So McCain voted for Gore?
Arianna, posting at Huffington Post:
At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, I was talking to a man and his wife, both prominent Republicans. The conversation soon turned to the new president. “I didn’t vote for George Bush” the man confessed. “I didn’t either,” his wife added. Their names: John and Cindy McCain (Cindy told me she had cast a write-in vote for her husband).
“By abandoning his core principles and embracing Bush — both literally and metaphorically — he has morphed into an older and crankier version of the man he couldn’t stomach voting for in 2000.”
- Arianna Huffington
The fact that this man was so angry at what George Bush had done to him, and at what Bush represented for their party, that he did not even vote for him in 2000 shows just how far he has fallen since then in his hunger for the presidency. By abandoning his core principles and embracing Bush — both literally and metaphorically — he has morphed into an older and crankier version of the man he couldn’t stomach voting for in 2000.
McCain advisor Mark Salter rejected Huffington’s assertion as “totally false.”
“Arianna has a new book to promote,” Salter said Tuesday. “Whatever her cause celebre of the moment is — and it’s always subject to further revisions with her — she will say anything to promote it and make anything up.”
Reached by phone in Miami, Huffington stood by her story. She said she had admired McCain but had gradually became disillusioned, persuaded that he had forsaken his maverick, truth-telling ways.
“I felt the media is so enamored with McCain and they are giving him a pass on one thing after another,” Huffington said. “I think there is a disconnect in the country . . . and I felt it was time for me to tell what I knew.”
Through a spokesperson with the colorful name Tucker Bounds, McCain has denied telling me he didn’t vote for Bush in 2000. “It’s not true,” Bounds told the Washington Post, “and I ask you to consider the source.”
My sentiments exactly — because John McCain has a long history of issuing heartfelt denials of things that were actually true.
He denied ever talking with John Kerry about his leaving the GOP to be Kerry’s ‘04 running mate — then later admitted he had, insisting: “Everybody knows that I had a conversation.”
He denied admitting that he didn’t know much about economics, even though he’d said exactly that to the Wall Street Journal. And the Boston Globe. And the Baltimore Sun.
He denied ever having asked for a budget earmark for Arizona, even though he had. On the record.
He denied that he’d ever had a meeting with comely lobbyist Vicki Iseman and her client Lowell Paxon, even though he had. And had admitted it in a legal deposition.
And those are just the outright denials. He’s also repeatedly tried to spin away statements he regretted making (see: 100-year war, Iraq was a war for oil, etc.).
So, yes, by all means, “consider the source.”
Apparently not voting for Bush was the last honest — and smart — thing McCain has done.
Well done. This is a bombshell.
Who cares what she has to say or think about anything let alone understand her she nothing more than a opportunist of the worst kind someone out for herself certainly not this country she showed her true colors when she helped toss Gray Davis out of office on lies and then ran a joke of a campaingn and then she ended up being the Biggest joke of all! she’s no Democrat.