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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."

(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...


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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Just die already, you nasty old bastard.
1 posted on 05/16/2018 12:49:54 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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He shakes hands with the devil, unfortunately he won’t be dying anytime soon


2 posted on 05/16/2018 12:50:50 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Weekend at Juan’s.

This is a BS story.


3 posted on 05/16/2018 12:51:10 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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John take that thumb you used to save Obamacare and shove it straight up your


4 posted on 05/16/2018 12:51:39 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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It must be nice to be able to read the minds of foreign government leaders like that.

Such an ability would be worth billions to the CIA...


5 posted on 05/16/2018 12:51:43 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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I don’t always agree with Rand, but he’s 10 times the senator McCain ever was.


6 posted on 05/16/2018 12:53:42 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Sarah Barracuda

[ “I repeat again,” McCain said then, remarkably. “The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin.” ]

All the way to the grave, eh John?

All the way to the grave.

The Democrat from Arizona with an “R” next to his name.


7 posted on 05/16/2018 12:55:12 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: LongWayHome

Does Trump play golf with any senators besides Paul?


8 posted on 05/16/2018 12:56:05 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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I don’t always agree with Rand, but he’s 10 times the senator McCain ever was.

Bingo.

9 posted on 05/16/2018 12:56:20 PM PDT by Flick Lives (The FBI is the Mob)
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Only a seriously crazy person spends their last weeks on earth trashing people who could care less.


10 posted on 05/16/2018 12:56:52 PM PDT by Zathras
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How much less could they care?


11 posted on 05/16/2018 12:58:13 PM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: Williams

Obamahole.................


12 posted on 05/16/2018 12:58:20 PM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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It’s not incorrect to say that John McCain worked with the Vietnamese communists (and continues to work for them)


13 posted on 05/16/2018 12:58:32 PM PDT by Skywise
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If this really is from John the McCain, and not his wife or daughter playing Mind Reader, then McCain is nowhere near the Last Throes of his disease. To my understanding, most deathbed worthy cancer patients with this type of cancer are not quite so ‘loquacious’ just prior to death. Most are being managed in a coma.

Maybe he’s not even sick with that kind of cancer, and has other reasons for laying low. I do not want to see any ‘Lazarus Act’ with McCain, revived and ready to continue stabbing the GOP in the back.


14 posted on 05/16/2018 12:58:43 PM PDT by lee martell
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Nor was it incorrect to say that your opinion doesn’t matter, because you are dying.


15 posted on 05/16/2018 12:58:51 PM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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UGH. bitter and wrong his whole life, nice legacy.


16 posted on 05/16/2018 12:59:10 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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“Just as I worked for Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi, so it all evens out” he continued.


17 posted on 05/16/2018 12:59:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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It’s entirely possible that he said something along these lines orally to the ghost writer, who then made it “loquacious.”


18 posted on 05/16/2018 1:00:16 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus.)
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Brain cancer is affecting his judgement. We shouldn’t to him for his sake and ours.


19 posted on 05/16/2018 1:00:42 PM PDT by Crucial
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John McCain is writing is epitaph for his gravestone - I am and was always right.


20 posted on 05/16/2018 1:00:57 PM PDT by Wuli
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