Posted on 05/08/2018 2:43:15 PM PDT by cotton1706
John McCain is supposedly trying to hang on till past May 31st, after which he will either die or resign.
The reason: so the PEOPLE don't get to choose his successor!
If he dies or resigns before May 31st, there will have to be an election to fill out his term (he was just reelected in 2016).
If he dies or resigns after that, then the governor can appoint somebody until the 2020 election.
And McCain has already supposedly given the governor a list of people to succeed him, one of which would be his wife, Cindy. And wouldn't that be special!
The Senate seat is HIS, ya see!
John McCain. Odious to the end, and if he has his way, even AFTER the end!
I smell a George Carlin “Hey Father” 11:59pm on the international dateline moment coming on here. I wonder if Howie Carr will adjust his pool to before the 31st or after.
I don’t know anything about the governor of Arizona.
Do we have any indication at all who he will appoint when McCain dies?
This reminds me of when Kennedy was sick and the media was asking “Who will fill Kennedy’s seat?” The answer is that the seat belongs to the people and not to any person. I would sooner see a seat sit vacant until a special election can be held rather than a governor making an appointment.
Now I’m rooting for the treacherous old bastard to hurry up and die!
Didn’t Sarah Palin buy a home in Arizona?
She is the person the governor should name as McCain’s replacement.
She deserves it for the way McCain and his staff treated her.
The Governor, Doug Ducey, is running this November. He could appoint Sheriff Joe to serve in the Senate as as a place holder. That would allow Dr Kelli Ward’s vote not to be split and she might break establishment tool RINO Martha McSully away from the nomination. Sheriff Joe might pass before 2020 and then Doug can put himself in the Senate. It is a win-win for all conservative Republicans.
Martha has a whole lot of special PAC money that has come her way. He polling company for issues in the General is already conducting polling with questions phrased as if she has already won the primary.
Like many power drunk a-holes, he wants to control things from the grave.
There are a lot of such poster children, including Pennsylvania's very own village idiot Bob Casey, Jr.
C’mon reaper...hurry the hell up!
Ha. Great graphic!
I’d wait in a line 2 miles long to have a chance to piss on his grave.
“The Governor, Doug Ducey, is running this November. He could appoint Sheriff Joe to serve in the Senate as as a place holder.”
Then Ducey loses the election in November because very few voters in Arizona WANT ‘Sheriff Joe’...
-PJ
I think the proper thing to do to show our respect for McCain is to do the following is as soon as he kicks the bucket:
I thought most here were pulling for him to hang on so we would have an appointment?
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You’ll have an appointment. The question remains as to when and how long will
the appointment be for. Chances are pretty good that there will be an election.
The question remains when will it be? If the vacancy occurs before May 31,
it could be in Nov. 2018. If after it will be in 2020. This is my understanding and
I could be wrong.
It's customary, that once a senator dies, the Senate will pass a bill giving the widow a big sum of $$$$. They give the rich, our money. Pure swamp.
Yes
She did and then she sold it, so she's out.
If Governor Ducey values his job he will NOT appoint Cindy to fill McStain’s senate seat. There will be significant voter backlash if he does that.
Who does McStain think he is!?! He seems to think his senate seat is his own personal possession.
Sorry Johnny, you’re NOT royalty, you can’t bequeath your senate seat. That senate seat belongs to the people of Arizona. P.S.: Hurry up and die. All of us are getting really, really sick of you.
yes.
Arizona passed one of the strictest immigration laws a few years ago - one that mirrored Federal law.
But they still re-elected John “Open Borders” McCain.
So what do you want me to say?
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