McCain sticks by Trump despite myriad reasons not to
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Eight years after stumping across the nation as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, McCain is back on the campaign trail in his home state as he faces a primary challenge and a strong Democratic opponent in the general election.
PHOENIX >> Eight years after stumping across the nation as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain is back on the campaign trail in his home state as he faces a primary challenge and a strong Democratic opponent in the general election.
Dogging McCain as well is GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, whose statements in recent weeks have prompted rebukes from the longtime Arizona lawmaker.
McCain lashed out at Trump for attacking the parents of an Army captain killed in Iraq in 2004. Trump drew the ire or many in his party for comments he made attacking Khizr and Ghazala Khan, who spoke at the Democratic National Convention.
McCain also slammed Trump for saying he might not come to the aid of NATO countries that failed to fulfill their financial obligations.
Yet McCain has stuck by his support for Trump and reiterated it to reporters this week.
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Why is Obama asking Congress for Zika funding when he throws cash down the drIran?
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Why are you picking on this man? Show some respect.
What is your reaction to McCain’s continued support for someone who doesn’t return the favor?
Changing the subject = escape ploy of delusional people when real facts chase them into a corner.
Better solution: delete your acount
Why is TRUMP such gutter rat?
Now there’s a man with class!
As for Donald J Chump…..
McCain is demonstrating his fitness to serve as the poster child for Cognitive Disconnect.
Trump’s greatest success — normalizing the abnormal — is beginning to dissipate. When a Pulitzer Prize–winning liberal columnist (Eugene Robinson) and a major conservative foreign-policy thinker and former speechwriter for George Shultz under Ronald Reagan (Robert Kagan) simultaneously question Trump’s psychological stability, indeed sanity, there’s something going on (as Trump would say).
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/438692/donald-trump-gold-star-family-can-trump-cross-fitness-threshold
The Twitter hashtag #HillaryAccomplishments went viral on the social media network Thursday and became the No. 1 trending topic.
The responses, some funny and some scorching Clinton, include:
Lying about landing under sniper fire in Bosnia to impress voters
Theft and deception
Being the most corrupt politician ever, and yet Americans will still be stupid enough to vote for her
Evading prosecution by the FBI
Being a world-class liar
Great job at covering up [allegations of] Bill Clinton’s rape
244 days without holding a press conference
First woman to delete 33,000 emails in one sitting
Raising hundreds of millions of dollars for Haiti relief and keeping 90 percent of it for herself
Being responsible for 4 dead in Benghazi
68% of Americans say she’s untrustworthy
Convincing Democrats she didn’t push NAFTA, which cost 1,000,000 Americans their jobs
Hired the woman who was exposed for rigging the primary election against Bernie
Avoiding scrutiny by the completely unbiased press
Able to castrate tall FBI directors with a single phone call
Taking money from foreign governments in exchange for favors that go against American interests
Making Democrats believe she stands for LGBT rights while importing homophobic Muslim refugees
Keeping minorities dependent on government assistance so they’ll vote Democrat
Viewing rape & harassment victims as liars unworthy of being heard
Armed and funded Syrian rebels, calling them “moderates”
Watergate chief counsel fired her at age 27. She was blacklisted
Convincing zombie Democrats that Trump is the one who’s unfit
Stole the Democratic Party nomination through unjust means
Manipulating black people and minorities for votes
Successfully convinced the Russians to give her millions for 20 percent of USA uranium
Monica Lewinsky is one person Hillary Clinton didn’t get killed
She’s managed to stay out of prison
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/08/here-they-are-35-of-hillarys-biggest-accomplishments/#2ak9AxHzvHVuoCe6.99
Amid widespread chatter that Donald Trump could drop out of the presidential race before Election Day, Republican insiders in key battleground states have a message for The Donald: Get out.
That’s according to The POLITICO Caucus — a panel of activists, strategists and operatives in 11 swing states. The majority of GOP insiders, 70 percent, said they want Trump to drop out of the race and be replaced by another Republican candidate — with many citing Trump’s drag on Republicans in down-ballot races. But those insiders still think it’s a long-shot Trump would actually end his campaign and be replaced by another GOP candidate.
“I’d rather take our chances with nearly anyone else than continue with this certain loser who will likely cost the Senate and much more,” said a New Hampshire Republican — who, like all respondents, completed the survey anonymously.
“The effect Trump is having on down-ballot races has the potential to be devastating in November,” added a Florida Republican. “His negative image among Hispanics, women and independents is something that could be devastating to Republicans. Trump’s divisive rhetoric to the Hispanic community at large has the potential to be devastating for years to come.”
Trump has given no indication that he’s considering quitting, and his campaign insists his perseverance is one of his best attributes. But two network reports recently suggested senior GOP leaders were eyeing how that process would work, just in case.
A Trump exit from the race after he’s been formally nominated would trigger a rarely used vacancy rule in the national Republican Party’s rulebook. That rule empowers the Republican National Committee — a 168-member panel that includes three GOP leaders from every state and territory — to select a replacement. The RNC is also authorized to reconvene the national convention, which would be all but logistically impossible.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/insiders-to-trump-drop-out-226689#ixzz4GSCyaYvp
A new poll puts Hillary Clinton 15 percentage points ahead of Donald Trump among registered voters, according to the latest McClatchy-Marist survey, released on Thursday.
The poll, which shows Clinton leading her Republican rival 48 percent to 33 percent, indicates a dramatic surge for the Democratic nominee since last month’s edition of the survey, when she led Trump by just 42 percent to 39 percent.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/clinton-trump-poll-226691
Up by 15% nationally??! Things are getting redic……
Over the past few days, Trump has destroyed this middle ground. He’s exposed the wet noodle Republicans as suckers, or worse. Trump has shown that he is not a normal candidate. He is a political rampage charging ever more wildly out of control. And no, he cannot be changed.
He cannot be contained because he is psychologically off the chain. With each passing week he displays the classic symptoms of medium-grade mania in more disturbing forms: inflated self-esteem, sleeplessness, impulsivity, aggression and a compulsion to offer advice on subjects he knows nothing about.
His speech patterns are like something straight out of a psychiatric textbook. Manics display something called “flight of ideas.” It’s a formal thought disorder in which ideas tumble forth through a disordered chain of associations. One word sparks another, which sparks another, and they’re off to the races. As one trained psychiatrist said to me, compare Donald Trump’s speaking patterns to a Robin Williams monologue, but with insults instead of jokes.
He also cannot be contained because he lacks the inner equipment that makes decent behavior possible. So many of our daily social interactions depend on a basic capacity for empathy. But Trump displays an absence of this quality.
He looks at the grieving mother of a war hero and is unable to recognize her pain. He hears a crying baby and is unable to recognize the infant’s emotion or the mother’s discomfort. He is told of women being sexually harassed at Fox News and is unable to recognize their trauma.
The same blindness that makes him impervious to global outrage makes it impossible for him to make empathetic connection. Fear is his only bond.
Some people compare Trump to the great authoritarians of history, but that’s wrong. They were generally disciplined men with grandiose plans. Trump is underdeveloped and unregulated.
He is a slave to his own pride, compelled by a childlike impulse to lash out at anything that threatens his fragile identity. He appears to have no ability to experience reverence, which is the foundation for any capacity to admire or serve anything bigger than self, to want to learn about anything beyond self, to want to know and deeply honor the people around you.
McClatchy/Marist Poll -Clinton 48 Trump 33
Toss Johnson and Stein into the mix and she is still up +14….
This is more than a convention bounce, despite what the MSM talking heads are saying.
I think McCain has served his time and he should move on. Hope Kirkpatrick can unseat him.
McCain does whatever his political advisors tell him to do. Remember all the lies he said about Obama during his run for president?
Recent polls show Trump trailing Clinton by 9 to 14 points, margins that would make for the largest general election blowout since 1984–Nate Silver 538.
Only one way to takeout a BLOW HARD…KaaBooooooooom!
The so called mainstream news media have made it clear they will convulse and contort ~~ and if need be, spike ~~ the news to the extent needed to assure the victory of crooked Hillary.
In that context they have found it necessary to weaponize polls and hurl them like harpoons in hope of wounding their prey.
Most now realize that if you promise a “pollster” enough money and tell him what “scientific” polling results to deliver, he will do so on demand. The keys to creative polling are to be found in how questions are worded and how the “sample” population is determined.
Nate Silver is one of the most accurate pollsters in the nation, further, who does NOT work for any particular party. If you want to address this from a critical perspective talk about him methodology and review of sample size, if not, shut the erroneous pie hole.
Ikefromeli,
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You’re right mc he is very good at copy and pasting. Ask his classmate Eli Manning.
thos, For what it’s worth, I just want to let you know how much I enjoy reading your comments. Just by the way you express your self and the information that you have is simply genius. And I mean Genius. Thank you very much.
McCain is a Republican. Trump is the real deal. He gets along with Putin. He will appoint conservatives Supreme Court Justices, so far as I know he hasn’t put America at risk and hasn’t killed anyone.
And he doesn’t do business on the Tarmac.
Not only that, but he also does not schtup pre-pubescent teeny boppers on is wealthy pal’s flying “Lolita Express” or on “Orgy Island” as does the nominal “husband” of Crooked Hillary.
A lot can happen in 90 days. It isn’t over until it’s over.
Why are you picking on this man? Show some respect.
What has Crooked Hillary and Obama done for Hawaii? What has the four Democrats done for Hawaii? What has Donald J. Trump done for Hawaii? You figure it out.
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Clinton spintron in questioning about emails.
I ah, ah, um, ah, um short circuited, I a um, ah, well we ah, um, ah, um,um, next question. The FBI is analyzing the tape. It might have been a code to Keaukaha, Klastri, Ikefromeli, boots,. I think it said send money you cheap skates. Negative ads cost money.
She was lucky today. National Association of Black and Hispanic Journalists and she still stepped in it?
Wait until the debates. Hammer time. I ah, oh, um,nah, ah, um,um short circuit, reset, blown fuse, what was the question again, can I go to the bathroom, water please. I ah, that’s not what I meant, ah, um, Comey said, ah,
Great rally in Wisconsin, thousands. Pence was great. Donald stayed on message, endorsed Ryan, McCain, Ayotte.
New and improved? I hope so.