Food for thought for women considering voting McCain...

[americanstranger]

I was just following links around and found this information at a site that apparently archives the truth about Gramps McCain. Seems he like to play big tough guy with women. You may already know some of this, but I hadn't heard much of this information before.

John McCain Intimidates and Demeans Women

As I have written before, I fully expect female supporters of Hillary Clinton to support Barack Obama after he captures the nomination for the Democratic Party. I cannot imagine how anyone with a conscience could possibly support a misogynistic verbal batterer like John McCain.

It is already known:

* He once publicly referred to his wife as a “trollop” and a “cunt”

* He said Chelsea Clinton was ugly because Janet Reno was her father (a trifecta of insult implicitly trading on the right-wing libel that Hillary Clinton is a lesbian)

* He intimidated a female reporter on his campaign airplane when asked about his account of being asked to serve as Sen. John Kerry’s running mate in 2004

But there is more just revealed thanks to the Washington Post:

In 1994, McCain tried to stop a primary challenge to the state's Republican governor, J. Fife Symington III, by telephoning his opponent, Barbara Barrett, the well-heeled spouse of a telecommunications executive, and warning of unspecified "consequences" should she reject his advice to drop out of the race. Barrett stayed in. At that year's state Republican convention, McCain confronted Sandra Dowling, the Maricopa County school superintendent and, according to witnesses, angrily accused her of helping to persuade Barrett to enter the race.

"You better get out or I'll destroy you," a witness claims that McCain shouted at her. Dowling responded that if McCain couldn't respect her right to support whomever she chose, that he "should get the hell out of the Senate." McCain shouted an obscenity at her, and Dowling howled one back.

But John McCain is a war hero. We shouldn’t let his verbal battery of women dissuade us about his manliness and bravery.

John McCain Holds Grudges and Seeks Revenge

McCain strategist and co-author of five McCain books, Mark Salter, rationalizes McCain’s galloping fury:

"If he feels a challenge to his integrity, then he'll say something," Salter said. "If he thinks you betrayed him . . . he'll tell you, he'll be angry. . . . But he's also exceedingly forgiving."

The ruffian forgives the victim. How comforting. How co-dependent and enabling of Salter to say so.

But it seems that John McCain doesn’t always forgive immediately. In fact he can hold grudges for years, ones that fester and impel him to pounce and seek revenge at opportune moments:

During the early 1990s, McCain telephoned the office of Tom Freestone, a governmental official little known outside Arizona's Maricopa County. McCain had an unusual request. He wanted Freestone, then chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, to reject a job applicant named Karen S. Johnson, whose last governmental position had been in the office of a former Arizona governor and who had just interviewed for a position as an aide in Freestone's office.

A few years earlier, he had an angry exchange with her while she was the secretary for Republican Arizona Gov. Evan Meacham, who was impeached and forced out of office for campaign finance violations.

This wasn't an isolated incident. It appears to be part of a pattern:

During roughly the same period, McCain requested the firing of an aide to Arizona's senior U.S. senator, Dennis DeConcini, according to two top figures in DeConcini's office.

The aide, a veterans affairs expert named Judy Leiby, first ran into problems with McCain in the late '80s, when she sought to correct what she regarded as a McCain misstatement about DeConcini's record on a veterans issue. She was attending a Phoenix meeting between McCain and some veterans when she rebutted a McCain assertion that DeConcini, a Democrat, favored a bill that included a cut of some veterans benefits. "That is incorrect," Leiby said, detailing the specifics of DeConcini's position as McCain listened stonily.

Sometime afterward, McCain called DeConcini and asked that he dismiss Leiby, insisting to the senator that his aide had become a toxic, partisan figure.

It shouldn’t be overlooked that both Johnson and Leiby are women.

http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3399

Are you anti-Obama women really sure you want to give this guy your vote?

- as

[rufus dog]

1. but...

He didn't stop Hillary from the nomination.

[ShadowLiberal]

2. Unfortunately most of that stuff is only good for a swiftboat attack ad or 'internet rumors'

A lot of that stuff could certainly be damaging to McCain, but I just can't see a presidential campaign airing just about all of those claims. I mean, it would make Obama be a hypocrite with the stuff he's been saying lately in response to McCain's attacks, such attacks would be better left for a liberal swift boat group to deliver. It would also probably make a decent thing to email to all of your friends, in hopes of starting up an internet smear campaign (saying "John McCain is a sexist bully who mistreats women") similar to the "Obama is a Muslim" campaign.

[americanstranger]

5. Just putting it out there.

If you ask me, people are going to learn about McCain's temper soon enough.

Judging by the back-and-forth between him and Obama in the past week, it's looking like Obama has a real knack for getting inside St. Maverick's head.

I personally hope the Big Meltdown comes during a presidential debate. Or two.

- as

[MADem]

6. His temper....Learn about it? He's famous for it.

He can deliver some serious invective, too, like nobody's business.

The thing about McCain's temper is, he doesn't "lose" it. It's more of a targeted commodity. When he turns it on you and lets loose, you know you've been fired upon. And he's totally in control--in an odd sort of way. He knows how to rip a person up one side and down the other. He's almost surgical.

He's less fierce in his old age, but that's relative. He's still fiercer than most.

[Cheap_Trick]

3. sadly, some of them do

because of wounded ego or shattered dreams. They are willing to sacrifice ALL American women's reproductive rights because they are in a snit. They aren't thinking long term. They aren't thinking about what happens to their children when they get drafted to fight another war, a war of McCain's choosing. All they care about is the momentary satisfaction of showing that bastard Obama what happens for beating Hillary.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

4. We in AZ are well aware of what a scary nutjob McCain is.

DeConcini is one of our delegates to the DNC and I'm looking forward to his insights on his experience with McCain in the Senate.

As for anti-Obama women, I can only hope they will see the bigger picture.