John McCain joins Ted Cruz in assailing 'Obama, Harry Reid and Washington liberals'

Washington Examiner ^ | NOVEMBER 29, 2013 AT 3:02 PM | Paull Bedard

[SoConPubbie]

Sen. John McCain is starting to sound like a Tea Party “wacko bird.”

In a new fundraising letter for the Republican National Committee released Friday, McCain lashed out at “Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Washington liberals,” who he claimed are destroying the United States.

Liberals, he warned, “have taken us down a dark and dangerous path defined by record levels of debt, ever-expanding government, and a lead-from-behind defense strategy. There's not much time left to turn things around.”

McCain’s name carries a lot of weight in fundraising because he was the 2008 GOP nominee and is a leading voice of establishment Republicans. But he also toughened his tone to sound more conservative and closer to Tea Party senators like Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky, whom McCain recently labeled “wacko birds.”

Forcefully joining the GOP effort to stall Obama and the Democrats in their bid to take control of Congress in the 2014 elections, McCain said, “There's too much at stake. The liberals are fully stocking their campaign war chests so they can continue to rubberstamp every big-government, job-killing, tax-and-spend scheme Obama dreams up. We must not let the liberals win — so we need you to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our Republican team.”

From McCain:

Friend,

Like you, I am deeply concerned about the direction our country is heading.

Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Washington Liberals have taken us down a dark and dangerous path defined by record levels of debt, ever-expanding government, and a lead-from-behind defense strategy. There's not much time left to turn things around.

Principled leadership is desperately needed to redirect our nation's course and ensure a better tomorrow for our children and grandchildren.

But this change will not happen if the Republican Party doesn't have the funds needed right now to execute their strategy to elect Republicans in every city, district and state.

There's too much at stake. The liberals are fully stocking their campaign war chests so they can continue to rubberstamp every big-government, job-killing, tax-and-spend scheme Obama dreams up.

We must not let the liberals win -- so we need you to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our Republican team.

We must act now to promote prosperity and preserve peace.

We must act now to defeat the liberals' overreaching agenda and defend the conservative principles upon which our country was founded.

We must act now to reform our failing government, revitalize our ailing economy, and renew the foundations of our strength and leadership in the world.

There's only one month left until Election Year 2014 begins. With 36 governorships, 35 Senatorial, 435 Congressional and thousands of other offices at stake, the GOP needs your full commitment right now.

The Republican National Committee needs to raise millions of dollars to expand their ground operation, advance their data and technology capabilities, and enhance their engagement with minority communities.

I believe in the Republican Party and am committed to doing whatever it takes to ensure they have the resources needed to fight and win in 2014. Are you?

Contribute $14 today and commit to building the foundation for Republican victories in 2014.

Thanks,

John McCain

[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

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[Doomonyou]

...and Washington liberals'

Ripping on himself I see.

[mojito]

In a new fundraising letter for the Republican National Committee released Friday....

All you need to know is right here.

[stocksthatgoup]

Raising money to oppose Tea Party candidates.

[madprof98]

Is McCain running for something again??? (Or, more likely, is he planning to campaign for his buddy in South Carolina?)

[Jean2]

Now that is truly rich!!

[tomkat]

McQueeg is still alive ?

Pity, that . . .

[Farnsworth]

McLame is a POS collaborator. Shake a fist one day, “tug’n” Harry the next.

[who knows what evil?]

Don’t call me ‘friend’, Juan.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I hope that Gov. Palin uses her Arizona residency to run against him.

[lonevoice]

Defund the RNC. Not one thin dime for the establishment Republican party of undocumented democrats.

[elkfersupper]

Typical lifelong politician.

Sees the train leaving the station and tries to jump on board.

Too late, Mr. McCain.

[GunsareOK]

Waiting to receive their latest junkmail. To the RNC, we’re good only for our money and votes.

[Coldwater Creek]

JOHN MCCAIN CANNOT BE TRUSTED!

[smokingfrog]

Johnny come lately McCain.

I don’t trust him as far as I can spit.

[WaterWeWaitinFor]

I hope that Gov. Palin uses her Arizona residency to run against him.

Now wouldn’t THAT be fun.....

[gundog]

JUAN’S GONE WACKO BIRD!

[Navy Patriot]

For your listening pleasure, Juan McInsane sings “Rescue Me”.

[Slyfox]

Great idea. I’d move to AZ just to help her out and vote for her.