Posted on 07/20/2015 3:40:06 AM PDT by cotton1706
John McCain is a war hero. Period.
Unless, of course, he’s a threat to Democrats and Barack Obama — as he was in September of 2008 as the Republican nominee for president. Then the man whose honor is suddenly being defended by outraged Establishment figures from both parties and the media was no longer a war hero. No, back there in the fall of 2008 McCain was being savaged as a mean SOB with an uncontrollable temper — a man who threatened to physically strike a wheelchair-bound, oxygen-dependent mother of a missing Vietnam serviceman. When he wasn’t busy causing another woman to be slammed into a wall. And that’s all well aside from using a Senate hearing to torment a third woman — a witness for the families of missing servicemen — with such open prosecutorial-style contempt that the woman was reduced to tears.
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At the time the McClatchy story was published I can find no stories reporting that then-Texas Governor Perry found McCain’s behavior in threatening to physically assault a wheelchair-bound mother of a missing service man as, in Perry’s words about Trump, making McCain “unfit to be Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces” and no stories that had Perry demanding McCain “withdraw from the race for President.”
In other words? This whole episode is just another Establishment media game designed to politically take out a perceived threat.
Just as the media and Establishment figures in both parties deliberately misrepresent Trump’s views on illegal immigration by changing his meaning from “illegal immigrants’ to “Mexican immigrants,”
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
I just heard Trump’s phone interview on the Today Show - he was unrepentant and Savannah was visibly agitated. I’m surprised she didn’t burst into tears when Trump wouldn’t back down and turned it back on them.
Name and shame !
another a$$hole that needs to learn how to read.
Good article ~ Thanks!
I notice you are banned.
I am happy.
LOL
Jeffrey Lord’s columns are always a “must read.”
thanks, that article was great. This is really exposing the gope elite for all to see.
No Worries. ... The Wacko-Birds & Crazies have Trump’s back.
Full circle right back to the exact insult that started this whole thing.
~sigh~
Is it something that I said???
Naw
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