Posted on 07/28/2011 8:40:20 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Sen. John McCain is attracting the ire of Tea Party conservatives, including a couple prominent ex-Senate candidates, after ridiculing them as "hobbits" during a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday.
The Arizona senator and former GOP presidential nominee singled out both Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell, Tea Party-backed candidates who ran last year for Senate in Nevada and Delaware respectively.
Reading from a Wall Street Journal editorial that mocked Tea Party supporters as "hobbits" and criticized Tea Party-backed lawmakers for holding out on a debt-ceiling increase, McCain said: "This is the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell into GOP Senate nominees."
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Tell McCain we hobbits rule the day!
The perfect distraction.
I gave the RNC a real tongue thrashing over this when they begged for my $$$$ this evening.
It’s racism McCain!! Just because I am short, have large hairy feet and live in The Shire is no reason to discriminate against me.
This is the kind of crack political thinking we are going to vote out of the GOP. The leadership of the GOP needs to go if the country is to survive the current anti voter government we currently have.
McCain is a poster boy for term limits. No one should be in Washington long enough to get that senile.
Can a Senator be removed from office if he shows signs of senility?
Whatever Sauron. Let's see who you gave your gift "rings" to.
Nancy Pelosi has one. Zero for sure, the creep you told everybody not to "be afraid of." Then there is Hillary, Reid, Nappy Janet....
It’s hobbits who destroyed The One Ring.
John McCain.... fu you rino bastard.
They should all undergo a psychiatric evaluation every four years.
Better yet, term limits is the answer.
Did McCain ever read the book or see the movie? At the end of LOTR, everyone is kneeling in honor of the “hobbits”. I believe his statement is a badge of honor for Tea Party folks and others of like mind.
I’m okay with being called a Hobbit. Sam, Pippin, Merry, Frodo and Humungo- What a company we’d be!
I’m a hobbit, eh ?
Yeah, well, John McPain is a level 7 half orc jester, with a 3 in INT and CHA! I’ll bet I even have more HP than he does!
I don’t mind being called a Hobbit. Hobbits are industrious, thrifty folks, who believe that when someone makes them a promise, it should be kept, for the sake of HONOR. John McCain once knew what that word meant. I think being in DC all these years has made him forget.
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