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McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five
Phoenix New Times ^ | November 29, 1989 | Tom Fitzpatrick

Posted on 03/21/2019 7:43:07 AM PDT by budj

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To: GuavaCheesePuff

By cheating Ron Paul.


21 posted on 03/21/2019 8:22:13 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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To: budj; All

MORE....This old fool is still messing up this country!

Indians, Lobbyists and Arizona Politics...OH MY!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2440173/posts?page=70


22 posted on 03/21/2019 8:22:31 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: entropy12

The War Secrets Sen. John McCain Hides
Former POW Fights Public Access to POW/MIA Files
By Sydney Schanberg

http://www.vvof.org/mccain_hides.htm


23 posted on 03/21/2019 8:23:29 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: FLvoter

That’s what I think is coming. Certain information being de-classified would crush the “McCain Myth”. That’s why the daughter is so aggressively hostile toward Trump. She has a career based on that false legacy and that career would die.


24 posted on 03/21/2019 8:37:04 AM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

How did McCain win the 2008 Republican presidential nomination then?
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Because he was just the type of phony puke that RINOs were and are attracted to. Like Romney and the Bushmen and Flake and Lee and the other trashy RINOs currently strutting around Capitol Hill ripping off the taxpayers.


25 posted on 03/21/2019 8:38:15 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Civilization is held together by the hangman's noose.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Same way Nixon did. Time made them acceptable again.


26 posted on 03/21/2019 8:43:44 AM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: Calvin Locke

But the GOP had to protect McCain so the dems involved got off easy. As for Glenn, he should have stayed in space.


27 posted on 03/21/2019 9:03:26 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: SpaceBar
which everyone knew

which very well-informed people like Freepers knew, but most Americans never heard about at all. One of the propaganda media's greatest powers is their ability to cover or suppress whatever they want.

Before social media even existed, this was already being done by TV, radio and newspapers.

28 posted on 03/21/2019 9:26:10 AM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever! 2016)
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To: pepsionice

Personally, pepsionice, I thought that someone paid a very big bribe (aka...big donation) to someone so McCain did not get in further trouble during the Keating Five.

I was not into politics in the least smallest amount at that time and I was amazed because even to me it seemed the man was GUILTY as the others.

As I became interested in politics and logical thinking versus emotional/selfish needs it appeared to be evident the man was doing the work of the Democrats for them.


29 posted on 03/21/2019 9:53:38 AM PDT by Notthereyet (NotThereYet)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

RINO money.

The RINOs in charge of funding made sure there was no way anyone else could spend what McCain spent.

Millions, I dare say, voted for Sarah Palin for Vice President, hoping if the Republican ticket won that the Lord would take McCain out (naturally!) and Sarah would become the President.

I think McCain couldn’t stand the fact that Sarah was saving his bacon. Kind of like how Prince Charles hated the fact that his lovely first wife was much beloved by the Brits whereas he was barely tolerated.


30 posted on 03/21/2019 9:56:45 AM PDT by Notthereyet (NotThereYet)
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To: Notthereyet
I think McCain couldn’t stand the fact that Sarah was saving his bacon. Kind of like how Prince Charles hated the fact that his lovely first wife was much beloved by the Brits whereas he was barely tolerated.

Speaking of that dim bulb, it makes me laugh every time I think about how it seems like the Queen is going to live forever.

31 posted on 03/21/2019 10:15:04 AM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: budj

We keep being told that, McCain is dead, and to leave him alone.

By that same standard, let’s leave all of the other wrongdoers in history alone. They don’t matter anymore. Or, do they?

History. If you don’t learn from it, you are bound to repeat the same mistakes, over and over again. AND!!!!!! You’re bound to praise those wrongdoers if enough time passes, and ultimately, some of them become heroes to many and in our minds.

McCain was not as evil as Hitler and others like Hitler, but, he did many things that can be considered wrong and corrupt and even evil. McCain cannot be forgotten or forgiven, and let’s not give him credit for what he wasn’t, and he wasn’t any kind of hero, and he wasn’t any good to the country. The country would have been a lot better off if McCain had not been around to screw things up royally.


32 posted on 03/21/2019 10:15:50 AM PDT by adorno
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To: adorno

And to repeat: McCain never was a hero! His involvement in his aircraft on a aircraft carrier that resulted in the death of 136 Sailors on the ship. And his daddy the Admiral in the Navy got him cleared of any fault in it !
I do not know if he is really not guilty in the affair but there were some holes in the story that left some doubt!


33 posted on 03/21/2019 10:39:31 AM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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To: grania
This is the kind of article we need to see. No need to assault McCain’s character. Just keep getting verified stuff written in reliable sources. There really should be a lot more about McCain’s role in arming and supporting terrorists in Syria. McCain is everything President Trump says. With enough information in the spotlight, people will come to that conclusion on their own.
So much effort was spent trying to save McCain as some kind of super statesman, a man of the people, a "maverick", a hero. This is exactly the kind of spotlight we need to ensure his legacy is the one he deserves. He never should have survived the Lincoln/Keating scandal.

His role in the Fusion GPS/Steele Dossier, his push to undercut the military and CIA by releasing details on enhanced interrogation to our enemies, his support for the arab uprisings from Tunisia to Egypt, Libya and Syria that devastated the middle east and have caused a migrant crisis that has virtually destroyed Europe as we knew it. He single handedly saved Obama Care after promising his voters he would kill it.

He has betrayed his family, his party, his President, his constituents, his military and his country. It's hard to believe just how much damage this man caused. And, I have no doubt that there are MANY more skeletons in his closet.

34 posted on 03/21/2019 11:12:22 AM PDT by ETCM
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To: ETCS

Benedict Arnold was a war hero....


35 posted on 03/21/2019 11:14:32 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: mewzilla

While I respect young McCain for his service and sacrifice, I don’t consider him a “hero”. There is a push by many in this country to refer to all military, cops, firemen, etc, as heroes. I do not buy into that. True heroes are rare, and if everyone is a hero, then nobody is a hero.


36 posted on 03/21/2019 11:39:23 AM PDT by ETCM
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To: ETCS
What is disgusting is that there are so many people, drones who think of themselves as "enlightened", who are calling McCain a hero. It's purely out of their irrational and unhinged (and programmed) dislike of President Trump. These are people who, for their whole lives, have hated everything McCain has stood for and has done.

And what about all of those "MeToo" femnazis who are calling the man who dumped the disabled wife who stood by him when he was a POW a hero? And why? To marry Cindy, an elitist idiot who would steal someone's husband just to buy a possible ticket to the WH. And their spawn on "The Voice"? That apple didn't fall far from the trees.

Don't wind me up. <^..^>

37 posted on 03/21/2019 12:46:34 PM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: budj

John McCain was an ill tempered, petty, angry, sanctimonious, bitter, thin skinned, smarmy, bully. He treated the last 2 Republican Presidents like trash while never saying a bad thing about Obama. He became the “problem” that is Washington DC. He was a career 37 year politician. He was part of the “cancer” killing the average American. He also was the Hanoi Songbird. He’ll only be missed by family and a few others,

Overrated Pilot - Overrated POW(Other Hanoi Hilton prisoners were awarded MOH. Not the Songbird) - Overrated Politician who did nothing to MAGA.


38 posted on 03/21/2019 1:17:18 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: Shane

I think of “The SONS OF HARRY” - all of whom got rich how ??


39 posted on 03/21/2019 1:30:16 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

WOW that is a detailed long read. Thanks for the link.


40 posted on 03/21/2019 2:33:13 PM PDT by entropy12 (Legal immigrants under chain migration not any better than illegal immigrants! Merit ONLY!!)
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