Posted on 07/07/2016 1:34:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer appears to take a short break from campaigning for Donald Trump in order to announce her official endorsement of Senator John McCain in his bid for re-election, some wonder whether it will help him finally win some support with the conservative wing of the Republican party whose votes he desperately will need come November.
In a video paid for by McCain and uploaded to YouTube, Brewer, who's revered by Trump and right-wingers alike, delivers a scripted speech about why she supports McCain.
"In this time of great instability in our world, I am comforted with the knowledge that John McCain is the chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee," she begins, then goes on to call him "an American hero, an American icon, and an Arizona treasure."
Continues Brewer: "John McCain knows the cost of war, the sacrifices of lives, loved ones, and liberty. John McCain has paid that price, and I trust him with our nation's security ... There are very few things we can be confident about in the ever-changing world we live in, but one thing I know: The United States of America and the people of Arizona are safer with John McCain in the Senate."
Over the past few months, as McCain has ramped up his campaign and touted his foreign-policy cred, he has also pretty much done everything in his power to avoid talking about whether he'll endorse Trump....
(Excerpt) Read more at phoenixnewtimes.com ...
It probably won’t help him as much as it will hurt her.
I let Jan Brewer hold my daughter when she was a baby. My daughter that is, not Jan Brewer.
If I had known what a RINO doosh traitor she was, I would not have allowed that.
She’s a traitor, and that word is going to mean something again soon.
Flush John Juan.
Bad move
Jan is kind of a non-entity in the politics of today. I don;t think it really matters one way or another. Jan Brewer already left her mark the time she yelled at Obama on airport runway. I get the impression she was simply worn out fighting her own government, and getting sued by them over illegal immigration. Jan’s time in office seems like it happened a very long time ago.
A little behind the scenes politics. Jan Brewer and Kelli Ward tangled when Kelli was in the State Senate. Kelli stood up against the Medicaid Expansion, which Brewer wanted and didn’t care how she got it. Jan Brewer was a very moderate Republican. HB1070 was handed to her and she sat on it for a long time before she signed it. When she became a national hero on the Right, she never even thanked the conservatives in the legislature who wrote and pretty much forced her hand to sign it.
You’d have told her to take a haiku!
I have lost respect for her.
” Jan Brewer and Kelli Ward tangled when Kelli was in the State Senate. Kelli stood up against the Medicaid Expansion, which Brewer wanted and didnt care how she got it.”
That helps clarify things, thanks.
Jan Brewer and John McCain - Cut from the same bolt of cloth.
Amnesty RINO McCain sicced the IRS on the tea parties of Arizona because he hates conservatives so much. I’ve seen some weaselly things in my time but that is pretty low.
Jan Brewer vetoed SB 1062 in 2014 at the urging of John McCain and with Mitt Romney tweeting against it.
SB 1062 was First Amendment religious freedom legislation to protect dissenters from gay marriage.
That says it all for me regarding Jan Brewer.
She uses the Constitution as a diaper wipe.
Pfft!
I hope not
As far as I’m concerned “Build the Danged Fence” is right up there with “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor”. F John Mcstain and his obese pig of a daughter.
If McCain is reelected he will stab Brewer and everyone else who endorsed him at the drop of a hat. McCain will be 80 years old when he begins his next term. The likelihood of him being physically able to run for reelection in 2022, and serve for another six years, is low. McCain almost certainly knows this will be his last election campaign. Once he takes his seat in January 2017 the old self proclaimed maverick will not be accountable to the voters anymore. Who knows what he will do then.
After Kelly takes her shot, I think we need to start deciding who should primary McFlake in two years.
There are people lying in wait...
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