Arianna On Inside Edition: John McCain Did Not Vote For George Bush In 2000

Why should we BELIEVE Arianna and NOT John McCain. Surely out of his own mouth John McCain's words are his words. Come on, this is an Election year and the game of POLITICS is in full force and Arianna is a big game player.

Besides, I look at this as Arianna doing John McCain a huge favor in that this goes a long way in distancing John McCain from President Bush. Obviously if John McCain did not even vote for George W. Bush then there is no way their politics can be the same. All the remarks that "they" are saying to imply that "if John McCain wins the presidency it will be George W. Bush's third term in office" can just go away now - thankfully.

Thanks, Arianna, you helped me make up my mind - I'M VOTING FOR JOHN McCAIN IN NOVEMBER!!! (Sorry Sen. Obama but blame ARIANNA).

2000 was 8-Goddam years ago.
Shit, I yelled at my mother in 1977....so WHAT?
There is sure a lot of non-news on this site.

The straight talker could just say--Hey-- it was a heated primary battle and I didn't vote for him when I went into the election booth although I worked my heart out for his re-election.
That would make me and a lot of people have a lot of respect for him.

McCain is lying his ass off - the nervous fake laugh gives him away everytime... but really who gives a fuck if he voted for DubYa or not?

You're right, rjean. Carter wasn't nearly corrupt, deranged, and incompetent enough to be a truly great president.

This is a monumental issue of great importance. Let's devote an entire debate to this issue.

Given Bush's approval ratings, how does this hurt McCain?

It's funny to see McCain protesting loudly that he voted for Bush. In other words, he's saying that he he helped enable the 8 years of the worst presidency in the history of the world.

While he tries to distance himself from Bush, he now has to suck up to him at the same time. Wow.

The last two weeks of October are going to look like 1996. McCain will be campaigning like Bob Dole, scorned and pathetic, the sacrificial lamb sent up by the GOP who have known for months that they don't have a prayer in the November elections.

-Wexler

Strange how Arianna is clinging to this as her big journalistic scoop, trying to establish bona fides maybe? Maybe she's feeling tawdry and cheap being Mary to all the Hufftard lambs.
It's a silly issue though apropos.

Yeah McCain really worked hard for Bush in '00...was that before or after he pulled the knife out of his back that GWB put there. Or was it a golf club?

When is Zsa Zsa going to move on to another story huh?

Heavens, who cares! How long will HuffPo play this inanity with arianne denouncing McCain for what he told her/told her not around a salad bar in 2003? No one has anyway the faintest expectation of integrity in politics from HuffPo - so get real, your liberal goof out there is in big troubles, Hillary put him in defensive and McCain looks more and more like the winner in November and you keep cranking Arianna's crap for weeks. Dump the story and try to help Glibama.

I just love the idea of a group of people telling an inconvenient truth being such a "controversy."

Well played Arianna. The MSM is indeed a fertile medium.

After all the horrid, unethical tricks Team Bush/Rove pulled on Sen McCain in the 2000 primary in SC it would be hard to believe that McCain could've ever pulled the voting machine lever for bush. Why deny it now? Heck, McCain should wear it as a badge of honour.

McCain is playing this so poorly. Assuming Huffington, Schiff, and Bradford are telling the truth, a pretty fair assumption, why is he denying saying that. He should have said, " I was at a party with a lot of liberals, so I told them that just to be polite." The irony of course is that it's the only half way intelligent thing the man has ever uttered.