Posted on 01/02/2015 4:07:55 PM PST by raptor22
Republicans: Political purges may work in totalitarian states, but in a democracy they can be self-defeating. The senator who called the Tea Party "wacko birds" should realize the GOP's real enemies are called Democrats.
It's been said that all politics is local, and normally a state party's internal squabbles would not be national news. But when they involve a former presidential candidate on an issue that will affect the selection of the GOP's 2016 presidential nominee and chances, we sit up and take notice.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who lost the 2008 election to Barack Obama and who is running for re-election in 2016, wants to pull the Arizona portion of the grass-roots movement known as the Tea Party out by the roots and purge the ranks of the Arizona GOP of precinct committeemen and local party chairmen aligned to the Tea Party.
Local McCain opponent A.J. LaFaro, who has announced that he will not seek re-election to the Maricopa County GOP chairmanship, has compared the McCain organization's attempted party purge of Tea Party supporters to "ethnic cleansing."
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Lindsey Graham did not do any of this.
McCain is a hothead. I can’t believe his people are admitting to it.
Cantor and his donors tried to do this via slating.
True.
It would have been nice to have a Republican running for President in 2008.
Or 2012.
No, I do not jest. McCain is the RINO uncle in the attic. I wish him no harm and prefer that he ride into the sunset.
Regards,
S.
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