Posted on 07/30/2015 11:59:27 AM PDT by VinL
Longtime John McCain aide launched a scathing attack against Donald Trump and Ted Cruz Thursday, calling the former a con man with bad hair and the latter his accomplice.
Mark Salter, who has worked for McCain for approximately two decades and co-authored numerous books with the Arizona senator, writes in RealClearPolitics that “either the phoniness in American politics has reached record levels or I’ve grown irremediably cynical in my old age” and that he was “referring, of course, to Donald Trump.”Trump, according to Salter, is a modern day P.T. Barnum, who enriched himself off of hoaxes and later started Barnum & Bailey Circus, before also entering politics. The only difference, Salter said, is that Barnum had “a less ridiculous hairdo, better taste and more tact.”
At a campaign event in Iowa earlier this month, Trump launched an attack on McCain, saying “he’s not a war hero” and that, when it comes to heroic veterans, he “like[s] people who weren’t captured.” The comments were widely condemned by Republicans of all stripes, but Trump’s poll numbers did not suffer significantly from the backlash.
One prominent Republican who refused to condemn Trump despite disagreeing with the comments was Sen. Cruz (R-Texas).
Later in the article, Salter accuses Cruz of being ripped off by “the more experienced huckster” and also perpetrating a hoax, but far less grandiosely than Trump. Salter said Cruz is hiding behind Ronald Reagan’s oft-cited 11th commandment — that Republicans should not attack one another — as he triangulates “in the hope of eventually inheriting the billionaire huckster’s supporters.”
Except it’s not working, Salter says, because Trump is “the one candidate in the race who has longer and more successful experience with shameless self-promotion and political flimflammery.”
“Were Trump in some epic misfortune to become the GOP nominee with his toxic favorable-unfavorable ratings and general repulsiveness, he could be the first candidate to lose all 50 states,” writes Salter. “Although his outsized ego may prevent him from realizing that, Republican leaders and the other 2016 candidates certainly do.”
“And [in that case] one can imagine a disappointed Ted Cruz, his political career over as quickly as it began because his demagoguery didn’t quite equal Trump’s know-nothing hucksterism,” Salter concludes.
....I’m Ted Cruz and I approved this message....
Y-A-W-N.
That means the GOP-wing of the Democrat party is in serious trouble.
you’d think that after viewing Ted’s last blast at Jeb and Mitt, that the McCainiacs would get the hint.
Can’t wait to see Ted’s response to Mac.
Longtime McCain aide launches vitriolic attack on Trump, Cruz
Longtime McCain Aide and Party to Evil Launches Vitriolic Attack on McCain's Betters, Trump & Cruz
Someone send the McCain clown a box of tissues.
Classic “Thou protest too much” case.
Mcstain isn’t qualified to polish the shoes of Trump or Cruz.
...and the Maverick Barney Fife of Reverse Aces...
Ease up. He is at least qualified to lick the mud off them so someone else can polish them.
= :^)
Gentlemen, that is the exit for Looosers!
War hero or not, McCain is a despicable, backstabbing jackass.
If anything has come of the Trump phenomenon, is the unmasking and exposure of the complete political incompetence of the so-called Republican party.
This is the guy who defended Sarah Palin against the leftist attacks....oh wait never happened!
Oh, look, another barely closeted Democrat asshat mouths off.
Wow. Bet this guy fights Johnny Mac for the strawberries...
“Were Trump in some epic misfortune to become the GOP nominee with his toxic favorable-unfavorable ratings and general repulsiveness, he could be the first candidate to lose all 50 states.”
Which would really incense McLame. Wasn’t that his goal in 2008?
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