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Rand Paul: We’re “Very Lucky” Trump Is in Charge and Not McCain
thegatewaypundit ^ | Jim Hoft

Posted on 02/20/2017 4:31:16 AM PST by davikkm

Meanwhile, McCain continued his attacks on Trump this morning comparing his actions to a dictator. The Hill reported:

Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) ripped fellow Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on Sunday after McCain criticized President Trump’s escalating war of words with the media.

He argued that the nation is “very lucky” that Trump is president and not McCain, who won the 2008 GOP nomination but lost to Barack Obama in the general election.

Paul said that McCain’s recent criticisms of Trump are driven by his “personal dispute” with the president over foreign policy.

He added that McCain and Trump are at odds because McCain supports the wide deployment of U.S. troops to protect and promote American interests abroad while he characterized Trump’s views as closer to a realpolitik approach to foreign policy.

“Everything that he says about the president is colored by his own personal dispute he’s got running with President Trump and it should be taken with a grain of salt because John McCain’s the guy who’s advocated for war everywhere,” Paul said on ABC’s “This Week.”

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KEYWORDS: mccain; rand; war
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1 posted on 02/20/2017 4:31:16 AM PST by davikkm
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To: davikkm

McCain is now a traitor by badmouthing while overseas. He should be impeached as Senator. The POW thing has run its course already.


2 posted on 02/20/2017 4:31:52 AM PST by davikkm
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Interesting that I saw the Youtube video on Trump touring the Boeing plant in South Carolina. Who was part of the tour and by Trump’s side?? None other than Lindsay Graham, McCain’s sidekick. Maybe there is some light between these two, after all or maybe Graham finally realized that McCain seems to have “hardening of the arteries” as people used to say about older people losing their minds.


3 posted on 02/20/2017 4:37:33 AM PST by laconic
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To: davikkm

McCain the “warrior” and McCain the “politician.”

The former does not begin to justify the latter, and the latter overshadows the former.

It is time for him to go on off and fade away. He is not relevant in this world today.


4 posted on 02/20/2017 4:39:08 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: davikkm

I love this guy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


5 posted on 02/20/2017 4:40:02 AM PST by angcat (THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!)
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To: laconic

Snap out of it!


6 posted on 02/20/2017 4:40:06 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: davikkm

Why oh why didn’t Arizona voters primary out the old turncoat when they had the opportunities? Term limits NOW.


7 posted on 02/20/2017 4:40:32 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny (agent Able Deplor))
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To: davikkm

McCain is the new Charles Lindbergh


9 posted on 02/20/2017 4:43:18 AM PST by STJPII
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To: davikkm

I learned there two kinds of dementia. With Alzheimer’s, one loses his mind. The other kind is mean. One does mean things.

I have a friend who was the kindest old lady imaginable. She is now in a facility where she is given care and sheltered from the horrible outbursts towards everyone. I have come to believe that my mother suffered from the condition except she was not so verbal she would write long mean letters to her dentist or her cousin or the extended care director.

There is no question but that McCain suffers dementia


10 posted on 02/20/2017 4:43:52 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: STJPII
McCain is the new Charles Lindbergh

That's an insult to a good man, in Lindbergh, who just happened to be wrong, and admitted that he was wrong.

11 posted on 02/20/2017 4:44:15 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: laconic
"Who was part of the tour and by Trump’s side?? None other than Lindsay Graham, McCain’s sidekick."

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“I’m very disappointed I cannot attend Boeing’s celebration of the 787-10 today with President Trump,” Graham said in a statement. - The State, February 17, 2017

http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article133321759.html

12 posted on 02/20/2017 4:45:31 AM PST by monkapotamus
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Now? He was a traitor since the S&L scandal. Stealing money as an elected official in my book makes you a traitor.

He is also DESPERATE to see young american men fight and die.

I’ve no idea why.


13 posted on 02/20/2017 4:46:32 AM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper cbrust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: bert

Did he suffer it during the S&L scandal over 20 years ago?


14 posted on 02/20/2017 4:47:26 AM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper cbrust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: monkapotamus

I stand corrected; it must have been a Boeing exec who unfortunately, strongly resembles Graham.


15 posted on 02/20/2017 4:49:28 AM PST by laconic
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To: davikkm
McCain is now a traitor by badmouthing while overseas. He should be impeached as Senator. The POW thing has run its course already.

He's done the same or worse before, yet the Republican Party has never had a problem with him (John McCain is why I left the Republican Party, FWIW). Removing a sitting senator is well-nigh impossible, particularly so in his case… he is like Kennedy was in MA and Harkin was in IA: he either voluntarily retires to enjoy his accumulated perks, or he dies in office.

As for his "hero" status and his "service to the country," he used up that capital long ago. How the hell his captivity resulted in otherwise sentient Americans to allow him some sort of media-assisted moral carte blanche to do and say whatever he feels like doing baffles me

Mr. niteowl77

16 posted on 02/20/2017 4:49:37 AM PST by niteowl77 (First it was George Bush's fault, then it was the Russians' fault, now it's Donald Trump's fault.)
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To: davikkm

That’s a FACT!

I had to hold my nose while voting for McCain in 2008. Frankly, I believe that we dodged a bullet, even though we got stuck with Obama.


17 posted on 02/20/2017 4:50:50 AM PST by Howie66 ("Tone down the tagline please." - Admin Moderator)
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To: monkapotamus

He was required in DC to vote for the president’s cabinet nominee


18 posted on 02/20/2017 4:51:24 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: dp0622

I don’t think so be cause dementia is a disease of the aged


19 posted on 02/20/2017 4:52:15 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: davikkm

Thanks you Sen. Paul. Rand Paul has a lot of good ideas about how to repeal and replace Obamacare, let’s hope the pubbie elite will listen to him as the POTUS is.


20 posted on 02/20/2017 4:52:25 AM PST by kenmcg
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