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| Conservatives Love McSally's Brutal Media Diss |
| 2020-01-20 |
| Start the week with Kurt [Town Hall] - I had pretty much written off Martha McSally as a loser, a sure loss of the crucial Arizona Senate seat she got handed after flubbing a campaign to win the state’s other one, but it looks like I was wonderfully wrong. Somewhere along the line, McSally got woke, calling a liberal hack from CNN a "liberal hack" and inspiring a million Dem-loving media tears. It was glorious, and overdue. McSally laid out that simpering microphone jockey and showed that maybe she can take the fight to her gun-stealing, socialist-tolerating astronaut opponent and keep our seat. Fredocon cruise director Bill "Ahoy" Kristol and the usual suspects wet themselves over her show of awesomeness ‐ as a conservative, that’s a mighty credibility boost right there. By the way she owned her play and milked it for earned media afterwards, it looks like she figured out that she’s got zero chance if she’s just another GOP weenie too frightened by the over-paid, under-successful consultant class suits surrounding her to toss a haymaker at some punk reporter. It’s about time. She used to be an Air Force A-10 pilot, riding a 30mm cannon into battle. I know from a pal who was an underclassman that she was a beast to her charges at the Academy (he says she’s top notch, but he’s also Air Force so you gotta factor that in). Yet, like most career military going into politics, she was pretty useless for a long time, just sort of stumbling through, losing a key election and generally being nice and polite and open-minded and across-the-aisle reaching. Ugh. Never go full Romney. McSally is a literal hero, in military terms ‐ an example to be emulated. But as a Republican senator, she just wasn’t getting it done. And she needed to hear that. She needed to unleash the Thunderbolt II pilot that was in there somewhere, buried under layers of consultant goo, just waiting for a chance to send a volley of figurative depleted uranium rounds at some Democrat lackey with a mic and a ’tude. Target acquired; target destroyed. She needed to show us that she was willing to win. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #6 Her predecessor once said "Build the dang fence!" I'm sure this time will be different, though. |
| Posted by: charger 2020-01-20 12:47 |
| #5 I dislike how necessary this has become, but necessary it is. The establishment media is truly disgusting in so many ways, the politicians on the Right need to stop playing ball with them. |
| Posted by: Vernal Hatrick 2020-01-20 12:44 |
| #4 A different kind of woke. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-01-20 11:49 |
| #3 I wonder how many RINOS are RINOS because they only get their news from outlets like CNN? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2020-01-20 10:35 |
| #2 Wonder how many in the GOP are rhinos because they underestimate conservative numbers and over-estimate the power of the media. Hopefully the Trump era is correcting perceptions. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-01-20 09:52 |
| #1 She was seemingly rather RINOly, but stories about how that's working out for Pierre Delecto in neighbing Utah is probably making it to Arizona news outlets. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-20 05:47 |