Posted on 09/12/2015 12:55:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump will never win the White House because he is playing to aging white voters and turning off blacks and Hispanics, U.S. Sen. John McCain said.
“I don’t think he could win the White House because we have to attract voters,” McCain said on Herald Radio’s “Morning Meeting” show yesterday. “We have an aging white population in America and a growing Hispanic and African-American population and we have to reach out to them.”
McCain said the Hispanic vote, particularly in a border state such as his home state of Arizona, is especially important.
“The Hispanic voter in my state is pro-life, pro-small business, (for) lower taxes, pro-military, everything I stand for and believe in,” he said. “You can’t win by alienating all of them.
“The Asian voter is also turned off,” McCain added, noting the strong population of recent Asian immigrants in the U.S.
The senator has been a target of Trump’s attacks during the real estate mogul’s campaign for the nomination. Trump said McCain is only a war hero “because he was captured” — a comment that drew sharp backlash from supporters of the 2008 GOP nominee, who was shot down during the Vietnam War and spent five years as a prisoner in the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” where he was repeatedly tortured.
McCain didn’t attack Trump yesterday, saying he prefers to follow the “11th Commandment” set forth by former President Ronald Reagan: “Thou shalt not attack a fellow Republican.” He added that, as a “good Republican,” he will support whoever wins the nomination.
He added there are a number of reasons why Trump has a comfortable lead in nearly every poll.
“Anti-incumbency frustration with Washington, a lot of it justified,” he said. “When you have a 12- to 14-percent approval rating of Congress, you can see why they are frustrated.”
McCain joined fellow GOP U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham at Saint Anselm College in Nashua, N.H., yesterday to honor those lost on 9/11 and to help his friend in his underdog race for the nomination.
University of Massachusetts Boston political science professor Erin O’Brien said McCain is “expressing the fears of the Republican party” as Trump soars in the polls.
“The real question is, has Trump reached the tipping point? Is this as high as he can get,” O’Brien said. “It is ironic that McCain has gone from ‘Straight-talk Express’ to expressing the institutional fears of Republicans.”
Trump remained on the attack yesterday, tweeting — “Oh wow, lightweight Governor @Bobby Jindal, who is registered at less than 1 percent in the polls, just mocked my hair. So original!” Jindal this week said Trump’s hair “looks like he’s got a squirrel sitting on his head.”
Trump also touted in a tweet that he’s atop the latest poll with 27 percent of the vote in Iowa with Ben Carson next with 21 percent. The Quinnipiac University survey of those likely to attend the state’s Republican caucus also showed U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz was third with 9 percent.
Also yesterday, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry dropped out of the GOP race, becoming the first major candidate to end his bid for the Oval Office.
shut up McNuts!
Trump is the primal scream we all hear precisely because of RINOs like McCain and Graham and the Maine Twins
Who listens to McCain?
“It is far better to remain quiet and be thought a possible imbecile; than to make some asinine, pea brain comment about something in which you were already a loser, and remove all doubt.” Willy Shortspeare
Comedy gold!
Hey Johnny, speaking of aging population, aren’t you past your expiration date?
I do it in the military every day.
Most of the Hispanics of recent illegal origin in Arizona are under cover workers and packs of single mothers on welfare. The most of legal Americans of Mexican heritage tend to vote Democrat because they are Mexican first and American second plus ignorant of the fact that pro illegal Mexican retention destroys their own children’s future.
The old time Americans of Mexican heritage are a different breed, but are as disatisfied as most with the uniparty.
What McDonkey really thinks and is too afraid to say, “I am afraid Donald Trump will win and my efforts to turn the GOP and the country into a socialist slophole will be thwarted.
Who’s this McCain idiot?...name sounds vaguely familiar.
A moment that will live in infamy.
Good one! Lol!!
I actually posted that comment and then headed to family party and got home about 20 minutes ago.
It was the only good joke I’ve ever made on FR and was hoping someone would see it lol!!
Honestly though, I dont think the asian vote is what is going to make or break us.
Yep it was a good one! I’m still laughing!
There’s so many freaking funny people on this board and I finally got my 2 cents in lol!!
It’s the little things in life...
BTW, why does McCain still talk? I dont think anyone listens anymore.
I’m not sure. I’m still trying to figure out who the Asian voter was that he was referring to. My best guess is he was referring to Professor Michio Kaku, but then again he might have been talking about Yo Yo Ma. We may never know. Lol!
LOL
Sez the twit who runs as a Republican then spends 82% (freshly made-up statistic to make the point) of his time on the Democrat side of the aisle....
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