President Trump, Father Time and we will get rid of Undocumented Democrats posing as Republicans in congress!
Posted on 08/28/2018 3:28:49 PM PDT by detective
The day he lost the election was the last time you ever heard the MSM refer to him as "The Maverick".............
BTT
If, by the Left’s “logic”, one becomes a “great statesman” by standing up to, and openly opposing, one’s own Party... then who exactly are the Great Statesmen in their Party? Are there any, by their own standards?
Because he was a reliable loser.
Because he hated Trump, simple.
Interesting...I never realized he owed his continuing Senate career to the Dems and they bought him during the Keating scandal.
Because he was a useful tool of the liberal establishment and the military-industrial complex. He knew what they wanted and he gave it to them. Heck - he even knew what was expected of him as a Presidential candidate - to throw the election to Obama. Good ol’ boy.
President Trump, Father Time and we will get rid of Undocumented Democrats posing as Republicans in congress!
Interesting point. The leftists really played down McCain’s POW stories when he was running against their Canadian candidate Obama. If they had shared some of those stories then, he might have had a chance. Now, though, they can’t get enough of them.
I think so. He liked to tick people off. But the pattern was always to support the Washington Establishment and tick off people who oppose it. So he was playing the rebel and the maverick, while actually settling down in the Establishment.
McCain was a "government guy." He certainly wasn't a Tea Partier or an anti-government activist. His idea of America had a lot to do with the federal government and its powers. His idea of the federal government, though, was formed around the military, not around the social welfare establishment, and that's probably why he stayed in the GOP.
McCain was the guy who took notes when Bill Kristol or David Brooks was outlining "national greatness conservatism." That "national greatness conservatism" or "national purpose conservatism" may look a lot like "big government conservatism" or liberalism or imperialism to many people, and today it looks much more globalist than nationalist, but that's where his heart was, if it was anywhere in politics.
P.S. Do people on the Internet really believe that if they abuse some politician in every way possible, the politician will come around to the Internet posters' way of thinking? No, once you've made your attacks, you only stiffen the politician's resolve never to do what you want. I suspect McCain got great pleasure in doing just exactly the opposite of what his conservative critics wanted. If one won't bend or break when attacked, how realistic is it to expect that other people will.
He was a Democrat who backstabbed Republicans.
The Fake News Media identifies with that.
McCain just about told people to vote for Obama.
Okay, stop right there. What did McCain ever do for the State of Arizona?
Dung beetles love excrement eating flies.
And visa versa
The media hated McCain until Mccain hated Trump. Then it became, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
McCain was a RINO for many, many years. He would campaign as the ultimate conservative and then join with the dims when he got re-elected.
People were polite in trying to get him to live up to his campaign promises. I lived in Arizona for years, people would call in to Phoenix radio stations to talk to him, back then it was always polite. Voters wrote many letters, made a zillion phone calls to him on issues. Most believing he was a conservative and just needed to hear from his voters. It made no difference, he often voted with the dims.
McCain became more obvious over the years that he was nothing but a RINO, no part conservative. He wanted nothing to do with conservatives. He drifted more towards being in line with the dims. Arizona Republican voters respected him for his military career, his time as a POW, and they cut him a tremendous amount of slack. Voters continued to support him, though he continued to be 2 faced in representing them. He always ran as a conservative and people wanted to believe in him.
Still he campaigned as a conservative every time. When he ran for President and no one was too excited he felt he still had his support. Not much interest in his campaign and then when he chose Palin it was like adding gas to a smoldering fire. Things took off, and his campaign had excitement. The thing is what I saw in him when that happened was anger. He was angry when faced with the idea that he needed conservatives and without Palin conservatives were not excited about him as a candidate for President. After that it seemed he really hated conservatives, with all his heart. Snide remarks...contempt. Trump appealing to conservatives and getting their support made McCain even angrier. He was like a vengeful man on a mission.
I have followed McCain since the beginning of his career. It was certainly not people commenting on the internet that caused him to go to the dim side. He did that long before people were on the internet in any numbers to make a difference.
Well put
Because he was a DEMOCRAT!!
I was in Tuscaloosa today and there is a large digital billboard located next to one of the newest shopping centers.
While I was getting out of the car, I happened to glance at the billboard and I saw the name “John McCain” in huge letters. I didn’t bother reading the entire message because I didn’t want to become nauseous.
I am pretty confident that the Tuscaloosa Mayor, Walt Maddox, was responsible for that billboard. Maddox just happens to be the democrat candidate in the Alabama Governor’s race this November. It would be very fitting for a democrat like Maddox to “mourn” McCain.
I have been avoiding all news channels this week because of this three ring circus and here it was staring me in the face in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, of all places. McCain was Arizona’s Senator, not ours.
There is no place to escape this insanity.
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