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January 24, 2008

"Straight Talk" Express Takes Scenic Route To Truth

By: Ann Coulter

John McCain is Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism and youth. Like McCain, pollsters assured us that Dole was the most "electable" Republican. Unlike McCain, Dole didn't lie all the time while claiming to engage in Straight Talk.

Of course, I might lie constantly too, if I were seeking the Republican presidential nomination after enthusiastically promoting amnesty for illegal aliens, Social Security credit for illegal aliens, criminal trials for terrorists, stem-cell research on human embryos, crackpot global warming legislation and free speech-crushing campaign-finance laws.

I might lie too, if I had opposed the Bush tax cuts, a marriage amendment to the Constitution, waterboarding terrorists and drilling in Alaska.

And I might lie if I had called the ads of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth "dishonest and dishonorable."

McCain angrily denounces the suggestion that his "comprehensive immigration reform" constituted "amnesty" -- on the ludicrous grounds that it included a small fine. Even the guy who graduated fifth from the bottom of his class at the U.S. Naval Academy didn't fall for this a few years ago.

In 2003, McCain told The Tucson Citizen that "amnesty has to be an important part" of any immigration reform. He also rolled out the old chestnut about America's need for illegals, who do "jobs that American workers simply won't do."

McCain's amnesty bill would have immediately granted millions of newly legalized immigrants Social Security benefits. He even supported allowing work performed as an illegal to count toward Social Security benefits as recently as a vote in 2006 -- now adamantly denied by Mr. Straight Talk.

McCain keeps boasting that he was "the only one" of the Republican presidential candidates who supported the surge in Iraq.

What is he talking about? All Republicans supported the surge -- including Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. The only ones who didn't support it were McCain pals like Sen. Chuck Hagel. Indeed, the surge is the first part of the war on terrorism that caused McCain to break from Hagel in order to support the president.

True, McCain voted for the war. So did Hillary Clinton. Like her, he then immediately started attacking every other aspect of the war on terrorism. (The only difference was, he threw in frequent references to his experience as a POW, which currently outnumber John Kerry's references to being a Vietnam vet.)

Thus, McCain joined with the Democrats in demanding O.J. trials for terrorists at Guantanamo, including his demand that the terrorists have full access to the intelligence files being used to prosecute them.

These days, McCain gives swashbuckling speeches about the terrorists who "will follow us home." But he still opposes dripping water down their noses. He was a POW, you know. Also a member of the Keating 5 scandal, which you probably don't know, and won't -- until he becomes the Republican nominee.

Though McCain was far from the only Republican to support the surge, he does have the distinction of being the only Republican who voted against the Bush tax cuts. (Also the little lamented Sen. Lincoln Chafee, who later left the Republican Party.) Now McCain claims he opposed the tax cuts because they didn't include enough spending cuts. But that wasn't what he said at the time.

To the contrary, in 2001, McCain said he was voting against Bush's tax cuts based on the idiotic talking point of the Democrats. "I cannot in good conscience," McCain said, "support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans who need tax relief."

McCain started and fanned the vicious anti-Bush myth that, before the 2000 South Carolina primary, the Bush campaign made phone calls to voters calling McCain a "liar, cheat and a fraud" and accusing him of having an illegitimate black child.

On the thin reed of a hearsay account, McCain immediately blamed the calls on Bush. "I'm calling on my good friend George Bush," McCain said, "to stop this now. He comes from a better family. He knows better than this."

Bush denied that his campaign had anything to do with the alleged calls and, in a stunningly magnanimous act, ordered his campaign to release the script of the calls being made in South Carolina.

Bush asked McCain to do the same for his calls implying that Bush was an anti-Catholic bigot, but McCain refused. Instead, McCain responded with a campaign commercial calling Bush a liar on the order of Bill Clinton:

MCCAIN: His ad twists the truth like Clinton. We're all pretty tired of that.

ANNOUNCER: Do we really want another politician in the White House America can't trust?

After massive investigations by the Los Angeles Times and investigative reporter Byron York, among others, it turned out that neither of the alleged calls had been made by the Bush campaign -- nor, it appeared, by anyone else. There was no evidence that any such calls had ever been made, which is unheard of when hundreds of thousands of "robo-calls" are being left on answering machines across the state.

And yet, to this day, the media weep with McCain over Bush's underhanded tactics in the 2000 South Carolina primary.

In fact, the most vicious attack in the 2000 South Carolina primary came from McCain -- and not against his opponent.

Seeking even more favorable press from The New York Times, McCain launched an unprovoked attack against the Rev. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, calling them "agents of intolerance." Unlike the phantom "black love child" calls, there's documentary evidence of this smear campaign.

To ensure he would get full media coverage for that little gem, McCain alerted the networks in advance that he planned to attack their favorite whipping boys. Newspaper editors across the country stood in awe of McCain's raw bravery. The New York Times praised him in an editorial that said the Republican Party "has for too long been tied to the cramped ideology of the Falwells and the Robertsons."

Though McCain generally votes pro-life -- as his Arizona constituency requires -- he embraces the loony lingo of the pro-abortion set, repeatedly assuring his pals in the media that he opposes the repeal of Roe v. Wade because it would force women to undergo "illegal and dangerous operations."

Come to think of it, Dole is a million times better than McCain. Why not run him again?

Posted by redguy at January 24, 2008 06:33 AM

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As a life long Republican living in the southern United States, I cannot imagine who is voting for John McCain because I know of no one who likes the little creep. The only kind words I've ever heard anyone say about him came from a staunch Democrat.

If John McCain manages to get the Republican nomination, I will just not vote. Why waste the energy going to the polls because it won't matter who wins - McCain, Clinton, or Obama. They're all Democrats with Democratic ideology.

C Crow
Texas

Posted by: c crow at January 24, 2008 08:46 AM

Dear Mr or Ms C Crow:

I have as many problems with McCain as the next
conservative Republican, but keep in mind that
on the fundamental issue of our time, he is with
us on the War in Iraq and the War on Terror.
True, there are weakness there, too, but look at
what the other side has in mind! We are lost
if they get in and actually do what they say
they want to do. It may they'd never pull the
trigger on their crazy plans once the election
was over, but that is too big a risk. We all
have to turn out and support our nominee whoever
he is. It's just too imprtant

C Crow
Texas

Posted by: GW Bramhall at January 24, 2008 10:13 AM

Ann,

Thanks, I needed that. You are greatly appreciated.

Posted by: FYISAKI at January 24, 2008 11:08 AM

As they say, "Tell a lie often enough and it will soon be taken as the truth."
It appears that McCain has told his lies so often, he now believes them himself.

Just wink a few more times John to let everyone know just how much of a straight shooter you are. Pathetic.

Posted by: Richard at January 24, 2008 12:25 PM

Ann, thank you for putting things into perspective. Romney, here we come!!

Posted by: Rick at January 24, 2008 12:41 PM

Ann, you are lying about Senator McCain. And at this point? its not unusual to hear it.

In your desparation to prevent actual Christians from elected office? this is another hit piece against McCain. Its targeted to those who dont do much actual research, they listen and agree.

Now in 2008 the far right fringe kook conservatives are engaging in the same schemes of lies and deception as liberals have done for years, as if the mindset of telling lies is now the main theme of Anns columns instead of previously when columns were based on some tangible research. Now these are just attack columns with lies.

Keating was a financial hero in his day, Michael Jackson was also popular around that time, so if we use Ann's logic, anyone who liked Jacksons music is thereby complicit in the criminal allegations, case closed.

Making shrill baseless accusations against McCain has become the new pastime for the fringe far right crackpot kool aid conservatives, I may need to stop saying fringe because the kook conservative movement is becoming more mainstream thanks to complicity of media mouths like Hannity, and the one he calls the great One?? who may be leading the bizzare march into kookville, that guy is also a major embarassment, once brilliant? It would be easy to mock Mark Levin the way Ann is doing on McCain, except to point out Levins failures would be truthful, unlike Anns mocking of McCain which is UNtruthful.

So McCain was opposed to the Swifties? wanted them stopped, McCain sided with John Kerry and I suppose McCain literally called John O'Neil a liar? is that what youre saying Ann?? In so many words, thats what you said.

Or was it something else? one of the members of the swifties who had gone irrational and profane and McCain simply pointed it out? if we look into that one, McCain will be shown as correct

McCain opposed the tax cuts in 2001 because he is a ranting socialist who wants to end capitalism, raise all taxes and increase the fed govt, etc because he is to the left of Ted Kennedy. this is what Mark Levin and now Ann Coulter are printing?

Mitt Romney is the worst candidate because if nominated? I absolutely will not, and many other Christian Republicans will not vote for him, period. I will write in John McCain-R

So Ann, youre wrong about McCain, are "Slandering" McCain and its Romney who is the democrats best hope for 2008.

Your fringe conservative movement that split from the GOP, your followers are literally RINOs, Tancredo is a RINO, John McCain is a real Republican. We in the GOP are not expecting the fringe kook conservatives to spend their time voting in November, they didnt vote GOP in 2006 and thanks to you Ann and others in the media, the fringe kook conservatives are split away from the GOP even farther out there in 2008

Republicans can support McCain, Rudy or Huckabee as genuine Christian Republicans

Ann your dishonest attack ads further disgrace your once popular standing. pity.

Posted by: BradleyTS at January 24, 2008 01:12 PM

Ann,
Thanks for the straight talk. It's easy for even a conservative to be hoodwinked during an election year (two, if you're counting last year). I needed that wake-up call on McCain. God bless you.
Vinny in Orlando

Posted by: Vinny at January 24, 2008 06:01 PM

Thanks BradleyTS, for pointing out what a real Republican is and isn't. The extreme right, exemplified by Limbaugh, Hannity, Levine and others on am radio are attempting to hijack the party of Lincoln, T. Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Reagan.

We should all keep in mind that, among other myths and downright lies, Miss Coulter actually believes fervently that Joe McCarthy was a good guy and a martyred hero. It is no wonder that her myopia denies her the vision of a true hero like John McCain.

We should also remember that it was McCain who recognized the failure of feckless Rumsfeld Iraq policy long before the administration got the message. This is the kind of Commander-in-Chief we desparately need.

We also need the kind of real man who has the intestinal fortitude to speak truth to power. Despite the ultimate failure of McCain-Feingold due to the dilution by our bought-and-paid-for law-givers and their lobbyist pimps, and the greedy media, with their biennial advertising windfall, McCain had it right, and the goal of taking these crooked bucks out of the political process is laudable and its pursuit should be continued.

As I write, the lefties at MSNBC are providing background noise, trying to give the FL debate to Romney, even though McCain was the clear winner. Why? Perhaps their thinly veiled support for anything not Republican or conservative is showing as they promote anyone other than the one person who is best equipped for an electoral victory in November.

Posted by: Dick's Deli at January 25, 2008 12:17 AM

It's distressing to realize that with a well-financed campaign, Bozo the Clown could become president. We've become a nation of morons.

Posted by: Florida Cane at February 7, 2008 09:26 AM

January 24, 2008

"Straight Talk" Express Takes Scenic Route To Truth

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