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The senator. >> your republican colleague, senator jim inhofe says senator mccain is partially to blame for the president not initially ordering the flag lowered to half staff until senator mccains burial because he says they were both very strong willed people. whats your reaction to that? >> i dont think john mccain is to blame for this at all. it is significant that at the funerals youll have the two last opponents of john mccain in presidential elections speaking on his behalf. thats the kin...

He wanted to know what the strategy had been, where american troops were, how the iraqis respond. it was a real lesson in military strategy and history. so every time i went anywhere with him i learned something and we had fun, you know, we really did have fun. >> hes also said that you were just one of the guys, which i think for him is probably extremely high praise. >> he was really intent on going places and getting there quickly. john likes to move fast. so if we were in iraq and were tryin...

Tricks were that were played against john mccain. including the viciously racist flyers about him and his family that nobody ever really claimed responsibility for but turned up at just the right time before the vote. the george w. bush campaign in that contest that year, honestly, they decided they were going to go hard right, they decided they would hit the race button really, really hard and nay knew exactly what they were doing including when they decided to put their candidate at bob jones ...

Republican primary in south carolina. and it thereby helped him put away john mccain and win the presidency. and forever george w. bush will have to drag that hard as part of his legacy because it wasnt like he didnt know what he was getting into. it wasnt like he didnt know he was going a school that had an enforced apartheid regimen where the school literally regulated who you date by race. he knew exactly what he was doing when he went to bob jones university. it was a well-known thing about ...

That primary election in south carolina in 2001 still famous to this day for now dirty the dirty tricks were that were played against john mccain. including the viciously racist flyers about him and his family that nobody ever really claimed responsibility for but turned up at just the right time before the vote. the george w. bush campaign in that contest that year, honestly, they decided they were going to go hard right, they decided they would hit the race button really, really hard and nay k...

And so he ended up running against guys like gary bauer. whoops. gary, careful. and steve forbes, remember him? he also ran against alan keyes. remember alan keyes who was just stone cold crazy? he was not exactly running against a robust field. but the republican primary started that year in 2000 in iowa, the way it always does and george w. bush ran away with it even though there were always these other evangelical guys in the field, george w. bush won the iowa caucus that year by more than 10...

Hardly know anything about it. >> john mccain was son earlier, whatever your views on extremism, whatever, we dont give money to those who mate not share these crazy feelings. >> we are putting ourselves. what do you think? >> i think he is actually probably right. sure, it can get worse. you know what those moderates may be afraid. we have to find ways of helping those people under the radar if we have to do so. it is our job to embrace them not to kick them off to the side. i dont agree with p...

To common sense problem solving. im elliot cutler. independent just like me. >> maine has a track record. it has independent governors in the past. angus king, great last name. is this the model when people are does gised with politics and think theyre talking points, beholden to the parties? will we see more of this? >> i think so, john. trying to capture the middle. be independent of the two parties. and, you know, this is actually a very good ad. this is 60-second spot and he comes out with a...

My colleague david margolic i dont think that it ever occurred to john mccain that there was any twist or irony in what he was saying. and the fact is that in the last few months, its been extremely inconvenient for him to be mavericky at all with regard to the republican conservative establishment. because thats who he desperately needs to stave off a challenge in the republican primary. >> is maverick such a bad word as a guy who embraced it, i think wondrously and effectively for years he wen...

High school i was sort of conservative. i studied the issues. i like hillary clinton in that regard. any stage of my sort of political movement over the years, whether it was jean mccarthy i was in love with or whomever, at any stage i would have respected john mccain. i dont understand, hes a great guy from arizona. hes an traditional to gold berry goldwater. >> its a lope turnout primary and independents can vote in the primaries. >> look, if my endorsement helps you, john mccain, if youve got...