Posted on 09/26/2013 7:06:54 AM PDT by servo1969
He's a Democrat. I don't mind that he's a Democrat, but he's going around the country claiming to be part of the opposition party.
This is, essentially, the Democratic response: ObamaCare was duly passed, it was an issue in a presidential campaign that the GOP lost, end of story whether or not there are 51 or even 60 votes in the Senate to defund this thing. He actually used the phrase elections have consequences, which must be the first time a member of the *minority* party has ever tossed that into a debate. Like Ramesh Ponnuru says, werent Ted Cruz and Mike Lee elected too?
UPDATE: (Jack M.)
Here's a blast from the past. 2002 to be exact. McCain's been a Democrat for at least 11 years, or so his one-time "chief strategist" seems to imply in this 2002 interview. In 2013, Weaver, apparently, is a Republican consultant again.
John Weaver hunches his angular frame over a Styrofoam cup of coffee in the basement cafeteria of the United States Senate and tries to explain what might seem--to an outsider--his peculiar political loyalties. Once a loyal Republican strategist who directed the presidential aspirations of uber-conservative Phil Gramm and helped plot John McCain's maverick primary run in 2000, he has since re-registered as a Democrat and severed consulting ties to all Republicans except McCain, for whom he still serves as chief strategist. "I only work for Democrats now," he tells me. Noticing that he has overlooked the party affiliation of his most prominent advisee, I helpfully add: "And John McCain." Weaver shrugs his shoulders and grins, "Oh, right."
Update 2: Moar Context!1!
Here's some more relatively contemporaneous context. Granted it's from the New York Times in 2008, so grain of salt...but the players remain the same.
Mr. McCain had begun to ally himself with the Democrats on a number of issues, and had told Mr. Daschle that he planned to vote against the Bush tax cuts, a centerpiece of the new presidents domestic agenda. Mr. McCain often made disparaging comments about Mr. Bush on the floor of the Senate, Mr. Daschle recalled.Still, Democrats were stunned one Saturday in late March when, by their account, John Weaver, Mr. McCains longtime political strategist, reached out to Thomas J. Downey, a former Democratic congressman from Long Island who had become a lobbyist with powerful connections on Capitol Hill. In Mr. Downeys telling, Mr. Weaver posed a question to him over lunch that left him stunned.
He says, John McCain is wondering why nobodys ever approached him about switching parties, or becoming an independent and allying himself with the Democrats, Mr. Downey said in a recent interview. My reaction was, When I leave this lunch, your boss will be called by anybody you want him to be called by in the United States Senate.
Mr. Weaver recalls the conversation differently. He said that Mr. Downey had told him that Democrats, eager to find a Republican who would switch sides and give them control of the evenly divided Senate, had approached some Republican senators about making the jump. I stated they couldnt be so desperate as they hadnt reached out to McCain, Mr. Weaver said in an e-mail message last week.
Whatever transpired, Mr. Downey raced home and immediately called Mr. Daschle. It was the first step in what became weeks of conversations that April between Mr. McCain and the leading Democrats, among them Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and John Edwards, then a senator from North Carolina, about the possibility of Mr. McCains leaving his party. One factor driving Mr. McCain, Mr. Downey said, was his bad relations with the Republican caucus.
So, yeah. As they use to say in the old NFL commercials: "You make the call!"
It must irritate the hell out of RINOs like McCain, Graham and Cornyn to be publicly revealed to be status quo good old boys by Cruz. It’s like being caught with one’s hand in the till/with one’s pants down, etc.
Hey Mac!
We are NOT PRISONERS trying to “survive”, by placating our captors!!!!!
We are American citizens trying to DEFEAT our LIBERAL ENEMIES, who seek to destroy this country!!!!!
Unfortunately, I don't see that ending here.
Civilized? By stabbing their colleagues in the back?
We won’t surrender to Obama like you did McCain.
I was looking to see if anyone got the “Josey Wales” reference. One of the few movies that (if I’m channel surfing), I’ll stop and watch no matter what.
Others:
- Open Range
- Unforgiven (if it’s near the end)
- A Few Good Men (if it’s near the courtroom scene)
- Godfather
- Shawshank Redemption
Is that right? So does John McCain think our founders weren’t civilized because they certainly acted a lot more like Ted Cruz than John McCain in the face of clear tyranny. The problem with old comfortable men like McCain is they accept the false premises of the left. They are satisfied with playing the stodgy boring alternative to a flamboyant big spending socially radical left. I thought John McCain had learned but the bad old John McCain is back full force it seems. He once again seeks the admiration of the media that destroyed his Presidential ambitions.
I really am beginning to think his time in prison camps broke him in some way and for that I’m empathetic but if you can’t handle the fight go home and keep house with the children and the ladies. :-)
Some began to suspect Juan’s allegiance when Kerry offered him the VP slot in 2004.
Wait a second. Isn’t Kerry on the other side? Depends on which Republicans you ask.
The person (NOT man) is despicable. Traitors are worse than the enemy who declares himself as such.
Civilized? Tell that to Peter King.
I got the Josey Wales reference. Unfortunately, I don’t see Chief John McCain declaring war on the Bluecoats.
John McCain would have been a Loyalist to King George III...
He would have disapproved of the actions of Francis Marion (AKA Swamp Fox) during the Revolutionary War.
Ted Kruz, however, IS a Patriot > BOLD & FEARLESS !
Here is the memorial on Francis Marion’s tombstone:
Sacred to the memory of GEN. FRANCIS MARION,who departed this life on the 27th February 1795 in the sixty-third year of his age deeply regretted by all his fellow-citizens.
History will record his worth and rising generations
embalm his memory as one of the most distinguished
PATRIOTS AND HEROES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
which elevated his native country to honor and independence
and secured to her the blessings of liberty and peace.
This tribute of veneration and gratitude is erected in
commemoration of the noble and disinterested virtues
of the citizen and the gallant exploits of the soldier
who lived without fear and died without reproach.
In other words, accept their slavery with no hope of freedom.
FU, Juan.
“Unfortunately, I don’t see that ending here.”
We the people are giving it some time for consideration.
We are civilized. What an insult to the people who legitimately oppose what this Administration is doing.
The face of the GOP, unreal. McCain is a Democrat.
Correct!
I wish that thing living on the side of his face would hurry up and finish eating his head.
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