Comments on: McCain Hearts Renzi

By: phred

phred — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:27:28 +0000

My guess would be that Renzi’s trial isn’t going to be until after the election. As long as he’s saying he’s going to fight the charges, McCain may think his name will be associated with Renzi’s less often if he takes the “innocent until proven guilty” line…

I would dearly love to see that, because then the Dem nominee can pivot and attack (thanks Jane!) that if McCain is so fond of “innocent until proven guilty”, how can he be in favor of the suspension of habeus corpus, torture, rendition, and show trials? I would so love to see him explain that with Renzi standing by his side…

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:52:38 +0000

Though what happens when Obama picks Napolitano to be his running mate?

By: bmaz

bmaz — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:17:40 +0000

Renzi is a nice little footnote on McCain; but pretty much penny ante stuff. The emphasis should be pounding McCain on his own corruption, and there is plenty of major items there, and his position on the big issues, which are horrid and more of Bush, or worse, across the board.

By: freepatriot

freepatriot — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:10:14 +0000

Renzi = Rezko.

my opponent is guilty too ???

it just OOZES with “straight talk”, doesn’t it

By: SparklestheIguana

SparklestheIguana — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:01:59 +0000

Maybe McCain thinks he doesn’t have anything to worry about because Obama’s being tarred with corruption problems of his own – Rezko. If anyone brings up Renzi he will just pipe up with Rezko.

By: Redshift

Redshift — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:58:43 +0000

My guess would be that Renzi’s trial isn’t going to be until after the election. As long as he’s saying he’s going to fight the charges, McCain may think his name will be associated with Renzi’s less often if he takes the “innocent until proven guilty” line than if there’s a big story about how he dumped Renzi (and Renzi dumps on him to the press.)

I’d also venture to guess that he might be responding differently if it was a state that was closely contested, rather than his home state.

By: SparklestheIguana

SparklestheIguana — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:38:41 +0000

Why is McCain risking the embarrassment now? I don’t know. Why is he risking the embarrassment of the position that it’s okay to stay in Iraq for 100 years? What is the reaction of the McCain-loving reporters on the Straight Talk Express? Is his loyalty to Renzi just another sign of his Straight Talk? Maybe the honesty just burbles out of him like a geyser, he can’t control it.

By: SparklestheIguana

SparklestheIguana — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:35:51 +0000

I never held it against Clinton that he said he didn’t inhale. The first time you try to inhale anything that’s not oxygen, you’re gonna have a little trouble. What he was trying to say was he had trouble inhaling. Pot is more tricky to smoke than tobacco. Sure, what he said was a little stupid, but whatever.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:29:31 +0000

Holy Crap! Heh. I am not sure why, but from the different things you have said over time, I pictured you up by Window Rock/Ft. Defiance somewhere. Couldn’t jibe that with Franks’ district, so I went to the map you referred to. Man, I had forgotten how insane that district looks (or didn’t pay good enough attention in the first place back when they were doing that). EW is right; what a gerrymandered Rube Goldberg nightmare. Wow. Just wow.

Folks, you got to see this thing.

By: JohnJ

JohnJ — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:03:42 +0000

As to Clinton, I always held it against him that he said he didn’t inhale. Didn’t care whether that was true or not either. He was either a wimp or a fibber.

In my younger years we always had some one like Bill hanging around while we “inhaled”. They usually showed up to impress some girl that they were part of the cool crowd. (That, and to get their homework done by someone with a clue.)

Therefore the former.