# Despicable: McCain & child sexual predators **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 10, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-mccain-child-sexual-predators/462887 "2008-09-10T01:59:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-mccain-child-sexual-predators/462887/241 "2008-09-13T02:12:54Z")
PS: All and sundry in full working order. Gaskets included. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-mccain-child-sexual-predators/462887/242 "2008-09-13T02:27:32Z")
[QUOTE=Scylla] Do you think the “despicable cunt” part strengthens your argument or weakens it? How does it help? [/QUOTE] One quick reply, then we’re both done with this for good. My telling **Bricker** off for his (long) pattern of dreadful behavior was never part of an argument. I don’t care if changes his mind. I haven’t respected him enough to give a shit any way at all about him for over 4 years. You think he’s a good guy; I think his actions have been, and I don’t use this term lightly, evil. Good people can do bad things. I think people can themselves become truly bad when they keep right on doing harm, either soothed by rationalization or because the ends justify the means for them. That isn’t just politics. Plenty of people, of all political stripes, ultimately draw a line beyond which they simply won’t go for the simple reason no outcome could ever erase the taint. Fruit of the poisoned tree. John McCain used to be one, or at least played one on television. Then he sold himself for a shot at power. It’s whoring, though whores merely engage in a socially shadowy commercial enterprise. When McCain threw aside even the dregs of basic decency and honor, all for a shot at power, that’s when he switched from maverick to whore. Assassination political tactics have never been acceptable, especially when someone clearly sees and acknowledges the wrongness. I don’t know what coinage bought **Bricker** , then or now. Don’t care. Not sure it matters much. And not worth expending any more pixels, either, not to mention boring other posters witless. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-mccain-child-sexual-predators/462887/243 "2008-09-13T04:26:26Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > taxing the wealthy with crushingly higher tax rates. Have taxes for people making over $250,000 made you struggle to put food on the table? Because Bush-McCain’s war on credit sure ruined the dollar and drove up gas prices sure have. As I recall you cheerfully voted for Bush. The people struggling to make it around here sure thank you. Asshole. I’d pay half my check in taxes if it’d make sure I never had to go through that again, but I may. My current job is seasonal. Talk to me when taxes on the wealthy actually takes food out of your mouth. Till then you get the world’s smallest violin, and only for a few minutes. There’s a fellow on the east cost who needs it next cause he won the $15,000,000 jackpot and got a paper cut from the check. ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-mccain-child-sexual-predators/462887/244 "2008-09-13T05:46:52Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > Actually, this is completely wrong. If you invest an after-tax million at 5% interest, you pay $5K in taxes (assuming your 10% tax rate). You only pay taxes on the gain, not repeatedly on the principal. which gives you incentive to re-invest so you don’t pay tax on that. Tax breaks tied to investment encourage people to invest even when things are down…free tax breaks encourage people to invest in China. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-mccain-child-sexual-predators/462887/245 "2008-09-13T06:03:09Z")
> [@TVeblen](#): > > Daunting, **Miller**. > That was sure a honey of a meltdown, though. And over, well, pitifully little. And this is why I [del]love[/del] like you. I can relate to righteous anger, though I rarely show it. Do not apologize. Let the anger grow within you. You have reason to be angry. This is not just a political battle. It is a battle for the very Soul of America. You are the voice of that Soul. Let it loose and smite the self-serving idiots! Oh, and did anybody notice I included NO smilies? Nothing ironic or snarky at all? Good. You bought a clue. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-mccain-child-sexual-predators/462887/246 "2008-09-16T23:47:31Z")
[Still getting spread as fact, BTW.](http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/16/fact-checking-the-liberal-fact-checkers-the-truth-about-that-sex-ed-bill/) Of course, the folks over there would probably believe almost anything bad about Obama, so it’s probably a lost cause, but there you go. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-mccain-child-sexual-predators/462887.md?page=12)