What Did It All Mean? (McCain says Tea Party midterm victories "revolt" and "not a revolution")

The Wall Street Journal ^ | 2010-11-22 | Alan Murray

[rabscuttle385]

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ALAN MURRAY: Sen. McCain, I wonder if you could tell us, from where you sit, what the message of this election in the United States is.

JOHN MCCAIN: It was a revolt. It was not a revolution. Revolutions take a long time. It was revolt on the part of the American people who believe that their government has lost touch with them and they have lost touch with their government.

And any Republican who thinks that it was a vote in favor of Republicans should look at our approval ratings. Last time I checked, it's around 17%. When you get down that low, it's blood relatives and paid staffers.

I predict that unless Republicans act in response to the American people, they will reject Republicans. And they have every reason to be skeptical because when we were in charge, we let spending get out of control. We engaged in the earmarking and pork-barreling, which is corruption. So if the Republicans use their power in the fashion, frankly, that we did when previously we were in the majority, then I think you will see the emergence of a third party.

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[Average Al]

To clean out the Senate will take three election cycles so to that extent he is right.

[JRandomFreeper]

Thanks for the correction. Didn't he lose a couple of AC?

/johnny

[Steamburg]

I’m sure he and the rest of the RINO’s are trying to assure their leader Barry, that all is not lost. Only senile, brain dead frauds would ever vote for McLame. He probably figures with six more years we will either forget or he will be dead and will have given his chair to Megan. How lame is Arizona?

[truthfreedom]

“So if the Republicans use their power in the fashion, frankly, that we did when previously we were in the majority, then I think you will see the emergence of a third party.”

The RINOs seem to want that third party. They don’t seem to like losing in primaries.

[Outlaw Woman]

The definition of a revolution:"A fundamental change in political organization, or in a government or constitution; the overthrow or renunciation of one government, and the substitution of another, by the governed."

NOVEMBER 04, 2008

[don-o]

Blah, blah and more blah.

[Psalm 144]

I don’t think what mccain said was wrong. Its indeed a revolt and we can’t really claim a revolution has taken place until it actually happen. Nothing has changed yet

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A rare moment when he is correct in every particular. A revolt at present, and revolution to come if the GOP does not mend its ways.

Whether a lucid interval, a reality check, or the broken clock being right at this particular moment, McCain has a correct overview.

The GOP is not popular, it is simply less detested than the Democrats. Without reform in governing style, a third party will emerge. That, in a nutshell, is what he has said here.

[ponygirl]

It wasn’t senile, brain dead frauds who voted for him. It was young, stupid Democrats and Independents. He’s got them all fleeced and they LOVE him.

[hosepipe]

[ It’s McCain and liberals friends who have been working for years trying to overthrow our form of government. They’re the revolutionaries. And that’s not a compliment. ]

Thats why the TpCaucus should NEVER become a party..
The stealth democrats in the republican party are dangerous turncoats.. moles.. poseurs.. shills..
AND McLaim is the head of the cell group..

[Flag_This]

"This the same John McCain that got fighter aircraft shot out from under him in Vietnam? I think he has a problem with either recognizing or respecting his opponents."

McCain tried real hard to be a Vietnamese ace.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

No more RINOS!

[org.whodat]

Some people just look for a reason to be unhappy!!

[MasterGunner01]

My guess one of the reasons McCain won the primary — a lot of AZ residents figured he could get them all sorts of other taxpayers money for AZ projects. Also, J.D. Haworth had some major problems and yet McCain spent over $20 million in the primary alone. The RINO RSC and RNC supported him was a factor, too.

McCain was and remains a glittering jewel of total ignorance. He IS that stupid, really.

[TCH]

“... we let spending get out of control. We engaged in the earmarking and pork-barreling, which is corruption.”

Gee, Juan, doe that include your vote for the Bailout Bill?

Since you ADMIT to engaging in corruption, then I guess it is time for you to resign... or are you willing to RAT on your RINO buddies?

[Grizzled Bear]

Without reform in governing style, a third party will emerge.

The GOP Sheeple on FR will tell you, "Don't support the conservative, support the Rove approved RINO! If you don't support the RINO, Obama will win!"

[EternalVigilance]

McCain and his pals run the GOP, they’re not just a “cell.” That’s why Palin endorsed him in 2010, and campaigned hard for him, and lied for him. That’s why the Republican Senatorial Committee put their money behind liberals like Kirk, and Murkowski, and Crist, and Castle, et al. That’s also why Michael Steele, a long time political associate of Christie Todd Whitman in the pushing of hard left Republican candidates, has been running the RNC. Etc.

[hinckley buzzard]

Revolutions can take a long time but they all begin somewhere. The American Revolution arguably began in response to the Boston Massacre of 1770, then the Boston Tea Party,1773, and the Battle of Concord in 1775, all well before the true revolutionary acts of 1776.

Only time will tell whether this election will mark the Beginning of a new Revolution or a short-lived revolt. Certainly no one of these obtuse politicans and pundits is smart enough to read the future and tell us.

[right way right]

who’s got the Chump picture?

[org.whodat]

Insane Mccain should have been turned out to pasture a long, long time ago.

[donna]

It was Sarah supporters.