Posted on 03/07/2014 12:02:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Via Matt Lewis, here’s Maverick once again demonstrating that “cordial relationship” in politico-speak means “two people who can’t publicly admit to hating each other but obviously do.”
And it’s a cheap shot. Cruz’s point yesterday at CPAC was that Dole, McCain, and Romney lost because they weren’t conservative enough. That’s not because they’re gutless — he said specifically that they were “good” and “decent” men — but because they’re not committed, full-throated ideologues, even less so when they’re fighting for purple states in a national election. We can debate whether that’s true but there’s nothing offensive in raising the subject. I assure you, in McCain’s circle, it’s received wisdom that Cruz and Rand Paul are way too ideological to beat Hillary. Nothing offensive about that theory either. McCain, though, can’t resist seizing on Cruz’s point as an opportunity to demagogue him as being somehow contemptuous of military service. Evidently, if you think Bob Dole would have done better against Clinton by drawing a more vivid philosophical contrast, you’re accusing a war hero of cowardice. That’s a very Maverick-y take, given that McCain’s own campaign six years ago heavily emphasized biography over ideology. It still galls him, I’m sure, that a guy who spent years suffering for his country in the Hanoi Hilton lost to the community organizer turned law prof. I can sympathize with that, but election outcomes aren’t an award for heroism. And disgruntlement over that fact is no license to distort Cruz’s point in order to score a cheap point on him.
And by the way, despite what he says, McCain obviously takes great offense that he himself was included in the triad named by Cruz. He’s playing it off like he’s offended only on Dole’s behalf because that makes him seem magnanimous, especially given Dole’s age and the fact that he’s no longer part of the political fray. Everything he says here, though, logically applies just as much to him. If you think it’s bad form per se to accuse a veteran of being a RINO, regardless of how he votes in Congress or what positions he takes on the stump, then you’re on Team Mav. If not, not. Exit question: If you want to challenge Cruz on this point, why not knock the fact that it’s easy for a red-stater to be myopic about it?
And people in hell want ice water-STFU McCain...
So the least popular Senator in the WORLD is a little jealous about how much attention a young upstart Senator is getting,,isn’t that the REAL issue?
You guys are cracking me up.
McCain is truly bipartisan. He is hated equally by Democrats and Republicans.
Believe me, I'm not as kind in what Johnny boy should do, not as kind at all :)
So did I, but I was also hoping for a heart attack to take him out at his inaugeration, giving us President Palin. And. I doubt I am the only one.
Me: I want John McCain to go away.
Agreed. GTH Juan!
He couldn’t beat a one term us senator barely three years on the job who rarely held a committee meeting, who had never before accomplished anything of significance, who supported legislation that allows infanticide, who said he just wanted to spread the wealth around, 57 states, had a wife who was only proud of the us for the first time in her adult life, wouldn’t release his transcripts, etc,
And he wonders why we question him.
Now STFU.
bump ^2
McCain is just pissed there is a party in town and he didn’t get invited.
Political Whores can’t stand to be out of the spotlight.
"You have nothing to fear from an Obama Presidency." - John McCain
Still waiting for your apology for that one, Juan. You first.
I want McCain to publicly apologize to Sarah Palin, with his sleazy campaign staff, wife and bimbo daughter standing next to him when he does it.
I do not claim to be an expert by any stretch, what I do not understand is Republicans have to act conservative in order to get elected, then many of them go left as soon as the votes are counted. Those that are supposed to be political experts claim actual conservatives cannot win, even as it is shown time and again that RINOs must pretend to be pretty conservative in order to win.
He is truly a bore in every sense of the word.
Apologize for McCain-Feingold, traitor!
I want john mclame to apologize to the United States and then go float out to sea on a small ice floe.
I didn’t know Juan McCain was Cruz daddy.../ S
Who the hell does McCain think he is...?
Wasn’t Dole originally a Democrat c. 1955 or so?
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