Posted on 03/08/2014 2:14:28 PM PST by VitacoreVision
John McCain Says Ted Cruz "Crossed a Line," Should Apologize to Bob Dole
08 March 2014
Senator John McCain (shown) yesterday accused Senator Ted Cruz of having "crossed a line" when the Texas Republican claimed that the GOP's most recent losing presidential candidates — Bob Dole, McCain, and Mitt Romney — "don't stand for principle." McCain, the five-term Republican senator from Arizona and the party's 2008 nominee, said Cruz owed Dole an apology.
Cruz, in a speech Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, told the crowd the three losing presidential candidates should have stood up for their views. "All of us remember President Dole, President McCain, and President Romney," Cruz said facetiously. "All of those are good men, those are decent men — but when you don't stand and draw a clear distinction, when you don't stand for principle, Democrats celebrate," he said.
"He can say what he wants to about me and he can say anything he wants to about Mitt," the senator from Arizona said on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports. "But when he throws Bob Dole in there, I wonder if he thinks that Bob Dole stood for principle on that hilltop in Italy, when he was so gravely wounded and left part of his body there fighting for our country?"
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John McCain should have left the party or been pushed out a long time ago. But since the Republican party loves RINOs like him and is more like a country club where you pay your dues and eventually have a say, he’s the man with the reins.
McCain, hide behind a Bob Dole and use a red herring as a counter argument. McCain is disgusting and it’s people like him why the Republican party has failed. Frankly Ted is right, and he shouldn’t back down or apologize for stating the obvious, that Dole, McCain and Romney led the Republics into political “failure.” Someone like Romney was at least dignified and took personal responsibility for the failure, but McCain immediately pointed the finger at Palin (even though at the time she was the star of the show). Instead of blaming others and essentially hiding behind a more popular and sympathetic person like Dole, someone like McCain should accept “his” failure in 2008 and not blame Palin, or today try to besmirch Ted through some false argument of outrage (a fallacy). This guy is like an athlete who just didn’t know when his time had passed and eventually is a clown or punching bag for the real stars out there. Only in McCain’s case, this guy is doing real damage to the conservative cause.
McCain is just auditioning for his next Sunday morning television appearance.
How old is McCain?
America needs an apology from McRAT.
FU John McNuts!
John McCain to me is what dog crap is to my sneaker.
McCain has the lowest approval of any Senator, even Reid outpolls him.
Aside from the bookers of obsolete Sunday shows and the hardest core neocons, does ANYBODY care what he says anymore?
We already know you are a fool Juan, no need to open yer piehole.
Hell NO! Cruz should tell this loser and the others to "Bite it!".
If McLame doesn't like it, then he shouldn't have kissed 0bama's butt and tip-toed around issues such as where he was born, who his father was, what his nationality is, why he is using a stolen SS number, etc.!
I salute the service of all veterans, even the late and longtime Communist Party Chairman Gus Hall, who was in the Navy like McCain.
The gentleman doth protest too much, methinks.
This is just a ploy for attention from McCain.
Taking the lead from McCain, Jeff Flake is next worst.
McCain is acting like a thin skinned liberal. Wait a minute, that’s exactly what he is. No insult was meant for either Dole, McCain or Romney. But liberals are always taking insult.
Palin was the only reason I could stomach voting for McCain. I remember seeing stickers that said, "McWhatshisname/Palin".
When Ted Cruz has spent a few years as s prisoner of Nwar, or served his time in combat, or raised a family of decent children, he can claim authority to degrade the reputations of his elders. At this point, it seems to me that Cruz is a little brash for qualifying as President nominee. Maybe in another 20 years of faithful service —
Ted Cruz did not denigrate the military service of Dole or McCain. Their service does not give these men a pass on accountability for their failure to stand on Republican principle when they ran for president. McCain using Dole’s (and by association, his own) military service as a rationale to not criticize either man’s presidential campaign failures is as lame as McCain’s 2008 campaign.
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