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 Ive 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 hes not a war hero and that, when it comes to heroic veterans, he like[s] people who werent captured. The comments were widely condemned by Republicans of all stripes, but Trumps 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 Reagans oft-cited 11th commandment that Republicans should not attack one another as he triangulates in the hope of eventually inheriting the billionaire hucksters supporters.
Except its 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 didnt quite equal Trumps know-nothing hucksterism, Salter concludes.
‘McCain is frightened.’
That’s how I read it too.
He is afraid he is going to loose his power and/or his Senate Seat.
Check out Nicole Wallace's statement on The View:
In a discussion surrounding Cecil the Lion, co-host Raven-Symoné declared that people for #BlackLivesMatter are outlash are backlashing too, because they said its a lion, but when we tried to start a movement, it didnt get as much hoopla. And I dont believe thats true.
Wallace then responded that it goes both ways. Conservatives are making the same point about Planned Parenthood, but I think thats a disgrace to Cecil the Lion.
She's getting canned from The View because she's no different from the other liberals when they wanted an alternative voice.
No, I didn't think so. The GOP is on full out attack on all conservative
players and McInsain is proof. Trump isn't conservative but he's upsetting
the plantation of subservient voters on both sides by raising the
issues only a few talk about.
Right. His puppeteer was SOOOOOOO successful in 2008!
Did Salter call conservatives “crazies” like his boss did?
After listening to Salter, I like Cruz and Trump even more. It’s nice to hear what McCain and his people have to say.
Excellent, CC! Professionally done.
Message to Mark Salter .... shut up punk.
The aid’s time would be better spent finding a nice nursing home or asylum for his longtime Boss.
So this Loser that goes by the Name of Mark Salter who worked for McLoser for 20 years...
I wonder Mark, was it your advise to McLoser to leak stories to reporters that made out the other crooks in the Keating 5 Scandal as worse villans the Two Faced Johnny?
Did you call and put pressure on those reporters to publish those Stories?
Losers hang with Losers. 20 years Mark you advised a crook and Loser. What a legacy you have to live with. :)
Next up, Bob Dole’s Advisors suggest iYeb take Viagra to stiffen up his spine.
Ah yes, President McCain leaves office in Jan 2017 because of term limits.
Morons like this Slater guy have no business taking shots at Trump or Cruz since they ran the most inept campaign since McGovern in 1972.
I wonder why the true history of McCain’s time in captivity can’t be discussed. I’m not sure he’s a war hero at all.
McCain has aids?
How does he keep it secret?
Longtime aide is not very smart to stay with McCain that long. He has become as dumb as McCain.
There, fixed it
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