Posted on 03/03/2015 8:54:44 PM PST by EternalVigilance
To the Citizens of the great State of Arizona,
We would like to ask a huge favor of you. To put it bluntly, we're asking you to fire your senior U.S. Senator, John McCain, in 2016.
The U.S. Senate was instituted by America's founders to be representative of the several states. U.S. Senators were originally chosen by the state legislatures. But a century ago, the people of this country saw fit to amend the U.S. Constitution and to thereafter elect candidates to that body by a direct vote of the people of each state.
That's why we're writing to you. YOU are the boss. We fully understand that this is YOUR decision. This is YOUR U.S. Senate seat that we're talking about. However, the choice of who sits in that seat doesn't affect just you. It greatly affects all of us, no matter where we live in America, and the future prospects for our children and grandchildren.
We have many different reasons for making this urgent request.
Some of us are still angry about the Senator's attack many years ago on our First Amendment rights when he pushed the unconstitutional campaign finance legislation that became known as McCain-Feingold.
We also well remember his "suspension" of his presidential campaign in 2008 in order to return to Washington, D.C., to vote to funnel hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars into the bailout of Wall Street financial institutions known as TARP.
Some of us are pro-lifers who are tired of McCain's hypocrisy and utter ineffectiveness on abortion and the defense of the natural family. He claims to be pro-life, but has always worked politically to strengthen the most virulently pro-abortion, anti-family forces in the Republican Party, while constantly maneuvering behind the scenes in the Senate cloak rooms against conservative, pro-life, pro-family legislation.
Most of us today are greatly concerned by the continued illegal invasion of our country by tens of millions of foreign nationals. And we have known for many years exactly who it is that has been leading the fight in Congress to grant amnesty to them: Senator John McCain. We watched sadly as he cynically misrepresented himself to you once again on this critically important issue during his last reelection campaign in 2010. Please, please, don't fall for it again.
While none of us wishes to denigrate John McCain's service in Vietnam, or his years of personal suffering at the hands of the North Vietnamese as a prisoner-of-war, that honorable, proud service doesn't give him a permanent pass in terms of current foreign policy or national defense. Senator McCain has worked very closely with President Barack Obama. In fact, no Republican has spent more time in the West Wing of the Obama White House than Senator McCain has, and it has been reported by the Associated Press that he has been in "near-daily contact with senior White House officials." But to what end? The carrying out of a extremely misguided, dangerously failed foreign policy -- in Libya, in Egypt, in Syria, in Iraq, in Iran, and in many other parts of the world.
We could continue the litany of grievances we have with John McCain, but space considerations in a letter such as this prevent it. However, many of us will continue to compile our disagreements with him and to make them available to you online in the run up to the 2016 election.
In closing, we're confident that in a state such as yours, with a population of more than six and half million citizens, you can easily find another qualified candidate to replace the incumbent, someone who will keep their oath of office, and fulfill the ultimate stated purpose of the Constitution, which is "to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." We are not presuming to tell you who that person should be. We're simply asking you, pleading with you, that it NOT be John McCain. We're tired of him, and hope and pray that you, after thirty years, finally are too.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your time and your kind attention to this important matter.
Respectfully,
Your fellow Americans who have affixed their names
Like hell we do. Not sure how he gets re-elected. He was censured by the AZ Republican Party.
He should have been sent to jail as part of the cheating Keating 5.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and again while expecting different results.
I’m not one of those trapped in that old paradigm.
He’s so strange. And he just gets stranger every year.
McCain Received $100,000 From Firm Of Abramoff Notoriety
McCain's YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare McCain debates McCain
McCain: Hillary Would Be Good President Feb. 2005
Not even the Dixie Chicks can say whatever they want (McCain goes to bat for fat mouthed trio)
McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Bill - Euthanasia suicide By Douglas Johnson NRLC Legislative Director
Why NRLC Strongly Opposes McCain-Feingold and Shays-Meehan Bills
More YOUTUBE - McCain On Abortion (UH OH! YouTube Has a Video of Him in 1999)
McCain and Stem Cell Research Round-up McCain: “I Do Support Embryonic Stem-Cell Research…”
Tom Delay On Faux "McCain Has Done More To Hurt The Party" VIDEO
John McCain: "My Conservative Record" YouTube VIDEO
John McCain, Jack Kemp and Hugo Chavez.
Senators McCain & Lieberman Introduce Anti-gun Monstrosity
Gun Owners of America on McCain's Record.
GUNS AND SCHOOLS: THE POLITICS (McCain tries to grab guns, 1999)
CITIZENS COMMITTEE URGES JOHN McCAIN TO RETIRE FROM UNITED STATES SENATE
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA)
John McCain Losing His Cool YouTube video
Vietnam Veterans Against McCain YouTube video
McCain Argues for U.S. Troop Withdrawl from Somalia Mr. Blackhawk Down (YouTube VIDEO)
McCain Group Got Big Cable Donation Breath taking corruption, Senator!
THE PAMPERED POLITICIAN - John McCain Keating 5 and other things. FR Nov. '99
McCain gives nod to Kerry campaign (MAJOR RINO ALERT!) June 2003
MAFIA, EMPRISE, DELAWARE NORTH, DON BOLLES, BRUCE BABBITT, BILL CLINTON...AND JOHN McCAIN?
McCain married into the mob.
Former P.O.W.: "Why I Cannot Support Senator John McCain for President" http://blog.barofintegrity.us/2008/04/21/former-pow-why-i-cannot-support-senator-john-mccain-for-president.aspx
U.S. POW/MIAs Who May Have Survived In Captivity
SEN. JOHN McCAIN: THE ULTIMATE "RHINESTONE HERO"
SEN. JOHN McCAIN: THE ULTIMATE "RHINESTONE HERO" Part II
John McCain: The Manchurian Candidate
JOHN MCCAIN, WARTS AND ALL A Look At The Candidate's Mob Ties By Edward Zehr (includes POW info)
The War Secrets Sen. John McCain Hides Former POW Fights Public Access to POW/MIA Files - Sydney Schanberg
A number of articles on McCain. (some the same as above)
McCain Seeks to Change California Primary
John McCain funded by Soros since 2001
McCain/Soros by Rabbi Areyh Spero
McCain-Soros Toppled GOP Candidates Nov. 21, 2006
Soros' "Reform" (an article about Soros‘ instrumental hand in McCain/Feingold)
John McCain: George Soros' Useful Idiot?
Through The Weeds; John McCain, George Soros and the Reform Institute
Inside McCain's Reform Institute
McCain’s Reform Institute donor list: (From the WayBackMachine. RI removed it in 2006)
Lining the Pockets of McCain’s Reform Institute
Reform Institute greatfully acknowleges Sen. McCain as past Chairman:
(page has been scrubbed)
McCain planning climate change tour
McCain's Letter (McCain aligns with Global Enviro activists)
The Turning Point on Global Warming (McCain and Lieberman Op-Ed Alert)
Climate bill sets stage for debate (Sens. McCain, Obama, and Lieberman join forces)
McCain: Global warming is fact, must be addressed [hurl alert]
McCain Sides With Leading Dems on Global Warming (NH voter reminder ALERT
EIA's Analysis of the Lieberman-McCain Climate Change Bill Human Events
McCain's Nose-Under-the-Tent Strategy - McCain's "Climate Stewardship Act" (S. 139), co-sponsored with Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.)
Kyoto Through the Back Door? A Debate on the Lieberman –McCain Climate Stewardship Act - Heritage Foundation
Promising Vote on Global Warming - "But Mr. McCain, as we know, does not give up easily. ... He promises to be just as tenacious on this issue."
McCain Is Booed by Labor Activists
Captains of Industry Could Populate McCain Cabinet ( Lieberman Potential Cabinet Member)
McCain Still Disliked by Fiscal Conservatives (Club For Growth)
McCain calls Jeffords' switch lesson for GOP FR May '01
McCain Antics Weary Arizonans in G.O.P. FR June '01
Believe NYT on McCain corruption scandal
McCain Ties to Lobbyists Troublesome - Newsmax Staff
Billboard owner bars ad targeting McCain Viacom refuses anti-Amnesty billboard because it bashes McCain.
How Bill Kristol ditched conservatism. Great Escape (Gave floundering McCain 2000 campaign a direction.)
McCain may leave Republican Party to fight Bush in 2004
His staff set up policy think-tanks and other groups to lay the ideological foundations for another third-party challenge in the Bull Moose style.
McCain Looked into Caucusing with Democrats
John McCain Goes Left for Money
McCain, Obama Make Deal on Financing
Sens. Snowe, Collins to head Maine exploratory committee for McCain
John Kerry: McCain Approached Me About Joining Dem Ticket in 2004
Democrats say McCain nearly abandoned GOP
McCain denies he was close to quitting GOP
Double Talk Express. McCain in his own words. VIDEO
John McCain's Newt Problem (Infidelity to first wife.)
How Cindy McCain was outed for drug addiction(stole drugs from the American Voluntary Medical Team) (McCain used his influence to cover it up.)
McCain and his Chicom Connections: Posts #17 and #18 by Calpernia
TEN REASONS NOT TO SUPPORT MCCAIN (Free Republic thread from 2000)
McCain Blames Bush For Osama's Escape
McCain Rides to Kerry's Rescue: "John Kerry is Not Weak on Defense" (Today Show alert)
The Real McCain Record Obstacles in the way of conservative support.
McCain Is the Amnesty Candidate
John McCain SCREAMS AT 9/11 FSA MEMBERS FOR OPPOSING HIS BILL TO GIVE AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS
It depends on the meaning of “never” (McCain's Convenient Memory)
UN Double Talk from Straight Talker McCain (Law of the Sea Treaty)
The Conservative Case Against John McCain In 2008
John McCain: Hypocrite by Mark R. Levin
This Man is Not a Republican (re: McCain) (FR thread - Jan. 2000)
Freeper Alert: Sen. KERRY / Communist Vietnamese Killing Off Christains in Central Highlands... (...with Senator McCAIN (R) in complete agreement with him, is because "Engagement" with Communist Vietnam is better for the people of Vietnam in the long run.)
John McCain armed Kosovo Islamic terrorists
John McCain armed the KLA, Politika
Group tied to al-Qaida backs McCain for prez
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McCain says:
"Why don't you shut your political pie hole?"
Stifling the www? Online Freedom of Speech Act (H.R. 1606)
"1606 is needed because federal courts have ordered the Federal Election Commission to regulate "electioneering communications" on the Internet because of the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act (McCain-Feingold). If H.R. 1606 fails to become law, your Web site or blog could be shut down for the 30 days prior to a primary election and the 60 days prior to a general election should you express "electioneering communications."
John McCain, enemy of free speech
Wow! Great job!
Thanks. I first put that together in Nov. 2006 (a little smaller then) and posted it repeatedly until he was nominated. Preaching to the choir I’m afraid. It was the rest of the nation that needed to see it.
I understand. We put together Secure Liberty to try to help remedy that.
Perhaps he died while having sex with his wife, Terrrrrrrrrr-ray-zuhhhhhhhhhhhhh. She used her other late husband’s (John Heinz) fortune to turn Lurch into a Stepford Husband.
She shouldn’t have let him use her money for all that plastic surgery. He looks even more bizarre than ever.
And while they’re at it they should also dump his assistant, Flake.
Two totally useless RINOs. Actually they’re worse than useless - they’re traitorous.
Flake set off alarm bells galore while he was in the House. He absolutely deserves defeat before he gets ensconced in the Senate. Alas, he’s not up until 2018.
Too many people living CA and other liberal states and moving to AZ is how he keeps getting re-elected.
Plus he has more money than anyone else and buries them as he did Hayworth, spending $20 MILLION plus of his own money in the primary.
Now he’s cleaning house in the hierarchy of the AZ Republican party, removing anyone that has any conservative leanings or Tea Party ties. He’s setting it up so that anyone who has spoken out against him is removed and then all that will be left is a bunch of RINOs.
‘Recall McCain’ effort gaining ground
Arizona grass-roots group collecting thousands of signatures
Published: 07/30/2001
http://www.wnd.com/2001/07/10208/
Out of state money rolls in . . .
This is why individual voters ONLY should be allowed to contribute money to candidates for whom those individual voters may vote.
We could stop the corrupting influence of mega-donors and get back to one-man-one-vote which is what made America a free nation.
Well, better late than never.
In the 2008 presidential election, Hispanics were so impressed by John McCain's effort that 67% of them voted for Obama!
My theory is that the majority of voters in his district are in the various late stages of dementia and other serious brain disorders. They cannot remember from election to election that they made the McCon voting mistake the previous election... and the election before that... And so on.
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