| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: Politix |
| Perry calls on Trump to end his campaign |
| 2015-07-19 |
| [WASHINGTONTIMES] Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is calling on Donald Trump to bow out of the 2016 GOP presidential race, after the New York real estate mogul ridiculed Sen. John McCain’s military service. Mr. Perry and Mr. Trump have been engaged in a back-and-forth that escalated Saturday when Mr. Trump dismissed the idea that Mr. McCain is a war hero for getting shot down over Vietnam and being imprisoned for nearly six years. Mr. Perry called on Mr. Trump to apologize and end his bid for the White House, and the Republican National Committee said that there is “no place in our party” for Mr. Trump’s comments. “As a veteran and an American, I respect Sen. McCain because he volunteered to serve his country. I cannot say the same of Mr. Trump. His comments have reached a new low in American politics,” Mr. Perry said. “His attack on veterans make him unfit to be Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, and he should immediately withdraw from the race for President.” I'm not fond of either Trump or McCain. I respect McCain for his conduct in Vietnam, but being a war hero in 1967 doesn't make him a good senator. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Trump can say whatever he wants because he is not beholden to monied interests like pretty much every other candidate. He will definitely keep the bastiges stirred up. Think of it a recon by fire. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-07-19 23:00 |
| #5 Trump can say whatever he wants to say. It's still a free country. You or I don't have to agree with it, but that's ok. Let him alone, let him rant on and stir the bastids up while he's at it. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-07-19 16:06 |
| #4 So once again Trump does NOT apologize. Good for him. Thinks about what he says before he says it and doesn't back away from the heat. Let's see if he can get through the debates without a brain freeze. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2015-07-19 16:02 |
| #3 Just remember Mr. Benedict Arnold had a distinguished military record too. In particular it was his aggressiveness on the field of battle (against orders) that resulted in the critical American victory at Saratoga. Till that time he choose to join the other side. Sort of like, desperately running for reelection and espousing the necessity of securing the border, then dropping the whole thing when you get back with your buddies in the club in the Beltway. Both were blood betrayals to Americans. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-07-19 09:12 |
| #2 Governor Perry did himself no favours wallowing in the muck with pigs. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-07-19 01:15 |
| #1 McCain pounds the airways with his prisoner of war experience trying to make people believe that makes him the best representative out of the field. Its a crafty way of putting something out there that if anyone attacks brings him sympathy from the electorate. I think using that is dirty politics. Period. Has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with government and everything to do with staying in power via the sympathy card. |
| Posted by: Mad Eye Dingle7319 2015-07-19 00:23 |