Sieg Heil
Posted on 07/01/2014 8:11:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via Breitbart, a little casual racial demagoguery towards Chris McDaniel’s tea-party base from ol’ Maverick.
“Obviously, I claim credit for [Cochran's victory], but, actually, the reason why he won was that he had a really excellent get-out-the-vote campaign,” McCain told The Arizona Republic. “There are some people who are complaining that African-American voters voted. I thought one of the major priorities of the Republican Party was to get all minority and ethnic voters out to vote for Republicans.”…
McCain has not yet announced whether he will seek a sixth Senate term in 2016. But McCain has acknowledged that he would likely attract a tea-party-style primary opponent, and says he will be ready to rumble if it happens.
“The key to it is you’d better pay attention, you’d better work hard, you’d better organize,” McCain said. “And you’d better understand that there is a strong anti-Washington/anti-incumbency sentiment out there, which is justified, and you’ve got your work cut out for you. If I run again, I know what I’m going to be up against and I know that it’s going to be a long, hard slog. But I enjoy campaigning. I love it. And I love traveling around the state.”
Is that what McDaniel fans are upset about, that black voters turned out? Or are they upset that Democrats, some of them black and energized by sleazy race-oriented dirty tricks against McDaniel, proved decisive in a Republican primary, ensuring that the party’s nomination went to a guy who twice won fewer votes from members of that party than his rival did? The fact that McCain would stoop to this sort of stupid MSNBC-ish lowest-common-denominator troll to dismiss conservative anger is telling. We just watched a network of cronies prop up a feeble old man who’s been in Congress for 40 years by recruiting liberals to tilt a GOP election, and Maverick’s big comeback is “why don’t you want blacks to vote?” We once nominated this guy for president. Why?
If you’re thinking ahead to 2016 and wondering whether he can duplicate what Cochran pulled off, the answer is … probably not. Arizona’s primaries are semi-closed, meaning that you can vote in the Republican election if you’re a registered Republican or unaffiliated. Registered Dems are out. If McCain wants to pull a Thad against some primary challenger, he’ll have to find the votes among indies. It could be, though, that his macro strategy is much the same — i.e. if he ends up falling behind before the primary, he might try to pitch indies on the idea that tea partiers must be stopped at all costs and therefore it’s in their interest to turn out for the incumbent. His problem potentially is that if Democrats nominate a strong candidate to challenge him, all left-leaning indies will be pulling for McCain to lose in the primary so that they can face the untested non-incumbent in the general election. In Mississippi, where the Republican primary inevitably decides who the state’s next senator will be, you don’t have that worry so lefties could vote strategically. Besides, if there’s any battle plan that Maverick’s going to follow, it’s more likely to be his pal Lindsey’s than Cochran’s. Graham trounced the tea party in a red state by using all the levers of incumbency; Cochran campaigned listlessly until the very end and nearly lost. If McCain ends up in a situation more like the latter than the former, something will have gone very wrong for him before 2016.
I refuse to spend a red cent in the state of AZ.
MUst be the heat, fries voters brains..
To reward idiocy is to embrace it.
Hard to say but one thing we know for sure. The AZ electorate is for sending him back so many times despite the facts.
I've gotten more involved in local politics, out of sheer necessity. I had always made the assumption that local pols might have marginally better motivations, if only because they need to live in the bed that they make.
Nope. Dumb. Dumb as a box of rocks, and grasping (greedy, too, but "grasping" is more apt, I think). The local town council meeting is a snake pit, and I feel like I need a shower after every time I visit it.
Irving TX has a great mayor, everyone on the council is crap. And that is a suburban city.
Look, we live in a world where the New York Times and Washington Post care more about the name of a football team than the IRS targeting citizens based on their political beliefs. At least McCain has a half baked acceptable reason for being nuts... torture and all... What can we say about the rest of them?
Here’s my guess... no one will ask. And if they do ask, no one will report on it. People here know it verged on voter fraud... and might have been voter fraud... but since voter fraud in black communities is ‘sacred’ among liberals this will fall beneath the awareness of their press...
By your own admission:
:: Here’s my guess... no one will ask. And if they do ask, no one will report on it. ::
The press WILL report; “we understand your concerns about the Federal Government over-reach, but what are your personal views on the name of the Washington DC NFL team? On re-direct, please provide a single sound-bite so we we are able to report that you are a racist tea-party member.”
The City Council members (all elected, and I for dammed sure will be paying more attention in future elections) are either dumb, crooked, or both. What dragged me into local politics was that, last year, the Council wanted to drop a large (200+ unit) section 8 housing project right in the middle of my (middle-to-upper-middle class) housing development. Really, really stupid, if for no other reason than property values will be ruined and the town will lose a major part of its tax base. Why the council would allow something so self-defeating to come about is a mystery to me, unless I was allowed a look at a few of their bank accounts.
The homeowners got it shot down - for now - but I've since been attending all meetings to keep an eye on them. I'm certain that the developer will be back for another bite at the apple.
Sad, really. I expected more, I guess, from folks that I see on a weekly basis. We run the same roads, shop in the same places, have kids who attend the same schools. But I've come to find that the difference between them, and me, is like the difference between throwing a bullet, and shooting it.
Or is he so stupid he thinks we are that stupid? YES!
No. He knew exactly what he was saying. He is hoping we will fall for his sarcasm. That or he's rubbing our nose in it. I vote the latter.
Hell, yeah we want them to vote.
No one wants to disenfranchise them.
In fact, to ensure they have every opportunity to vote, they should vote the Wednesday before we do.
They really did't for a Republican. They voted for 15 bucks, apparently.
he is a knuckle head bully, doubling down. This is exactly the kind of GOP that produce police states and make the right look bad.
When will John McCain retire to the country of his loyalties, Mexico?
Sieg Heil
He ain’t that bright.
“They really did’t for a Republican. They voted for 15 bucks, apparently.”
Wonder if they could be bought off so cheap in generals.
Ok, I have no problem politically beating the heck out of McCain. He deserves every bit of it.
But in posting that picture please understand that he has limited mobility in his arms due to injuries sustained ejecting from his A-4 and subsequently being tortured while a guest of the North Vietnamese. That’s why he looks awkward in a lot of pictures.
I’m aware of the fact that McCain’s arm has limited mobility but don’t you think someone should have told him raising your right hand like that is not a good thing to do in that region of Europe given recent history. Also the guy on his left is a well known accused Nazi. And what was he doing over there in the first place before this conflict broke out? Is he Secretary of State or something?
Do you really think that if someone told him, he would have listened?
Scratch that. Do you think he would have remembered?
;-)
He truly is a horses ass.
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