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John McCain: It 'Wasn’t Incorrect' to Say Rand Paul Was 'Working for Vladimir Putin'
Reason ^ | May. 16, 2018 1:19 pm | Matt Welch

Posted on 05/16/2018 12:49:54 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

In March 2017, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) successfully delayed for 11 days Senate ratification of Montenegro's entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). America's leading advocate for NATO expansion, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) responded by accusing Paul of "achieving the objectives of Vladimir Putin...of trying to dismember this small country."

"I repeat again," McCain said then, remarkably. "The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin."

Perhaps even more remarkably, though not very surprisingly, McCain is unapologetic about that accusation in his valedictory new memoir, The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations. "Senator Paul didn't appreciate that, and I'll grant that it was an intemperate thing to say," McCain writes, with co-author Mark Salter. "But it wasn't incorrect. He might not have worked wittingly for Putin, but he was doing exactly what the Russian wanted done."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; US: Arizona; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: bitteroldtroll; braindead; die; dyinjohn; hell; johnmccain; mccain; paul; randpaul; senate; songbird; strawberries; therestlesswave
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

It’s not incorrect to say John McCain works for Muslim terrorists.


21 posted on 05/16/2018 1:01:10 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

If he keeps hangin’ in I’m gonna have to empty my bladder and start re-filling it again for the post interment festivities.


22 posted on 05/16/2018 1:01:45 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
"He might not have worked wittingly for Putin, but he was doing exactly what the Russian wanted done."

Likewise, every time McCain attacks President Trump, he (McCain) is doing exactly what the enemies of America want done.

23 posted on 05/16/2018 1:01:56 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: chris37
”How much less could they care?”

Thanks, that’s one of my grammatical pet peeves, too.

24 posted on 05/16/2018 1:03:03 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

The most treacherous Senate Republican hates the most honest Senate Republican.


25 posted on 05/16/2018 1:04:12 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

McCain can attack anyone hew wants to but don’t any of us dare attack that poor dying man.


26 posted on 05/16/2018 1:05:44 PM PDT by McGruff (Bring our troops home. Defend our border.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I know the man has brain cancer so I’d be willing to just overlook this...if he hadn’t been doing it ever since he got elected.

The only thing I want to know is what’s wrong with the people of AZ that they have kept reelecting him time after time. He doesn’t get their state anything, so far as I can see, and all he does is oppose any conservative or even GOPe initiative that comes down the pike.


27 posted on 05/16/2018 1:05:44 PM PDT by livius
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To: lee martell

He’s not ill at all, that was just an excuse to duck out of the limelight when it was coming out that he was the pass-through/document launderer for the Steele dossier.


28 posted on 05/16/2018 1:06:05 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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To: Crucial

He’s been stabbing republicans in the back while blowing kissy faces to democrats every chance he gets since at least 2000 and his loss to Bush.

The only difference now is that we’re supposed to pretend his behavior is caused by the cancer and not his own, longstanding, lack of ethics.


29 posted on 05/16/2018 1:09:34 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

It was either a lie or stupidity, McNutso. You’re an expert at both.


30 posted on 05/16/2018 1:12:50 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

It’s not incorrect to say that McCain is a traitor of the highest order. It’s not incorrect to say that, despite his claims of terminal cancer, the Feds should vigorously pursue his arrest, charges, conviction, and sentencing.


31 posted on 05/16/2018 1:14:46 PM PDT by Kalamata (bibleresearchtools.com)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

McCain is Insane.. Always has been.. Always will be. Sad.


32 posted on 05/16/2018 1:17:52 PM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and persue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

It is not incorrect to say that John McCain is an accomplice in war crimes and genocide and should be extradited to Syria to answer for those atrocities.


33 posted on 05/16/2018 1:17:53 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Ace McCain: The tumor is a rumor but the boot was a hoot.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“He shakes hands with the devil, unfortunately he won’t be dying anytime soon”

See my tag line. I think he should submit to independent medical examination at this point. We have to wonder if he is competent if he is sick, and if his is sick at all given his malevolent friskiness as he lays on his alleged death bed.


34 posted on 05/16/2018 1:19:56 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Ace McCain: The tumor is a rumor but the boot was a hoot.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

If opposing globalism & NATO expansion is working for Putin, then it’s okay, as it’s also working for the American people.


35 posted on 05/16/2018 1:20:13 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Ken H

Ha, I don’t know.


36 posted on 05/16/2018 1:20:40 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
McCain said then, remarkably. "The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin."

Well... McCain should know.. He himself is an inside man for the commies...

37 posted on 05/16/2018 1:21:02 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: LongWayHome

When is the time when McCain will try to look back at his deeds and regret how he neglected to be kinder and more understanding to others in his life? That’s quite common for people who know their last days are approaching.

Still waiting.


38 posted on 05/16/2018 1:21:12 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: noiseman

Right there with ya, LOL.


39 posted on 05/16/2018 1:22:47 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: frank ballenger

If I let myself go, on what I really think of McCain, well, it’s not worth it. He’s a truly horrible individual.


40 posted on 05/16/2018 1:23:02 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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