Posted on 09/25/2013 2:54:31 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Senator John McCain lashed out at fellow Republican Ted Cruz on Wednesday over a Nazi appeasement comparison he made during his all-night, anti-Obamacare marathon on the U.S. Senate floor.
McCain, a Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war, said the comparison was inappropriate. He said he had taken Cruz aside privately to tell him, and got a response he did not like: Cruz told him his appeaser reference applied not to distinguished members of the Senate but only media "pundits."
"I resoundingly reject" Cruz's comments, said McCain, a senior Republican and former presidential candidate.
"I think it's wrong and I think it's a disservice to those who stood up and shouted at the top of their lungs that we cannot appease and that we must act," he said.
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Thank you.
You believe his claims about his time as a prisoner in Hanoi. I don’t.
McCain is just a messenger for Obama, his master.
What does Obama have on John McCain?
McCain, you QUIT like the BITCH you are. Hey quitter, sit down and SHUT UP.
Yeah, and Benedict Arnold was pretty awesome too. McCain is a dem/commie punk now; deal with it. His past actions do not and WILL NOT warrant excuse for his current actions. F*ck McCain and I'll extend the same to you for defending someone like him who seeks to abolish my liberty now.
/Marine Vet here.
How is the recall petition coming along in Arizona. McCain is mentally ill or maybe just showing his true colors again.
Totally out of touch with reality....
He took a dive in ‘08. As he was instructed to do.
Yep, but Sarah Palin endorsed McCain over JD.
Sweet dreams to you, stud muffin.
I wonder if anyone else sees the scene behind the scene here.
I’m thinking McCain and probably Harry Reid were watching Cruz together in some room off the Senate floor rather than on the floor itself. For sure, fellow Senators were watching long before they came in prior to the opening of the session.
So what does Harry Reid say to Cruz? “Give John McCain 15 minutes.”
In other words, they were going to try and upstage and undo what Cruz had done for 21 hours. Cruz sensed this and did not allow McCain respectfully to speak.
The second thing that bothers me, is that McCain could have spoken to Cruz privately, instead he chose to take this to all places, the media. ONce again to undermine the man’s brilliant speech.
I listened to most of what Cruz said the night before and early into the night. He used many many many allegories. I didn’t hear the one about Chamberlain. Personally it’s over used, but I think for me it denotes a person being blind to reality, or a person in denial. In this case I guess Cruz was referring to the loss of the American DReam, or Obamacare or something and equating it with Nazism. I don’t think he was referring to Obama. I don’t know, maybe someone can tell us what he actually said.
But I DID HEAR Ted Cruz in the weee hours of the morning, I’m sure when McCain was deep asleep, speak eloquently about McCain’s commitment and how he endured torture more so than anyone else in the Senate.
Let’s face it friends the media is belittling the man, and making his speech out to be nothing special. This tells me, that this was our first battle. What happens from here out is in the hands of the people.
I will tell you this. Cruz planted the seed so when Obamacare hits home to millions of Americans, they will remember who tried to stand up for them...Ted Cruz. The more the RINOS and others come down on Cruz, the better he looks to the people.
I think the past few months he’s kind of lost it mentally. Sad but he’s all over the place with little rhyme or reason.
Glenn Beck didn’t like Hayworth. He mocked that telemarket moment perpetually. I really like Beck, but no one is perfect. And here we are. [Sigh.]
Amen.
I don’t blame Cruz for taking the gloves off. Opposition research by his own party? That’s so disgusting I would call it ‘Carl Rovish’.
“Maybe if enough of us encouraged him to leave the party he would. I have repeatedly.”
Unless he’s on the campaign trail, McStain hates you. Why bother?
Why does anyone listen to John McNuts? Why does John McNuts listen to no one? Sarah Palin made him look like the absolute fool that he is and she was his running mate!
Right back at ya’, Senator Graham.
Propaganda by Reuters.
We were given the candidate predetermined for us.
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