Senator McCain is officially not conservative enough

They did all they could. Would that they could pull that godless commie pinko down off his high horse and replace him with a true blue, flag saluting, Mexican-stomping American hero who will speak for the common folk. Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
 
If only someone would tell his Wahhabi and Neo-Nazi wackjob buddies so they stopped meeting him. Here he is in December with Ukrainian Svoboda party leader Oleh Tyahnybok:

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Checkmite, do you recall what they did to Barry Goldwater in the late 1990's?
 
Just look at Dick Lugar. He had the audacity to try to work with Obama to come up with solutions instead of just saying no. Far too liberal for the folks in Indiana, so they run him out, and replaced him with a guy so extremely nuts, he couldn't win in Indiana.
 
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Is this a surprise? Has there been any Republican president or presidential candidate since WWII who isn't considered a RINO?
 
I cant say I feel sorry for him. He learned nothing from the hatchet job the extreme right did on him and instead played surender monkey to the american vc.

He could have been a decent right wing candidate and stood up to the wacktard, called them out and would of had the sjpport of the sane right and many an independent and undecided. You reap what you sow.
 
Magyar said:
I cant say I feel sorry for him. He learned nothing from the hatchet job the extreme right did on him and instead played surender monkey to the american vc.

He could have been a decent right wing candidate and stood up to the wacktard, called them out and would of had the sjpport of the sane right and many an independent and undecided. You reap what you sow.
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Or he could have presented an actual plan for governing as potus when ran for it. He's reaping what he deserves other than having AZ voters replace him with an actual conservative.
 
Checkmite said:
No, I was in high school. Why, what did they do?
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They threw him (momentarily) out of the Arizona Republican Committee for being against "no gays in the military". Yes, that is the correct number of negatives to reflect the situation.
 
Hardly newsworthy.

McCain was never the Party Favorite. They've barely tolerated him, for years. The Arizona voters like him because he brings home the pork and panders to local issues.

He wanted to run for president for years and never got any party backing. His run in 2008 only happened because no Republican wanted to finish the wars started during the Cheney/Rumsfeld administration or clean up the financial mess that happened during the Bush/Cheney administration. The McCain team had to go all the way out to Alaska to find someone stupid enough to join him - nobody else wanted to sully their names by running along side him.

Meanwhile, the Tea Party is gunning for Republican politicians around the country with this "not republican enough" carp. Congresscritters in Idaho were interviewed on NPR last week.
SIMPSON: This election is about the future of the Republican Party and whether we're going to be a governing majority or whether we are going to be an ideologically pure minority. But, you know, even within the Republican Party, we have differences of opinion about what ought to be done. That's OK, that's good and healthy. But if you become an ideologically pure minority, you know, you get nothing done, and you become a minority party of 100 members that stand there and yell at the moon, but you never get anything done. I'm one of those that believes that a governing majority, where we get 90 percent of what we want is the right thing to do.
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Link to NPR transcript 1st day's story
Link to NPR transcript 2nd story in series
 
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Hardly newsworthy.

McCain was never the Party Favorite. They've barely tolerated him, for years. The Arizona voters like him because he brings home the pork and panders to local issues.

He wanted to run for president for years and never got any party backing. His run in 2008 only happened because no Republican wanted to finish the wars started during the Cheney/Rumsfeld administration or clean up the financial mess that happened during the Bush/Cheney administration. The McCain team had to go all the way out to Alaska to find someone stupid enough to join him - nobody else wanted to sully their names by running along side him.

Meanwhile, the Tea Party is gunning for Republican politicians around the country with this "not republican enough" carp. Congresscritters in Idaho were interviewed on NPR last week.


Link to NPR transcript 1st day's story
Link to NPR transcript 2nd story in series
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While I can sort of agree with what he said (the NPR sites), I would really prefer the republicker party never be more than 20 to 30 percent so they can have no effective voice in politics but will still spout the ignorance, stupidity and evil that let's the real world laugh at them as we can today but even more and louder.
 
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While I have never voted knowingly for a Republican for any level of government, I wouldn't want to see them totally disenfranchised from the system. Dissenting views, even wrong ones, provide another check-and-balance within the system.

I'd like to see the TeaParty spin off into a valid third party and take the religious nutjobs out of the Republican party. The big basket of opinions labeled "Republican" actually includes a few things I can agree with.

I'd also like to see an equivalently frothing-mad party evolve on the left, so that maybe they could get back to doing the business of running the gov't.

One party control of gov't is not a good idea. Each would take something away from me I value if allowed to run unfettered.
 
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ApolloGnomon said:
While I have never voted knowingly for a Republican for any level of government, I wouldn't want to see them totally disenfranchised from the system. Dissenting views, even wrong ones, provide another check-and-balance within the system.

I'd like to see the TeaParty spin off into a valid third party and take the religious nutjobs out of the Republican party. The big basket of opinions labeled "Republican" actually includes a few things I can agree with.

I'd also like to see an equivalently frothing-mad party evolve on the left, so that maybe they could get back to doing the business of running the gov't.

One party control of gov't is not a good idea.
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The problem, I think, with the Tea Party/religious right splitting off is that it would severally cut the GOP down for a couple terms. In the long run a saner conservative party would forge a new equilibrium with the democrats, but the period where they'd be at most risk of fully dissolving is a risk they probably aren't willing to take.
 
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