Posted on 06/17/2018 10:45:58 AM PDT by ColdOne
Full title..............'There's no replacing him': Arizona Republicans say it's 'inappropriate' to talk about the future of John McCain's seat as he battles terminal brain cancer................Senator John McCain's legacy was thrust into focus nearly one year ago when he announced his brain cancer diagnosis. The six-term Senator and decorated Vietnam War veteran is now fighting the illness from his beloved Arizona, and filling the role of one of the few Congressional Republican voices to publicly rebuke Trump administration decisions.
Yet the question of what happens if McCain steps down from office before 2022 is a lingering one, casting an uncomfortable haze around the future of a seat that can't quite ever be filled.
'John McCain is a one-of-a-kind politician, and there's no replacing him,' said Stan Barnes, an Arizona Republican consultant. 'No one serving in political office today remembers a time when John McCain was not representing us in Washington.'
Some Arizona Republicans have criticized conversations about the future of McCain's seat as inappropriate. But reflections around the 81-year-old statesman's life, legacy and status as a national political figure have resurfaced via a new HBO documentary, 'John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls,' and his new memoir, 'The Restless Wave.'
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I was told by someone right after McTraitor lost that prez election bid...he did it on purpose. I wonder now.
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No replacing him-—Gack!!!
He shoulda been replaced years ago!!
Why is this dieing (or dead) bu, so “special”? What a loser.
I always though he ran a shit show presidential run.
He pulled back on so many opportunities, it was disgusting!!
If it weren’t for Palin, i wouldn’t have given that @sshole a dime-—good riddance to him!! A traitor to his party and constituents!
Nonsense! We Arizonans have every right to insist the traitor McCain stand down so a living breathing person can fill that seat who deserves it. That leaves out his wife Cindy. I don’t have anything against her personally other than she is a McCain. No more McCain’s or relatives of him should ever hold that office again unless duly elected. I hope that day never happens.
That is the only reason I voted for him......Palin.
“’No one serving in political office today remembers a time when John McCain was not representing us in Washington.”
And that is the entire problem.
“’John McCain is a one-of-a-kind politician, and there’s no replacing him,’ said Stan Barnes, an Arizona Republican consultant. ‘No one serving in political office today remembers a time when John McCain was not representing us in Washington.’..........According to most of the comments I read,people in Arizona generally were not represented in Washington. I’d believe them before believing Barnes.
Which Arizonans, his family? What about all the Arizonans that have no voice in Congress because of McCain’s lack of consideration for them? It’s not like he has a positive future with terminal brain cancer.
he is an asshat, doing it all on purpose to “show us “ what an egotistical puissant.
No replacing him?
So we’ll have a Weekend at Johnny’s for a couple of decades?
I demand a recent “proof of life” picture!
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