Tammy Bruce: McCain Repudiates Conservative Talk Show Host

McCain Repudiates Conservative Talk Show Host

Juan McAmnesty's condemnation of a radio talk show host's honest comments about Barack Hussein Obama for a McCain intro, does not bode well. This does confirm in great part McCain's contempt for straight talking conservatives, but it also may be a first sign of a lack of gravitas in McCain when it comes to the fight ahead.

Repudiating a conservative supporter for strong remarks about one of the most dangerous presidential candidates we've ever seen is not the way to go about illustrating your respect for conservatives or your grasp on reality. When McCain flips out over a supporter using Barack Hussein Obama's given middle name, and speaks strongly and truthfully about his political standing, it's a sign, my friends, that McCain very well may not have the gravitas to win this election.

But it certainly confirms he has more respect for a Marxist patsy of George Soros than he does for us.

McCain Scrambles to Control Backers

Though John McCain vowed that attacks on Barack Obama at his campaign events "will never happen again," the Republican presidential candidate says he's concerned he may be unable to control all of his supporters -- especially third party groups.

At a rally in Cincinnati Tuesday, McCain denounced the remarks of local radio talk show host Bill Cunningham, who introduced the candidate with several attacks on Obama, including suggesting he is a "hack" who would sit down for tea with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hezbollah terror leaders.

Cunningham also called Obama by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, during the on-stage introduction. McCain immediately denounced the remarks and promised a civil debate should Obama become the Democratic presidential nominee. But speaking to reporters aboard his campaign tour bus late Tuesday, McCain acknowledged that conservative independent groups pursuing a similar line to Cunningham's could be impossible to control...

Cunningham says he was told by party officials to give the audience red meat to warm up the crowd that came to see McCain. He says he did and the crowd loved it, but McCain then threw him under the bus. Cunningham says McCain has now lost his support.

So perhaps McAmnesty can stop worrying about how to control 'supporters' like us, because we won't be there supporting him. Solves his problem, doesn't it?

Here's Cunnigham on H&C last night:

Posted by Tammy · February 27, 2008 08:05 AM · Permalink
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Tammy,

You use the word dangerous to describe Barack Obama. Put simply, I could not disagree more. I will repeat what I have said on this subject before in this blog, the politics of fear by the right wing will not succeed this time. People are tired of the politics of fear. You are seeing it in the low turnout for every GOP primary, the Republicans are about to get hammered when Obama is nominated for the general election.

I am an independent who had supported W twice, but I will be supporting Obama in this election if he is on the ballot. The purists may feel this is an election only about the issues, however, this election also has everything to do with vision, concepts and hope as it does with the issues. And on that score, the GOP flunk on that score this time and flunk badly. The GOP can't even agree that McCain is a good nominee and yet you are sitting here in your blog telling people that Obama is dangerous. What is dangerous is letting in McCain with the divided political support he currently has and would have if elected.

Posted by: WK at February 27, 2008 09:07 AM

Seems to me McCain has decided that sugar-and-spice-and-everything- nice is the way to fight Obama, even though this tactic has spectacularly failed Hillary.
Due to the cyclical nature of everything, this election is heavily weighted for the Democrats. McCain has decided to lean as far left as possible to the point of scorning the Republican conservative base. Now Hillary has been able to move to the center, with a nudge and a wink to her followers, but they all know she's really a leftist and play along. The right doesn't have the same confidence to play along with McCain.

Posted by: helpunderdog at February 27, 2008 09:19 AM

McCain's reaction was disgusting and infuriating. I had been leaning towards voting for him mainly as a way to stop the plans that Obama and Clinton have in store for the country.

This recent slap at conservatives and his goose-step to the political correctness beat has changed my mind. My focus may now completely switch to supporting people running for Congress like Allen West.

Posted by: Kelly at February 27, 2008 09:21 AM

Why must we call them "Senator". Not prejudice, not racism, no other reason except to foster the elistism of Congress!! The Honorable Senators can now patronize the unwashed people.

Posted by: Pathman at February 27, 2008 09:21 AM

McCain keeps talking about how he reaches out to the other side.

I'm a conservative and I'm still waiting for him to reach out to me.

As for WK - there are no politics of fear from the "right wing".
The politics of fear, like the politics of personal destruction, are left wing constructs. WK says that he is an independent, but he goes out and uses the patented left wing catch phrases. WK reminds me so much of the C-Span seminar callers and I don't believe anything they say either.

Posted by: John H Schneider II at February 27, 2008 09:26 AM

WK: When I first saw your comments on a previous post about Obama being “inspiring” and now this about the “issues, concepts, and vision” being important as “issues” are to “purists”, I thought this must be a colossal hoax; no one on this blog would make such vacant statements.

But now, I guess I’ll bite. Obama is dangerous because he is socialism with a smile. Unlike Hillary, who many can’t stand personally, the country is apparently going to experience orgasms as the State Senator from Illinois confiscates our incomes, strips our military, and dismisses our national sovereignty.

As for BHO being “inspiring”, that would indicate that he motivates you to do something. What exactly is he inspiring you to do besides swoon when he says the magic words: CHANGE/ HOPE/ FUTURE/YES WE CAN? When he does his MLK-wannabe with a teleprompter routine, he inspires me to change the channel.

Posted by: ashleymatt at February 27, 2008 09:43 AM

OK, I'll bite: where's all this vision, concepts and hope I keep hearing about from Obama? If the guy's suit was any more empty, he'd be a freaking coat hanger.

All I keep hearing about is "change, change, change". Geez Louise, the word must have gotten used 100 times during that talk-show-cum-debate last night. This begs the question: where's the change going to come from Obama? New drapes in the Oval Office?

All the guy offers is more of the same old left-wing playbook: speech after speech espousing class warfare - demonizing capitalism, the rich and of course, the bad ol' "corporations". More dangerous talk about socialized health care; government is the solution for everything - as if we need an even LARGER Nanny State.

This isn't change, people. This is a rollback. And if you don't think a person can be dangerous as President, look no further than Jimmy Peanuts. His naivete in with Iran helped blossom the scourge of modern Islamic fundamentalism as we now know it.

But I digress.

It's one thing to throw the word "change" around; it's another to actually offer it. I don't see how flipping the calendar back 30-some-odd years in "change" - it's more like a "retreat". All of this is moot, as McCain very likely Bob Dole-d his way out of any shot he may have had the the Presidency.

Posted by: PeteRFNY at February 27, 2008 09:58 AM

What I'd like to know is how McCain is going to see that this never happens again ? How's he going to do that ? And why are the left so bent out of shape when BHOs middle name is mentioned ? Islam is a religion of peace , isint it ? The left should be the ones shouting ' Hussein , Hussein ! '
BHO will be a very dangerous man to have in the Oval Office. He will make Jimmy Carter look like a St. James . Jimmy paved the way for the Islamofacist revolution in America and now that they have hundreds of cells all over America BHOs surrender position will only enable them to achieve their final goal of replacing our government with Sharia law. That's going to be a major change BHO will bring to America.

Posted by: Young American at February 27, 2008 10:28 AM

Gee Wiz WK,

I thought the politic of fear had to do with the propaganda of Global Climate Doom. Which fear mongers stand to profit? There are industrial giants such as General Electric who owns NBC, a propaganda outfit for "green week." Which other giants stand to profit by government interference with their competitors? There are also those in the political ruling class who seek to regulate carbon through taxation. Let's tax the real culprits, those ignorant volcanoes and the mother of all problems, the sun 93 million miles away.

Oh and what else? How about a level playing field in this country .............. for those who wish to see us dead? That would help us reach Bill Clinton's recently stated goal of curtailing the run away growth of the USA. Yes, a few good attacks from our friends, the Islamic Fascists, would help us curtain some of those nasty green house gas emissions.

How nice. Let's take a leap with B. Hussein Obama!

Between the wolf who thinks he's a sheep (B.H.O.) and the wolf flimsily disguised as a sheep (Hillbillary), I prefer (if I had to choose) the enemy I know and can see.

Then there is McCain.

Posted by: jerocat at February 27, 2008 10:35 AM

McCain's stupid condemnation made me sick. Condemnation for what??? He succeeded in making something that supports the leftist mentality out of NOTHING. I'm so weary of this kind of wimpish crap coming from our so-called "conservative" leadership. I LOVED what Cunningham said.

Posted by: Kimj7157 at February 27, 2008 11:52 AM

Dear Tammy,

Hello from NYC. I wish you were broadcasting here. We really need you here in Red Square on the East. Anyway, I remember when the Demo-rats made fun of "George Herbert Walker Bush." Did anyone call that racist? Why is using "Barack Hussein Obama" racist? Is it racist/misogynist to say "Hillary Rodham Clinton"? Like you say, it is the leftist fascists who are the real racists.

McCain has shown us what a "cave in" artist he is. After seeing that walking cadaver make his mea culpa last night, I said to myself that there is no way that Juan Insane McCain can possibly win the election.

Steven

Posted by: Steven at February 27, 2008 12:54 PM

The issue that should be scaring everyone silly about McCain's repudiation of Mr. Cunningham, who was told to give the audience some red meat to fire them up for McCain, is that it shows McCain wants to control everyone around him and everything that is said in the campaign. Totalitarianism always comes from the left, but the leftist instituting it can as easily be a republican as well as a democrat, or fascist, or national socialist, or communist. If anyone is worried about the leftist totalitarianism in colleges, the environmental movement, health care garnishments, etc. gaining more of a foothold in society from BO or Hillary, they should also watch out for McCain. He showed his true colors in Cincinnati.

Posted by: St. Thor at February 27, 2008 01:56 PM

Some of you are interesting in your rebuttals to my opening comment. I don't agree with a lot of what Obama proposes, but the GOP is divided. Repubs had a poor bench to draw from this time for succeeding Bush, and Giuliani's blunder in waiting until Florida likely is what fueled McCain's rise in the key early days.

On the Dem side, I am not seeing anywhere near the level of anger as I am seeing on the REP side this time. I'm tiring of hearing the anger in these political blogs just by virtue of disagreement with someone as to who they support and why. It was very evident to me that the demonization of Obama by the blogs was going to start as soon as it was clear that he was heading to a primary win. Once more, it is not the disagreement but the way the disagreement is expressed in anger by many in here which typifies some of the moving support and represents a key support group for Obama.

You all are entitled to support McCain or whoever you choose to support in November. We have an honest difference of opinion as to who is best able to lead the country next.

Posted by: WK at February 27, 2008 06:45 PM

WK are you for real? Was Bush 41s Veep Dan Quayle
ever referred to as J Danforth Quayle? His given name by the way. What was the left inferring there? Right wing bloggers demonize but not leftys? A real independent might look at it all with both eyes open.

Posted by: CNYTammyFan at February 27, 2008 09:28 PM

If listening to Obama DOESN'T make you angry, you may need to be checked for a pulse!

Posted by: PeteRFNY at February 28, 2008 08:28 AM

It's up to McCain to set the "tone" of his campaign. If he doesn't like intros attacking the opposition, it's his choice. That doesn't preclude anyone from speaking their own mind on their own time and platform.

I don't read Tammy's blog because I agree with everything she says; half the time I don't agree. But I realize she's a political commentator, which allows for strong opinions, and doesn't require as much diplomacy and compromise as is often required of politicians.

John McCain is trying to appeal to a wider audience than just hard-line conservatives. He isn't perfect and I understand why many people are not happy with him. But if conservatives don't support him enough and we get president Obama, I will blame conservatives as much as Democrats, because they let it happen.

I didn't like George Bush for a number of reasons, but I voted for him anyway. Why? Because he was still better than the alternative.

We face a similar situation now. Five years from now with a Democrat in the White House and a Democrat majority in Congress, 3 new liberal Supremes and 12 million new Mexican voters we'll be lucky if the GOP is still viable.

You can't always get what you want, but you just might get what you need. IF you take it when it's offered. If you end up with the worse of two choices, you'll have no one but yourself to blame.

Posted by: chas at February 28, 2008 11:58 AM

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