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 Centers 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 Trumps 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 Newss Fox & Friends. Weve 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 formers political career, with the latter serving as among the loudest critics of the president from within the GOP. It was McCains opposition, including a decisive and dramatic thumbs-down no vote on the Senate floor, that twice scuttled his partys efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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snooper2
(30,151 posts)groundloop
(11,514 posts)If this statement weren't so
I'd be
ProfessorGAC
(64,875 posts). . .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)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.
unblock
(52,126 posts)DK504
(3,847 posts)Where were these Senators during the election denoucing every pos that came out of the traitors maw.
CTyankee
(63,893 posts)SNL has been taking care of her nicely lately...