Posted on 11/11/2014 1:44:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Just days after Salon.com published a tasteless screed in which a relatively unknown author attacked the military and insisted that his freedoms were more threatened than protected by the armed forces (a piece delightfully eviscerated by our own Jazz Shaw), this online magazine has the strange honor of publishing an exclusive interview with incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).
Beyond McCain’s odd decision to give the race and sex-obsessed Salon an exclusive interview, the senator made the even more perplexing decision to obliquely attack a fellow Republican in that interview.
McCain spoke with Salon’s Elias Isquith by phone as part of a promotional tour for an upcoming book and, to Isquith’s credit, the bar of Salon’s usual discourse was raised significantly during his conversation with a sitting senator and former Republican presidential nominee. But what Salon determined was the important aspect of that conversation did not occur until the end of the interview:
You mention Sen. McConnell promising to make the trains run on time; I gather you don’t agree with the “Ted Cruz’s Senate” narrative?
Oh, no. I was very pleased when one of the first things Mitch McConnell said yesterday was, “We’re not going to shut down the government again.” I think that you just saw a McCain-Graham injection into the United State Senate — Joni Ernst, comes from the military; Tom Cotton, comes from the military; Dan Sullivan, comes from the military … I’ve campaigned for literally every one of them and I have not seen any indication that they are of that desire for confrontation. And I was with most of them when they campaigned and said, “I’ll go to Washington and get things done.”
This did not quite live up to this post’s headline which teased the reader with the prospect of seeing precisely how “John McCain unloads to Salon on Ted Cruz,” but McCain’s comments nevertheless were a clear shot at the junior Texas senator’s style.
It is no secret that the Texas senator ruffles the feathers of his more tenured colleagues, but McCain chose an odd venue in which to vent his concerns. Conservatives will rightly cringe at McCain for giving liberals ammunition to craft a narrative which suggests the GOP is roiled by internal strife. For his part, Cruz will be perfectly justified in scolding his critic for taking his argument to the farthest of far-left venues in order to receive a favorable hearing.
Even conservatives who have been critical of Cruz’s excesses in the past have to ask: What was John McCain thinking?
YEP!!
McShame collaborating with the Commies again.
There is no depth to which McPain will no sink. As long as he and the fag Graham are in the Senate, the GOP has two fewer votes than the total number of Reublicans.
McPain never misses an opportunity to ingratiate himself with the Liberal media - any arm of it. He’s like Billary, he loves to be liked or loved, and he has a greater affection for that than any principles. And like Billary he’ll say half truths to ingratiate himself with his audience, particularly when that audience is a representative(s) of the media.
This is TEA PARTY PRIORITY #1. MCSHAME MUST BE DESTROYED!
McCain’s worst enemy, according to McCain, are these conservative representatives and senators. He has been playing this game of “DAISY CHAIN” with the rest of these old Senatorial fogeys, both republicans and democrats, that any time someone new, with new and better ideas, are not allowed. Now, my greatest fear is that BIG JOHN will be heading the committee that will determine whether we sent troops to Iraq or not. And I’m pretty sure where his vote will be. “MORE TROOPS TO IRAQ”. We never learned the lesson of VIETNAM. Let’s make this very clear, the next time we send troops any where, let’s have a declaration of WAR. Otherwise, no more “MINI WARS” that we don’t intend to win.
He is the old block, Megs is the fat chip.
John has tumors and surgery from tumors and that is why he’s super odd looking.
Actually, when I met him he looked pretty good. I was referring to Cantor and his lantern jaw.
Will you be buying his book, 13 Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War?
Graham comes from thew military? He was a part-time JAG in the reserves. Of course he is a full-time butt pirate.
Funny how he skipped Gov. Palin and Senator Cruz’s endorsements of those same people W-A-A-A-A-Y before he ever did.
I’m sorry I misunderstood you, lulu16.
McCain is a windbag who would throw his own mother over the side if he thought it would get him on TV. This guy needs to go in the worst way.
All the best, Sara.
Yes, Sarah Palin owns a home in AZ. It would be awesome if she ran against McCain in the Primary and won. But, she’d never do that. She is “loyal” to McCain for putting her on the national stage.
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