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| McCain Heartily Booed at Arizona GOP Meeting |
| 2015-01-27 |
| According to the Arizona Daily Independent, the only members of the audience who showed any appreciation for McCain were a âmostly silver-haired factionâ and outside supporters reportedly brought in to cheer him on. ⌠Activists also say that the ones who were cheering for him seemed oddly âchoreographed.â |
| Posted by:Hupineger Glomomp0027 |
| #18 Good idea Besoeker except how many years has McCain been in active duty? Would he still be eligible? I think MotherF-ker Murtha was also a Marine. (Sorry - can't name Murtha without his hard-earned title). |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-01-27 21:56 |
| #17 I suspect Palin is again playing decoy for the republicans. She'll pretend like she's going to run, get all the media panting after her so that the others can actually get some stuff done. I suspect she enjoys making the left froth at the mouth these days. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2015-01-27 19:29 |
| #16 Term limits for Congress critters: two terms for senators; five for representatives. And no pension or health care after they leave office. Congress was not supposed to be a career. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2015-01-27 16:14 |
| #15 Ditto...I'm calling it age 55, not a day over.Posted by Besoeker VA caveat: Add five year extension for every one year of active duty (any service to include USAF), with proof of Honorable Discharge. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-27 16:05 |
| #14 ..and while you're amending that, add ineligible for the office of President. You get a choice in life, Senator or President but not both. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-01-27 15:59 |
| #13 Ditto...I'm calling it age 55, not a day over. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-27 15:43 |
| #12 A mandatory retirement age for US Senators? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-01-27 15:42 |
| #11 Agree that there were many reasons. Don't agree with your description of the proportionality. The "Romney is a squish" meme was vastly less a factor than reported. But it sure made a good excuse not to vote for R/R and end the gravy train for government employees. I had several tell me flat out this is what they did. We'll just have to disagree on this. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2015-01-27 12:53 |
| #10 no mo uro: There were so many reasons for conservatives and TEA party types to not vote for Romney / Ryan. I don't think paychecks even makes the top 100. |
| Posted by: Snairong Darling of the Texans7611 2015-01-27 11:03 |
| #9 Sorry about the inadvertent deletion of 'romance.' Be able to swim whilst intoxicated, and saying goodbye to your sinking Oldsmobile, vital elements as well I suppose. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-27 10:48 |
| #8 multi-generational cheating, death, and debauchery are the stuff of fascination and intrigue Beso, you forgot ROMANCE those items you catalog are the left's idea of great romance; doing what you want and sticking it to anything remotely moral is their love affair, their romance. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-01-27 09:08 |
| #7 The Left has always preferred their fantasy over everyone else's reality. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-01-27 08:46 |
| #6 The left and feckless media have only scorn for Palin's family drama while the adoration of Camelot with it's multi-generational cheating, death, and debauchery are the stuff of fascination and intrigue. Must be something to do with upstairs privilege. An interesting indictment I'd say. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-27 07:30 |
| #5 McCain, who is a fool, is the Republican's Joe Biden. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2015-01-27 07:01 |
| #4 Good call, Besoeker. Palin has a role to play in stemming the left's destruction of Western civilization but the White House isn't it. Had they - or Romney and Ryan - been elected, we would certainly be better off than we are. By how much is anyone's guess. But they were not. In McCain and Palin, the Repubs threw up exactly the sort of thing that Obama's core - the publicly employed, anti-Christian bigots, NPR-listening pseudointellectuals, and grievance group arsonists - would be maximally motivated to campaign against and defeat. Despite having other candidates that might have been better. Romney and Ryan scared away (very nearly) all conservatives with a public paycheck. The detested Obama but couldn't bring themselves to vote for a team that might remove their funding. So they stayed home. Had they voted, Romney would be our president. The 47% comment was accurate but lethal to his candidacy. The challenge for Scott Walker - the only Repub with the pedigree to walk back a public work force which is 4 times larger than it should be - is to not scare those conservatives off while a candidate but remain true to the cause while in office. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2015-01-27 06:35 |
| #3 From a recent speech it might appear Palin has fallen and struck her head as well. As the years go by and we learn more about these two, it is becoming abundantly clear that 2008 was little more than republican theater. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-27 03:21 |
| #2 Pretty simple - if he wants to run again, do it openly as a Democrat, which is what he is. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-01-27 01:27 |
| #1 Times running out McCain, time to head for the exit... |
| Posted by: Blinky Ghibelline2658 2015-01-27 00:09 |