Posted on 07/20/2015 4:11:52 PM PDT by cotton1706
When Donald Trump derided John McCain’s war hero status on Saturday and set off a media firestorm, many in the Republican establishment thought he had finally self-destructed. They can keep dreaming.
Trump’s partisans are disappointed. But they’re disappointed in McCain, the media and the party establishment, not Trump.
Interviews with his supporters in New Hampshire and the first drips of polling data suggest the mogul’s core constituency has no intention of abandoning him over the dust-up.
“I don’t like McCain anyways, to be perfectly frank with you,” said Jerry DeLemus, a Marine Corps veteran and Republican activist in New Hampshire. DeLemus said he was a supporter of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz before formally signing on to support Trump on Sunday.
He said Trump’s comments the day before — “He’s not a war hero,” said Trump of McCain at a gathering of religious conservatives in Iowa, adding, “He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured” — do nothing to shake his support and that it’s McCain who should have to answer for his treatment of veterans.
“You think about [McCain] calling all the supporters of Trump ‘crazies,’” said DeLemus. “How many of those guys are veterans? Trump didn’t insult veterans. He went after McCain.”
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Here’s some interesting info about McCain.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3314006/posts?page=24#24
Has anyone every heard the press demand an apology for ANYTHING a dem has said or done?
Never.
No apology was required of Hillary for lying about Behghazi - or for burning children alive at Waco...
Has anyone ever heard the press demand an apology for ANYTHING a dem has said or done?
Never.
No apology was required of Hillary for lying about Behghazi - or for burning children alive at Waco...
While Rome is burning, McCain is playing video poker!
Isn’t it odd, the sudden interest the Dims and MSM have in military honor?
As Levin also mentioned - where were the apologies for all of the lies and misrepresentations said about Sarah Palin?
I posted that last night. McQueeg’s honor left many decades ago. He’s completely beholden to corporatist $$$, over country.
Thanks and agreed. He’s just another dishonest politician, getting money and influence wherever.
I would have done the same, though, but for different reasons. It would be nice, if all anti-American and anti-Israel factions were swallowed by Syria. There are no good guys there regardless of religious affiliations.
He’s a war hero-traitor. Tell Dana.
Wouldn’t have played poker, though. It’s against my religion.
;-)
Trump’s statements are mild compared to those made by people who served with him...
Hillary gets away with Benghazi, ServerGate and God knows what else...and nothing happens.
Trump says something that upsets McNutcase and he’s supposed to commit ritual Hara-Kiri?!
Just call Trump the “WEALTHY MAVERICK”
MCCAIN IS THE RINO MAVERICK
The libtards care about the military the same way Moochelle obama cares about military families. It’s all pretend. They hate the US military. People tend to forget that during the Iraq War they wanted their Vietnam and they didn’t get it.
RUBIO, TRUMP LIVES IN FLORIDA, IF HE SETS UP A PAC AGAINST YOU YOUR GONNA LOSE YOUR SENATE SEAT. STFU BABY BOY
Good point.
Good point.
No, but I remember seeing a red-faced Orrin Grant Hatch begging that his “friend” Bill Clinton “come clean” on Monica.
Rubio is vacating the Senate regardless; people in FL are so sad.
People in AZ will always love their “McPain”, painful as he is to take.
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