Cantankerous Arizona Senator John McCain hasn’t mellowed at all after his diagnosis of brain cancer following removal of a tumor.
The 81-year old has been a persistent thorn in the side of President Donald Trump, even since the president was still a candidate working for the Republican nomination. McCain has steadfastly tried to distinguish the GOP as a party with separate values from those of Trump.
McCain keeps up his steady drumbeat of anti-Trump rhetoric, knowing the mainstream media will provide him with a megaphone any time he seeks one.
On Thursday, the self-styled maverick provided an op-ed to the Washington Post that continued to stake out his position vis-à-vis the president.
On the next page, learn the defiant language McCain used to belittle President Trump and put greater distance between himself and the president. Naturally, the media darling got the attention he so avidly craves.
You answer to God and no one becomes a king or a leader unless he allows it so deal with it!
No, John McCain you answer to the people of the United States of America. Do the job you were hired to do. Trump is working for the American people.
Pat Genuit, I think you’re confused with the wrong president. You must be talking about obama.
On point
I have no idea who wrote this. But, it’s definitely on point.
Trump’s lack of decorum, dignity, and statesmanship
My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #Nevertheless) constantly
ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask
if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.”
Here’s my answer:
We Restraining people have tried dignity. There could not have
been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered
the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined
his presidency.
We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this
earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain?
We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney?
And the results were always the same. This is because, while we were
playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left
has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the
only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.
I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about
Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson
in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the
Democratic Party. I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the
deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent
film maker to cover your tracks. I don’t see anything “statesmanlike”
in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents
and any dissent. Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no
way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”
The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of
the Children of the ‘70s. To them, it has been an all-out war where
nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale. It has
been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence,
demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the
universities – till today. The problem is that, through these years,
the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has
been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has
continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety. With Donald
Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America ’s first
wartime president in the Culture War.
During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t
the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses
Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him
drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming. Had Abraham Lincoln
applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the
Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln
rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”
General George Patton was a vulgar-talking, son-of-a$#%&!@* In
peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had
Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum then,$#%&!@*and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their
thousand-year Reich.
Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like
Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated
Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastard, I read your book!”
That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not
only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own
tactics. That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so
essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the
playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of
Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that,
he referred to Lucifer as “The First Radical Known To Man.”
Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is
doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do. First, instead
of going after “the f**e media” — and they are so f**e that they have
literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years
not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet
Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of
Ferguson, Missouri — Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal.
Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky
described as “the most powerful weapon of all.” … Most importantly,
Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position.
… They need to respond. This leaves them with only two choices. They
can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of
herself and the f**e news would disingenuously report as the truth)
and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can
double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice
their usual hysteria and demagoguery. The problem for CNN (et al.)
with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the
news, that would be the end of the D
So then are you for communism, because President Trump is totally against it. I’m not a fan of communists. Maybe you should hunt down and talk to some German Jews and ask then what it was like in$#%&!@*GERMANY.
You’re dumbass answers to the voters
he is a traitor, Nixon pardoned him because of his father and grandfarther, are he would have been court marshaled. His nick name is song bird, ask any vet.
Sure answered to Obama you crooked pos
I bet if the shoe were on the other foot and you were President which you are not and Congressman said we don’t answer to MaCain you would be a little angry.
Trump is President. You are not.