[DoodleDawg]

Gotta blame someone I guess. The fact is that Lewis lost a seat that the Republicans have held for almost 20 years.

[DoodleDawg]

And which Trump had carried in 2016.

[rockinqsranch]

He’s right. Him, and Ryan can be blamed for the losses.

[chiller]

Perhaps so, but it wasn’t because he lacked juevos. You may remember, he subbed for Rush 3 or 4 years ago on several occasions. Rock solid but in Minnesota :(.

[Mr. K]

Not sending the same obamacare repeal bill to Trump, that you had sent 50 times to Obama, was pretty stupid.

There is a good reason the GOP is called “the stupid party”

[taildragger]

He forgot Ryan. Tax cut that his masters the Koch’s could live with, but no go on the Wall or Obamacare which is what a lot of America wanted fixed. He will be fine as a lobbyist, we will live through hell the next two years.

[Ann Archy]

He is RIGHT!! The BIG PROMISE was that they would DEFEAT OBAMACARE, and that FRAUD REPUBLIUCAN CREEP, McCAIN HAD HIS FAMOUS THUMBS DOWN!

[Anti-Bubba182]

Novel argument? Pretty good one actually. McCain stopped Trump from dealing with Obamacare which became the #1 Democrat issue.

[conservative98]

[jjotto]

In the two lost House seats in Iowa, he’s exactly right. No GOP answer to the health care insurance debacle.

[colorado tanker]

A lot of truth to this. I heard many ads here, especially anti-Coffman ads, that lied about Republicans wanting to do away with pre-existing conditions protection. How do you counter that? Explain that the Republican bill that a Republican Senate rejected would have kept the protection in? It's true but it sounds like woulda, coulda, shoulda, and the dog ate my homework.

McPain, the gift that keeps on giving, even from the grave.

[xzins]

McCain’s objective was to hurt Trump. He succeeded.

The worst, though, was Ryan and the establishment deciding to vacate 40+ Republican seats giving the dems an enormous advantage going into the midterms. That was nothing short of sabotage.

[Alberta's Child]

Lewis is flat-out wrong on this.

As I've said many times here on FR, the GOP has never had any interest in repealing ObamaCare. Their problem is that the biggest beneficiaries of ObamaCare are older people -- a core constituency of the Republican Party.

The dirty little secret is that most Republican voters -- even many right here on FreeRepublic -- absolutely love most of the ObamaCare provisions that make health insurance so ridiculously expensive. They just don't want to pay for it.

[jimfree]

Several of us blamed McCain already.

[Robert DeLong]

Because Felicia Sonmez knows. That of course would be nothing that she knows. Looks like an airhead to me.

[Retvet]

Don’t forget Flake’s contributions.

[eyeamok]

McCain’s famous thumbs-down vote last year against a “skinny” repeal of the Affordable Care Act

Oh come on now, he had to vote no to make damned sure he got a seat at the same table as his daddy, Satan.

[FlingWingFlyer]

McCain and his ungodly spawn, Jeffy Flake.

[MuttTheHoople]

Also the 40 or so RINO’s who retired in a snit after Trump got elected.

[Osage Orange]

And on another front...............

A group of Americans, retired teachers, recently went to France on a tour. Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane.

At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on. "You have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked sarcastically.

Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously.

"Then you should know enough to have your passport ready."

The American said, "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it."

"Impossible. Americans always have to show your passports on arrival in France !"

The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained. "Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find any damn Frenchmen to show it to."