Exactly the opposite.
Dirty derp traitor McNoName.
#BurnInHell
Posted on 03/21/2019 5:54:19 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
One can spend several days trying not to overreact to President Trump’s latest, unprovoked tweetstorm against the late Sen. John McCain R-Ariz., yet still conclude that there is something sick and twisted about Trump’s obsession with the singular American hero Trump disparages.
Tom Rogan already in these pages has eloquently explained why, fake heel spurs or no fake heel spurs, Trump could never be fit to wear McCain’s discarded shoes. And lawyer George Conway, husband of top Trump aide Kellyanne Conway, has presented a persuasive case that Trump’s fulminations about McCain and other bizarre eruptions are signs of a personality disorder.
What remains, though, is a reminder that on facts as well as fulminations, Trump’s flip-out against McCain is full of falsehoods.
First, as many others have noted, Trump repeatedly accused McCain of trying to spread the so-called “Steele dossier” as a way to block Trump’s election, but the undisputed evidence shows McCain didn’t even become aware of the dossier until after Election Day. (Plus, McCain did exactly what a senator should do when provided such material: He turned it over to the FBI, without prejudice. But that’s beside the point about Trump’s dishonesty.)
What has not been as adequately refuted is Trump’s allegation that McCain voted against a bill to “repeal and replace” Obamacare, and that McCain’s vote was a big surprise. Neither element of that story is true.
First, by the time a healthcare bill finally reached a vote in the Senate, it was in no way, shape or form a “repeal and replace” bill. In reality, it was a shell of a bill known as “skinny repeal,” which did next to nothing other than keep...
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McCain was a total prick! I hope Trump uses his big fat mouth even more to inform folks like you what a horrible man he really was!
The problem with Trump attacking McCain is not with us here on FR, we are very aware of McCain’s treachery. And the Trump supporters outside DC are not going to be swayed either. But there are more than a few independent “moderates” that are rebuffed by the President’s remarks given the media’s continually fawning over McCain (mainly because McCain made no secret of his hatred of Trump). Those independents are critical to his re-election and the weak-kneed among them could be swayed by his brusque remarks. Best he say when questioned again (as the media surely will) that he has provided them with enough information and he is not going to revisit it again.
On the other hand, I agree the George Conway is on track to be found the world’s worst husband and he deserves all the derision he gets.
The thing about McCain lying to Trump on the phone was something I just learned about yesterday. That was an evil act on the part of McCain. I just hope there is life after death...
That’s the dumbest proposition I’ve heard in a while. So one should not speak ill of Hitler, Stalin, Che Guevera, etc.? You expose like characters including Mcphony who’ve impacted history to the light of truth to learn from their lunacies.
Exactly!
I totally agree. He runs his mouth when he should take the high road on certain topics and McCain is one of them.
The truth isn’t going to change no matter how dead a guy is.
Richard Quin Edmonson Hillyer, known as Quin Hillyer (born March 16, 1964),is a conservative journalist and politician based in Mobile, Alabama. He is the senior editor of The American Spectator and has written for William F. Buckley, Jr.’s National Review, and was named the managing editor in 1989 of the weekly news magazine Gambit in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He is also the associate editorial-page editor of The Washington Examiner.]
Background
Hillyer is the younger of two sons of Haywood Hansell Hillyer, III (1937-2010), who is interred at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans,[4] and the former Brenda Edmonson (born October 8, 1941) of Hendersonville, North Carolina.[5] His wife is Tresy Hillyer. His brother, Hayward Hillyer, IV (1961-2017), was a New Orleans insurance executive who remained behind during Hurricane Katrina to help with rescue efforts and to tend to property and pets left behind by his friends.
Hillyer attended the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans before transferring to the Roman Catholic-affiliated Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., from which he graduated in 1986 with concentration in government and theology.
Career
After working for The New Orleans Times-Picayune, Hillyer became a research director and press secretary to former U.S. Representative Bob Livingston,[3] whoran unsuccessfully for governor of Louisiana in 1987 and twelve years later stepped down from Louisiana's 1st congressional district, based in suburban New Orleans, after he was exposed for an adulterous affair. Livingston had been in line to become House Speaker to succeed Newt Gingrich. In the early 1990s, Hillyer publicly opposed the Republican state Representative David Duke, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan who ran for the U.S. Senate in 1990 and for the Louisiana governorship in 1991.
Hillyer has written for a wide assortment of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New Republic, The Guardian in England, the Washington Times, and Investor's Business Daily. In 1997, he joined the editorial staff of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in the capital city of Little Rock, Arkansas, with a focus on local and national issues during the term of Republican Governor Mike Huckabee. A year later in 1998, Hillyer joined the editorial desk at The Mobile Register, at which he gained acclaim for his coverage of statewide politics and its effect on the city.
In 2013, Hillyer ran in a special election in Alabama's 1st congressional district with a high-profile endorsement by former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and finished fourth with nearly 14 percent of the vote in the Republican primary to fill the seat vacated by Jo Bonner (male), who became vice chancellor for the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. Victory went to Republican Bradley Byrne. Hillyer continues to write columns and is a writer in residence at the University of Mobile.
In July 2017, Hillyer called for the resignation of U.S. President Donald Trump on the premise that Trump lacks “wisdom, objectivity, and reasonable perspective” in regard to the threat of Russia from a military and diplomatic standpoint. In 1998, Hillyer had called for the resignation of the scandal-plagued President Bill Clinton.
This is the sort of marginal floater who constantly is on the lookout to get a spot in the Lamestram media. Shame on you University of Mobile for hiring him! You claim to be conservative. Hillyer is just another phony Rino. He is unfortunately very typical of many white Upper middle class New Orleanians who call them selves conservatives and Republicans but are just uniparty stuffed shirts who applauded removing ‘divisive monuments such as the Lee statue by Mayor Porky Pig.
“I can’t stand it.”
I hope that you feel better, now that you’ve got that off of your chest.
Conway is fat and ugly. His wife is ugly. They’re their own punishment. :)
As for the rest, I agree. And that’s my main point. I hate the term “perception is reality” but in McCain’s case, that’s the truth. He was a “maverick” Senator and decorated war hero blah blah blah. 90% of the nation thinks that.
And I agree with you, the “moderates” will not like this. The Prez should change the topic soon and if asked again (baited) he shouldn’t take the bait.
Maybe if people think McCain is great they need a wake-up call. History depends on truth, pretending someone is sainted because they dies eliminates any chance of learning form the past and is frankly despicable.
I know that you’re not being snarky.
And your assessment is correct. It’s a lot of people.
“But our way or nothing” seems to be a characteristic of humanity.
There are many groups that think this way and have thought this way in the past.
Such as our enemy, the American Left. If we do not adopt their way, they are going to kill us. Their solution is definitely going to involve rail cars and camps.
Our diversity is not our strength.
Our diversity is going to be our undoing.
We are headed to a conflict.
It is my opinion that if a people wants a free society, then that people has no choice but to remove those who conspire to rule or even enslave those people.
For example, within a house a woman cannot be free if she live with a control freak man, and vice versa. The control freak has to go. There is no other solution.
Unfortunately a lot of middle-of-the-road low-information voters do not know the background of most issues that the propaganda media chooses to highlight. Trump’s tweet attacks often leave them considering him “unpresidential.” I hope Trump can win re-election.
When he “runs his mouth” he speaks for me!
You are not mistaken.
Exactly the opposite.
Dirty derp traitor McNoName.
#BurnInHell
LOL! Good God almighty.
He was asked. You lie or you tell the truth.
He was very restrained but he told the truth.
I would have been very unhappy if he abandoned all his principles to give a comfortable fatuous glib lie.
Well, once he started citing the "rancid tub of lard", I stopped reading.
Good - so go sit on something hard and sharp... then bounce up and down.
People who fk over their country and the people in it don't get a pass when they die.
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