McCain Says He Did Vote For George W. Bush

Source: ABC News

ABC News' Jan Simmonds and Jennifer Parker report: Heightening a he-said she-said brouhaha, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., today disputed liberal blogger Arianna Huffington's assertion that the presumptive Republican nominee voted against George W. Bush during the 2000 election.

"It's nonsense," said McCain, whose campaign has suggested Huffington made up the story to promote her new book. Huffington, a former Republican, supports the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

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Two other guests at Bergen's party, former "West Wing" actors Bradley Whitford and Richard Schiff, have come forward this week in the media to say that they, too, heard McCain say he didn't vote for Bush.

Campaigning today in New Jersey, McCain disputed the story.

"I voted, campaigned for, worked as hard as I could for President Bush's election in 2000 and 2004," McCain told reporters. "I voted for President Bush, I said so at the time. I know we're already in silly season, but my record stands very clearly of campaigning all over this nation on behalf of the candidacy of President Bush."

McCain also admonished the media.

"In all due respect, this is all not worth our time ...this happened eight years ago."

Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/05/mccain-says-he.html

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Not that he's smart enough to realise that.

just watch the glee in this clip : http://youtube.com/watch?v=3U5KZzgaB2k

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x129899

I'm worried he won't last through the election.

Isn't a flip flopper a person who makes a claim and then backtracks? I don't remember McCain claiming not to have voted for Bush.

This is the latest on the matter.

beep, beep , beep, beep.....

forward saying they heard McCain say he didn't vote for Bush. We need a story that McCain must deny at all cost just for the fun of it.

Worth investigating???

off and building sympathy for him, but maybe just a few signature items selected, say, for really relevant, significant matters to the voters this fall: A) the economy and how he swam against the little guy's current in any number of ways; B) the war and how he was for it before he was against it.

CRITICALLY IMPORTANT to hijack the republi-CONS' standard sloganeering and making some of their biggest "kill" lines turn 180-degrees on them. "He was for it before he was against it." Remind you of anything they shoved down our throats and up our butts for MONTHS - back in 2004? "Are you better off now than you were four/eight years ago?" st. ronnie force-fed that to all of America when he ran successfully against Jimmy Carter.

It would be a STELLAR way to steal their thunder; pervert their message and their message attempts; and pull another fang out of their gums, giving them less to bite us with and draw blood. When you render one of their key weapons or their most shrewd or effective lines neutered, when you appropriate it for yourself and give it a makeover so it begins to mean something completely different than its original intent, you've robbed the enemy of yet another weapon (ESPECIALLY one of their faves, one that worked against us really well and made a big impact and is still memorable).

What it also does on a subconscious level is to let the air out of the tires on what slogans like these applied to originally. Yeah, ronnie - YOUR wonderful reaganomics - that steered our economy down Deterioration Drive to the dead end we're in now. Yeah, swiftboaters. Your precious this time was for the war before he was against it. But which part of it was he for or against? Do we even know? Does HE even know? Besides, ANYTHING that originally was for the war is a big loser now. Automatic points off for your side of the record sheet. Let hindsight be our friend here. ANYTHING they asserted back then - to which we can A) turn it on its ear and shove it back in their faces and B) ask the question "SOOOOooo, how's that workin' out for ya, 'eh?" - is a WINNER.

Imagine being a dentist from Hell and the GOP is in your chair and you've got the plumber's pliers and you're yanking teeth out, one-by-one...

By the time we're finished, the GOP will have as many teeth to chomp with as john mcsame does after he's deposited his in a glass on the nightstand.

(sorry... ) :evilgrin:

Hey, I never signed any pledge to wage a nice, clean, courteous campaign that stays above the belt - any more than most of mcsame's many surrogates have.

AND WHILE I'M AT IT, here's another one, courtesy my rawther brainy, ingenious, and devilishly clever husband came up with: mcthuselah. For the age thing. :evilgrin: SO cool I WISH I could say I thought it up!

Use it and have fun!!!

I'm willing to bet good money that he had to look to make sure his trail was covered before coming out with that answer.

recall the Keating Five? And of course, it's AOK to discuss who Obama met when he was 8 yeas old!

release his voting records. That should address the issue if McCain is so honest and a "straight talker."

Dumbass.

Rp

Al Gore in the United States Army


George W. Bush in the Texas Air National Guard

Not a smart move, Senator...:crazy:

"i've been tortured. My mental health is in question. My physical health is in doubt. Can you really f#cking expect a tottering old man like me to remember every f#cking thing I've ever done in my f#cking life? HUH? DO YOU? Listen to me you little shit-neck weasels, you DO AS YOU ARE TOLD!

Campaign Toadie #1: (pssst..uh..Senator..the script..)

McCain: "My Friends (tm)..the Shunis and the other Arabs should all just learn to get along.."

Campaign Toadie #1 to Campaign Toadie #2: (pssst..we are so screwn)

And next week he'll say he did not, the media is, "Twisting his words."

in the late 90's. She started moving left in 2000. So it makes perfect sense that he would be having dinner with her. She is telling the truth, he is lying

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That's not nice.

He remembered riding with him up San Juan Hill.

She brilliantly put him in a no-win situation.

Either he did not vote for GWB, showing him to the GOP base as the disloyal unprincipled non-Conservative they fear he is;

or

He must insist that he DID vote for GWB - twice! - emphasizing his image as the third Bush term incarnate.

:rofl:

either he was lying then (and Ariannia now has corroborating stories), or he's lying now....more straight talking bullshit :rofl:

shows how stupid this a hole is. he should have said that's right, but noooooooooooooo! only jack offs voted for the cretin!

He has lost his bearings, as they say.

I just don't know and/or I just can't recall...so how can he be so sure that vote counted at all?

There goes his resume.

that says he can't be trusted

and will do and say anything to get elected.