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Well, it’s a new week, so it must be time for another NYT McCain hit-piece. Yes, the New York Times has endorsed John McCain, the most attractive Republican to Democrats, as their choice for the Republican nomination and they will likely choose to endorse the Democrat nominee for the General election in November, but now that Sen. McCain has achieved presumptive nominee status, it’s time to throw him under the bus, because he’s a Republican. Will the Times manage to kill the McCain campaign?

• It all started with the McCain-female lobbyist story. McCain’s reaction was to deny the allegation and express his disappointment with the dying paper, as if there was some affair going on between him and the Times. The end-of-the-day result was a spike in support for the presumptive nominee. Amazingly, the Times admitted their loss.
• Have you heard that Sen. McCain is old?
• With the bus driver admitting that the intended target was missed, they had to try again. So, let’s explore where McCain was born: outside of the U.S. on a U.S. military base! Should Sen. McCain be elected President, he would be the first born outside the U.S., with the exception of the first Presidents that were allowed to be President because of their status when the Constitution was ratified. Since Sen. McCain is a real liberal (by his own admission), his good friend and colleague from Missouri has introduced a bill to clarify that Sen. McCain’s natural-born citizenship (or any potential future candidate in a similar situation) would not be questioned.
• So, today’s attempt at landing Sen. McCain on the double yellow line is Sen. McCain’s inconsistency. Sure, he’s driving the Straight-Talk Express, but he opposed tax cuts before supporting them being permanent, he isn’t as hard-line on comprehensive immigration reform as he once was, he opposed abortion for a long time, then in ‘99 he slipped up and told a reporter he just wants to see Roe v. Wade become irrelevant, now he wants to see it overturned. He recently claimed to be “the only one” calling for former Defense Sec’y Rumsfeld to go, now he’s not using that line because it turns out he was wrong. And finally, Sen. McCain, who was tortured as a POW in Vietnam, voted against restricting tactics used by CIA interrogators. To be fair, he has yet to flip on his Gang of 14 idea. No doubt, the very Senior Senator from Arizona is disappointed that the Times is reporting the way they are.

So there you have it, a run-down of the old media’s attempt to run down their Republican of choice. For all of you that are saying I’m helping by pointing it out and I should just “shut up about McCain,” I never supported McCain. Never voted for him and never gave him my endorsement.

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