The Straight-Talk Express?

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New York Times: John McCain says he just doesn’t know if condoms stop the spread of STDs. McCain has long been a Republican that I can admire, because I know that when we disagree, it’s generally because of honest differences in opinion. That feature is missing from McCain 2.0™. Maybe it was a bug?

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6 replies on “The Straight-Talk Express?”

  1. “You know, I’m sure I’ve taken a position on it on the past. I have to find out what my position was. Brian, would you find out what my position is?”

    Wow. McCain used to pride himself on being un-scripted. Now he’s gone to the opposite extreme — a man completely at a loss without his talking points. What a sad caricature of his former self he has become.

  2. John McCain has absolutely no integrity. None. Compare pre-2000 McCain with post-2000 McCain. Craven is the word I think applies best.

    (and this doesn’t even touch on his apparent inability to understand why a presidential candidate (or anyone) shouldn’t be using the word “gook”)

  3. (Mr. McCain turns to take a question on Iraq, but a moment later looks back to the reporter who asked him about AIDS.)
    Mr. McCain: “I haven’t thought about it. Before I give you an answer, let me think about. Let me think about it a little bit because I never got a question about it before. I don’t know if I would use taxpayers’ money for it.”

    No integrity? It seems to me that McCain went out of his way to try giving an honest answer, when he could’ve just let it rest. He had already semi-answered a difficult question, one that he was unprepared to answer, and he voluntarily went back to it. I don’t much like his answer either, but it’s unfair to say he has no integrity.

    “Gook” is definitely not a nice word, but I defy you to find a Vietnam combat veteran who hasn’t used it many times. It became part of their vocabulary. I heard Jim Webb use it last fall, but that didn’t stop me from voting for him.

  4. I’m glad I followed the link and read the post to it’s end, because it closes with a moment of pure hilarity.

  5. You’re right – it’s not a bug, it’s a feature! Anything to help secure the nomination I guess, no matter how brainless.

    Speaking of, ya know I read the other day where Hillary Clinton wouldn’t say for sure that homosexuality wasn’t immoral.

  6. It seems to me that McCain went out of his way to try giving an honest answer, when he could’ve just let it rest

    I don’t know what’s worse: that he would falsely claim that he “hadn’t thought about” whether the government should help prevent the spread of AIDS through contraceptives, or the possibility that he might never have thought about that.

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