Arizona GOP censures McCain for 'liberal' record

[defacto7]

Source: Associated Press, Channel 4 Tuscon

TEMPE, Ariz. - The Arizona Republican Party has formally censured Sen. John McCain, citing a voting record that they say is insufficiently conservative.
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According to the resolution, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate has campaigned as a conservative but has lent his support to issues such as immigration reform and to funding the law sometimes known as Obamacare.

Several Republican county committees recently censured McCain.

Read more: http://www.kvoa.com/news/arizona-gop-censures-mccain-for-liberal-record/

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Now there's a twist...

[hrmjustin]

1. .

[longship]

2. Mark Twain: "Give a man the reputation of an early riser,and he can sleep ‘til noon."

Give a man a reputation as a moderate Republican and he can be as crazy as he wants.

Samuel Clemens was right.

[JCMach1]

3. Maybe time for him to go Indy....

Jeesh, what toads, absolute toads Repugs have become...

[SkatmanRoth]

21. Maybe it is time for McCain to just go away

He will always be a Republican even if he wears the label of independent

It seems as he got older he lost his way and is now neither conservative or liberal; he is just stupid.

[JCMach1]

24. or that...

Sad to think that I have to think of McCain as perhaps one of the last 'sane' Republicans...

The world is mad I tell you, mad!

[sakabatou]

4. I didn't see that coming

[Faygo Kid]

5. The GOP is so far off the deep end now it's beyond frightening

Gerald Ford would be hanged from the nearest tree, and Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan would be drummed out of the party for their heinous sins of turning on the religious right and negotiating with the Dems on Social Security.

These people are insane.

[blkmusclmachine]

14. They are insane, but dollars to donuts our DC DEMS will try to find a way to reach concensus w/them!

[Tippy]

22. Sad but true

[ananda]

6. That is Lol funny!

[hobbit709]

7. "Liberal"? compared to who-Temujin?

[defacto7]

20. Senator Jenghiz McKahn

[nyquil_man]

8. Two questions. One, how did they get a time machine?

Two, how does one travel back to "Never"?

[Aerows]

17. GOP: Off the rails?

"Rails? Where we're going, we don't need rails!"

[Lasher]

18. Hello Aerows, how's the shots going?

And whatever happened to the perpetrator?

[Aerows]

23. I have one left next Monday

Thank goodness! Most of the perpetrators have ... gone missing, quite mysteriously.

[Lasher]

25. I figured that.

Daddies protect their little girls.

[Aerows]

26. Good ones do

even when they aren't exactly little girls anymore.

Were you affected by the water contamination? I hope all is well for our friends in WV. I know what it is like to be without water for a significant period of time (Katrina) and it is no picnic.

[Lasher]

27. Yes, I was one of the 300,000 with poisoned water.

We were able to flush the toilet but couldn't use the water for anything else. Like you I'm out in the country where I was able to get by better than most. We have a little stream with potable water on our property and it came in handy.



As you no doubt will recall as a Katrina survivor, drinking water is not the biggest problem due to relatively small volumes required. I still have a few cases of free FEMA bottled water and we're still using it for drinking and cooking. But it's the other needs like doing the laundry and bathing that are a challenge in the long term.

I hope your dad was able to make good use of the coons. They are really good to eat if properly prepared.

[Aerows]

28. We didn't even have toilet flushing water during Katrina

It was the "haul the five gallon bucket into the bathroom, and wait until everyone has gone in the morning method". It was pretty gross. There was no water, period, at all, for 5 1/2 weeks. When I could flush a toilet, I ran around flushing them like it was Christmas.

My first bath was a week after the storm and I went with a lady to check on her horses 90 miles away and shampooed/conditioned my hair in a pond in the country. I still remember how good it felt, too!

Baby wipes. A baby wipe bath is something I NEVER hope to replicate again, particularly when it is 90 and humidity is in the upper 80%

[Lasher]

29. Heh. Flushed like it was Christmas.

You're funny.

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Another advantage I had over some Katrina survivors was, the poisoned water was not knocking at my door. Hated to see the NOLA folks suffer like that. I've been there twice and I've always felt they designed the place especially for me.

Please let me know the next time you decide to bathe in a pond, in advance long enough for me to get there and hide in the bushes.

[Archae]

9. The Arizona GOP is heading for the junk heap.

McCain is as "liberal" as our Governor Walker.

IMO though, I think McCain should have retired years ago, after he bombed big time against Obama.

[mdbl]

10. "citing a voting record that they say is insufficiently conservative"

so that means if you vote conservative, you're insufficient. Ok, i'll buy that

[blkmusclmachine]

15. HA!

[Herself]

11. Boehner is flexing ahem, a public muscle, and the tea party is

flexing theirs in the chambers and places they have foot holds.

They know the career politicians are scared, they know their vulnerabilities, and now we see the sheep's cloth come off and the confederate wolves come out.

[struggle4progress]

12. Some background:

Arizona Republicans begin lining up to censure McCain
January 13, 2014 ADI News Services

... On Saturday, the Maricopa County Republican Committee (MCRC) precinct committeemen passed a resolution censuring Arizona Senator John McCain during the January 11, 2014, MCRC Annual Mandatory Precinct Committeemen Meeting held in Phoenix ...

McCain was censured also by the Mohave County Republican Central Committee on Jan 4, the Apache County Republican Committee on Jan 9, and the Maricopa County Legislative District (LD) 26 Precinct Committeemen rebuked McCain on Sept 9, 2013, Maricopa County Republican Chairman A. J. LaFaro noted ...

According to various sources, residents in Pima and Pinal counties are currently gathering support for a censure of McCain by their members ...

[blkmusclmachine]

13. McCain, now a flaming librul to today's out-of-control INSANE Republican Party!

[struggle4progress]

16. Resolution text, cut-and-paste from the website Intellectually Conservative Arizona

As leaders in the Republican Party, we are obligated to fully support our Party, platform, and candidates. Only in times of great crisis or betrayal is it necessary to publicly censure our leaders. Today we are faced with both. For too long we have waited, hoping Senator McCain would return to our Party’s values on his own. That has not happened. So with sadness and humility we rise and declare:

Whereas Senator McCain has amassed a long and terrible record of drafting, co-sponsoring and voting for legislation best associated with liberal Democrats, such as Amnesty, funding ObamaCare, the debt ceiling, assaults on the Constitution and 2nd amendment, and has supported liberal nominees;

Whereas this record has been disastrous and harmful to Arizona and the United States; and,

Whereas Senator McCain has campaigned as a conservative, made promises during his re-election campaigns, such as the needed and welcomed promise to secure our borders and finish the border fence, only to quickly flip-flop on those promises; and

Whereas McCain has abandoned our values and has been eerily silent against Liberals, yet publicly reprimands Conservatives in his own Party, therefore

BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED that the Arizona Republican leadership censures Senator McCain for his continued disservice to our State and Nation,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that until he consistently champions our Party’s Platform and values, we, the Republican leadership in Arizona will no longer support, campaign for or endorse John McCain as our U.S. Senator.

[defacto7]

19. Sounds like time for McCain to resurrect

the Bull Moose party.