Posted on 07/16/2015 9:47:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump “fired up the crazies” in his state when he held a rally in Phoenix last weekend, Arizona Sen. John McCain said in a recent interview. During that appearance (and others last weekend), Trump was joined by the father of Jamiel Shaw, who was killed by an undocumented immigrant.
Trump has tapped into “some anger” in the state over the conditions at the border, McCain told The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza in an article published Thursday.
“It’s very bad,” the Republican senator said. “This performance with our friend out in Phoenix is very hurtful to me,” McCain said. “Because what he did was he fired up the crazies.”
Trump’s latest polling numbers would seem to suggest that his message is resonating with Republican voters.
McCain, a longtime supporter of comprehensive immigration reform as a member of the Senate’s Gang of Eight, noted his battles with the far right, “very extreme element” of his state’s party over the years on the issue.
McCain made reference to Trump’s past support of Democratic candidates over the years, too.
“Some of this stuff is going to come out: He gave more money to Democrats than Republicans, he had Hillary Clinton at his wedding,” McCain said, referencing Trump’s 2005 wedding to his current wife Melania at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida.
“Now he galvanized them,” McCain said, according to the article. “He’s really got them activated.”
The senator also made sure to mention that Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, another Gang of Eight member running for president, “backed away” from the immigration approach that the group took in 2013.
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” McCain remarked, referencing Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues.”
McCain, a longtime friend of Senate colleague and Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham, praised the South Carolina senator for being one of the few in the party to blast the multibillionaire’s remarks.
In a Sunday interview on CNN, Graham called Trump “a wrecking ball” for the GOP’s future, adding that Republicans “need to reject this demagoguery” or face the consequences.
Actually Trump just released pent up frustrations with Obama’s authoritarianism(insert your own ism). The genie is out of the bottle, and Trump has enough bucks to buy the stopper and throw it away.
Well us crazies did not arm and fund ISIS. That took a special kind of crazy that only McCain possesses.
McCain was pretended to be all for the “crazies” when he put one on his ticket. Of course, she let herself get duped and many conservatives followed suit. (Although, most of us didn’t go back and endorse him after having been used like a poker chip.) Curious what the Palin reaction might be on this pronouncement.
Bump
The old "Pablum Slinger" Mcpain is still at it. Dishing out the BS by the truckload. Surprised the people of his state keep sending him back to DC, "war hero" or not. Clearly "over-the-Hump".
Sorry about the bad editing, there. Send button got away from me. :/
Blast it! These durned Wacko-Birds keep stealing the news cycles away from me. Don’t they know I’ve been in this state for decades?
Rush said last hour that McCain endorsed Trump. Doesn’t sound like much an endorsement.
The good news is there is no longer any legal impediment to their nuptials.
I’m not very happy about the fact that you wacko birds and crazies forget us, “the Hobbits.” He hates us, too!
What an insulting man he is, always. Name calling? Really?
He hasn’t seen ‘crazy’ yet.
Trump’s response should be to create a PAC devoted to defeating McCain.
So, McCain's jealous? Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
McStain needs to be fired.
As I – you know -- listened to her on – like -- Larry “Cadaver” King, I kept thinking about something about which Boortz frequently reminds -- you know -- his male audience: “At some point, you’ll have to try to have a conversation with her.” I also kept thinking – you know -- that she HAS to be from – like – California or somewhere until I remembered that – you know -- Arizona also has – like –valleys and stuff and – you know – really big holes in the ground.
Those “crazies” are according to Gallup, better than 80% of individuals polled.
Huh?
Hey Juan, is it crazy to expect the government to enforce the laws it has already passed?
Trump has all the right people in a panic.
Shuttie.......shut up.
We used to tell the kids, dont say shut up, say be quiet. Its polite.
McCain, Shut up.
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