McCain: 'I don't understand' GOP filibuster on guns

Politico ^ | April 7, 2013 | Jennifer Epstein

[Zakeet]

Sen. John McCain says he doesn't understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns.

"I don't understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.”

"What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?" McCain said on CBS's "Face the Nation."

[rockrr]

Maybe they’re afraid of you, you old coot. They know how easy you sell your soul for a little camera action.

[Stepan12]

Arizona suxs! They re elected this rino when they didn't have to. McCain is the co destroyer of this country along with Obama. McCain vouches for Obama twice.

Incidentally, if Barack Hussein Obama is The Messiah's father, then Obama is Arab. He’s 50% white, 43,75% Arab and 6,25% African negro. The woman, McCain probably thought was an idiot, was absolutely correct!

[a fool in paradise]

I don’t understand why McCain is a media “go to” guy on anything. He’s being CindySheehaned by journolistas who ARE NOT HIS FRIENDS.

You are a useful idiot to the Left, you idiot.

[Christie at the beach]

He has to get attention to where he makes the focus come back to what he thinks should be done. He's never been a conservative. My uncle who worked for the State Republican Party told me that McCain was the biggest failure and most could not work with him. They tried to get others to replace him though he kept coming back. He's the biggest liberal republican and now the media puts his face as the leader of the GOP. That is why he lost to Obama. He could have won if he had been a conservative and followed the constitution like he's not not doing again with the 2nd Amendment..

[digger48]

This is just McCains way of auditioning for the Sunday Shows.

They only have him on because they know he will crap on Republicans.

His ego keeps makes him think it’s because they really really like him

[AtlasStalled]

And McCain wonders why the conservatives didn’t come out to the polls to vote for him in his pathetic bid for the Presidency.

[Texan5]

After all this time, McCain still doesn’t get it-it is “We the People”, not we the government. More debate is not going to change the fact that these “background checks” infringe on the 2nd amendment rights of the American people. McCain never has known when to STFU-I thank him for his service, but I think he has played on his hero status to further his agenda and line his pockets from the gitgo...

[DManA]

This is why I never watch those pompous Sunday morning shows. What would Juan do with himself on Sundays if he didn’t have one of these stupid shows to make a fool of himself on?

[JPG]

Check the back of his head for some sort of implant.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Useful Idiot

[DouglasKC]

Gee why don’t we “debate” whether or not we should have newspapers that are free to print what they want? Why don’t we have a “debate” on whether we can worship in the way we want?

[meyer]

This idiot’s hosts at the Hanoi Hilton must have really gotten to him to “not understand” the filibuster.

Didn’t he take an oath to protect and defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC? Seems to me that anybody that wants to destroy the second amendment falls into the latter category.

[NoLibZone]

He is a democrat that because of his wife’s business, lives in a GOP area.

His kids a dem too.

[xzins]

McCain doesn’t understand a filibuster?

I want to write him off as an ignorant doofus, but in the following link, McCain led a filibuster, and that’s just one of many.

http://coloradoindependent.com/62395/mccain-leads-dadt-filibuster-protests-too-much-after-success

What it means is that McCain is a hypocrite and a liar. (And probably also a doofus.)

[Darren McCarty]

You lost INDIANA, John. INDIANA. That takes work.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"

It's because you have a history of betraying us, Mr. McKeating.

YOU LIE!!!

[Texan5]

And as far as his appearances on those shows go, I’ll bet he is compensated in some monetary fashion-between his wealthy wife and all he’s squeezed from his senate job, appearances, payoffs from God-knows who, he is bound to be richer than Croesus...

[Don Corleone]

Arizona! Send this Rino to the nursing home already.

Out here in the desert we try but the cities, Tucson and Phoenix always return this RINO to the Senate.

[vette6387]

“Gracias por nada, Juan McShame.”

This is how he’s paying us back for his time in the Hanoi Hilton. Personally, in hindsight, I wish that he had never come home. He’s done so much damage to our country that anything he received as a “war hero” has long since been used up. Then there’s his “daughter,” don’t get me started.

[Christie at the beach]

Isn't that the truth. Only reason the media invites, so he can insult/damage the conservative movement and to insult conservatives. The low information republican voters eat this up to where he makes those wanting the filibuster to come across as extreme. He knows what he is doing.