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McCain Back in Front As Republican Leader
The Ledger ^ | July 22, 2013 | Alex Leary

Posted on 07/22/2013 8:14:14 AM PDT by kevcol

WASHINGTON | As fellow Republicans slipped into a room in the Capitol for a private meeting, Arizona Sen. John McCain held court outside, surrounded by a flock of reporters.

” What about you, jerk?” he teased Kasie Hunt of NBC News, who gave it back: ” Do you take offense to the term ’Old Bull?’?”

McCain’s eyes lit up and he laughed.

” Is that Sen. McCain? Oooooh,” Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who was passing by, whispered in faux awe.

The 76-year-old, twice-failed presidential candidate is back in front, reprising his role as a bipartisan dealmaker, occasional irritant to his own party and quote machine.

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Facing a conservative challenge in his 2010 Senate re-election, McCain rushed to the right, changing his tone on immigration and global warming, only to veer back to where he sits today, reclaiming the sobriquet ” maverick.”

” I never liked that moniker,” McCain said. ” When I called for (Secretary of Defense Donald) Rumsfeld’s resignation and I disagreed with Bush and I voted against the tax cuts, then I was the maverick. And then after I lost to Obama, I was the angry, bitter old man. It’s interesting how all of a sudden John McCain’s personality changed so much.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: idiot; idiotmaverick; idiotmccain; johnmccain; lsm; maverick; mccain; rino
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1 posted on 07/22/2013 8:14:14 AM PDT by kevcol
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To: kevcol
McCain Back in Front As Republican Leader

In his own mind maybe. And in the minds of a few of his sycophants. But I doubt that a majority of the Republican senators look on him as a leader. McConnell either. Certainly none of the new arrivals seem to.

2 posted on 07/22/2013 8:16:39 AM PDT by 0.E.O
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To: kevcol

I don’t like old bull, either. It should be old bull-sh***er.


3 posted on 07/22/2013 8:16:54 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: kevcol
Meanwhile, more than a few Republicans smoldered and a conservative group attacked him for ” appeasement.”

It might be a liberal view that he's "back in front", but the reality on the ground/truth is something very different. [bold emphasis above is mine]

4 posted on 07/22/2013 8:18:15 AM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: kevcol

Wish he would just go away.


5 posted on 07/22/2013 8:19:18 AM PDT by MamaB
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To: kevcol
Keating Five.

/johnny

6 posted on 07/22/2013 8:19:55 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: kevcol

McCain, back in front because we (media) think he can be useful in pushing amnesty.

McCain, back in front, has no idea he is fully back in media employment as a tool for the media. However, he is not of interest as a Republican but as a destroyer of Republicans and, especially, regular Americans.


7 posted on 07/22/2013 8:21:28 AM PDT by iacovatx (Conservatism is the political center--it is not "right" of center)
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To: kevcol

             

FUMcLame

Turncoat Bastard

8 posted on 07/22/2013 8:21:30 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: JRandomFreeper

His family should show some compassion and involuntarily commit this drooling degenerate...for the good of their family name and for the good of the country.


9 posted on 07/22/2013 8:22:16 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: MamaB
Wish he would just go away  shoot himself

/.02

10 posted on 07/22/2013 8:22:47 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: kevcol
The old bull is only good for one thing anymore:


11 posted on 07/22/2013 8:23:33 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: kevcol

“Back in Front” as in leading from behind?


12 posted on 07/22/2013 8:24:36 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (The Lefties can drink Kool-Aid; I will drink Tea.)
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McCain Back in Front As Republican Leader

Sadly, this is accurate.

And it is more of a commentary on what the Republicans are these days, than anything else.

13 posted on 07/22/2013 8:25:01 AM PDT by Lazamataz (11/?/2009-7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: kevcol

He is a leader with no followers outside the MSM boot-lickers.


14 posted on 07/22/2013 8:25:04 AM PDT by cgbg (HLM--"Democracy is the theory that people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.")
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To: kevcol

The Rat’s choice.


15 posted on 07/22/2013 8:28:22 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
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To: 0.E.O

It’s too bad the damned North Vietnamese gave him back; should have kept him.

The POS should be bombarded with the quote that most fits the fine fantasy put forth in this article: “Well, hello, Mister Fancypants. Well, I’ve got news for you, pal, you ain’t leadin’ but two things right now: Jack and shit... and Jack left town.”

worthless jackass.


16 posted on 07/22/2013 8:29:11 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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Who here really GAS what the republican party does or what asshat rino is leading it now?

The GOP/RNC/repub party is mostly made up and comprised of a bunch of LOSER rino's!

17 posted on 07/22/2013 8:30:41 AM PDT by sirchtruth (Freedom is not free.)
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To: kevcol

Maverick?? TRAITOR would be a better term

Old Bull?? Old Bull shytter more like it.

McCain isn’t leading Republicans, he is leading Democrat Lites.

McCain is leading the destruction of the Republican party.


18 posted on 07/22/2013 8:32:04 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: JRandomFreeper

Both McCain & Glenn weren’t content with that. They had to go on and on to wreak even more havoc on the country.


19 posted on 07/22/2013 8:36:08 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: 0.E.O

Though, literally, I had no choice a the time, still holding my nose over that vote.


20 posted on 07/22/2013 8:36:54 AM PDT by prov1813man (While the one you despise and ridicule works to protect you, those you embrace work to destroy you)
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