Posted on 03/15/2013 8:40:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The key bit comes at 2:00 of the video below. We all knew McCain was taking a lot of heat politically for dumping on Paul after his filibuster but I never would have guessed it was enough to squeeze an apology out of him. Good lord. How many times in his life, do you suppose, has Maverick apologized to a libertarian? Either he’s planning to run again for Senate in 2016 and wants to hedge his bets against a Paulian primary uprising in Arizona or he’s come to his senses and realized that his nastiness is doing the interventionist cause more harm than good. Either way, it’s time for a tactical retreat.
By the way, am I misunderstanding or does he seem to think Ted Cruz, like Paul, is some sort of isolationist? I’m … not sure why. There was no one in the Senate, McCain included, who was tougher on Chuck Hagel than Cruz. When the Washington Free Beacon asked him to explain, Cruz said it’s because Hagel “has repeatedly been soft on our enemies.” Paleocons have also noticed that Cruz, despite often being lumped in with Paul on foreign policy, sounds plenty hawkish on Iran. Maverick’s likely concluded that because Cruz and Paul both speak frequently about the tea party and the Constitution and because Cruz was, after all, Paul’s wingman during the drone filibuster that they’re simpatico on foreign policy, but I suspect that’s untrue. In fact, Cruz and Paul seem to me to represent the two sides of the tea-party coin. From the beginning, Ron Paul fans have insisted that he’s the “godfather” of the movement; there are certainly tea partiers, especially the younger set, who are doctrinaire libertarians and whom Rand is trying to mobilize. But there’s another wing, which skews a bit older, that’s composed of more traditional conservatives — hawkish, concerned about “values” — who are disaffected with the GOP leadership’s squishiness and looking to rebrand themselves. The two wings overlap on spending, the core tea-party concern, and on stricter observance of constitutional limits on government, but they diverge on social issues and on foreign policy. Cruz was an ally of Paul’s during the drone debate because of that constitutional overlap, and of course because it was a chance to rebuke Obama. If a bill hit the floor tomorrow authorizing military action against Iran, though, I’m a lot less confident than Maverick that Cruz would end up on Paul’s side rather than on McCain’s and Rubio’s. We’ll find out…
Too late, McLame. We all heard you and you again exposed yourself for what you truly are. Take Obammy out for a milkshake or something. Y’all have fun.
If lips were movin’, he was a lyin’.
"Don't apologize. It's a sign of weakness." - Captain Nathan Brittles
Oh the very petulant McCain believes he’s they only person that gets to be the maverick, not some wacko-bird Johnny-come-latelys.
My “no holds barred” Tweet must have affected Juan McLame.
Go to hell, John.
Mc Queeg is letting Linda carry his purse on libya because when it it comes right down to it, like barmy, he is just plain lacking in courage.
Well, at least he didn’t call him a hobbit.
Before anybody asks...yes, I’m still p.o.ed about it.
I was hoping Juan McLame would soon retire into obscurity.
Now however, I’d settle for him just kicking the bucket!
I think Sen. McCain destroyed the country with McCain/Feingold and him getting the 2008 nomination.
Apologize for abandoning the POWs, McStain.
Hey McLame - no problem you “doofus weasel.” Next time, make up a less ridiculous insulting name for non-liberals like yourself that you want to try and insult.
Apology not accepted. Go F-yourself McCain.
Count me among those who believe the apology came way
too late to be anything but a strategic reading of tea leaves
that finally told him that the territory he had staked out
left him alone with his usual buttboy.
No one cares what McCain has to say; he’s an irrelevant old moron.
McCain’s political savvy is starting to show the effects of the long years entrenched in Washington DC. His 65 mile circle of political life has lost touch, gone into the fantasy world and become a part of the Unicorn Farm. I would call it Political Alzheimer’s where Washington DC has degenerated his grasp of reality. Acting like a “weather vane” is one of its symptoms.
If I know him he’s probably harping on Benghazi for the 180 degree wrong reason, like we should have invaded Libya with ground troops, or this is exactly why we need to go to war with Iran, or something similar.
I can disprove your theory with two words: Bob Dole.
This is not a post-Incumbency Protection Act (aka campaign finance reform) phenomenon.
Then they see how far they can stretch it with the DNC.
What was that line in the manifesto? Infiltrate and control one or both parties.
Mission Accomplished.
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