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EXCLUSIVE: John McCain unloads to Salon on Ted Cruz, ISIS and repealing Obamacare
Salon ^ | 11/11/14 | Elias Isquith

Posted on 11/11/2014 6:44:02 AM PST by DoodleDawg

It’s been a career filled with highs and lows, but when John McCain looks back on the closing months of 2014, the former Republican Party presidential nominee and current senator will probably remember the time as one of long-awaited and welcome returns. There were, of course, the results of last week’s midterms, which gave the GOP majority status in the Senate next year and put an end to eight long years of wandering. Once the new Congress convenes next year, McCain’s chairmanship of the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee is all but guaranteed.

In addition to the Senate majority, McCain teamed up with his longtime friend and creative partner Mark Salter to write a book about military service, American history and the value of an old-fashioned, martial sense of honor. The result is “13 Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War,” which looks at 13 men and women who fought for the U.S. — one for every major American war — and how the experience affected them.

Salon spoke with McCain over the phone about the book, the war on ISIS, what he thinks President Obama should do on immigration and what he hopes to see from the soon-to-be GOP-controlled Senate. Our conversation is below and has been edited for length and clarity.

(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruz; juanmcstain; mccain; quisling; tedcruz
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To: Old Retired Army Guy
As long as he is there, I hope he pursues the cancellation of Sequestration limits on the Defense Department and restores some badly needed DOD funding.

Of course not. To do so would cost him brownie points with the media. John McCain serves one master and one master only, and that is the ego of John McCain.

21 posted on 11/11/2014 7:18:23 AM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: DoodleDawg

McCain ...a bridge to the dims just too far.


22 posted on 11/11/2014 7:23:11 AM PST by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: DoodleDawg

I no longer have any doubt that he threw Sarah Palin under the media bus.


23 posted on 11/11/2014 7:24:21 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: DoodleDawg

McCain is a liberal pro-Islamic Democrat. Salon is a perfect home for him.


24 posted on 11/11/2014 7:26:12 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Deciding Female Criminal Guilt By How Hot They Are Since 1999 !)
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To: Don Corleone
McCain said he would reverse the nuclear option that Harry Reid put into the Senate Rules.

McCain is an F-—ing idiot! This will give the democrats more power in the Senate. The power of the filibuster that they took away from the Republicans. When the democrats again get power in the Senate they will immediately go nuclear again, “for the good of the people,” and shove it up the Republicans Asses again.

Harry Reid broke the established customs of the Senate. It can not be put back together again. The democrat party is in a fight to destroy the Republican party. This is a Brass Knuckle fight. The Republicans need to fight with everything they have.

Did I mention McCain is an idiot?

25 posted on 11/11/2014 7:26:32 AM PST by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: Resettozero
“Those were Romney plants mixed with the GOPe minions. McCain himself didn't do much of anything in that campaign.”

It happened in McCain's campaign. It happened repeatedly. If McCain did not either order it or encourage it he allowed it to continue repeatedly on his watch and did absolutely nothing to stop it.

Media accounts(which may or may not be true) said McCain was behind the many attacks on Sarah by the McCain campaign.

26 posted on 11/11/2014 7:38:45 AM PST by detective
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To: DoodleDawg

I also could not click on link, I’ve heard way more than I want from mCain, not to mention salon.


27 posted on 11/11/2014 7:40:28 AM PST by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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To: DoodleDawg

It must be time for the media to help John McCain get reelected again, to make all those disgruntled moderate republicans feel all warm and sappy inside.


28 posted on 11/11/2014 7:47:04 AM PST by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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To: detective
Media accounts(which may or may not be true) said McCain was behind the many attacks on Sarah by the McCain campaign.

Media accounts have said many things at many times.

Follow the money. It leads to Romney operatives.
29 posted on 11/11/2014 7:53:15 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: cpdiii
Did I mention McCain is an idiot?

I don't think I shall understand the man in this lifetime.
30 posted on 11/11/2014 7:56:09 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: detective
If McCain did not either order it or encourage it he allowed it to continue repeatedly on his watch and did absolutely nothing to stop it.

Except for showing that on-cue smirk of a smile, McCain was totally lost in the 2008 campaign. You give him FAR too much credit for being on top of the situation; he wasn't.
31 posted on 11/11/2014 7:59:18 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: DoodleDawg

Salon, the weblog that just said that our military are not heroes.

John, you are a useful idiot of the Left and don’t even realize it.


32 posted on 11/11/2014 8:02:43 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: DoodleDawg

He will go thru the next two years joining the Dems with all sorts of stupid ideas, including amnesty.


33 posted on 11/11/2014 8:03:52 AM PST by bestintxas (Every time a RINO is defeated a Founding Father gets his wings.)
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To: DoodleDawg

34 posted on 11/11/2014 8:15:06 AM PST by JPG (Obama said, "then...go out there and win an election." We did!)
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To: JPG

35 posted on 11/11/2014 8:16:15 AM PST by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: Resettozero

“You give him FAR too much credit for being on top of the situation; he wasn’t.”

I give McCain no credit for being on top of anything. His career is a disgrace. But I do not allow his incompetence to be used as an excuse for the continued backstabbing of Sarah by his campaign staff.

He hired them. They reported to him. He paid their salaries.

They were repeatedly backstabbing Sarah and he did absolutely nothing to stop it.

That is not to say Romney and others were not also involved.


36 posted on 11/11/2014 8:17:55 AM PST by detective
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To: skeeter

McCain should lose his position as head of the Armed Services Committee for going over to Syria and playing around with Isis.

That was an unforgivable error in judgment and shows he is not mentally capable to deal with the problem of Muslim radicals. The Federal ass kissing of Muslim radicals has to stop.


37 posted on 11/11/2014 8:28:22 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: SoConPubbie; DoodleDawg; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; RitaOK; ...
McAnus' naval "career" can be summed up in an word, "disgrace."

He was a drunken sloppy fool. Had he not been captured by the BVA, he would have been counting paper clips until retirement. He was at the point where not even his family network could protect him.

Incredible as it may seem, his behavior upon release from captivity was no improvement ... perhaps worse. His drinking days are reportedly over, ironic since he dumped wife #1 for a wealthy tabloid cheating queen, the daughter of a Budweiser Distributor.

How Arizona keeps electing this tiresome old cuckold who hasn't a brain in his head is a mystery. Stuffed ballot boxes on Indian Reservations? BTW, where is it written that this senile jackass automatically gets Armed Services? That's a danger to the Republic.

38 posted on 11/11/2014 8:59:09 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (Now all the Republicans need is a PROGRAM, A PLAN, and a LEADER!)
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To: DoodleDawg

If only there were a time machine to take back in time and tell the NVA to keep his worthless bastard ass in their prison.

Then again, I believe they were glad to be rid of the dishonorable bastard.


39 posted on 11/11/2014 9:05:36 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: DoodleDawg

Good old maddog mcclame, always thinking about how to support.... the democraps.


40 posted on 11/11/2014 9:29:22 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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