Posted on 03/09/2013 1:12:13 AM PST by Kaslin
I just sent this article to McCain and Graham via Twitter. I want them to know how unpopular they are with the base.
Graham and MCCains FB pages are literally thousands upon thousands of negative comments
Thanks for the posting. I don’t know where Townhall is going with this. Seems like the Townhall editors asked John Hawkins to do a 1000 words on it and so he did. When Limbaugh noted McCain and Lindsey’s reaction to this he suggested that both were hissyfitted because they were upstaged from their collaboration photo op with Obama by Rand Paul.
Why Rand’s rant occured at the time of the Vichy dinner as Rand Paul explained was because of the machinations of Reid and senate rules which allowed for it to happen. Personally I’m glad Rand did because the collaboration dinner was giving credulace to the idea that Obama was and had been seeking bipartisan solutions to the problems he created
and would play well with the LIV’s as Limbaugh calls them as the moderating socialist media ground it out. Because Obama is not interested in bipartisan approaches he wants to destroy opposition to his policies.
This has yet to sink into the heads of the GOPES(GOP Elite Snobs)in the senate.
I have never criticized McCain and Graham, but this time they were wrong
Holder's answer proves that Rand Paul lost that round. Paul didn't gain one single bit of ground other than some additional name recognition in the media.
McCain and Graham, on the other hand, attacked one of their own, they broke ranks, they stepped in where they didn't need to step in.
The "Snickers Filibuster" -- so named because Paul nourished himself with candy bars during the grueling 13 hours of mind-boggling, torturous, personal deprivation -- will go down in history alongside weekend little league tournaments, hours long golf outings, and entire days at the beach or amusement park as an example of personal hardship and durability of the human spirit.
Paul: can you kill Americans on American soil?
Obama: We'll kill 'em if we decide they're involved in combat.
Call me absolutely, totally unimpressed.
Speaking of criticism: Rand Paul spoke for 13 hours and never called anyone a name. McCain spoke for 3 minutes and called him several.
I disagree with the Senator.
If anyone wages war on Americans on American soil, perhaps via an attack such as Beslan or Mumbai, then it is entirely appropriate and necessary for the President to reply with military force using the laws of war as the ROE.
It makes not one particle of difference whether those attacking are Americans or Guyanese.
Just as it would have been proper and necessary, given the opportunity, for GWB to authorize the shooting down of Flight 93 on 9/11 before it killed more people on the ground. Even if the hijackers as well as the hostages were Americans.
Snipers routinely and properly take out hostage takers. Nobody asks to see proof of citizenship before firing. Nor should they. It's not relevant.
The attorney general should not have answered, "No." He should have answered with a calm and reasoned explanation of the circumstances under which it is appropriate for the President to authorize use of lethal force, even by the military, against American citizens on American soil. And of course the limitations of that authority.
What is disturbing is that he doesn't seem to recognize there are limitations other than his own whim.
Do I trust our present Leader to use this power wisely? Nope. But elections have consequences. I hope those freepers who insisted we should all stay home on Election Day because the alternative was insufficiently conservative are proud.
What is truly weird is the present obsession over drone strikes, with the implication that using the same weapon in the same way to kill the same people would be perfectly fine if the weapon were mounted on a helicopter, a piloted plane or a ground vehicle.
She is not “damaged goods” in my mind.
Paul is my second choice. And a distant second.
If we can get his daddy’s base in now we can turn all kinds of seats all over the US red before 2012.
Or 2014
Is that what they call "reaching across the aisle"?
Two words-
Primary
McCain
Paul’s success at broad appeal with his well-articulated filibuster
has just happened! I promise you there are hundreds of
journolisters doing oppo research and in Kentucky going
through the trash this weekend.
They will demonize and ridicule him swiftly,following
the formula that worked so well with Mrs.Palin.
Each day that goes by, I regret voting for McCain in 2008 more and more. I understand that he lost but that doesn’t negate the fact that I voted for him. I really voted for Sarah Palin becuse before he picked her I was going to sit the election out. But never the less, the fact is that I did vote for McCain. And he has caused me to regret it ever since.
The republicans are just as bad as the democrats. There needs to be a major flushing out of the republican party with new blood like Rand Paul filling the void.
We’ve had enough of the republican’s failed leadership - it’s time for a REAL change.
Did Senator McCain call his fellow Republican Senators wackos?
Name one time he has ever called any democrat a wacko.
What a disgrace!
Lol!
That's what passes for it with these so-called conservative republicans.
John Hawkins nails it and it's good to see others on all sides of the political spectrum respond to a strong Constitutional stand.
I have to admit, these days I've come to hate the GOPe with a white hot passion for what they have done and allowed to happen.
Watching their governors cave to obamacare one by one is just more proof of what they are and I am not.
That arrogant pos occupant wants to make it a one party system by eliminating the GOP. Are you going to help him achieve this goal, because your third party has no chance?
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