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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 10:01 AM Oct 2017

Conway responds to McCain's 'half-baked' nationalism comment

Source: Politico




By LOUIS NELSON 10/17/2017 09:55 AM EDT

Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday that she does not see in President Donald Trump any of the “spurious nationalism” that Sen. John McCain condemned in a Monday night speech in Philadelphia, expressing optimism that the two men might soon find themselves on the same legislative page.

McCain (R-Ariz.), who was awarded the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal, used his acceptance speech to warn against the “half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems.” The remarks seemed to many to be directed clearly at Trump’s particular brand of politics, although Conway disputed that assessment in a Tuesday morning interview.

“Well, I just don't see that in the president's agenda or in his philosophy. His moorings are conservative and he is governing as a center right president who believes that we pay too much in taxes, that we're overregulated, that we have not taken terrorists seriously,” Conway said on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends.” “We’ve not even been willing to call them terrorists for the last however many years. This country is safer and more prosperous under President Donald Trump.”

Trump and McCain have feuded often throughout the former’s political career, with the latter serving as among the loudest critics of the president from within the GOP. It was McCain’s opposition, including a decisive and dramatic thumbs-down “no” vote on the Senate floor, that twice scuttled his party’s efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/17/john-mccain-philadelphia-speech-kellyanne-conway-responds-243858?lo=ap_b1

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Conway responds to McCain's 'half-baked' nationalism comment (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2017 OP
STFU Iliyah Oct 2017 #1
I guess Skeletor is back to the morning shift snooper2 Oct 2017 #2
"This country is safer and more prosperous under President Donald Trump. groundloop Oct 2017 #3
And Of Course. . . ProfessorGAC Oct 2017 #4
Only those who owns stocks! quartz007 Dec 2017 #8
"i resent that! our spurious nationalism is *fully* baked!" unblock Oct 2017 #5
Sooooo.... DK504 Oct 2017 #6
I don't ever listen to Kellyanne any more... CTyankee Oct 2017 #7

groundloop

(11,514 posts)
3. "This country is safer and more prosperous under President Donald Trump.
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 10:16 AM
Oct 2017

If this statement weren't so

I'd be

ProfessorGAC

(64,875 posts)
4. And Of Course. . .
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 10:43 AM
Oct 2017

. . .nobody asks her to define safer or more prosperous. Real wage gap still increasing, markets only barely outperforming prior 6 years, and a guy in Vegas just killed nearly 60 people and wounded another 500 plus.

And citizens in Niger killed just days ago.

All that said: Does she still work there?

 

quartz007

(1,216 posts)
8. Only those who owns stocks!
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 10:31 PM
Dec 2017

The stock market is at all time high, and 401-k plans are at all time high. But that is may be 10-15% of Americans at best. The rest are being squeezed by the economy.

DK504

(3,847 posts)
6. Sooooo....
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 11:10 AM
Oct 2017

Where were these Senators during the election denoucing every pos that came out of the traitors maw.

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