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McCain rips Toomey on Senate floor (McCain attacks Tea Party vision as "flawed" and "terrible")
The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa. ^ | 2011-07-31 | Colby Itkowitz

Posted on 07/31/2011 5:31:34 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

Former GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, who this week referred to Tea Party lawmakers as "hobbits," publicly criticized Pennsylvania's Pat Toomey Sunday during an unusual unscripted debate on the Senate floor.

McCain, who appeared to be having a great 'ol time during a back and forth with Democrat Majority Whip Sen. Dick Durbin, referred to Toomey and those who share his views as "terrible."

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"...the terrible obstructionists on this side of the aisle, the terrible people, their flawed philosophical views about the future of America..."

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To: stephenjohnbanker
Do you have Palin’s tea party quote regarding McCain?

"The point here is that Senator McCain
and I agree on the big picture,
where it is that the country needs to go."

SARAH PALIN, 28 MAR. 2010

"[McCain] is part of the Tea Party movement."
SARAH PALIN, 28 MAR. 2010


41 posted on 07/31/2011 5:50:12 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: hinckley buzzard

This delusional POS has got to go!

He has become a bad parody of Jimmy Carter, desperately trying to avoid fading into irrelevance.

John, please resign now and perhaps salvage what precious little dignity you may have left.


42 posted on 07/31/2011 5:50:43 PM PDT by Walrus (You can't begin a revolution with establishment leaders)
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To: SECURE AMERICA
McCain is a loser.

As well as a fraud enabler and a Grade A p***k. Makes quite a poster boy for the GOP, doesn't he?

Mr. niteowl77

43 posted on 07/31/2011 5:50:47 PM PDT by niteowl77 ("Born in a well? Let me see that birth certificate again!")
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How did he ever win the primary and get re-elected? I guess it was because he had a ton of money from Establishment interests and pretended he was a conservative—he even talked about tightening up the BORDER.
He wants to be loved by his old friends in the MSM, a group that stayed with him until he ran against Obama. Now he will be in favor again: the media loves Republicans who are 1) losers and 2)attack their own. He makes me sick.
44 posted on 07/31/2011 5:50:57 PM PDT by Godwin1 (Curve stuff)
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To: Lazlo in PA
McCain is always reaching across the aisle to his friends to borrow a dagger to stab Republican conservatives in the back.

Judas!

45 posted on 07/31/2011 5:55:56 PM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority (Where is the middle ground on insolvency of the United States government?)
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To: rabscuttle385

McCain and his pal Durbin are two of the crooked sleazebags who put the country on the edge of bankruptcy to begin with.

Now they ridicule people who are trying to save the country and restore the Republic!

It’s too bad we are no longer permitted to tar and feather politicians. These two would be good candidates to restart the tradition.


46 posted on 07/31/2011 5:56:10 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
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To: rabscuttle385
BLUF:

McCain knows he will not be reelected in 2012.

McCain's private polling and counting of his high value contributors are indicating serious problems. Add to this the sustained popularity of Sarah Palin and McCain knows he is in serious trouble.

His options are leave without losing or leave after losing.
Both options are extremely damaging to his self image and he is reacting accordingly.

47 posted on 07/31/2011 5:59:09 PM PDT by Nip (TANSTAAFL and BOHICA)
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To: rabscuttle385

So much for the respect and geniality Senators are supposed to show each other, not to mention Reagan’s 11th Commandment.

Go away, Johnny. Just go away.


48 posted on 07/31/2011 5:59:36 PM PDT by DemforBush (Serpentine, Shel! Serpentine!)
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To: Renegade

He handled himself with honor as a POW and got almost every bone in his body broken for his trouble........


49 posted on 07/31/2011 5:59:55 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Logical me

“This freak has lost his mind. Typical of Democrats but a Republican? Wow!”

Dims don’t eat their own. They may have tantrums but they follow orders and goose step where their leadership tells them to go.


50 posted on 07/31/2011 6:00:23 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Nip

he is not up for reelection in 2012.
God is going to have to give him a heart attack to get him out of the Senate.


51 posted on 07/31/2011 6:00:57 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Artcore

Well said, and AMEN!


52 posted on 07/31/2011 6:04:58 PM PDT by thelastvirgil (B. Hussein Obama would steal shiite from a blind dung beetle, then set it on the wrong path home.)
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To: rabscuttle385

The essence of a RINO is that he has a visceral and personal dislike for conservatives.


53 posted on 07/31/2011 6:05:12 PM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

” The essence of a RINO is that he has a visceral and personal dislike for conservatives.”

Sniff..........I smell McCain


54 posted on 07/31/2011 6:09:54 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: yldstrk
His bones were broken from the plane crash. The Vietnamese got him a doctor to set the bones, when they realized they had captured an admiral's son.

I believe it was the third plane he had crashed in his career.

He turned his back on the MIAs.

McCain and the POW Cover-Up
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2528401/posts

55 posted on 07/31/2011 6:11:23 PM PDT by FR_addict
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To: Nip
McCain knows he will not be reelected in 2012.

Yes he knows that since he's not up for reelection in '12.
56 posted on 07/31/2011 6:15:17 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: yldstrk

And what would have been the consequences if he didn’t?


57 posted on 07/31/2011 6:17:09 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: montag813
-"Would need well over 380,000 AZ signatures just to get it on the ballot.

That would be 760 'squad leaders' state-wide, with 5 'volunteers' each to get 100 signatures each. I'm sure you can sucker enough Rats and Indies to help do the dirty work.

58 posted on 07/31/2011 6:21:04 PM PDT by The Bronze Titan
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To: yldstrk

“He handled himself with honor as a POW...”

There is disagreement with that statement by some former POWs.


59 posted on 07/31/2011 6:21:23 PM PDT by VMI70
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