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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Short answer: It was his turn.
Long answer: The anti-Huckabee efforts caused Huckabee's support to drop in South Carolina. The problem was, McCain was a strong #2 in SC. The result was McCain won SC, the MSM said McCain had the momentum, and he then won Florida (prior to the SC primary Guliani was leading in FL).
Personally, I think if Huckster had won SC, Guliani would have won FL, McCain would have had to drop out, and the race would have been blown wide open with Fred Thompson having a strong chance in the Super Tuesday primaries. Thompson's whole strategy was to keep his powder dry until Super Tuesday.
I really believe if Huckster had won SC, Thompson would have ended up as the nominee. However, he probably still would have lost to Obama.
I never believed the claims either, especially the mythology-building that was obviously behind them, and were designed strictly to “fund” a burgeoning political career—it seems that Democrats are more eager to do this kind of thing because they know their “patriotism” is always in question, which is another reason to consider McCain basically a Democrat.
Right you are.
My aploogies to all.
It’s not talked about much in history class, but the US did not declare war on Germany immediately after Pearl Harbor. We declared war on Japan. Germany, i.e., Hitler, then declared war on the US, much to the dismay of Hitler’s general staff, because he had a pact with the Japanese and a disdain for the US’s fighting ability. Only then, in return, did the US declare war on Germany.
The splinters from the woodshed, “my friend”, are all in McCain’s ass.
That sums it up pretty well. :)
In 2008 John was Bobby Riggs to Obama’s Billy Jean King
LOLOLOL.
I’ve finally come around to despise McCain.
A lot of Senators were old men when I was in High school.
Half of them have lived in Washington for over 25 years and visit their home states a few weeks out of the year.
We need a generational change in Washington.
Most of these guys are long since old enough to be in nursing homes and many of them actually belong there due to a term the CIA coined for the diminished capabilities of the Brezhnev gang -”geriatric effort”.
They simply are not up the job and have no intention of or stake in living in the world they are creating
I was thinking more along lines of tar, feathers, and splinter-riddled rails ...
It truly is time to clean out the trash in DC. Elections next year are a damn good time to start.
Old bastards have zero connection or understanding of what THEIR actions and policies are doing to ordinary working folk just trying to earn a living and get through each week.
Sick of it.
STFU Juan!
Perhaps someone should tell him that RINOs will be shunned by both sides when his deeds become settled history.
My Phoenix cousin says the people who run against him are worse.
Maybe Cruz should do another talkathon...
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