Posted on 01/20/2020 2:27:52 AM PST by Kaslin
I had pretty much written off Martha McSally as a loser, a sure loss of the crucial Arizona Senate seat she got handed after flubbing a campaign to win the states other one, but it looks like I was wonderfully wrong. Somewhere along the line, McSally got woke, calling a liberal hack from CNN a liberal hack and inspiring a million Dem-loving media tears. It was glorious, and overdue. McSally laid out that simpering microphone jockey and showed that maybe she can take the fight to her gun-stealing, socialist-tolerating astronaut opponent and keep our seat.
Fredocon cruise director Bill Ahoy Kristol and the usual suspects wet themselves over her show of awesomeness as a conservative, thats a mighty credibility boost right there. By the way she owned her play and milked it for earned media afterwards, it looks like she figured out that shes got zero chance if shes just another GOP weenie too frightened by the over-paid, under-successful consultant class suits surrounding her to toss a haymaker at some punk reporter. Its about time.
She used to be an Air Force A-10 pilot, riding a 30mm cannon into battle. I know from a pal who was an underclassman that she was a beast to her charges at the Academy (he says shes top notch, but hes also Air Force so you gotta factor that in).
Yet, like most career military going into politics, she was pretty useless for a long time, just sort of stumbling through, losing a key election and generally being nice and polite and open-minded and across-the-aisle reaching.
Ugh. Never go full Romney.
McSally is a literal hero, in military terms an example to be emulated. But as a Republican senator, she just wasnt getting it done. And she needed to hear that. She needed to unleash the Thunderbolt II pilot that was in there somewhere, buried under layers of consultant goo, just waiting for a chance to send a volley of figurative depleted uranium rounds at some Democrat lackey with a mic and a tude.
Target acquired; target destroyed.
She needed to show us that she was willing to win.
Looks like she did, right Manu?
A lot of people are puzzled about why military vets so often disappoint us hardcore cons. Heres the thing most senior military people are not hardcore conservatives. They are mostly moderate squishes, and a disturbing number actively cavort with the libs. McSallys Democrat opponent is one he wants to take your guns and money and make sure the Supreme Court is full of judges who support abortion on a whim. And he must be stopped.
Remember that a lot of Republican vets who were fearless on the battlefield turn to gelatin in the political arena. They dont bring that killer instinct to the fight in DC, and thats no surprise. At the War Colleges (she went to the Air Force one, I went to the Army one) they teach you less about war than about how to behave so you dont scare the civilians you have to work with at that level. Treating the members of the mainstream media like exactly what they are, with all the contempt they have earned especially CNN is not on the syllabus.
But gee Kurt, you were a colonel too. Why are you so uninhibited, while so many other retired officers seem reticent and unwilling to brawl?
Well, Im a civilian litigator, and I was a reservist at the end (its a very different vibe than active duty, and Ive done both), and Im just a contrary SOB. Plus, I hung out with Andrew Breitbart.
McSally was on her way to losing again, but she has now demonstrated the requisite wokeness to take the attack to the enemy. She saw she drew blood and moved in for the kill, grabbing up the domain name liberalhack.com and using it to sell t-shirts. Shes fundraising off the viral vid and the media meltdown that followed. Arizona Republicans are thinking, Maybe shes not a loser after all.
Thats crucial. McSally knows how essential morale is. If you are a commander and you are tepid, soft, and indecisive, your troops are going to resign themselves to defeat. But if you draw your saber, leap to the front, and shout Follow me!, they will right through the gates of Hell.
This was a key moment for McSally. She was behind (but usually within the margin) and losing. Now, her voters are energized. Shes changed the paradigm and got inside the enemys OODA Loop. She needs to take it in for the win.
What she cant do is doubt herself. What she cant do is listen to the whiny sissies of the media sobbing uncontrollably because the mean senator said a mean thing to one of the media mean girls.
Theres a new Senator McSally in town, and we cons like her. What she did to Durwood R. Murrow was perfect. The only thing way she could have made it better is by preceding liberal hack with an obscene adjective.
Gutsy gal. Wish more of the male repubs her more moxie.
I LOVE Kurt and read every word he publishes, but he reminds me how easily satisfied conservatives are and how giddy we get when a tiny sop is thrown our way.
I LOVE Kurt and read every word he publishes, but he reminds me how easily satisfied conservatives are and how giddy we get when a tiny sop is thrown our way.
Thats worth saying twice.
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I was angry at our Governor for picking McSally after she lost. After hearing her brush off that liberal hack I’m happier now.
<...reminds me how easily satisfied conservatives are and how giddy we get when a tiny sop is thrown our way.>
Maybe because those sops are few and far between.
Oh, and by the way, there’s got to be a bumper sticker in there somewhere. “No time for ‘liberal hacks’” “’Liberal hacks’ can go to hell” Something like that.
Yes, but can she follow this up with a sustained effort against the hateful leftists in Arizona?
JoMa
Yup, in her short appointed (meaning, lost her election and got appointed when RINO McLame croaked) she’s racked up a liberty score of “F.” Total loser.
https://www.conservativereview.com/scorecard/martha-mcsally/
It appears NOT.
I couldn’t believe the wimp she became when she was confronted. Repeating “I’m a combat vereran” over and over did not convince me that SHE WAS A FIGHTER.
She looked pathetic when confronted...get some guts, Martha, then talk to us.
Please be aware that the Maricopa County Recorder (Maricopa is the most populous county in AZ) is a hard core Leftist named Adrian Fontes. Originally sponsored by OurRevolution (look it up), he is the one WHO COUNTS THE VOTES. And there is credible evidence that ballot harvesting (not lawful in AZ) was the reason that shag-me-shoes (she wore stilettos during the only televised Senate candidate debate AND a very tight dress with a very short length, And yes, the TV camera showed her from every angle and the debate moderator was heavily skewed to making her look good and sound good) Kirsten Sinema won her seat in the Senate.
Having been one of the “guys” in a fighter outfit, I’m sure Martha could dish out elegantly colorful language that would make the average democrat pass out. This was tame.
Sanctimonious puritanism is a losing proposition
Is she facing a primary opponent or something?
It’s important to note that she was not slamming the reporter. She was slamming his employer. And I see videos of leftist representatives doing this all the time to conservative news organizations. Though I confess they are smaller than CNN, that may not be true for long.
All you have to do is stand up to them and fight, you bunch of sissies.
More women are needed desperately
You must have watched a different confrontation.
She has learned the value of a few red meat tidbits from Grahamnesty.
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