Posted on 02/19/2017 9:15:12 AM PST by markomalley
Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) ripped fellow Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on Sunday after McCain criticized President Trumps escalating war of words with the media.
He argued that the nation is very lucky that Trump is president and not McCain, who won the 2008 GOP nomination but lost to Barack Obama in the general election.
Paul said that McCains recent criticisms of Trump are driven by his personal dispute with the president over foreign policy.
He added that McCain and Trump are at odds because McCain supports the wide deployment of U.S. troops to protect and promote American interests abroad while he characterized Trumps views as closer to a realpolitik approach to foreign policy. Everything that he says about the president is colored by his own personal dispute hes got running with President Trump, and it should be taken with a grain of salt, because John McCains the guy whos advocated for war everywhere, Paul said on ABCs This Week.
He would bankrupt the nation. Were very lucky John McCains not in charge, because I think wed be in perpetual war, Paul added.
McCain in an interview with NBCs Meet the Press warned that the suppression of a free press can lead to a dictatorial regime. He made the comments after Trump tweeted on Friday that the media is the enemy of the American people.
McCain has also harshly criticized Trumps expressed respect for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his suggestion earlier this month that the United States does not have the moral authority to criticize Russias human rights record.
Paul said there has no effort by the Trump administration to suppress the media, noting that no legislation has been offered to curb press freedoms.
Paul argued that McCain has a history of being wrong major foreign policy questions.
I would say John McCains been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades. He advocated for the Iraq War, which I think destabilized the Middle East, he said.
If you look at the map, theres probably at least six different countries where John McCain has advocated for us having boots on the ground, he added.
Makes me think of the old Garth Brooks song. “God’s greatest gift could be an unanswered prayer” or something like that.,,
John McCain born Aug. 29, 1936...so he will be 81 this year...
HE IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF WHY WE NEED TERM LIMITS...
John McCain needs to be sent down the road.
A recall election needs to be held in Arizona:
Laws governing recall in Arizona are defined in Article 8 of the Arizona Constitution.
The authority to conduct a recall election in Arizona applies to “Every public officer in the state of Arizona, holding an elective office, either by election or appointment.”[1]
Filing the recall petition
A recall can be filed against any public officer on any grounds. The recall may not be filed until after the elected official has been in office in his or her first term for at least six months. This six-month limit does not apply to state legislators. In the case of state legislators, a recall petition may commence five days after the start of their first legislative session after their election. In the case of other elected officials, there is no six-month limit for subsequent terms in office.[2]
A recall petition must be filed at the office in which the officer being recalled files for nomination. The petition must contain a general statement explain the recall and not exceed 200 words. This petition must be signed by the sponsors who swear an oath that all signatures collected will be valid signatures.
Go watch the speech McCain made to Germany.
Open borders
Globalism
New World Order
If you pay attention, McCain actually used these very words.
He is an ENEMY of America, and Trump needs to take him down.
Rand Paul. What could have been.
Alas, he’s right with this call.
Yea, even Nancy Reagan was outraged at that.
I saw McCain talking about the free press being necessary. Well, we don’t have a free press. We have a CIA Mockingbird style press designed to smear people who don’t buy into the Globalist Agenda as well as dupe low information people into believing their lies.
From Zero Hedge:
Leading German journalist and editor Udo Ulfkotte went on public television stating that he was forced to publish the works of intelligence agents under his own name...
In an interview I saw, he stated that he came forward because he was not married, had no children, and so decided to take the risk in the interest of stopping nuclear war. He specifically noted the CIA having control of most of the press in other countries.
Soon, he was found dead of a heart attack. Remember Breitbart? Least you think it fantastic to suggest it could be anything other than fickle fate, let me remind you of the Church Commission.
I saw testimony in the 70s IIRC, where the CIA admitted it had a gun that shot poison into someone to induce heart attack. Because of the material used, it was not only not detectable through tox screen, but virtually undetectible at the site of entry.
Plus, McCain and his ilk along with other Congress Critters passed legislation buried in the NDAA of 2016 to set up our very own Ministry of Defense under the State Dept./CIA to determine what is true news. - Censorship coming to the internet, and no more alternative news- It is on the way Folks. No more Drudge, Breitbart, or anything else that doesn’t fit their narrative.
This needs to be repealed.
Why did he vote to set up a ministry of truth? Quietly snuck into the NDAA in 2016. The State Dept./CIA will determine what news you are going to hear - censorship is on the way Folks.
CIA already controls the Lame Stream Mockingbird Media, here and in other countries. They are going to be coming after Drudge, Breitbart, and any other media that doesn’t fit their idea of truth.
John McCain doesn’t believe in a free press. He believes telling whatever falsehood fits his narrative, and stifling true news.
I’ve been thinking that for a long time, too. McCain was the unsuccessful DEM candidate against Obama, as if the entire election 8 years ago were basically still “the primary”. Four years later, Romney was maybe a 2 degree improvement over McCain. So how can anyone blame Trump for standing out the way he HAD to JUST TO GET ANOTHER VOICE HEARD???
“Pneuma” McCain now seems to be permanently ensconced on FOX NEWS panels. Blabs on and on.
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