Posted on 07/27/2015 6:14:24 AM PDT by GoneSalt
The melee began, as they often do in politics, with simple umbrage. ‘‘This performance with our friend out in Phoenix is very hurtful to me,’’ Senator John McCain told Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker. He was referring to a massive rally that Donald Trump held a few days earlier in July to protest illegal immigration. McCain then followed with the kill shot. ‘‘What he did,’’ he said of Trump, ‘‘was he fired up the crazies.’’ In the annals of political deprecation, McCain’s charge of rallying the ‘‘crazies’’ was not terribly inspired. It was a far cry from, say, Teddy Roosevelt’s remark that William McKinley ‘‘has the backbone of a chocolate éclair’’ or Winston Churchill’s description of Clement Attlee, the British prime minister, as ‘‘a sheep in sheep’s clothing.’’ This was not even a Top 5 effort by McCain, who will sometimes refer to reporters as ‘‘Trotskyites’’ (often with affection) and last year dismissed protesters who interrupted a Senate hearing as ‘‘lowlife scum’’ (without affection). McCain is not so much a put-down artist as he is gifted at caricaturing entire sectors and viewpoints by way of dismissing them — in this case the border hawks who turned out for Trump.
But let’s pause on ‘‘crazies.’’ The word goes to the crux of how divisions are playing out in this peculiar campaign cycle among Republicans and, to some degree, among Democrats too. It is a slur that invites philosophical questions: Exactly who is crazy and who is not in today’s political environment? Are ‘‘crazies’’ an ascendant class in opposition to the same-old political traditions and tropes: Clintons, Bushes and McCains? Can ‘‘crazies’’ be worn as a badge of honor?
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“Should We Fear the Political ‘Crazies’?”
We DO-They are the ones in the WH NOW!
Political crazies is the reason we’ve had the brown clown for the last six and a half years with another year and a half to go.
That the people, of both parties and at all levels, who putatively “work for us” speak of their constituents with such disdain should be highly enlightening.
Regrettably, only thinking voters appear to pick up on this contempt.
McCain thinks he’s Nicklson telling Trump to sell crazy somewhere else...
...McCain is FULLY stocked up!
This is also very well known by the press. Just ask Connie Chung.
I have to disagree.
It is the “political stupid” that are responsible for the puppet. That includes those on the other side that simply did not vote (twice).
The ‘crazies’ McCain denigrates are those that are passionate about which he disagrees with. In this case, the ‘crazies’ at the ones demanding a sealed border and a halt to illegal immigration.
That makes me one of those ‘crazies’, along with a lot of others here.
As one of those ‘crazies, it’s my opinion that not enough of us are voting, as we wouldn’t be in this handjob situation had the votes been cast more pronounced last mid-term....
To answer the OP title question, yes: The establishment should fear the Political crazies’. .02
THE CRAZIES exclude liberals, Hillary, Obama....here the crazies are only and always Conservatives.
DUH....you and I are the crazies according to this lot. Conservatives etc.
Yeah, it’s just “crazy” to value your citizenship, national sovereignty and believe in the rule of law...../s
Let’s look back at the Obama movement. Code Pink. Virantly anti-American, pro terrorist groups. Communists for Obama. General ‘Betray-us’. Etc. that was the original base that got behind Obama. No one seemed to be concerned about the crazies back then.
It’s just summer entertainment - for now.
Check out the Dem’s candidates and the backtracking and fringe ideas if you want to know who the “crazies” are.
Proud to be a “Crazy”.
Or stemmed the flood of illegals... Citizens know McCain's excuses are self serving.
Citizens understand. We understand ‘comprehensive immigration reform’ is about pitting lobbyist against each other for the benefit of congressmen’s book sales, foundations, and campaign war chests... It's NOT for the benefit of Americans OR immigrants or illegals. Congress wants people fighting for their ear...bowing before them... and we hate them for that...
McCain knows we know... and he resents our knowing - - that's why he calls us the crazies.
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