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.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
McCain stabbed the entire conservative movement and everything he claimed to stand for when he voted for Obama care when it actually mattered
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
There have been very few politicians to step foot on Capitol Hill that were more despicable than that evil, two-faced rat.
McCainShitface. He was a two-faced *sshole who, like most weak minds, got where he was because of his father. His grave deserves being covered in excrement and his name relegated to those of other low-T failures who wouldn’t qualify as ditch diggers save for money.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I take it you didn’t care for him!
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.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>..
You’ve described it perfectly.
How many airplanes did he crash?
Cost the US millions.
“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” (at 43:30)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
One of the very best statements any American has ever made!
He was the first candidate for President I was old enough to vote for, and I’ve voted for every Republican candidate since, although in a few elections I probably should have stayed home and not voted.
because Joe Biden is a terrible president
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Also a fraudulent one whose mission is to destroy our Constitutional Republic.
The history has to be more complicated than that. There was a big split in the 1960s between Eastern and Western Republicans, but Goldwater pretty much started the Republican Party in Arizona, which had been a Democrat state, so if you were an ordinary, run of the mill Eisenhower Republican you probably voted for him. In later years, old Goldwater and young McCain weren’t so far apart politically. Also it’s been said that old McCain relied on Democrat crossover voters to help him win the GOP primaries.
I cannot watch that ad it was too painful. One of the most disgusting political ads ever made. When it came to Barry Goldwater in your heart you knew he was right.
The more Goldwaterite the party gets, the better.
They told my folks, “ You vote for Goldwater, there will be a war”. They did,and we had one.
My mother had a piece of jewelry, a gold pin shaped like an elephant with black glasses.
I can only hope this is true. McCain was a disaster.
Yay!
Well something has to counter the far left.
I’m glad our 18 yos are much wiser now.
Yes. I knew he was right.
Richard Nixon was the first presidential candidate I ever voted for.
And I have no regrets for voting for him, regardless of outcome.
He was a good President, until the Silent Coup.
Yes, I was too young then too. Was not even 18 then. Am 74 now. Will be 75 in December.
He did that because he hated Trump. He was such a little man.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.