I am so angry I can hardly even type this. Russ Feingold will never get another penny from me. What an idiot.
Washington - If Republican John McCain needs someone to vouch for his independence, he could easily do worse than Senate colleague Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, a liberal Democrat from a key battleground state.
"I think the guy calls 'em as he sees 'em, and as president would call 'em as he sees 'em, and would make people mad all over the place because it wouldn't fit anybody's playbook," said Feingold, who teamed up with McCain to rewrite federal campaign laws.
"He would be very original," Feingold said.
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[He] continues to express (when asked) his affection and admiration for McCain, even in ways that deviate from his party's core strategy against the Arizona Republican, which is to paint him as a clone of President Bush, and a "maverick no more."
Feingold calls McCain "very original" and a "maverick by nature." McCain's own TV ads call him the "original maverick."
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"But the notion that somehow (McCain) is going to get in there and be some kind of ideological Newt Gingrich right-winger is a joke. There's no way that he would do that," Feingold said.
As Jonathan Martin said at the Politico, there is no way some of this won't end up in an ad for Mccain.
Not only do I question Russ Feingold's judgment in giving this kind of interview, I question his intelligence. What kind of utter kool-aid drinker doesn't see that Mccain is a bona-fide right winger, in some ways worse than Bush?
This is a man who was among only 30 senators who voted against legislation that would give stiffer penalties to those who bomb abortion clinics.
This is a man who spent years fighting against having Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday.
This is a man who who baselessly accused the first African-American to have a chance at the Presidency of "playing the race card."
This is a man who wants 100 years in Iraq.
This is a man who called his wife a cunt and a trollop.
This is a man who's entire economic and foreign policy platform is exactly like, or worse than, that same world-view that has devastated this country for the last 8 years.
Shame on Russ Feingold. He is not the person I thought he was. I will never, ever send another penny to that stupid PAC of his. What a fucking joke and a loser and a fraud.
Here is the full article: http://www.jsonline.com/...