John McCain’s Opponent Sees Donations Pour In After McCain Blamed Obama For Orlando

[babylonsister]

Keep flapping your gums!

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/06/18/john-mccains-opponent-sees-donations-pour-in-after-mccain-blamed-obama-for-orlando/

John McCain’s Opponent Sees Donations Pour In After McCain Blamed Obama For Orlando
By Stephen D Foster Jr on June 18, 2016 6:46 pm ·

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Of course, McCain is wrong about President Obama pulling the troops out of Iraq. That was a decision made by President Bush in 2008. President Obama merely honored the agreement signed by the former president.

But McCain could be the former Senator from Arizona because of his inflammatory accusation against President Obama.

As it turns out, donations have been pouring in for his opponent Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick to the tune of at least $100,000 alone since McCain made the remarks. McCain angered many people with his disrespectful comments about President Obama and so they are responding by supporters his challenger.

In addition, a poll touted by Kirkpatrick’s campaign in the wake of McCain’s remarks shows him losing to her by two points.

Kirkpatrick spokesman D.B. Mitchell slammed McCain for his remarks and urged people to help oust him from Congress.

“John McCain’s reckless and appalling comments about the Orlando mass shooting disappointed thousands of Arizonans and people from across the nation,” said Kirkpatrick spokesman D.B. Mitchell. “But his actions are just further proof that after 33 years in Washington McCain has changed, and now Americans are witnessing that he’s no longer a ‘maverick.’ Arizonans know it’s time for new principled leadership, and that’s why Ann Kirkpatrick saw the largest one-day fundraising number of the campaign. We need a senator who will put our national security before partisan politics. We must do everything we can to elect Ann to the Senate and we are asking you to make a donation today.”

John McCain is currently facing one of the toughest re-election efforts for a Republican this year. Losing his race could very well tip the balance in the Senate and give the majority back to the Democratic Party.

[BooScout]

1. He was doing badly before his remarks...

He just seriously 'shot' himself in his own foot when he made his ludicrous comments about President Obama.

[beachbum bob]

2. we sent her $50

getting McCain out is a dream come true I hope

[Siwsan]

3. If McCain loses, will he fade away or keep spewing bitterness, ala Palin

I never really go the impression that McCain had anything else going for himself, other than being a Senator. I don't believe you can get too old to 'reinvent' yourself, but losing the 2008 election did seem to set his wounded pride and psyche into cement. I could see this spelling the end for John McCain.

My hope would be he would FINALLY apologize for loosing Palin onto the country, but that is likely way too much to hope for.

[MurrayDelph]

22. I'm betting the former

His whole raison d'etre for the last eight years has been to punish that uppity you-know-what for having the temerity to be someone people actually wanted to vote for when it was his HIS TURN, DAMMIT!

If he can't win the seat again, I have no doubt he will spend the rest of his miserable life making life miserable for those who prevented him from what he sees as his.

[tblue37]

24. I doubt he would live long after losing, just like so many men who just

give up after they retire because they don't find any other purpose for living.

[brer cat]

4. I will be very glad to see him ride off in the sunset.

Losing to a woman would be icing on the cake!!

[Surya Gayatri]

5. K & R most enthusiastically. Thanks for posting.

[roamer65]

6. About friggin time he loses. N/t

[mcar]

7. Good!

Time to retire, John.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

8. McCain isn't alone in Arizona blaming Obama

...state lawmaker Rep. Mark Finchem, of Oro Valley, posted a link on his Facebook page to Jihadwatch.org, a blog affiliated with the conservative think-tank David Horowitz Freedom Center.
“Is Obama facilitating jihad?” Finchem’s post read. “It’s a legitimate question given his statement.”
The article claimed that Obama’s post-Orlando speeches were an attempt to give preferred status to Muslims over other religious groups.
“By his words and policies and through such highly symbolic events, Obama has proven that he seeks to do far more than merely cover up the Cross.” The article reads: “He seeks to conquer it, and replace it with the calligraphy of Allah.”
In another post Finchem suggested that Obama move to another country.
“I’m thinking this clown just needs to find a country he can love, and live with and move there,” said Finchem’s post.
“
Finchem represents Legislative District 11, which includes parts of Eloy, Arizona City and far-western Casa Grande.
Finchem regularly posts Bible quotes. One of them, posted three days after the Orlando attacks, is the same verse that landed Texas Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in hot water after it appeared on Twitter just hours after the attack.
“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life-Galatians 6 -8 NIV,” Finchem’s post said.
Patrick’s tweet with the verse was deleted a few hours after it was posted when it created public outcry. His staff claimed it was scheduled to be put out on Patrick’s Twitter account the Thursday before the attacks. Finchem’s post was still on his Facebook page Thursday.
Finchem’s far-right leanings are no surprise. His campaign website from 2014 shows he has strong positions against abortion and for “traditional family values.” In addition he is labeled as having worked with the tea party on his Facebook page.

[DinahMoeHum]

9. Hopefully, AZ voters will retire him. . .

. . .show some sense for a change.

[kairos12]

10. Maybe he will bring back Palin to endorse him. I am from AZ and it will be

a welcome day when he is fired by the voters to return to his 5 houses paid for by his wife's money.

[lonestarnot]

12. Welp why not, he brought back the monkey.

[demosincebirth]

11. I use to have some respect for him.

[iandhr]

13. GO ANN

[Omaha Steve]

14. Here are the act Blue links to donate to Ann

Take your pick here: https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/39982

[NastyRiffraff]

15. Oh please please make it so, Arizona!

We've had enough of this has-been. He's become almost Trumpesque in shooting off his mouth with nonsense.

[Gabi Hayes]

16. mccain has the most undeserved cloak of respect around him of any politician I can think of besides

Reagan

he's a low life, crooked, mendacious, spineless, hypocritical worm, who married for money, and who'll say anything to advance his own interests, his latest outburst being a perfect example

don't ever forget his role, and subsequent perjury, basically, to get himself off the hook as one of the Keating Five:

http://www.selectsmart.com/DISCUSS/read.php?16,665008

Think back to when Senator John McCain sat with his attorney during a Senate Ethics Committee hearing on the Keating Five Savings and Loan Scandal. Carefully timed leaks during the investigation successfully deflected the blame from McCain to his other Senate colleagues. Evidence continues to surface that points to John McCain as the possible source of those leaks.

Should he have been expelled from the Senate? Exclusive evidence reveals the Keating Five story you've never heard.

[Fritz Walter]

17. Not so fast!

He has an unindicted war criminal raising money for his campaign.



And that worked so well with his brother's campaign...

[Gabi Hayes]

18. mccain dumps first wife for very rich woman 18 years younger than she:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/mccain/carol.asp

For nearly 30 years, Carol {McCain} has maintained a dignified silence about the accident, McCain and their divorce. But last week at the bungalow where she now lives at Virginia Beach, a faded seaside resort 200 miles south of Washington, she told The Mail on Sunday how McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later.

"My marriage ended because John McCain didn't want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens ... it just does."

In 1979 — while still married to Carol — he met Cindy at a cocktail party in Hawaii. Over the next six months he pursued her, flying around the country to see her. Then he began to push to end his marriage. Some of McCain's acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centered womanizer who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to 'play the field'. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons.

Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans' rights, said: "I have been following John McCain's career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is — deceit."

"When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it. Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better."

beyond loathsome

[liberalnarb]

19. More on Iraq.

American public opinion shifted towards favoring a troop withdrawal; in May 2007, 55% of Americans believed that the Iraq War was a mistake, and 51% of registered voters favored troop withdrawal.[7] In late April 2007 Congress passed a supplementary spending bill for Iraq that set a deadline for troop withdrawal but President Bush vetoed this bill, citing his concerns about setting a withdrawal deadline.[8][9][10] The Bush Administration later sought an agreement with the Iraqi government, and in 2008 George W. Bush signed the U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement. It included a deadline of 31 December 2011, before which "all the United States Forces shall withdraw from all Iraqi territory".[11][12][13] The last U.S. troops left Iraq on 18 December 2011, in accordance with this agreement.[1][11][12] US Forces, in the form of air support, resumed operations in Iraq in June 2014, to defend it against ISIL

Withdrawals under President Bush

On 13 September 2007, President Bush announced that the 168,000 American troops in Iraq at that time would be reduced by 5,700 by Christmas and that additional troops would be withdrawn bringing the total U.S. troop level down from 20 to 15 combat brigades by July 2008. By the end of 2008, U.S. troops in Iraq had been reduced to 146,000


2008 U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement

In 2008 the American and Iraqi governments signed the U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement. It included a specific date, 30 June 2009, by which American forces should withdraw from Iraqi cities, and a complete withdrawal date from Iraqi territory by 31 December 2011.[13] On 14 December 2008 then-President George W. Bush signed the security agreement with Iraq. In his fourth and final trip to Iraq, President Bush appeared in a televised news conference with Iraq's prime minister Nouri al-Maliki to celebrate the agreement and applauded security gains in Iraq saying that just two years ago "such an agreement seemed impossible".[27]

President Obama's speech on 27 February 2009

On 27 February 2009, at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, President Barack Obama announced his revision to the original date of withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq. The revision was to extend the original date of 30 June 2009 for an additional 10 months, to 31 August 2010. After which all but a "transitional force" of 35,000 to 50,000 troops would be withdrawn from the Middle Eastern nation. President Obama reaffirmed commitment to the original complete withdrawal date of 31 December 2011, set by the agreement between the Bush Administration and the Iraqi government.[28] President Obama defined the task of the transitional force as "training, equipping, and advising Iraqi Security Forces as long as they remain non-sectarian; conducting targeted counter-terrorism missions; and protecting our ongoing civilian and military efforts within Iraq".[29]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_of_U.S._troops_from_Iraq

Another topic were repugs have absolutely no regard for the facts.

[liberalnarb]

20. Also..

Shes not just ahead in donations.

[Johonny]

21. He learned a lesson, never go full Trump.

[Rex]

23. Most of them post at DI.

You want to see foaming at the mouth hatred, go check out DI for a pulse on your average GOP Obama hater. They are sick, sick people.