCain should be referencing 73-year-old John Murtha’s age to dismiss his policy positions. But with McCain’s comments about Murtha’s intellectual capacity in mind, it’s worth noting some of Murtha’s accomplishments.

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/06/mccain-murtha/

BELOW: John McCain in a sentimental, sweaty moment.

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Yeah, we can play this game too.

Those are the same kind of ignorant accusations that are tossed Kerry's way as well. I cannot recall the man's name ofhand, but there's a certified fruitloop out there that has been hounding both Senators for decades because of their perceived sympathy towards Vietnam. He was imprisoned awhile ago for assulting a McCain staffer, I believe.

If you want to counter McCain, do it with facts, not hype.

." The anti-immigrant Minuteman vigilantes had rallied on the Arizona-Mexico border in protest of his progressive immigration policy. Discord gripped the state GOP leadership. So the man who in 2000 dubbed himself "Luke Skywalker fighting his way out of the Death Star" headed straight into enemy territory, organizing a town hall meeting with rank-and-file conservatives in the desert town of Mesa. "Many of those in the crowd Thursday wore stickers with a circle and a slash--the symbol for 'no'--across the words 'McCain 2008,'" the local East Valley Tribune reported.

But the senator they saw projected a far more conciliatory image than the trash-talking maverick portrayed in the national media. Before the event he had endorsed teaching "intelligent design" alongside evolution in public schools, and he had expressed support for a rigid state ban on gay marriage that denies government benefits to any unmarried couple. After brief opening remarks, McCain took questions for more than two hours, referring to Reagan as "my hero," invoking the support of other conservatives on issues such as stem-cell research and immigration, and strenuously defending President Bush's Iraq policy.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051212/berman

comments such as Murtha becoming sentimental about the war because of his age. McCain is as stupid as Bush. I hope the Democrats have his comments recorded for when McCain makes a run for the presidency in 2008. These comments will come back to haunt this no good SOB.

himself for saying such a thing.

shows how he has always been a rank opportunist with no sense of shame, hypocrisy or irony.

edited to add link:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051212/berman

..happened some time in late 2000, If I recall correctly.

I'd like to see him on the stump speaking out against the Bushies

:argh:

"MAVERICK MCCAIN" is BULLSHIT! Pure BULLSHIT!

:grr:

Please, mccain, expand for this veteran that thought. What this country needs is the religiously insane having an ephiphany and realizing our kids are dying because of their ignorant and blind support of a man who lied to them not only about the war but about his christianity. American blood is being wasted in Iraq because a large segment of our christian community insists that bush be enabled to do so.

that "false gods will arise among you" and that Bush is one of them.

in fact he is an immoral and corrupt man

anyone who would vote against making Martin Luther King day a national holiday says everything about his belief system, and why HE IS NOT A GREAT THINKER, but simple a political WHORE

a sentimental moment together. I guess it makes a difference whether you are having a sentimental moment about yourselves (bush and mccain) or a sentimental moment about American troops that have been sent to an illegitimate war and put in harms way (Murtha). Personally, bush and mccain and their mutual phony love fest make me want to :puke:. Murtha's personal concern for our troops is very touching.

We like to call it "eating your young".

silly sentimentalism? I hope we can bash him over the head with that in his run in '08.

He pisses me off more than bush/cheney. At least Cheney is up front about who he is and not hiding behind a mask, saying "I'm a moderate, I'm a moderate" while he gropes and cuddles with bush for insulting his family.

I'm guessing for certain promises dealing with a 2008 presidential bid.

I posted earlier about this:

http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/archives/002173.php

<snork>

himself right up Junior's asshole. He's a shameless, pathetic pawn. Period.

others that was done to him....

For shame McCain.

as civilians for Lies.... oops I mean poor intel...

n/t

Where's his plan?

What're you trying to DO, John?? Saying Murtha "has never been a big thinker"?? Lissen, Genius-Boy, you keep saying Murtha's never been a big thinker, and our constituents are liable to start sticking to him like Krazy Glue! Lissen, John, I'm serious--don't you KNOW that all OUR voters are from the "never been big thinkers" group????

Now SHUT UP about that, will ya, John?? You trying to alienate Red State Amurica from us???

Even so-called "moderates" or "maverics" like McCain think it nothing to trash a fellow Vietnam veteran.

It's a wide divide to the Dark Side. The Republics love their party more than they love their country.

I think he went to West Point, or one of those testosterone military places.

I also think he graduated at the very bottom of his class. So, living in a glass house, I would think McCain shouldn't toss too many stones.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/14/politics/14detain.html?hp&ex=1134622800&en=82c2f1a581e2e2c8&ei=5094&partner=homepage

"Some military officials said the new guidelines could give the impression that the Army was pushing the limits on legal interrogation at the very moment when Mr. McCain, Republican of Arizona, is involved in intense three-way negotiations with the House and the Bush administration to prohibit the cruel treatment of prisoners.

In a high-level meeting at the Pentagon on Tuesday, some Army and other Pentagon officials raised concerns that Mr. McCain would be furious at what could appear to be a back-door effort to circumvent his intentions.

"This is a stick in McCain's eye," one official said. "It goes right up to the edge. He's not going to be comfortable with this." "

Hey, Senator McCain, how does that stick in your eye and that shiv in your back feel?? Your good buddy, Bush, unsentimental thinker that he is, put them there.

I used to like McCain; now I like to watch BushCo screw him. Can't wait for the '08 primaries!