Posted on 09/26/2013 7:06:54 AM PDT by servo1969
He's a Democrat. I don't mind that he's a Democrat, but he's going around the country claiming to be part of the opposition party.
This is, essentially, the Democratic response: ObamaCare was duly passed, it was an issue in a presidential campaign that the GOP lost, end of story — whether or not there are 51 or even 60 votes in the Senate to defund this thing. He actually used the phrase “elections have consequences,” which must be the first time a member of the *minority* party has ever tossed that into a debate. Like Ramesh Ponnuru says, weren’t Ted Cruz and Mike Lee elected too?
UPDATE: (Jack M.)
Here's a blast from the past. 2002 to be exact. McCain's been a Democrat for at least 11 years, or so his one-time "chief strategist" seems to imply in this 2002 interview. In 2013, Weaver, apparently, is a Republican consultant again.
John Weaver hunches his angular frame over a Styrofoam cup of coffee in the basement cafeteria of the United States Senate and tries to explain what might seem--to an outsider--his peculiar political loyalties. Once a loyal Republican strategist who directed the presidential aspirations of uber-conservative Phil Gramm and helped plot John McCain's maverick primary run in 2000, he has since re-registered as a Democrat and severed consulting ties to all Republicans except McCain, for whom he still serves as chief strategist. "I only work for Democrats now," he tells me. Noticing that he has overlooked the party affiliation of his most prominent advisee, I helpfully add: "And John McCain." Weaver shrugs his shoulders and grins, "Oh, right."
Update 2: Moar Context!1!
Here's some more relatively contemporaneous context. Granted it's from the New York Times in 2008, so grain of salt...but the players remain the same.
Mr. McCain had begun to ally himself with the Democrats on a number of issues, and had told Mr. Daschle that he planned to vote against the Bush tax cuts, a centerpiece of the new president’s domestic agenda. Mr. McCain often made “disparaging comments” about Mr. Bush on the floor of the Senate, Mr. Daschle recalled.Still, Democrats were stunned one Saturday in late March when, by their account, John Weaver, Mr. McCain’s longtime political strategist, reached out to Thomas J. Downey, a former Democratic congressman from Long Island who had become a lobbyist with powerful connections on Capitol Hill. In Mr. Downey’s telling, Mr. Weaver posed a question to him over lunch that left him stunned.
“He says, ‘John McCain is wondering why nobody’s ever approached him about switching parties, or becoming an independent and allying himself with the Democrats,’ ” Mr. Downey said in a recent interview. “My reaction was, ‘When I leave this lunch, your boss will be called by anybody you want him to be called by in the United States Senate.’ ”
Mr. Weaver recalls the conversation differently. He said that Mr. Downey had told him that Democrats, eager to find a Republican who would switch sides and give them control of the evenly divided Senate, had approached some Republican senators about making the jump. “I stated they couldn’t be so desperate as they hadn’t reached out to McCain,” Mr. Weaver said in an e-mail message last week.
Whatever transpired, Mr. Downey raced home and immediately called Mr. Daschle. It was the first step in what became weeks of conversations that April between Mr. McCain and the leading Democrats, among them Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and John Edwards, then a senator from North Carolina, about the possibility of Mr. McCain’s leaving his party. One factor driving Mr. McCain, Mr. Downey said, was his bad relations with the Republican caucus.
So, yeah. As they use to say in the old NFL commercials: "You make the call!"
We want you to do just the opposite.
Just go away asshole. You’ve stained civilization for far too long.
John McCain, a lifetime of collaboration.
The only reason he is Republican is because it gets him face time on the television talk shows. He wouldn’t be in such demand reiterating the Democrat talking points with a D behind his name.
fujm
He’s going to retire, cook a deal to make Cindy McCain his replacement and then she will jump to the RATS.
Cindy McCain is one of “Emily’s List” supporters.
Democrat masquerading as Republican is the rule rather than the exception.
Just as nazist islamic masquerading as Democrat.
So Jackson MS can be turned into a Black nationalist fever swamp (I presume blacks are not required to celebrate diversity)and this establishment idiot is running around lecturing productive whites that they have to bend over even more. Eff him.
Please go crawl under a rock and stay there you piece of dung Juan McAsshat
John McCain, political platypus. What an odd creature: It ran for president as a Republican, yet it walks and talks like a Democrat!
Media darling,
Conservative bane.
A liberal butthole:
Johnny McCain
Isn’t that what the prison guards always tell the prisoners? “Just cooperate with us and everything will go well for you.”
Persevere? At what?
His goal is most unclear
Gosh I wish he’d join the Democratic Party and be their total embarassment. Then he could no longer sabotage attempts of some Republicans to actually get something done.
MCNASTY NEEDS TO RESIGN! I AM SICK OF HIM AND HIS RINO BUDIES CORKER AND ALEXANDER TOO!
Joe Carr is running against Alexander. Tea Party backed. Lamar is up for re-election.
John Weaver hunches his angular frame over a Styrofoam cup of coffee in the basement cafeteria of the United States Senate and tries to explain what might seem--to an outsider--his peculiar political loyalties. Once a loyal Republican strategist who directed the presidential aspirations of uber-conservative Phil Gramm and helped plot John McCain's maverick primary run in 2000, he has since re-registered as a Democrat and severed consulting ties to all Republicans except McCain, for whom he still serves as chief strategist. "I only work for Democrats now," he tells me. Noticing that he has overlooked the party affiliation of his most prominent advisee, I helpfully add: "And John McCain." Weaver shrugs his shoulders and grins, "Oh, right."
This is yet another illustration of why a genuine conservative should NEVER donate to the Republican Party, or its Congressional and Senate Re-election Committees, or most PACs. Such organizations just want to get Republicans elected. We want conservatives to be elected, and electing scum like Rep King does not advance our political philosophy.
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