{"id":8729,"date":"2006-10-11T15:34:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T19:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8729.html"},"modified":"2006-10-11T15:34:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T19:34:54","slug":"mccains-new-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/mccains-new-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain’s new friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has dipped more than a toe into the blogosphere in recent months, yesterday going to so far as to write a post<\/a> on North Korea (which, in part, blamed Clinton’s “failed” policy) at Captain’s Quarters, one of the right’s leading blogs.<\/p>\n

I’m not surprised that McCain would conduct some extensive online outreach in advance of ’08, but I am a little surprised he’d pick Captain’s Quarters as one of the sites. Consider, for example, this CQ post<\/a> from last year.<\/p>\n

…I initially heard this exchange on the Hugh Hewitt show, and I almost choked when Hugh referred to McCain as a “great American,” in Hugh’s classy way of framing the debate. I cannot support that notion. McCain served his country admirably in Viet Nam, but his career as a politician contains nothing but a series of sell-outs and the worst kind of self-promotion<\/b>.<\/p>\n

This self-described “maverick” started his Senate career by peddling his influence to Charles Keating, who fleeced the FSLIC for billions of dollars. McCain claimed to be the least tarnished of the Keating 5 and the least culpable, but in the meantime his family had invested heavily in Keating’s businesses and traveling on Keating junkets to the Bahamas and other fancy vacations. […]<\/p>\n

McCain was a brave man in Viet Nam. He became a craven politician a long time ago, however, and almost everything he’s done since shows that he hasn’t changed a bit. If I still lived in Arizona, I’d be looking for ways to recall him from office immediately<\/b>. It’s time for the GOP to quit kissing McCain’s ass and apply another extremity to it with noticeable force — and to strip him of his committee assignments as soon as possible. Let him switch parties if he likes. He’s useless and a disgrace as a Republican<\/b>. (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This isn’t a half-hearted criticism; this is wholesale condemnation.<\/p>\n

I’m honestly not quite sure what to make of this. Does McCain deserve credit for writing for Captain’s Quarters after this? Is it a tad hypocritical of Captain’s Quarters to promote McCain after calling him a “disgrace”? I’m curious what you guys think about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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