Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., isn't making many friends among the conservative wing of the Republican Party these days. In an interview published Tuesday at the New Republic, he slammed the Tea Party, called Fox News "schizophrenic" on certain issues and called Hillary Clinton a "rock star."
He also said that in a presidential matchup between Hillary Clinton and Rand Paul, he would have a tough time deciding who to support.
"I think she did a fine job," he said of Clinton's performance as Secretary of State despite the scandal surrounding the Benghazi terror attack.
"She’s a rock star. She has, maybe not glamour, but certainly the aura of someone widely regarded throughout the world. I do think it is interesting that the issues where John Kerry is engaging is where Hillary Clinton did not engage in, that those decisions were left to the White House and the National Security Council," he added.
"When Hillary Clinton versus Rand Paul occurs in 2016, I guess you are going to have to decide who to vote for, huh?" the New Republic asked McCain.
"It’s gonna be a tough choice," he said, laughing.
But ole Johnny didn't stop there:
The Arizona Republican also took a swipe at Fox News, calling it "schizophrenic."
"I saw a guy on 'Hannity,' maybe 'Huckabee,' and the guy said, 'You know, the Chinese are coming across our border, and they are going to commit cyber attacks,'” he said. "Honest to God!"
As usual McCain resisted the urge to criticize his former running mate Sarah Palin. but he did express disdain for the movement she helped to create:
"Many in this group didn’t come to power to get things done. They came to power to keep things from getting done," he said.
What is not mentioned in this article, but is in the original New Republic article is this kind of passive aggressive remark about Palin:
She held her own and, some people said, won a debate with the vice president.
So "some people said" she won that debate, but McCain himself seems unconvinced.
Yeah that's going to leave a mark.
You know if this were ANY OTHER Republican Senator making these remarks Palin would be firing up her ghostwriter right now in preparation for a venom laden Facebook retort.
But because this is John McCain........
Sounds like somebody is trying to buy his 'soul' back, but this pittance doesn't begin to cover the tab.
ReplyDeleteAnd as usual she's on wrong side of the majority of America...
ReplyDeletePoll: 63 percent oppose defunding Planned Parenthood
...The survey found finds by a margin of 52 percent to 25 percent that voters are more likely to believe Planned Parenthood than the video-makers on the claim that Planned Parenthood does not profit from fetal tissue donation.
"Today's poll shows much of what we already knew: that defunding Planned Parenthood is a losing proposition not just for the millions of men and women who come through Planned Parenthood's doors every day, but also with voters who don't want to see their politicians focused on restricting lifesaving care,” Cecile Richards, the group’s president, said in a statement.
Backers also zeroed in on women’s views in the poll, which found that 52 percent of women have positive feelings about the organization and 27 percent have negative feelings.
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/249473-poll-63-percent-oppose-defunding-planned-parenthood
Fox Gets Schooled By White House Over Planned Parenthood
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Stop the vendetta against Planned Parenthood
DeleteThat truths were distorted to paint an inaccurate and unfair picture of a health organization that provides valuable services to women — as well as to demonize research that leads to important medical advances — doesn’t matter to antiabortion activists. Or, sadly, to the politicians who pander to them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/stop-the-vendetta-against-planned-parenthood/2015/07/31/d9e605fc-3701-11e5-9d0f-7865a67390ee_story.html
John McCain, you need to come out and publicly apologize to the country for creating the monster that is $arah Palin. And then condemn her poisonous politics, which add absolutely nothing positive to the national discourse.
ReplyDeleteOnly then will you have a chance to earn my respect.
He won't. He can't. If he did he would have to admit to his collusion with her for the faked pregnancy, the scrubbing of the Johnston's computers and Todd's blackmail of the Secret Service and he's too much of a dishonest, sleazy coward for that to happen.
DeleteMe too. And I vote in AZ!
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oh she thinks this HUGE secret she ‘knows’ is her ‘ace in the hole’ and so far so good…but a warning…that does not last as long as it use to…all things come to an end…because…the next stage is the stage of enlightenment…and the more you dig the more they hurry to bury…lol…
in the meanwhile we all watch the live entertainment…humanity chess my dear…it’s not as hard as you think…and it’s better to be an player…they have become too brutal and ‘I don’t care’ syndrome globally…they need to be educated…and they will…so relax 1216… and get out the candy and popcorn…grin…
McCain needs to strike now while the iron is hot. He could put the nail in the bitch's coffin. She back stabbed him publicly and he needs to retaliate or stfu.
ReplyDelete12:16 PM He's getting closer and closer at doing so! Finally! Way past time. You can tell he has no respect for the idiot!
ReplyDeletethat must of took a lot of attorneys…LOL…what’s the next step G? People need to remember…humanity rules…what goes around comes around…LOL…
DeleteThis is the guy that didn't bother to attend a briefing on Benghazi because he was busy holding a press conference bitching about the administration's refusal to provide information about Benghazi.
ReplyDeleteFuck him. I don't and won't trust a word out of his mouth, until he admits his poor judgement in allowing Palin on the ticket.
McCain opened this Pandora's Box when he put her on the national stage. Since then, she has been a strident voice for all things anti-government, anti- everything that is good.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good first step, but he needs to stand up to his mistake and come clean.
John McCain , where are your cajones? Do not be led by the nose, by a low rent dimwitted harlot aka Sarah Palin.
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I believe John's cajones are in Sarah's purse.
DeleteI remember driving my daughter somewhere with that debate on the radio. She listened, and finally said, " Really , Dad? She's a f@&$ing MORON!" I suppose I should thank Sarah for jump starting my daughter's political awareness/activism. Yes kiddo, these people are running for office. They are bankrolled by people who want to f@&$ you, your, country, and your planet. They are dangerous, delusional, and deadly serious. And you must fight them tooth and nail.
ReplyDeleteMcCain said the best thing about Sarah is she swallows.
ReplyDeleteso that explains the “swinger” state in alaska and darrin and trish are just the tip of the icebergs of folks whose “helping hands” blew up in their face…but alas another murder will take place – with torture and “the chance to feel fear” will come into play…don’t worry Sarah – nothing can surprise the Kid anymore and she’s coming straight for you THRU the courts! And the FBI is expecting you to murder her children…since 2004… head tilt…let me know how that works out for ya…in federal prison in Arizona – gosh not far to travel…pretty in pink!
DeleteSomething tells me nobody is enjoying their popcorn more than Dr. Susan Rice.
ReplyDeleteHe's hoping for a place in the Clinton cabinet...
ReplyDeleteLater in the interview, McCain praised the Palin family on how close the Palins were and how they helped each other.
ReplyDeleteMcCain said during the 2008 campaign he saw Bristol help her mother by breastfeeding her younger brother when Sarah had to go on stage.
Wait, what? Bristol would breastfeed Trig?! Bristol was supposedly five months pregnant during the RNC. Would she or any other pregnant woman during their second trimester be producing enough breast milk to feed a hungry infant?
DeleteWell this is important news. And, icky news too.
Delete@1:26 PM If Bristol Palin was breastfeeding Trig, then Trig is her baby. Sarah Palin's breasts are not and were not capable of breastfeeding any baby after her tubal ligation.
DeleteAnybody with a 7th grade education in human anatomy knows that the only time a woman produces milk to breastfeed is AFTER giving birth not WHILE being pregnant. Now I'm with those who say that Bristol was post pregnant during the '08 convention and don't even try to convince ANYONE that Sarah was pregnant let alone be breastfeeding four months after the "birth", however I'm calling BS on 1:26's comment of what McCain said during the 2008 campaign. For one thing, old guys like McCain and The Donald will not discuss such icky things as breastfeeding. I think 1:26 is jerking our chains.
DeleteOk cool it, dingdongs. 1:26 was making a (hilarious) joke.
DeleteNice try, John, cross your arms all you want.
ReplyDeleteYou released the hound from hell and you KNOW it.
The Alaskans who elected Palin their Governor started this ball rolling in a big way and it's they who must take responsibility! Stop trying to blame McCain for it all. Whoever the rethugs nominated in 2008 were going to pander to the female vote.
DeleteJohn McCain is a fucking joke! Not smart, emotional, a terrible politician that has accomplished practically nothing during all of his years in Congress and he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate and they lost big time!
ReplyDeleteHe has more minuses vs positives in his life. Whored around on his wives, left one because she was sick and wouldn't be attractive on the campaign trail and political scene and he spilled the beans when a prisoner of war. Even those in the jail with him in Viet Nam had little positive commentary about the jerk!. A hero? My ass!
1:26 p.m. sure, a supposedly 5-month pregnant girl breast feeds her mom’s baby. More like Bristol was feeding her own baby. If indeed McCain said this it was entirely tongue in cheek snark with a little side of what’s to come if Palin doesn’t get in line.
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting reflection for McCain to have. I thought Bristol couldn't nurse until after having had a baby - not while she was pregnant with one!
DeleteSomething isn't sounding truthful! But, what is new with the Palin klan?
It's a joke.
DeleteYou can tell he really didn't know the Palin family. They are NOT a close family and never have been! Review their records in Alaska - as a starter!
ReplyDeleteDid you all see that part in the original New Republican interview where McCain lied about Rep. John Lewis?
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IC: “Palling around with terrorists”?
JM: With all due respect, you never heard about when John Lewis said my campaign was worse than the Birmingham church bombing? [9] That may have escaped your attention.
IC: It did. I agree, that is bad.
JM: OK, well, that is what he did, when they orchestrated this “racism” effort against me. Maybe Sarah Palin said “palling around with terrorists,” but the things that were said about me and her were far worse. I’ll never forgive John Lewis.
IC: Did you ever talk to Lewis?
JM: No. I would be glad to show you the press release. But we selectively take something Palin said, and the vice president’s job is to attack, and how many people know about John Lewis? I can show you many other comments. For me to complain about it is a waste of time.
"The Birmingham church bombing was footnoted, and it reveals a typically right wing twisting of the facts to suit a prejudicial mindset:
[9] "McCain’s comment is not precisely accurate. Lewis, the House Democrat and civil rights leader, issued a press release saying he was “deeply disturbed by the negative tone of the McCain-Palin campaign” and that “Sen. McCain and Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division.” It went on to say that George Wallace, “another presidential candidate,” helped create a climate in which four girls were killed in a church bombing."
John McCain is still a senile creepy POS, and he's still got Palin hanging around his legacy like a dead albatross.
Maybe Sarah Palin said “palling around with terrorists,” but the things that were said about me and her were far worse.
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De-nile ain't just a river in E-jip. Maybe she said, only maybe. Sarah was like a broken record, she couldn't wait to keep throwing that phase out.
I don't remember anyone saying anything about him except for where did he dig up that bitch.
All the derogatory statements Sarah made, she got what she deserved and should have been called out on them more.
Yes, how disingenuous was that statement? John Lewis said nothing anywhere near what McCain accused him of saying. He drew a comparison to the political climate George Wallace had created.
DeleteMcCain lied, distorted and twisted in order to play the victim. He's a racist from way back. He opposed the MLK holiday in Arizona. And he was one of the Keating Five. McCain took money that Charles Keating stole from the Lincoln Savings and Loan. I knew people who lost their entire life savings to that crooked bastard. Why didn't McCain give the money back to the victims?
McCain's just like Sarah, completely worthless.
@@ eye roll, John McCain. How is "helped create a climate in which" in any way equivalent to "is worse than"?
ReplyDeleteDoes John McCain not understand English?
The article is from 2013---like what he said back then. Wonder if he still feels the same way.
ReplyDeleteDammit, this is from 2013.
DeleteYou know I thought I checked the date carefully, but that slipped by me.
Oh well I'll leave it up anyway. Still kind of interesting.
........... Sen. Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who is often at McCain's side on issues like immigration. McCain praised Graham, saying he "is like a son to me."
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That is funny, I thought they were the same age.
Gryphen, it happens to all of us, once in awhile....
DeleteJohnnie McCain who has your vote in 2016?
ReplyDeleteA. Trump / Palin
B. Palin / Trump
C. Hillary Clinton
Sorry, Mr, "Bomb bomb bomb Iraq" McCain, if you're going to vent your spleen, vent all of it. "Some people" just doesn't cut it.
ReplyDeleteAnd Mr McCain, while we're at it, to get your soul back, you need to give the devil his due, Who chose Sarah as VP? and Why?
Yep, there's a shrivelled bewigged prune with leather skin in Arizona, speed dialing her minion to give a witty retort.
Unless, of course, there was some impropriety between the two. wink wink.