Posted on 11/11/2014 1:44:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Just days after Salon.com published a tasteless screed in which a relatively unknown author attacked the military and insisted that his freedoms were more threatened than protected by the armed forces (a piece delightfully eviscerated by our own Jazz Shaw), this online magazine has the strange honor of publishing an exclusive interview with incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).
Beyond McCain’s odd decision to give the race and sex-obsessed Salon an exclusive interview, the senator made the even more perplexing decision to obliquely attack a fellow Republican in that interview.
McCain spoke with Salon’s Elias Isquith by phone as part of a promotional tour for an upcoming book and, to Isquith’s credit, the bar of Salon’s usual discourse was raised significantly during his conversation with a sitting senator and former Republican presidential nominee. But what Salon determined was the important aspect of that conversation did not occur until the end of the interview:
You mention Sen. McConnell promising to make the trains run on time; I gather you don’t agree with the “Ted Cruz’s Senate” narrative?
Oh, no. I was very pleased when one of the first things Mitch McConnell said yesterday was, “We’re not going to shut down the government again.” I think that you just saw a McCain-Graham injection into the United State Senate — Joni Ernst, comes from the military; Tom Cotton, comes from the military; Dan Sullivan, comes from the military … I’ve campaigned for literally every one of them and I have not seen any indication that they are of that desire for confrontation. And I was with most of them when they campaigned and said, “I’ll go to Washington and get things done.”
This did not quite live up to this post’s headline which teased the reader with the prospect of seeing precisely how “John McCain unloads to Salon on Ted Cruz,” but McCain’s comments nevertheless were a clear shot at the junior Texas senator’s style.
It is no secret that the Texas senator ruffles the feathers of his more tenured colleagues, but McCain chose an odd venue in which to vent his concerns. Conservatives will rightly cringe at McCain for giving liberals ammunition to craft a narrative which suggests the GOP is roiled by internal strife. For his part, Cruz will be perfectly justified in scolding his critic for taking his argument to the farthest of far-left venues in order to receive a favorable hearing.
Even conservatives who have been critical of Cruz’s excesses in the past have to ask: What was John McCain thinking?
I saw Eric Cantor on a MSNBC panel the other day. He ws pathetic. I hope he is holding the seat warm for a soon to be deposed McTravesty.
Is it okay to say I loathe this sumbitch and will welcome the day he assumes room temperature?
I’m saying it whether it’s okay or not.
This is the last chance for the Republicans to get it right. If (I’m keeping an open mind) they blow it, no amount of caterwauling will convince Conservatives to support them again.
Indications (Exhibit 1 - McCain) aren’t encouraging.
You had to know McCain and his girlfriend were going to continue being what they are. It’s the others I’m watching.
Salon is Juan McCain’s speed. A disgrace to his own service here on Veterans Day.
McCain is up for reelection assuming he runs. Time to primary him again. Maybe he’ll even step down if we can get somebody good.
It's payback, because they employ his Michael Moore looking daughter.
He was an embarrassment to the panel, really slow on the uptick, and he did not answer the question completely. And to think this guy is pulling a life-long pension on us.
But the jawline still looked sharp and photogenic. It is funny because his face looks bigger than his body should be.
McCain needs to go hang out with his “moderate” ISIS buddies in Syria.
I’m sick of these egomaniacs thinking they have to “get things done”. Take a look at what you’ve gotten done and it’s A MESS!
IDIOTS!
She owns a home in Arizona.
Stockholm Syndrome...
Sympathize with your enemies and they will be nice to you...
+1
McDemocrat is a worthless azz.
Oh My! I am not sure any of Ted Cruz supporters would read a magazine like Salon. So how is this going to hurt Ted? Oh, silly me, it is designed to help John’s supporters who all read Salon. I should have smelled the RINO coming!
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