Posted on 09/18/2022 6:00:17 AM PDT by cotton1706
Simmering discontent among a segment of Arizona Republicans over John McCain’s famous penchant for bucking his party boiled over in the winter of 2014 with the censure of the longtime U.S. senator.
McCain’s allies responded with an all-out push to reassert control over the Arizona Republican Party. Censure proponents were ousted or diminished, and McCain went on to defeat his far-right challenger in a blowout during the 2016 primary.
Less than a decade later, the right wing forces that McCain marginalized within the Arizona GOP are now in full control, with profound implications for one of the nation’s most closely matched battlegrounds. Arizona Republicans have traded McCain for Donald Trump.
“We drove a stake in the heart of the McCain machine,” Kari Lake, making a dramatic stabbing gesture, said in a speech days after she won the Republican primary for governor in early August.
Lake, a well-known former television news anchor, has delighted segments of the state’s GOP base that have long been at odds with their party’s establishment and want their leaders to confront Democrats, not compromise with them.
She draws large, enthusiastic crowds that are unusually energized for a midterm election. Her fans erupt in rapturous applause when she takes a shot at the media or pledges to repel the “invasion” at the southern border.
“She’s for border control. She’s a MAGA person. She is fighting the establishment. And that, to me, is enough,” said Bob Hunt, a Republican in Tucson who attended a Lake rally this summer.
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McCain succeeded Goldwater and turned into Arlen Specter.
Good. The sooner Arizona sheds all remnants from that stain, the better.
McCain stabbed the entire conservative movement and everything he claimed to stand for when he voted for Obama care when it actually mattered
The present far-left Democrat party in Arizona traces its roots back to Karl Marx.
God rest his soul, McCain was perhaps the liberal-Dem media machine’s all-term favorite Republican ... for good reason:
He was always willing to play the part of the Washington Generals to the Dems’ Globetrotters.
He was always more willing to bash the likes of Rush Limbaugh than the left’s media machine.
He was always willing to sabotage conservatives on issues like gay marriage, immigration, etc.
It’s amazing what happens when you have proper election oversight.
US Constitution is now far far fascist nazi hitler trump MAGA J6 insurrectionist right.
Yes, he did. Although we also had our fair share of knuckleheads here who opposed it because it was only partial repeal.
Don’t forget Obamacare.
Predictable AP hit piece on Kari Lake and the MAGA movement, or as it’s called in Arizona, ‘America First’. The Left is terrified of Kari, DeSantis, and all those who are refusing to roll over and wag their tail as we’ve done in the past. Their running dogs in the media are just proving Kari’s constant criticism of them that they are shills for the Left.
> “Arizona GOP returns to far-right roots”
AP as in A Effin P.
Honest journalism would characterize the reversion as returning to honorable roots away from McCain corruption.
ASS Press.
You’re always a “maverick” when you buck the conservatives.
How does that work for Sinema and Manchin…?
YES!
Barry Goldwater’s acceptance speech at 1964 Republican National Convention (July 16, 1964)
https://www.c-span.org/video/?320250-1/reel-america-barry-goldwaters-1964-acceptance-speech
“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” (at 43:30)
Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVNoClu0h9M
Now that the Democrats have their own John McCain, maybe enough McCainiacs will join the Democrats where they will also be unwanted, and make mischief there.
* MORE GOOD NEWS BUMP* :)
I wonder if Minnesota Democrats were to get rid of extreme left Omar and go back to it’s Hubert Humphrey roots. Wonder what the media would think of that?
Can’t spell, “lapdog,” without AP.
All McCain brought to Az. was death and destruction; death from his hot starts and firing missiles on the deck of carriers and destruction of the Republican Party.
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