Posted on 05/28/2018 9:32:13 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
As Arizonans prepare for their final salute to Sen. John McCain, Republicans and political pundits in the state privately tell Newsmax they expect the appointment of his wife, Cindy, to succeed him in the Senate.
Of course, no one in the Grand Canyon State who spoke to us wants to go on record discussing what will happen when the ailing McCain no longer holds his seat. But those who did agree, almost unanimously, that Cindy McCain following John in the Senate through appointment by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey is a near-certainty.
"I've always assumed that was the arrangement," said a friend of the McCain family since John's 1973 return from captivity in Vietnam.
A former Republican senator who served with McCain agreed.
"I don't know if this [succession] has been formalized, but that's what people who know John tell me."
(Both of those who spoke to Newsmax did so under promise of anonymity).
One source close to the McCain family said supporters of the senator have quietly let Gov. Ducey know Cindy is the choice of "Team McCain."
Others mentioned for appointment include Ducey's top aide Kirk Adams, a former speaker of the state House of Representatives, and Karrin Taylor Robson, multi-millionaire businesswoman and member of the State Board of Regents.
Because of the time factor involved in a Senate seat opening in Arizona, speculation has begun to mount about what will happen when the Senate seat Republican McCain has held since 1986 finally is open.
Should the seat become open before June 1, state law requires a special election this fall. Democrats from Phoenix to Washington, D.C., make little secret of their desire of having another Senate seat on the fall ballot in 2018 because they sense it is a good year for the party outside the White House.
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*snort*
Crony pubbies and rats always seem to be able to get a majority as long as they have open primaries, which explains Arizona.
So there’s going to be the same brand of idiot that’s been infecting that seat since 1982. Arizona must be so proud.
guess I am dimwitted..just a typical dumb ass, still hanging around free republic. guess we are never too old to be called names by Men...
First it was the Kennedy’s with their “legacy” Seats, now McCain? NO MORE. This should be against the law.
No, no a thousand times no
People can’t take a sarcastic joke around here.
Look up the word “sarcasm” and get back to me.
Look up the word “sarcasm” and get back to me.
This would not sit well with voters if Ducey does this but heaven help us if the democrats gain control of the governorship as well as other key govt. offices in the state.
John McCain is never going to die... we’re just going to be endlessly tortured by that pos.
God Bless President Trump but if this is true his presence in Washington seems futile...........
Cindy McCain got to participate in McCain’s faux campaign in 2008. That’s all the attention she needs.
Go away McCains. Go join the Bush family in open-border Rino exile.
His funeral is planned, no doubt, to shift attention of the news media away from the DOJ IG report which also was delayed until last week in May.
How convenient that Newsmax dropped this unsourced article today. The newsprint will pour forth with gnashing of teeth at his “Conservative” politics or praise for his “statesmanship” and “heroism”. They’ll call him a “Maverick” a term best used to describe a real hero like Gen. Michael Flynn.
Clearly, the messages he’s sent from his hospital bed have been done by someone else. Now we know it was the presumptive heir to the throne, not the daughter, but his wife. Makes sense since his child does not seem heartless enough to engage in such treachery. No, Mrs. will get what she wants, so “they” say.
I’ll believe it when it happens, and not a second before. Sounds like fake news.
No more McStains, no more Bush’s, and no more Ovomits or Kennedys
You gotta be friggin kidding me. The Widder McPain or God help us the spawm!! I’m ashamed that horrifying possibly didn’t even occur to me. Ducey!!! Don’t do it, Ducey (although as a “trollop” she’d fit right in)!!! And don’t appoint your friggin top aide either for cripes sake.
Between Frank Murksowki appointing his daughter and Rod Blagovevich trying to auction a seat off....ug
we live in such a banana republic....these creeps do it with impunity...
I hope not. John McCain has been paid in full for his services (good or bad) and whatever lucre he pocket or profited on. We owe him nothing.
Lucre: — money, especially when regarded as sordid or distasteful or gained in a dishonorable way.
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