McCain will vote "NO" on Sotomayor. Single handedly destroying himself.

Just breaking on MSNBC.

Real maverick! :sarcasm:

I give him a grading curve just on goodwill and what could have been..

Why is he voting against Sotomoyor? Does he have a reason besides that he's a Republican and you have to stick with stoopid when you belong to that party?

Was it her comment that because she's a Latina who struggled in life so she knows more about the problems of ordinary people? Because she was never tortured?
So he can't vote for her? Is that it?

Why am I surprised? He chose Palin as a running mate for her...looks, I guess? She didn't have clothes, so it couldn't have been that. Since he doesn't object to women in powerful positions maybe it was because Sotomoyor never won a beauty contest? Never shot or skinned a moose? She doesn't have a daughter who got pregnant while still in high school? Because she didn't marry for money? She speaks more than one language well? She had too much experience on the job? She follows the law? What?

It's in his Re;ublican manual.

If he comes into contact with a real maverick, they'll both be destroyed.

Fuck you Gramps - you're showing your true colors.

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the Hispanics and Women in Arizona because there's no other reason he's not voting for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

I live in AZ, McCain has already come out and said that he IS running for re-election next year.

oh wait....

Hispanic vote will be for the GOP. Incredible.

to her philosophy or such, and is voting No for that reason? that would not be surprising.

what rock did you crawl out from under? Have you got your fake Kenyan birth certificate with you?

or that he'd vote against any nominee?

i KNOW he's voting against her based on race, the republicans made that crystal clear, or were you not paying attention?

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and the only thing that is clear is that she is not even remotely a judicial activist. I don't know what her personal opinions are, at least not in detail, but they absolutely do not show up in her legal decisions. I've read many of her decisions, and as a lawyer, I do know a judicial activist when I see one.

She is not. There isn't even a single decision to debate about in this regard. Nada. Yet John McCain, in his statement today, picked the one thing that she does not do, and held it out as his SOLE reason for voting against her. I don't know why - is he more dumb than I realized? He said he was reviewing her cases - does he not understand what he is reading? Or does he just know that none of his base will actually read or understand her decisions, and thus take his falsehood at face value? Did he just make a mistake from which he will rightfully never recover? I think that is what he just did, ie tanked his career. Maybe he doesn't care - lost the last prez election he will run for, and his life is nearing the end. Maybe he simply doesn't care.

Because the one thing he should have done was told the true reason, whatever it was, for how he is voting. Or at least come up with something remotely plausible to those of us with a brain. And he didn't - and he is not alone in doing this. Most of them think most people/voters are just too dumb to figure this out.

Here is his floor statement, and all I can say for sure is that he is right now living in a different universe than the rest of us if he really believes that first line. It is almost sad to realize he said such an outright lie or at the least, revealed his diminished mental capacity:

Again and again, Judge Sotomayor seeks to amend the law to fit the circumstances of the case, thereby substituting herself in the role of a legislator. Our Constitution is very clear in its delineation and disbursement of power. It solely tasks the Congress with creating law. It also clearly defines the appropriate role of the courts to "extend to all Cases in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties." To protect the equal, but separate roles of all three branches of government, I cannot support activist judges that seek to legislate from the bench. I have not supported such nominees in the past, and I cannot support such a nominee to the highest court in the land.

What better way to get Hispanics to forgive McCain for caving to the radical right on immigration reform and leaving them feeling betrayed then by announcing his opposition to the first Hispanic nominated to the Supreme Court!

:sarcasm:

Arizona has so many Hispanic voters that this move would seem to give Democrats a real opportunity against McCain.

But noooooooo, they'll recruit some no name, no money bum to get clobbered against him.

and anyone that expects him to EVER to do the right thing is seriously delusional.
He is a "kept man".
At home he is "kept" by his rich wife and in Congress, he is "kept" by his lobbyists.
In his DREAMS he wishes he was a maverick, but all McCain is is a shell of a man--and the perfect poster boy of how torture destroys the part of you that makes you a real person--one that feels and empathizes with others. He is PTSD on steroids...his glory days of being a hero are long gone and replaced with a psychopath with a nice smile.

I think he just wants to spite Obama as much as he can before he retires.

NOT

Could this bring him down for good Please!

...after all there really are not any Hispanic voters in Arizona!

:sarcasm:

Only had a couple good moments when it was politically expedient. His constituents don't mean as much as the Party to him.

Kind of sad, really.

If the Palin thing didn't do it then it doesn't matter. These people have become a fringe minority.

No one cares about the Maverick act anymore. The Republican base of psycopaths don't like him and they only voted for him because of his equally psycopathic running mate. The center didn't rally to him in the election. And the liberals who used to support him in times gone by finally awakened to the fact that he's a crazy old codger who licked Bush's balls in order to get the nomination.

It always bears remembering that the toad voted against the MLK federal holiday, supported brazenly racist Arizona Governor Evan Mecham, and joined with Jesse Helms in attempting to defund the MLK federal holiday. His pro-abundant cheap labor position should not be confused with pro-immigrant or pro-Hispanic.

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get into power again it will be for keeps. There is no way that this insane group of people will rationally give it up again as they are not rational anymore. Buyer beware next time.

John McCain allegiance to his home country trumps allegiance to the US of A.

How did I miss the story where he became relevant????

Remember this guy thought palin was qualifed to be Vice President and a heartbeat away from being President but Sotomayor Isn't qualified to be on the SC.What a ass.Of course the MSM won't say this to him on one of his many TV apperances.

He has just pissed off a bunch of Hispanic Voters In Arizona.He will probaly win but he may have a closer than expected race because of pissed off Hispanic voters.

McCain voting no proves she is the best choice. Game, set, match.

AZ = Hispanic state

the election," is apparently his attitude, and now he's slapping back

See:
McCain Rebukes Hispanic Voters ...
by Kirk Victor
Saturday, April 4, 2009
http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/pi_20090404_9431.php