John McCain: Bush is "dangerous" and didn't vote for him.

[SteveLaura 0]

Did John McCain vote for George Bush?

Well that's not what he told Josh and Toby from The West Wing. Seriously.

The blogger and socialite Arianna Huffington posted on her blog a few days ago that at a small dinner party in LA just after the 2000 election McCain told startled guests that he didn't like Bush, didn't trust him and hadn't voted for him.

At this stage of proceedings I should think this was a good story for McCain. His people, however, have denied it vehemently. His close aide Mark Salter had this to say about Ms Huffington:

She’s a flake and a poser and an attention-seeking diva

Enter Josh Lyman and Toby Ziegler.

For it turns out that actors Bradley Whitford (Josh) and Richard Schiff (Toby) were both present at the dinner and, at the request of Arianna Huffington, have issued statements.

Here's Josh:

McCain was just sort of going off on how much he disliked Bush and the horrible things that the Bush campaign had done to his family in South Carolina, and his exasperation with Bush about his ridiculous tax cuts and he really wanted to talk to him about it, but he said the guy doesn’t have the concentration, and you talk for 10 minutes and then the guy wants to talk about baseball,” Mr. Whitford said.

Another guest then asked Mr. McCain, Mr. Whitford recalled, whether he had voted for Mr. Bush. “And he put his finger in front of his mouth and mouthed, ‘No way,’ ” Mr. Whitford said.

And here's Toby:

Someone asked, ‘What do you think of Bush?’ ” Mr. Schiff recalled. “My recollection, and I have to qualify this, because I’m not 100 percent sure he used this word, but my recollection is that McCain said that Bush was dangerous and he didn’t trust him.

Then this person said, ‘Why did you support him?’ And McCain said, ‘It was my obligation as a Republican to support the Republican candidate.’ And the person said, ‘Did you vote for him?’ And McCain said, ‘No.’

Now Mark Salter has replied to the actor with this statement:

He voted for George Bush; I know it for dead certitude

This is not, however, a denial.

Josh and Toby are not saying that McCain did not vote for Bush. How could they possibly know that? They are saying that he told a starry liberal Hollywood dinner party, who wanted him to dislike Bush, that he didn't vote for Bush, which is a quite different thing.

Strangely enough, McCain emerges stronger from the Huffington version of the story than from the denial issued by Salter.

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[Nagishkaw 510]

[almaty 19]

i like mccain better already