[proust]

Holy cow!

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Brilliant as always.

[vbmoneyspender]

And the wannabe Starbuck baristas working at National Review let him go.

[Yardstick]

Steyn has nailed it.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Aria]

Forty years ago, John McCain was a war hero. Since then he's mostly been an asshole. The problem is you can't out-asshole Donald Trump. McCain is in the Superbowl of assholery and hopelessly outmatched. He was doing assholery-as-usual last week, sneering at Trump's supporters as "the crazies". On recent polls that's getting on for 20 per cent of the Republican vote. If 20 per cent of Republican "crazies" take the same umbrage at McCain's sneer that Rick Perry, Lindsey Graham, Reince Preibus et al have taken on McCain's behalf at Trump's, then Hillary will be President with a Democratic Senate and maybe even House.

My God.....stunningly good!!!

[TChad]

Politically incorrect perfection.

John McCain has done enough damage.

[Slings and Arrows]

Ping!

[Titan Magroyne]

Thank you
Thank you
Thank you Mark Steyn for saying it, and so brilliantly.
Senator McCain along with all of his outraged supporters may consider themselves released from the duty of representing this former Marine & all the veterans of my family. In fact, you pompous a-hole, stop trying to give away our country to undeserving criminals while our backs are turned fending off our OPEN enemies. We’ve got enough unemployed AMERICANS.
F’n jerk.

[odawg]

Steyn hit the bullseye, again, with a cannon ball. There’s nothing left.

[Peter Libra]

I had carefully read John McCain's account of his time as prisoner of the Vietnamese. I found myself slowly drifting toward disapprobation of Donald Trump. He had certainly suffered.

Mark Steyn completely wiped those thoughts right out of my mind. Unbelievable, such a nasty thoughtless statement from McCain.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Romans 3:23:

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God

IOW, everyone is an *sshole.

[Arm_Bears]

And yet no Republican "leader" objected to McCain's characterization of the base [as "the crazies"].

Exactly--The GOPe loathes conservatives, except when its time to go to the polls.

Wonder how our Republican betters expect to win anything in 2016 when conservatives, who are heartily tired of being shat upon non-stop by what they believe to be their political party, decide to stay at home.

[hecticskeptic]

The media blackout of 1998 is in striking contrast to the wall-to-wall coverage of Trump's "gaffe". Two decades back, the media loved McCain because he was their kind of Republican: that's to say, he spent more time attacking other Republicans than he ever did Democrats. And they wanted him to keep on doing that, so they closed ranks around him. Whereas no one wants what Trump wants to talk about to be part of the 2016 election conversation, so anything must be seized on to disqualify him from participation. And, if nothing else is to hand, a sneer at John McCain will have to do.

Steyn couldn’t have nailed it better. One doesn’t normally think of the media supporting Republicans but yes they do….. particularly Fox News which supports ‘their kind of Republicans’. I am beginning to like Trump more and more…. I’ve watched his McCain comments numerous times and don’t actually see a problem there at all when viewed in their totality including context. On top of that, Trump appears to be going down a checklist of ticking off items that nobody in politics wants to talk about but are crucial to the nation, every RINO is now on notice that Trump will expose and ridicule them for who and what they are….. and he is just big enough, he doesn’t have to worry about pissing anyone off in the media, exposing them and for that matter, completely neutralizing them. I’m a Cruz fan all the way and while there will be some pain and problems, I see nothing but good coming from Trump bombing all these sacrosanct issues, phony RINOs and misguided and self-important media types.

[Caipirabob]

"Fly my pretties, FLY!"

I still believe Cruz is the ultimate beneficiary of this laughable situation.

[IamConservative]

At this point in the race, it is seeming like an anti-establishment revolution is brewing. Let’s hope we can sustain it all the way to the White House!

[dforest]

OMG. Steyn is fabulous! This is a very good read.