Posted on 03/07/2014 12:02:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Via Matt Lewis, here’s Maverick once again demonstrating that “cordial relationship” in politico-speak means “two people who can’t publicly admit to hating each other but obviously do.”
And it’s a cheap shot. Cruz’s point yesterday at CPAC was that Dole, McCain, and Romney lost because they weren’t conservative enough. That’s not because they’re gutless — he said specifically that they were “good” and “decent” men — but because they’re not committed, full-throated ideologues, even less so when they’re fighting for purple states in a national election. We can debate whether that’s true but there’s nothing offensive in raising the subject. I assure you, in McCain’s circle, it’s received wisdom that Cruz and Rand Paul are way too ideological to beat Hillary. Nothing offensive about that theory either. McCain, though, can’t resist seizing on Cruz’s point as an opportunity to demagogue him as being somehow contemptuous of military service. Evidently, if you think Bob Dole would have done better against Clinton by drawing a more vivid philosophical contrast, you’re accusing a war hero of cowardice. That’s a very Maverick-y take, given that McCain’s own campaign six years ago heavily emphasized biography over ideology. It still galls him, I’m sure, that a guy who spent years suffering for his country in the Hanoi Hilton lost to the community organizer turned law prof. I can sympathize with that, but election outcomes aren’t an award for heroism. And disgruntlement over that fact is no license to distort Cruz’s point in order to score a cheap point on him.
And by the way, despite what he says, McCain obviously takes great offense that he himself was included in the triad named by Cruz. He’s playing it off like he’s offended only on Dole’s behalf because that makes him seem magnanimous, especially given Dole’s age and the fact that he’s no longer part of the political fray. Everything he says here, though, logically applies just as much to him. If you think it’s bad form per se to accuse a veteran of being a RINO, regardless of how he votes in Congress or what positions he takes on the stump, then you’re on Team Mav. If not, not. Exit question: If you want to challenge Cruz on this point, why not knock the fact that it’s easy for a red-stater to be myopic about it?
That’s a fake smile from his friend HRC, but McPain thinks she really likes him.
Who knows what mysteriously motivates McCain? But I think he should keep his mouth shut and not try to divide the party with inane statements about apologizing to Dole. Cruz is an important Republican and I am sure we will hear a heck of lot more from him. I am looking forward to it! Why should Cruz battle members of his own party especially when a significant number of Republican voters agree with him?
Sure, the most popular senator from TX is going to listen to the least popular senator from AZ.
Oh yes, this is the McCain, who after the 2008 election said, and I quote, “We have nothing to fear from an Obama Administration”. unquote. I will never forget that. All I could think of at the time is what a babbling fool McCain is. And my opinion of him as a babbling fool has only intensified since that time.
FWIW McCain said that about 0bamster during the campaign not after the election.
I want Juan McLame to apologize to the American people for running the worse loser campaign for POTUS in history against a commie traitor and then I want him AND his daughter to STFU forever.
McCain was told by the CFR to let Obama have the election. Did you notice the reaction by Sarah Palin...total shock. She had just criticized Obama...and McCain had to throw that election. He’s a good communist infiltrator. The fact he was turned during his captivity has been ignored, and it was known.
That day was when I realized that he was bought and paid for by the CFR.
Remember Kissinger stood in Moscow when Obama was elected and said “Obama was elected to bring in the New World Order”. In fact Paulson was on the phone to Obama regularly during the election, and Lehman Brothers went down intentionally to give Zero the win. Warren Buffett offered them the same deal as Goldman Sachs and Lehman turned it down....intentionally...it wasn’t in the plan.
McCain need to apologize to America for getting in the way of our being able to recover by being stuck with Obozo as Liar in Chief.
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