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2015-04-08 Home Front: Politix

McCain announces he's running for sixth term

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Posted by Fred 2015-04-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 I'd vote for him if he chose the right running mate for VP.

Posted by gorb 2015-04-08 00:40|| 2015-04-08 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 "Look what I've done to for America"

I'd never vote for this A-hole. Just go away you perfumed prince. If it wasn't for your family of Admirals, you'd have been simply known as a guy ran while his ship burned, the USS ~~Forest Fire~~ Forrestal. You still cant get your story straight about that even after all these years you self-aggrandizing, patronizing, lying sack of shit.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-04-08 03:31|| 2015-04-08 03:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Old senators never die...?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-04-08 05:12|| 2015-04-08 05:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Running? More like being carried on a stretcher.

Posted by JFM 2015-04-08 06:46|| 2015-04-08 06:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Please just go away McStain.

You are and represent everything wrong with the Republican party.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-04-08 09:13|| 2015-04-08 09:13|| Front Page Top

#6 OS, you can say what about McCain the politician, but as a Naval officer, he was a hero. He climbed out of his A4 on the Forrestal, and barely got away. I am not sure what you wanted him to do - put out the fire by himself?

Once he became a POW, he refused the early release he was offered as the son of an admiral. He insisted on no special treatment, and was tortured so badly that even today he cannot raise his arms above shoulder level.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-04-08 09:35|| 2015-04-08 09:35|| Front Page Top

#7 I have read many bad things about McCain. THen I discovered they were written at the time he faced Obama. Obama, you know that guy that every time he is trailing there is a an opportune revelation destroying his opponent reputation. Hey, he wouldn't even have been the Deopcratic candidate for the Illinois senate.

Posted by JFM 2015-04-08 11:35|| 2015-04-08 11:35|| Front Page Top

#8 The only thing worse than Obama winning the presidency in 2008 would have been McCain winning. We had a choice between two Manchurian candidates and it was a no win situation for America. Remind me to contribute to whichever Tea Party candidate runs against this old fart in the Republican primary.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-04-08 11:46|| 2015-04-08 11:46|| Front Page Top

#9 He has been in the tank so deep recently, fish take him for a walk.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-04-08 11:49|| 2015-04-08 11:49|| Front Page Top

#10 McCain will do what he always does - pay lip service to conservative principles in the run up to the election, and revert to Senator McSquishy the day after.

Posted by PBMcL 2015-04-08 12:10|| 2015-04-08 12:10|| Front Page Top

#11 As a Senator he tried to be friends with the left and got taken again and again and again. His political instincts are horrible and he appears to stand for nothing. Why run again John, what new do you have to offer?

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-04-08 14:32|| 2015-04-08 14:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Ebbang Uluque6305

The day an Iranaian nuke goes off in America I will refresh your memories

Posted by JFM 2015-04-08 14:58|| 2015-04-08 14:58|| Front Page Top

#13 No.

Go the F away.

Posted by newc 2015-04-08 14:59|| 2015-04-08 14:59|| Front Page Top

#14 "My friends...."

UGH!

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-04-08 16:51|| 2015-04-08 16:51|| Front Page Top

#15 The day an Iranaian nuke goes off in America I will refresh your memories

I never heard or saw any evidence of any Republican willing to apply force to Iran the way it needs to be applied if those mad men are to be prevented from developing a nuclear weapon. That includes McCain. Bush had his chance and ended up leaving it to Obama. That was a tragic failure.

We need an alternative to the Republican Party if the best they can do is McCain, Fiorina and Bush/Bush/Bush.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-04-08 17:28|| 2015-04-08 17:28|| Front Page Top

#16 Guys, he was NOT injured. And Navy footage shows him running away across the deck while his crew chief burned to death. He went below, and ended up in the pilots ready room watching the firefighting remotely while others pitched in to make up for the 100+ who died topside fighting the fires.

He flew into wires in Spain, and crashed 2 other aircraft as a pilot due to carelessness and rash behavior.

His family kept him from being disciplined. Ops admiral was a family friend who kept McCain off the mast as a favor to his dad, also an admiral.

So stop spreading the horseshit falsified McCain hero stuff. It's a story that McStain tells, but it doesn't match the facts.

The POW stuff is true and commendable. But his actions prior to that, and afterward are the portrait of a self aggrandize get POS.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-04-08 17:41|| 2015-04-08 17:41|| Front Page Top

#17 Are avoatores remotely qualified at firefighting. I know for sure Japesenese aviators at Midway were completely unqulified at it.

Posted by JFM 2015-04-08 18:45|| 2015-04-08 18:45|| Front Page Top

#18 He served our country. Fine. He was a POW, a horror no one deserved, not ever Bergdahl, no matter how he got there. He did some great things in the Senate for our nation and for America. He has outlived his usefulness in DC and in Arizona. Like a pro ball player that is too old, he was great in his time, now he has to step aside, part of getting old. I will vote for whoever is running against him.

Posted by 49 Pan 2015-04-08 20:45|| 2015-04-08 20:45|| Front Page Top

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