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John McCain passes the torch at the International Republican Institute
The Washington Post ^ | August 3, 2018 | Josh Rogin

Posted on 08/04/2018 8:31:52 AM PDT by Trump20162020

For the first time in 25 years, the International Republican Institute will have a new leader. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who is battling brain cancer, has decided to step down from his role as chairman of the board of the organization, which for decades he has helped to fight for democracy, freedom, civil society, the rule of law and human rights around the world.

McCain’s handoff to IRI’s next chairman, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), is not a signal that McCain’s health is declining. In fact, several McCain associates say his condition hasn’t changed in recent months and he remains actively involved in his Senate work from his home near Sedona, Ariz. But McCain felt an obligation to help usher in an orderly transition at IRI, to ensure the long-term health and strength of the organization.

McCain recommended Sullivan to succeed him as chairman and his former foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann to replace former congressman Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) as vice chairman in a July 24 letter to the board. New board members will also include Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R), who is expected to be elected the next junior senator from Utah in November.

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To: Trump20162020
John McCain passes...

I stopped reading right there.

-PJ

21 posted on 08/04/2018 8:51:01 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Trump20162020

Seems they removed the brain. He’s running off the tumor.


22 posted on 08/04/2018 8:54:55 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Trump20162020

Could have stopped at “Juam Mclame passes.”


23 posted on 08/04/2018 8:56:33 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Trump20162020
Will the real John McStain please stand up. Or at least jiggle a little.


24 posted on 08/04/2018 8:58:13 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative.)
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To: Political Junkie Too
😵. I was in process of putting my post up but ya beat me to it. Great minds and all that. 👹
25 posted on 08/04/2018 8:59:04 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Trump20162020

John McCain Passes.

That’s the headeline that I am waiting for.


26 posted on 08/04/2018 8:59:40 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: Flick Lives

27 posted on 08/04/2018 8:59:44 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Two Kids' Dad

There needs to be some means for the people to serve and enforce a writ of habeas corpus. Produce the office holder in person or vacate the office.


28 posted on 08/04/2018 9:00:25 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: Trump20162020

A group of republican senators including Rand Paul and Senator Kennedy need to make a trip to Sedona to call on Senator McCain to see how he is doing. Seriously. His staff could be running things and that is cheating the American people.

We need a full report on his condition


29 posted on 08/04/2018 9:00:41 AM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)
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To: Trump20162020

Damn! I saw “John McCain Passes...” and got all excited.


30 posted on 08/04/2018 9:18:31 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Trump20162020

The GOP & Dim duopoly created, through Congress, two “Institutes”, allegedly for “pomoting democracy” and these “institutes” get funds from the state department budget.

They are nothing other than mechanisms for the Democratic Party and the RINOs to conduct foreign policy on their own.

They should be shut down.


31 posted on 08/04/2018 9:24:34 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Trump20162020

The great John McCain. Passed the torch like he passed that fake dossier to Comey. Or aiding and abiding communist Nam. What a fraud.


32 posted on 08/04/2018 9:25:48 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: Trump20162020

Now if he would only pass AWAY


33 posted on 08/04/2018 9:30:25 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Trump20162020

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R), who is expected to be elected the next junior senator from Utah in November.
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Bush League Republicans hell bent of making America into North Mexico.


34 posted on 08/04/2018 9:30:25 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
I’m beginning to think it’s possible that McCain is not dying, but hiding.

I’ve been suspecting the same for awhile.

35 posted on 08/04/2018 9:34:47 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Trump20162020

John McCain: subverting foreign governments & fomenting conflicts since 1993.


36 posted on 08/04/2018 9:42:20 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Trump20162020
What is an International Republican Institute?

Kinda doubt it fosters the republican form of national governments around the world.

37 posted on 08/04/2018 9:45:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Trump20162020

Now we see the connection to all the RINO influence.
Now the good news is its clear outside of McCain’s staff, his support group is very small.
Take out McCain and Linda and the house of cards will begin to fall.


38 posted on 08/04/2018 9:47:59 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

“I’m beginning to think it’s possible that McCain is not dying, but hiding.”

That’s what I think. How do we even know if he has brain cancer? He doesn’t want to be indicted for his many crimes.


39 posted on 08/04/2018 9:50:26 AM PDT by FR_addict (Ryan needs to go!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The official story is that McCain is alive and lucid; nothing to worry about.

Therefore asking questions like these, however sincere and justified, may brand you as a ‘conspiracy theorist’ nut.


40 posted on 08/04/2018 10:34:39 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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