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McCain worries about US isolationism, protectionism (McCain attacks Rand Paul, Tea Party)
AFP ^ | 2010-11-15

Posted on 11/15/2010 4:54:58 PM PST by rabscuttle385

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US Senator John McCain said Monday that he worried about eroding Republican support for the war in Afghanistan and "the rise of protectionism and isolationism" in his party.

"I worry a lot about the rise of protectionism and isolationism in the Republican Party," McCain, President Barack Obama's Republican rival for the White House in 2008, told a foreign policy forum.

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The Arizona lawmaker cited incoming Republican senator Rand Paul, stressing "already he has talked about withdrawals from, or cuts in defense, et cetera, And a number of others are."

"There's no doubt that this new group of Republicans have come in with a commitment to take a meat ax to spending," said McCain, who underlined it would be hard to declare military outlays "sacrosanct" in such an atmosphere.

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To: indylindy

Not yet.


41 posted on 11/15/2010 5:27:24 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: rabscuttle385

13 days since election day.
That conversion didn’t take long.


42 posted on 11/15/2010 5:27:38 PM PST by calcowgirl
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To: rabscuttle385

Has the stalker loon shown up yet?


43 posted on 11/15/2010 5:28:25 PM PST by dforest
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To: rabscuttle385

What is best for the US.

Don’t count on McCain to know that.


44 posted on 11/15/2010 5:30:55 PM PST by pallis
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To: rabscuttle385

Is it too late to tell the Vietnamese we don’t want him back?


45 posted on 11/15/2010 5:31:48 PM PST by MeganC (January 20, 2013)
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To: rabscuttle385
YOU ARE WHAT YOU DRINK: The left drinks Kool Aid: The GOP (RINO)establishment drinks Slurpees: Patriots Drink TEA:
46 posted on 11/15/2010 5:31:48 PM PST by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: rabscuttle385

I don’t trust AFP.

After everything we have experienced in the past, many of these reporters have been “inaccurately” and “misleadingly’ interpreting and then reporting what the Republicans are saying.

But my position:

1. REDUCE SPENDING.

2. NEVER SACRIFICE THE WAR. THE FIRST CASUALTY OF “UNDERFUNDED” WAR IS ALWAYS THE US SOLDIERS, OUR HEROES!

I will give both McCain and my favorite Rand Paul the benefit of the doubt to clarify or elaborate what they really had said!


47 posted on 11/15/2010 5:32:00 PM PST by convertedtoreason ( Nature tells us to take a LIBERTARIAN CONSERVATIVE stance.)
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To: pallis

Hah! Don’t count on McInsane to give a damn. He has Cindy’s beer money and the *love* of his democrat demigods, so what does he care about the little people?


48 posted on 11/15/2010 5:32:51 PM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: calcowgirl; rabscuttle385; The Comedian

” 13 days since election day.
That conversion didn’t take long.”

It shows the gigolo-reprobate is getting old......he should have moved solidly leftward within the first 2 days.


49 posted on 11/15/2010 5:33:41 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker
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To: calcowgirl

McCain has been treated and released after suffering from temporary conservatism.


50 posted on 11/15/2010 5:34:22 PM PST by dforest
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To: rabscuttle385

I don’t believe we should be running from Afghanistan or trying to make up our monetary short-fall off the military budget.

That being said, McCain is a blithering idiot. We shouldn’t become isolationist, but then that is generally McCain-speak for granting citizenship to tens of millions of foreign nationals here illegally.

Arizona, the people who live in your state that voted to return McCain to the U. S. Senate should go live in Mexico for a decade, to see what they want to turn the U. S. into.


51 posted on 11/15/2010 5:37:19 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Your next chance like this? About 2044. Vote popularity and don't waste time with the details.)
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To: Will88

Excellent point!


52 posted on 11/15/2010 5:37:48 PM PST by dforest
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To: stephenjohnbanker
It shows the gigolo-reprobate is getting old......he should have moved solidly leftward within the first 2 days.

Poor old geezer can't move that quick anymore, eh?

Good thing he has good ol' Lindsey to help him. ;-)

53 posted on 11/15/2010 5:43:50 PM PST by calcowgirl
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To: indylindy

In other words, he’s terminally liberal?

;-)


54 posted on 11/15/2010 5:44:36 PM PST by calcowgirl
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To: rabscuttle385

The apples don’t fall far from the tree....have had it with that creepy daughter, flip-flop wife and I’m sorry I even voted for McCain (need some slack here considering the 2008 other choice). I feel used and abused by this RINO.


55 posted on 11/15/2010 5:44:36 PM PST by DefeatCorruption
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To: DoughtyOne; rabscuttle385

” I don’t believe we should be running from Afghanistan or trying to make up our monetary short-fall off the military budget.”

Close useless, or detrimental; federal agencies first!

DOEnergy
EPA
DOEducation


56 posted on 11/15/2010 5:49:43 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
> The only difference between John and Meghan is John is better-looking.

Oh I dunno, I've never seen John in a push-up bra...

Well, at least we can deduce that she got her political views the easy way: GENETICS.

57 posted on 11/15/2010 5:50:19 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: calcowgirl

ROTFL! I can’t believe we have to suffer 6 more years of this fool.

That Senate will probably be the ruin of our 2012 chances.

Especially if Bozo bows out.


58 posted on 11/15/2010 5:53:00 PM PST by dforest
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To: rabscuttle385

He must miss Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd so much.


59 posted on 11/15/2010 5:53:24 PM PST by HarleyD
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To: rabscuttle385

Nice to see he “completed the danged farce” and is back to being old rino McCain, lecturing us peons.


60 posted on 11/15/2010 5:54:39 PM PST by steel_resolve (E)
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