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(36,437 posts)spanone
(135,919 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)mia
(8,363 posts)leftstreet
(36,118 posts)cilla4progress
(24,791 posts)Senator
burrowowl
(17,654 posts)Kleveland
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(1,474 posts)mobeau69
(11,167 posts)NBachers
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(13,628 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)zentrum
(9,866 posts)....because of putting up Palin as a serious candidate for the country, a person Obama himself said set the table for Trump.
But McCain obviously also cares about the Constitution more than the other Republicans who use it to blow their nose on.
Wonder if he'd have tweeted this if he didn't have cancer. Wonder if he'd be so direct and brave if he was running again.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)radius777
(3,635 posts)He and his campaign knew they were way behind and basically were throwing a hail mary - they needed someone fresher/younger to balance out McCain, and someone who would rally the conservative base in a way that McCain himself could not.
Politics is a cynical game, and on balance McCain still has more integrity than most Repubs.
However, McCain's support of Trump during the election - a man who degraded his service/war hero status - was truly disappointing.
sandensea
(21,711 posts)They probably felt they needed to give the deplorables one of their own on the ticket, given McCain's (probably undeserved) reputation among the base as a RINO.
calimary
(81,565 posts)The day he introduced her, the Friday immediately after Barack Obama's big night accepting the Democratic nomination, was an obvious attempt to blunt the admiring coverage of Obama's acceptance speech and the historic moment that was.
McCain was outside, at the podium, I forget where, and made the formal announcement and called her up to the podium. Yes to the Hail Mary pass and all that. However, his behavior totally gave the game away. She stepped forward to the microphone. He stepped back behind her and over to one side. And throughout her first big speech, I watched him stand there fiddling with his wedding ring and shooting sidelong glances over at her ass. Throughout her speech! Here and there, when he figured nobody was looking at him. Just kept on glancing over at her ass. And fiddling with his wedding ring while he was taking in the "nice view." As his wife was standing right there, too, on the other side of the podium where Palin was speaking, just a few feet away from him! Well, I was looking at him. I noticed immediately! The gall! It was the same thing my dad used to do, shooting furtive glances at some nearby babe, while his wife was right there, and he too assumed nobody was paying attention while he was ogling the girl. Never even occurred to him that somebody'd notice. That's the same thing John McCain DID, that day. Busy watching the birdie.
That's when I knew - he'd had to make a decision on a running mate. The moment had come. He'd weighed everything, experience, appeal, personality, beneficial age differential, cute family, and other valuable intangibles. And what I'd BET went through his mind was "gee, all other things being equal, I could sure stand to look at that for the next four-to-eight years."
I seriously doubt he'd ever admit that. All the male political Palin groupies have lots of nice safe cliche-ridden explanations, including him. But I'm convinced THAT'S what finally tipped the scales for him. THAT'S why he picked her.
Mr.Bill
(24,354 posts)at a time when Mc Cain's campaign was looking to not be financially viable in the long run.
Although I do like Kathy Griffin's explanation:
"He chose her as his running mate after meeting with her for just fifteen minutes. That must have been soooommme blow job."
radius777
(3,635 posts)was clearly not the sole reason, maybe icing on the cake, but I say - 'so what'? As long as he viewed her as an equal and treated her professionally, which he did, politics is a visual game in a 24/7 media culture. It's likely that John Edwards youthful good looks factored into Kerry choosing him as well.
zentrum
(9,866 posts)He was very obvious.
calimary
(81,565 posts)I kept mumbling - "ASSHOLE!!! Your WIFE is standing right there, forcryingoutloud!"
orleans
(34,093 posts)and he's still a jerk
Doug the Dem
(1,297 posts)The Differently Hued. Maher said it earlier tonight: Trump has given a blank check to white cops all over the country.
ecstatic
(32,777 posts)Flynn, Manafort, his family and himself. If it gets that far, we're done as a democracy.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)the RUMP hole. No praise from me here. No praise for any of these RW assholes that ghelped to cause the situation we're in.
Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)Whee.
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,354 posts)voting 50 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
MurrayDelph
(5,302 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 26, 2017, 06:54 PM - Edit history (1)
Don't talk of words, show me.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)We need many more republicans to join the 3 usual suspects and act as Americans not republicans.
This lunatic would be dictator has to be stopped ASAP.
Hugin
(33,222 posts)What are you going to do about this violation of the Constitution, buddy?
Horse with no Name
(33,958 posts)Leave your party. Most left you long ago anyway OR use your status in your party to persuade your House counterparts to introduce Articles of Impeachment against this monstrosity OR go after trump with an Article 25.
Your strongly worded tweets are cute...but they don't solve the problem that is destroying our country at warp speed.
You have nothing to lose--you aren't running again. We have everything to lose.
Please do the right thing.
tymorial
(3,433 posts)Great another Republican condemns the president. They get on their Twitter accounts or they get to the media and expressed their outrage and condemnation of Trumps Behavior. Whoop de fucking do.
If these Republicans actually cared they would grow some balls, join with the Democrats and oust orange Menace. Instead they wait for someone else (Mueller) to do it for them because they're afraid of losing their next election. It's pathetic. It's gross and disgusting.
If they aren't willing to get their soft hands dirty then In would rather they just shut up. At some point the responses become obvious and without action reveal an apathy to tackling the tough tasks.
The fence straddling makes me sick.
yuiyoshida
(41,869 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)words are cheap (and easy).
Let's see some ACTION.