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Liberties; Rebel With a Cause
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: February 2, 2000
John McCain has been on a wild ride. Now he's going to drag the
Republican Party on one.
The party that takes paternalism so seriously it was willing to anoint
the scion just based on his scionosity, must now deal with the scamp.
It's an ''East of Eden'' moment.
When former President Bush came up to New Hampshire, he called his son
a ''boy'' who would not let the country down.
Mr. McCain pounced on the word ''boy.'' ''I fully agree with that,''
he said, grinning.
W. seemed to revert to a jittering teenager standing on stage next to
his dad at a country music concert on Saturday. It underscored the
challenger's case: Junior was a nice enough guy, but did he have the
experience to run the country?
Everyone assumes the Bush machine will try to tear John McCain apart
limb from limb. But then, John McCain already survived that fate far
away and long ago. So he's pretty fearless.
He went from being a rebellious son to a rebellious P.O.W. to a
rebellious senator. Eighteen months ago at dinner, he mused about how
much of a maverick was too much of a maverick to win the Republican
nomination. He knows, even with his rout here, it's hard to capture a
party whose leaders hate you.
''I try to restrain my delusions of grandeur,'' he says.
His weird schizophrenic existence -- cherished by voters and reporters
in New Hampshire for his directness, loathed by Republican leaders
back in Washington for his directness -- was illustrated in a funny
exchange on his bus on Monday.
Senator McCain turned to his friend, the movie actor turned Tennessee
senator, Fred Thompson, who had come from the nation's capital to
campaign on the ''Straight Talk Express.''
''How are things in the city of Satan?'' Senator McCain asked.
Mr. Thompson replied that all was quiet.
Then a reporter asked Mr. McCain what sort of reception he would get
if his campaign collapsed and he had to return to the Senate he has so
often stirred up.
''Flowers will be strewn in my path,'' he replied dryly.
''Something will be,'' Mr. Thompson observed, even more dryly.
The McCain campaign was devilish. The senator pointed out Tom Brokaw
to one town hall audience as ''one of the last Trotskyites . . . left-
wing, Communist, pinkos of the American media.''
He reminisced about an exotic dancer he had once dated. ''Marie, the
Flame Thrower of Florida,'' he said. Asked what she was like, he
replied, ''She was pretty volatile,'' and then slapped his knee and
laughed, ''Har, har, har!''
The candidate occasionally used curse words, usually foreign to
campaigns. He called himself a ''wacko'' and ''an old geezer,'' and
his answers often degenerated into jokes. Sometimes his comments went
over a weird edge, as when the Navy vet teased an Air Force vet: ''I
tried to get in the Air Force, but my parents were married.''
Complaining it was not ''manly'' of Mr. Bush to keep him off the New
York ballot, Mr. McCain started to denounce it as Communistic. ''I
spent a portion of my life under that system,'' he said. Then he
stopped and smiled. ''How's that for demagoguery? -- Here, you wanna
see my medals?''
Unlike Al Gore and George Bush, who dole themselves out sparingly, the
Arizona senator offered a giddy excess of access to the press
contingent he dubbed ''great ferrets of truth.'' There was even a
teenage reporter from Seventeen magazine, patiently waiting to ask if
Mr. McCain preferred Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera.
''Marie, the Flame Thrower of Florida,''
Why John McCain is no saint
Anyone who's been paying attention know that Sen. John McCain's
"Straight Talk Express" jumped the tracks the night in South Philly in
2000 that he first embraced George W. Bush. Today, there's nothing the
Arizona senator won't do or say to appease the social conservatives
who hold sway in GOP presidential primaries, as he drifts so far right
he may drop right off the Atlantic's continental shelf.
The latest? He's crusading for abstinence-only sex education in the
Deep South:
Most presidential candidates are trying to get people to say "yes."
Republican Sen. John McCain will be encouraging South Carolina
students to say "no."
The Arizona lawmaker is scheduled to speak Sunday night to about 1,500
middle and high school students about abstaining from premarital sex.
Abstinence and abortion loom large as issues in this first-in-the-
South primary state in the heart of the Bible Belt.
"Senator McCain has a long legislative record of supporting abstinence-
based initiatives in his record in the U.S. Senate," said Trey Walker,
McCain's South Carolina campaign director. "He thinks that abstinence
is healthier and should be promoted in our society for young people."
The event is to follow McCain's appearance at a hot dog and ice cream
social.
We wonder if part of McCain's sermon was "do as I say, not as I do"?
Hours before McCain's appearance, our friend Dick Polman dropped this
tasty morsel in an excellent Sunday column on McCain's various flip-
flops:
I remember one frigid New Hampshire night, somewhere along Interstate
93. McCain held court, and we crowded around. He ruminated a bit about
health care (he confessed that the issue bored him), gossiped about
some people he didn't like (signaling his distaste by rolling his
eyes), reminisced about his days as a carousing Navy flyboy (he said
he dated an exotic dancer named "Marie the Flame Thrower of Florida"),
and there were rollicking good vibes as we rolled along.
Somehow, we suspect that anecdote got lost somewhere between Nashua
and Concord.
Look, personally, I have nothing against teaching abstinence to kids,
and starting at a young age. It is, of course, the only guaranteed way
to prevent unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. That
said, numerous studies have also shown that abstinence-only sex ed, as
favored by the federal government these days, is not the most
effective and ultimately does more harm than good.
Why? Because some kids do just fine with abstinence...until someone
like "Marie the Flame Thrower of Florida" comes along. That's where
all that good stuff like contraception and counseling comes in.
If McCain really wanted to teach those kids in South Carolina a lesson
about human sexuality, he should have brought "Marie the Flame Thrower
of Florida" along with him.
At least she could have roasted the hot dogs.
UPDATE: Was McCain a chaste exotic-dancer "carouser" in his youth, a
point raised by a commenter? Anything's possible...but then on the
other hand there's always this.
Posted on February 19, 2007 9:13 AM | TrackBack
If elected, the man who loves to yak promised weekly yak conferences.
He also wants to start a dialogue with the Senate, a la British
Question Time.
He was full of blunt answers. Queried about Bill Clinton's legacy, he
shot back: ''I think he'll be remembered as a great waste. A great
talent and a great waste.''
Senator Thompson was asked if he had given Mr. McCain any tips about
Tennessee, in case he ended up running against the vice president from
Tennessee.
''Never drink Jack Daniels on an empty stomach,'' Mr. Thompson
replied.
For a stud who had his testicles (a double orchidectomy) removed by
Bush and Rove during the 2000 Primary election in So. Carolina, the
old man is doing just fine with his new plastic balls.
John McCain: Neutered: But Healty as an Ox
Straight Talk... No Bullshit ....Believe Me If You Can
John McCain said tonight that he is completely recovered from the
bilateral orchidectomy that he suffered in the 2000 S. Carolina
Primary and is ready to take command of the Empire and its future
wars. "I'm As ready as I will ever be to lead the Empire into battle
any place in the world where there is oil," the Arizona senator told
reporters traveling with the candidate on the Straight Talk Express.
What Bush did to McCain in the 2000 S C. Primary
Bush Supporters Questioned McCain's Sanity.
http://www.bartcopnation.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=8&topic_id=522.
SEE McCain and Plastic Balls
Welcome to Your Nutz ,A question about testicle transplant
"I am John McCain and I endorse this message.."
"Have a ball. Better yet, have two new balls like I have after
Karl Rove removed mine in the 2000 GOP SC primary of 2000."
Theoretically testicle transplant from another donor is possible but
it still hasn't been tried on humans because it wouldn't make any
sense to do it. Spermatozoids carry genetic information that they got
from germ cells of the testicle, so even if you would get someone,
like President Bush to donate you a diseased testicle and even if
that transplant were successful the sperms that the transplanted
testicle would produce wouldn't be genetically yours and so wouldn't
the children.
Besides,"it is doubtful that Bush has any balls of his own"
---- (VP Cheney).
" I am the only Republican, since Teddy Roosevelt that has any big
balls and I expect that I will someday be another face on Mt,
Rushmore, balls and all "
Like Teddy said:
"Speak softly and show your balls...."
They would be genetically donors children. Still there is a procedure
that is called testicle transplant although it is not quite like that.
The procedure involves taking testicular tissue from men suffering
from cancer or some other disease, freezing that tissue and returning
it to the testicles of that man later on in the future. It is used to
treat men with testicular cancer who have to go to chemotherapy,
which
would destroy their ability to have children, to prevent that a tissue
sample is taken and frozen. Later when the
chemotherapy is over the tissue is being returned to the donor and
testicular germ cells repopulate the testicle returning the fertility
of the man. In some cases there is no need for any kind of a
transplant since one testicle
can make up for the missing of the other producing more sperm and
testosterone and testicular prosthesis can replace the missing
testicle if you have a problem with not having a testicle in your
scrotum.
Too late for Warmonger McCain. "My balls were left in So, Carolina in
2000 but I am OK now. Ask Cindy."
"Nuts. This Buds for you. "
---- General John McCain " Empire Commander of Oil and Hundred Year
Wars.
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: February 2, 2000
John McCain has been on a wild ride. Now he's going to drag the
Republican Party on one.
The party that takes paternalism so seriously it was willing to anoint
the scion just based on his scionosity, must now deal with the scamp.
It's an ''East of Eden'' moment.
When former President Bush came up to New Hampshire, he called his son
a ''boy'' who would not let the country down.
Mr. McCain pounced on the word ''boy.'' ''I fully agree with that,''
he said, grinning.
W. seemed to revert to a jittering teenager standing on stage next to
his dad at a country music concert on Saturday. It underscored the
challenger's case: Junior was a nice enough guy, but did he have the
experience to run the country?
Everyone assumes the Bush machine will try to tear John McCain apart
limb from limb. But then, John McCain already survived that fate far
away and long ago. So he's pretty fearless.
He went from being a rebellious son to a rebellious P.O.W. to a
rebellious senator. Eighteen months ago at dinner, he mused about how
much of a maverick was too much of a maverick to win the Republican
nomination. He knows, even with his rout here, it's hard to capture a
party whose leaders hate you.
''I try to restrain my delusions of grandeur,'' he says.
His weird schizophrenic existence -- cherished by voters and reporters
in New Hampshire for his directness, loathed by Republican leaders
back in Washington for his directness -- was illustrated in a funny
exchange on his bus on Monday.
Senator McCain turned to his friend, the movie actor turned Tennessee
senator, Fred Thompson, who had come from the nation's capital to
campaign on the ''Straight Talk Express.''
''How are things in the city of Satan?'' Senator McCain asked.
Mr. Thompson replied that all was quiet.
Then a reporter asked Mr. McCain what sort of reception he would get
if his campaign collapsed and he had to return to the Senate he has so
often stirred up.
''Flowers will be strewn in my path,'' he replied dryly.
''Something will be,'' Mr. Thompson observed, even more dryly.
The McCain campaign was devilish. The senator pointed out Tom Brokaw
to one town hall audience as ''one of the last Trotskyites . . . left-
wing, Communist, pinkos of the American media.''
He reminisced about an exotic dancer he had once dated. ''Marie, the
Flame Thrower of Florida,'' he said. Asked what she was like, he
replied, ''She was pretty volatile,'' and then slapped his knee and
laughed, ''Har, har, har!''
The candidate occasionally used curse words, usually foreign to
campaigns. He called himself a ''wacko'' and ''an old geezer,'' and
his answers often degenerated into jokes. Sometimes his comments went
over a weird edge, as when the Navy vet teased an Air Force vet: ''I
tried to get in the Air Force, but my parents were married.''
Complaining it was not ''manly'' of Mr. Bush to keep him off the New
York ballot, Mr. McCain started to denounce it as Communistic. ''I
spent a portion of my life under that system,'' he said. Then he
stopped and smiled. ''How's that for demagoguery? -- Here, you wanna
see my medals?''
Unlike Al Gore and George Bush, who dole themselves out sparingly, the
Arizona senator offered a giddy excess of access to the press
contingent he dubbed ''great ferrets of truth.'' There was even a
teenage reporter from Seventeen magazine, patiently waiting to ask if
Mr. McCain preferred Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera.
''Marie, the Flame Thrower of Florida,''
Why John McCain is no saint
Anyone who's been paying attention know that Sen. John McCain's
"Straight Talk Express" jumped the tracks the night in South Philly in
2000 that he first embraced George W. Bush. Today, there's nothing the
Arizona senator won't do or say to appease the social conservatives
who hold sway in GOP presidential primaries, as he drifts so far right
he may drop right off the Atlantic's continental shelf.
The latest? He's crusading for abstinence-only sex education in the
Deep South:
Most presidential candidates are trying to get people to say "yes."
Republican Sen. John McCain will be encouraging South Carolina
students to say "no."
The Arizona lawmaker is scheduled to speak Sunday night to about 1,500
middle and high school students about abstaining from premarital sex.
Abstinence and abortion loom large as issues in this first-in-the-
South primary state in the heart of the Bible Belt.
"Senator McCain has a long legislative record of supporting abstinence-
based initiatives in his record in the U.S. Senate," said Trey Walker,
McCain's South Carolina campaign director. "He thinks that abstinence
is healthier and should be promoted in our society for young people."
The event is to follow McCain's appearance at a hot dog and ice cream
social.
We wonder if part of McCain's sermon was "do as I say, not as I do"?
Hours before McCain's appearance, our friend Dick Polman dropped this
tasty morsel in an excellent Sunday column on McCain's various flip-
flops:
I remember one frigid New Hampshire night, somewhere along Interstate
93. McCain held court, and we crowded around. He ruminated a bit about
health care (he confessed that the issue bored him), gossiped about
some people he didn't like (signaling his distaste by rolling his
eyes), reminisced about his days as a carousing Navy flyboy (he said
he dated an exotic dancer named "Marie the Flame Thrower of Florida"),
and there were rollicking good vibes as we rolled along.
Somehow, we suspect that anecdote got lost somewhere between Nashua
and Concord.
Look, personally, I have nothing against teaching abstinence to kids,
and starting at a young age. It is, of course, the only guaranteed way
to prevent unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. That
said, numerous studies have also shown that abstinence-only sex ed, as
favored by the federal government these days, is not the most
effective and ultimately does more harm than good.
Why? Because some kids do just fine with abstinence...until someone
like "Marie the Flame Thrower of Florida" comes along. That's where
all that good stuff like contraception and counseling comes in.
If McCain really wanted to teach those kids in South Carolina a lesson
about human sexuality, he should have brought "Marie the Flame Thrower
of Florida" along with him.
At least she could have roasted the hot dogs.
UPDATE: Was McCain a chaste exotic-dancer "carouser" in his youth, a
point raised by a commenter? Anything's possible...but then on the
other hand there's always this.
Posted on February 19, 2007 9:13 AM | TrackBack
If elected, the man who loves to yak promised weekly yak conferences.
He also wants to start a dialogue with the Senate, a la British
Question Time.
He was full of blunt answers. Queried about Bill Clinton's legacy, he
shot back: ''I think he'll be remembered as a great waste. A great
talent and a great waste.''
Senator Thompson was asked if he had given Mr. McCain any tips about
Tennessee, in case he ended up running against the vice president from
Tennessee.
''Never drink Jack Daniels on an empty stomach,'' Mr. Thompson
replied.
For a stud who had his testicles (a double orchidectomy) removed by
Bush and Rove during the 2000 Primary election in So. Carolina, the
old man is doing just fine with his new plastic balls.
John McCain: Neutered: But Healty as an Ox
Straight Talk... No Bullshit ....Believe Me If You Can
John McCain said tonight that he is completely recovered from the
bilateral orchidectomy that he suffered in the 2000 S. Carolina
Primary and is ready to take command of the Empire and its future
wars. "I'm As ready as I will ever be to lead the Empire into battle
any place in the world where there is oil," the Arizona senator told
reporters traveling with the candidate on the Straight Talk Express.
What Bush did to McCain in the 2000 S C. Primary
Bush Supporters Questioned McCain's Sanity.
http://www.bartcopnation.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=8&topic_id=522.
SEE McCain and Plastic Balls
Welcome to Your Nutz ,A question about testicle transplant
"I am John McCain and I endorse this message.."
"Have a ball. Better yet, have two new balls like I have after
Karl Rove removed mine in the 2000 GOP SC primary of 2000."
Theoretically testicle transplant from another donor is possible but
it still hasn't been tried on humans because it wouldn't make any
sense to do it. Spermatozoids carry genetic information that they got
from germ cells of the testicle, so even if you would get someone,
like President Bush to donate you a diseased testicle and even if
that transplant were successful the sperms that the transplanted
testicle would produce wouldn't be genetically yours and so wouldn't
the children.
Besides,"it is doubtful that Bush has any balls of his own"
---- (VP Cheney).
" I am the only Republican, since Teddy Roosevelt that has any big
balls and I expect that I will someday be another face on Mt,
Rushmore, balls and all "
Like Teddy said:
"Speak softly and show your balls...."
They would be genetically donors children. Still there is a procedure
that is called testicle transplant although it is not quite like that.
The procedure involves taking testicular tissue from men suffering
from cancer or some other disease, freezing that tissue and returning
it to the testicles of that man later on in the future. It is used to
treat men with testicular cancer who have to go to chemotherapy,
which
would destroy their ability to have children, to prevent that a tissue
sample is taken and frozen. Later when the
chemotherapy is over the tissue is being returned to the donor and
testicular germ cells repopulate the testicle returning the fertility
of the man. In some cases there is no need for any kind of a
transplant since one testicle
can make up for the missing of the other producing more sperm and
testosterone and testicular prosthesis can replace the missing
testicle if you have a problem with not having a testicle in your
scrotum.
Too late for Warmonger McCain. "My balls were left in So, Carolina in
2000 but I am OK now. Ask Cindy."
"Nuts. This Buds for you. "
---- General John McCain " Empire Commander of Oil and Hundred Year
Wars.
