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“He’s dying anyway”: the Trump right’s hate for John McCain, explained
Vox ^ | May 11, 2018 | Jane Coaston

Posted on 05/11/2018 5:07:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

On Wednesday, Arizona Sen. John McCain announced his opposition to President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the CIA, Gina Haspel.

On Thursday, White House special assistant Kelly Sadler reportedly reacted by saying of McCain, who is fighting brain cancer, “It doesn’t matter, he’s dying anyway.”

Sadler’s reaction is not unique among the Trumpian right, whose outright hatred of McCain has resurfaced as McCain’s illness has progressed. (The feeling is mutual. McCain reportedly told friends a week ago that he doesn’t want Trump at his funeral.)

It’s also not new. When Trump delivered the infamous line during the 2016 campaign, “I like people that weren’t captured” — a comment the mainstream press was sure would cross a line with his followers — they not only didn’t care but started a bizarre meme bashing McCain.

The hate dates back to John McCain’s own run for the White House in 2007 and 2008, and even to his service during the Vietnam War, during which he was held as a prisoner of war for more than five years and tortured for information.

And the vitriol has escalated so much in recent days, swerving into old conspiracy theories and jokes about torture, that Fox News banned a Trump supporter and longtime contributor from appearing on its networks again. When it’s too much for Fox, it’s really too much.

“I’ll celebrate from home then”

Within the circle of Trump-supporting conservatives, McCain is a traitor, and his illness has been greeted with near glee. When McCain reportedly decided that he didn’t want President Trump to attend his funeral (but wished for former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush to give eulogies), former Trump campaign staffer Sam Nunberg tweeted a meme implying that Trump would “celebrate from home then.”(continued)

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; johnmccain; mccain; strawberries; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
McCain started the hating. He hates us. He despises conservatives, except at reelection time when he wants their votes. He hates most Republicans except for RINOS. He hates Trump. Why is it we on the right are supposed to love politicians who hate us? I believe that I should “love my neighbor” as Jesus taught. But to say that means I must love and put up with a sleazy corrupt politician who has spent his career as an attention whore who agrees with Hillary Clinton and Obama on nearly everything is not what Jesus meant. I’ve wanted him out of office for years. Now I just wish he would go out graciously. That is obviously not happening.
21 posted on 05/11/2018 5:32:03 PM PDT by Nevadan
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To: dforest
SPOT ON!

And those of us who were adults, during Nam, have HATED this POS TRAITOR since then; this is nothing "new"! He's the male version of HANOI JANE!

The very FIRST thing McQueeg said, when the Commies found him, was: MY FATHER IS AN ADMIRAL ANDF MY GRANDFATHER IS AN ADMIRAL! And it didn't take much for the old SONGBIRD to spill the beans and his guts to them.

22 posted on 05/11/2018 5:32:46 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh please McCain can and does insult Trump and his supporters routinely.


23 posted on 05/11/2018 5:35:45 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

McCain’s disapproval of Trump is just what you would expect.

The GOP Never Trumpers hate him and all the Dims hate Trump and Trump is going to win anyway with his segment of the GOP.


24 posted on 05/11/2018 5:36:27 PM PDT by Helotes
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

1. These leftists who are now championing McCain hated him back in ‘08 as much as they hate Trump now.

2. They ignore the McCainiac hate for Trump, e.g. banning Trump from his upcoming funeral.


25 posted on 05/11/2018 5:41:42 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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im still waiting for someone to explain or refute this: mccain
26 posted on 05/11/2018 5:48:17 PM PDT by raygunfan
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To: All

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He lied to half the country for a long time, working against them behind the scenes.

He made tens of Millions as a public servant.

He supposed to serve us, not the other way around.

McShame has been Loved on Fox News for many years. Just go away.


27 posted on 05/11/2018 5:50:58 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
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To: Sacajaweau
If you’re not voting John....you shouldn’t be saying anything.

Exactly

28 posted on 05/11/2018 5:51:49 PM PDT by Retired Chemist
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hope Songbird drowns in his own body fluids.

L


29 posted on 05/11/2018 5:52:41 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Okay; we don’t like McTraitor. Got it. Does that make us “Trumpian” or more probably simply American patriots.

Something McStain never was.


30 posted on 05/11/2018 5:55:55 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is a Malignant Moral Cancer on Society!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jane sounds like she has a cattle prod parked.


31 posted on 05/11/2018 6:02:13 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

McCain is evil.


32 posted on 05/11/2018 6:03:41 PM PDT by mulligan (EeThe)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“Kelly Sadler deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom. “

That piece of crap has been given away to every extreme left-wing hollyweird actor.


33 posted on 05/11/2018 6:10:17 PM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump raised a million bucks for McCain’s failed campaign. That’s something the dying POS never mentions.


34 posted on 05/11/2018 6:10:21 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: edh

That’s what kills me. I was standing in line today and the TV on the wall had MSNBC running a hagiography on McCain. Just a few years back he was hated and slandered by the left like any other Republican, but now he’s a saint. For the simple reason that he hates Trump just like they do.


35 posted on 05/11/2018 6:12:54 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t hate John McCain, I just give him a thumbs down.


36 posted on 05/11/2018 6:16:11 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: tennmountainman

Does Mccain’s swam dive remind anyone of Spain’s Francisco Franco’s drawn out death spiral to nowhere?

Recalling Chevy Chase on week-end updates on SNL, back when that was apolitical and relatively funny.


37 posted on 05/11/2018 6:19:07 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: urbanpovertylawcenter

Muck FcCain.


38 posted on 05/11/2018 6:24:46 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: dforest

His funneral will just be filled with people who made money off McCain.He was an awful person. I wouldn’t go near his corpse he is evil.


39 posted on 05/11/2018 6:24:58 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: MNJohnnie

No no no.
Sadly we have people exactly like that at Free Republic.
On this thread, even.


40 posted on 05/11/2018 6:31:22 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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