Posted on 06/29/2018 1:41:41 PM PDT by cotton1706
I have no news story to link to here. To the contrary, I haven’t seen this question asked once in the flood of coverage since Kennedy’s announcement yesterday. So let’s ask it.
With McCain out, Senate Republicans have zero margin for error on the nomination. It’s 50/49. Either Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski — or anti-Trumpers Jeff Flake and Bob Corker, both of whom are retiring — could sink the nominee if Democrats hang together. And they will, I think. The Democratic base will get so hot over this that Manchin and the rest of the red-staters will hang back to see what Republicans are doing. If Collins or anyone else makes some disapproving noises that imperil the nominee, pressure from the left on Manchin et al. to vote no and kill the nomination will be enormous. It’s easy to imagine red-state Dems supporting a nominee who’s going to be confirmed anyway on a party-line Republican vote. It’s almost unimaginable that they’d *rescue* a nominee who’s headed for defeat due to a Republican split.
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McCain do something good for conservatives and the country? Fat chance.
Maybe they’ll open the drawer on the cooler, and ask him...
The Red State Dems will cave..........................
Prove to me that McCain is still alive.
I'm more inclined to think he'll stay alive out of spite so he can torpedo the nomination. Then they'll say "he was a maverick to his dying breath...sniff...."
Or Ducey simply delays naming a successor to McCain until after the primary. That would still likely be in time for a SC vote.
The left hasn't celebrated his life in memorium yet.
What assurance is there that McLame is still even alive?
How about some video footage of him talking coherently and holding this morning’s edition of the Washington Times?
‘m gonn ask again...how come he aint dead yet?
BINGO- WE have a winner-
Mclame and flakey- are Never trumpers- to the core-
they will vote with the demon party
For McSwamp to have this much antipathy for the President and this country - even while on his death bed - tells me the devil has him firmly under lock and key.
John, you fool.
He did that stupid stunt before so it wont surprise me.
If McCain is permanently incapacitated and unable to perform his duties, McConnell, et al, should urge him to retire and or gently and lovingly expel him (for his own good). But I’m guessing no democrat would vote to expel anyone so dedicated to their cause.
let his plug be pulled
Mr. Keating Five? The d-bag who threw Gov. Palin under the bus? The @sshat who sic’d the IRS on the Tea Party? The knothead who torpedoed the Obamacare repeal?
Surely, you jest...and I will keep calling you Shirley.
Is this traitor, POS, still alive? Prove it. No one has seen him in months.
signed, A Vietnam Veteran 1968-69.
The evil within him runs about as deep and dark as it gets.
If resigning would help Trump, he’ll not budge.
The only thing that will get him to move is the Hand of God.
The thing he needs to worry about, though, is the Hand smacking him down the tunnel to hell, where he currently belongs.
Satan awaits you, McTraitor. Repent while you still can.
If they can't even toe the party line for a Supreme Court nomination, then the party shouldn't even exist ... and they will probably alienate every voter and donor of theirs.
Mccain will not resign until he takes his dirt nap. Why allow your constituents to have a vote when it’s all about yourself?
Trump has already made a deal with 3 Dem senators in Red States. It sounds like he may be more willing to work with the 3 Dems rather than work with the 3 RINOS.
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