‘F*** JOHN McCAIN!’

Posted on | July 27, 2011 | 61 Comments

That was the complete text of a Twitter message — except I spelled out the first word — I sent when I heard about this:

Mr. McCain mocked Tea Party-allied Republicans in the House for believing — wrongly, he said — that President Obama and Democrats will get the blame for a default if Republicans refuse to increase the nation’s debt ceiling.
By that flawed logic, “Democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced budget amendment and reform entitlements and the Tea Party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth,” he said, quoting a Wall Street Journal editorial.
“This is the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell into G.O.P. nominees,” he jeered, referring to two losing Tea Party candidates for the Senate in 2010.

(Video via Eric Scheiner at CNSNews.com.)

If there were any justice in the world . . . Well, it probably wouldn’t be wise to finish that sentence. But I think you see why I supported J.D. Hayworth in last year’s Arizona primary, and why I bragged on Election Day 2008: “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Bob Barr.” However, I felt it necessary to apologize to my Twitter followers today:

And this seems like a good time to remind readers that I’m raising money for a shoe-leather trip to Iowa.

UPDATE: Ed Morrissey offers a Tolkienesque rejoinder:

By the way, just in case in you don’t recall … the hobbits win in Lord of the Rings. They got a lot of ridicule from the elite and the powerful along the way, but they end up saving the West from ruinous destruction.

And just in case anyone’s discouraged by these RINO gestures from twerps like Crazy Cousin John, remember that the Democrats don’t have their act together, either:

Dem lawmaker: ‘Nobody I know’ has seen Reid plan

UPDATE II: This is the fun stuff:

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he ordered GOP lawmakers to “get your ass in line” behind his debt proposal during an interview Wednesday on a conservative radio show.
“My goal is to continue to work with all our members so we get them to the point where they say ‘yes,’ ” Boehner said on Laura Ingraham’s radio show.

UPDATE III: As of this writing (3:18 p.m. ET) the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down nearly 200 points. I blame John McCain.

UPDATE IV: Ace of Spades has some good stuff.

Category: Budget, John McCain, Tea Party

Comments

61 Responses to “‘F*** JOHN McCAIN!’”

Joe
July 27th, 2011 @ 6:27 pm

We have to get you kids together for a family reunion!
Joe
July 27th, 2011 @ 6:29 pm

If Angle and McDonald are Middle Earth Hobbits, John McCain is a surley pigheaded Dwarf (and not the funny one).
Joe
July 27th, 2011 @ 6:33 pm

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/07/dow-jones-plunges-74-pts-on-news-that.html

Look here, Chris Todd is asking Obama some tough questions. Hey, John “Grumpy Dwarf” McCain, you should check this out.
Dave
July 27th, 2011 @ 6:43 pm

Crazy cousin John is right on this. Obama has pretty much every media outlet except Fox and the WSJ to spin for him. We will get the blame. Sorry.
DaveO
July 27th, 2011 @ 6:49 pm

Nice to see Senator McCain remain true to form. And people believe Palin was the reason he lost.
Anonymous
July 27th, 2011 @ 6:50 pm

I don’t know about that, Dave. You heard the grumbles from the White House press corps yesterday — they’re getting sick of this ridiculous kabuki dance, too.
Soopermexican
July 27th, 2011 @ 7:07 pm

from the mouths of bobs….
Anonymous
July 27th, 2011 @ 7:10 pm

And people believe Palin was the reason he lost.

Why? Because a bunch of worthless hired backstabbers on Maverick’s staff went out and badmouthed Palin to any reporter who would listen.
Adjoran
July 27th, 2011 @ 7:13 pm

Did Hayworth pay you off with some of his illegal campaign money? I dislike your cousin, too, but at least he’s not a crook.
DaveO
July 27th, 2011 @ 7:15 pm

The Senator is the Buddha of Backstabbing.

With apologies to actual buddhists.
richard mcenroe
July 27th, 2011 @ 7:24 pm

Has anyone pointed out to that senile lawndart that the GOP will get blamed anyway? Or can’t he remember as far back as his own vanity Presidential campaign anymore?
ThePaganTemple
July 27th, 2011 @ 7:24 pm

They say things come in threes. The first time I agree with John McCain was when he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. I wonder what the third time will be.
ThePaganTemple
July 27th, 2011 @ 7:28 pm

I don’t know though maybe I’m being a little too pessimistic. A Balanced Budget Amendment? Let’s see, all we need do is get it passed by Congress, then we need to get it ratified by what, 37 or s8 states? Yeah, we should be able to get that done here in the next two or three days.
richard mcenroe
July 27th, 2011 @ 7:28 pm

McCain took Soros money. That’s close enough for me…
Anonymous
July 27th, 2011 @ 7:30 pm

I dislike your cousin, too, but at least he’s not a crook.

What the hell are you talking about? “Keating Five” ring a bell?
Anonymous
July 27th, 2011 @ 7:39 pm

Look, TPT: These Tea Party-backed House members ran campaigns, during which they made promises to the people who voted for them. I’m not going to badmouth them for voting the way they promised they’d vote. That’s what we call “democracy.”

If Nancy Pelosi can’t deliver a few dozen Democrat votes to support a “bipartisan compromise” deal, that’s Nancy’s problem.

But for that backstabbing bastard John McCain to throw these House Republicans under the bus . . .?

FUCK HIM!
Roger Fortier
July 27th, 2011 @ 7:41 pm

I voted for him…mea culpa. Ann Coulter had it right: her vote for Obama would bring the cultural war to a head more quickly than a vote for McCain and a slow, steady decline.
Anamika
July 27th, 2011 @ 7:42 pm

We (all of us, including RSM) are either players or pawns.

We can’t have it both ways, although it might seem tempting to cop different attitudes or stances for purposes of convenience and trying to make ourselves feel better about our situation and the circumstances in which we live.

We can’t control the outer environment, and if it completely crashes and burns, then that’s what happens. Cataclysms of all types have happened before and it would pretty naive to think that there’s not more on the way, whether economic, social, or physical.

There’s no way of controlling that. That would be the domain of Almighty, Intelligence, Nature, or That, give it whatever name that suits your fancy.

But that’s not say we’re all mere pawns in the evolving game.

We can be players too, if we want to, and all it takes is a simple choice. And that choice is simply to recognize our own freedom in the moment, in every here-and-now, to simply relax in the ease of our being and let things be AS THEY ARE.

That’s not to say we don’t act in whatever way we are sincerely inspired to act to do this, that, or the other thing, either for our own benefit or for the benefit of all, according to what lights up our life….

It simply means that in each and every here-and-now we instinctively recognize an intelligence, an awareness, greater than our own paltry, limited, totally biased and conditioned, egoic sense of self, and simply rest AS that.

It may take a little faith in the beginning, but once the ball gets rolling, so to speak, there ain’t no stoppin’ us now, as the saying and the song goes.

–If they solve the debt crisis, they solve the debt crisis. If they don’t, they don’t.

–If the Big One hits southern California, then the Big One hits southern California.

–If the whole society and environment goes belly up, then that’s what happens.

And it won’t be pretty, of that there’s not too much debate.

But having taken charge of your own consciousness, your own mind, no matter what appears in it, you will be fundamentally OK, no matter what happens. Even if you die in the process.

Are you a mere pawn or are you a real player?

Or don’t you think you have any control over that, then I guess your only choice is to HOPE that God or some white knight from some fairy fantasy land will come along and save you somehow and make things right somehow.

Well good luck with that plan of action. Cause that one, I think it’s fairly safe to say, just ain’t about to happen.
ThePaganTemple
July 27th, 2011 @ 7:55 pm

I appreciate the position they are in with their constituents. I honestly do mean that and I should have maybe expressed that in some of these comments. But its still up to them to get the word out and make an effort to try to explain things to them. I didn’t like it either when West went along with that agricultural subsidies boondoggle for black farmers. But he did it, and I’m assuming he had his reasons. The point is, its not like he, for one example, has strictly adhered to ideological purity.

Now I don’t know how true this is, but I assume there some validity to the point being made that if our credit rating is lowered, not only are people’s interest rates going to be higher, the credit on our already amassed National Debt is going to be higher. How can that be good?

I think nothing would please Obama more than to shut down the government. In his little pea brain he probably thinks he can make people see just how important government services are, and then he can blame the GOP. And most people probably will. Bear in mind we are all not either Dems or GOP there are also a large group of independents.

Then there are that large group of voters who are mainly interested in what’s on television tonight. Unfortunately, stupid people do still have the right to vote. They came out in force for Obama the last time.

And like I’ve also been saying, when it comes time to pick and choose what part of government is shut down, or more than likely gets greatly reduced funding, look for border security to get the heave-ho. No he probably won’t lay them all off, unless he can make the case that’s necessary, but if he just cuts them by half (and he’ll probably cut them by substantially more than that) look how much damage that could do.

There are just too many things to have to consider to insist on ideological purity. The last thing the Tea Party needs is to come across as Utopians, and that’s exactly what they’re doing.

Remember, your policies are only as good as your ability to win the power to implement them.
Dave
July 27th, 2011 @ 8:06 pm

Really, at this point I almost think the best thing to do would be to pass something that raised the debt ceiling enough to get by until January 2013 at current (I know, insanely high) spending levels and did nothing else. It’s clear neither Obama nor 20-ish senate Dems and 60-ish house Dems (i.e. enough to override Obama’s veto) will vote for anything that would address the long-term spending issues, so that pretty much has to be kicked down the road till the next congress (and with any luck, the next President).

Anything more comprehensive at this point is going to be crazy last-minute stuff that we won’t know what’s really in it until after it passes, and won’t actually be binding beyond this year anyway.
AngelaTC
July 27th, 2011 @ 8:10 pm

You seem to be buying into the scary talking points. I don’t believe the world will end if the government is forced to cut some spending.

The Democrats and the Republicans both want to put this off until after the elections because it means they don’t have to actually commit to anything that might endanger their careers.

I mean, I’m sure President Romney will be a fiscal conservative, right?
JeffS
July 27th, 2011 @ 8:12 pm

Fuck John McCain.
JeffS
July 27th, 2011 @ 8:14 pm

We (all of us, including RSM) are either players or pawns.

Gee, thanks for the original thought there, Anamika!

Now, pardon me while I saw some wood….

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz………………
AngelaTC
July 27th, 2011 @ 8:17 pm

“get the word out to them?” Sorry, but that’s the reason we’re in this mess. It is time to stop spending, not try to explain why it isn’t.
Anamika
July 27th, 2011 @ 8:17 pm

Have some respect. If not, at least feign some. He is a war hero.
Anamika
July 27th, 2011 @ 8:33 pm

Translation: It must be an excellent comment, too bad it’s too long for my bird brain. Birds get distracted so easy, they forget, fly away. Best to feed them crumbs, they tend to ignore baguettes. ;))
DaveO
July 27th, 2011 @ 8:46 pm

Voting as one has promised the people who elected one to vote = “ideological purity.”

We need 535 ideologically pure people in Congress.
Walley
July 27th, 2011 @ 8:49 pm

They went out and backstabbed EVERYONE who questioned John McCain as GOP nominee. That was my experience, after reading weeks of psychotic accusations from the McCain campers last election. Directed at me. Unfortunately, some among today’s Palin supporters learned their lessons from the McCain campaigners and are doing exactly the same thing. After all this, I determined I’d continue to vote per my individual conscience as a Republican, even when it goes against the maniacs among both sides of the coin.
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Dave
July 27th, 2011 @ 9:03 pm

Reality is scary on this. And Obama is being completely unreasonable. Someone is going to have to give, and it’s going to be us, because we’re the grown-ups.
ThePaganTemple
July 27th, 2011 @ 9:07 pm

Angela, do you think we’re going to just abruptly stop all spending, just like that, with a Democrat Senate and President? That’s not going to happen.
The Wondering Jew
July 27th, 2011 @ 9:08 pm

Wow, you are really after Crazy Cousin John today– and with good reason. Even the idiots in the MSM should recognize that 90% of the Republicans with integrity are leading the charge against this– but of course, they prefer the corruptocrat crapweasels like McConnell and Boehner because that’s the contrast they want to run against, not the citizen legislators of the Tea Party. I can accept (grudgingly) those who think that the Boehner plan represents the best tactical move for the GOP (though I believe they are dead wrong). But throwing our most principled grassroots activists and Congressmen under the bus is just unforgivable.
Jorge Emilio Emrys Landivar
July 27th, 2011 @ 9:10 pm

Can we get a non-corrupt tea party guy to replace him? It would be awesome to have another Mike Lee or Rand Paul take his spot.
Anonymous
July 27th, 2011 @ 9:17 pm

So I should just let it be. Let things happen as they will. I can’t control it anyway.

To quote Bill Cosby in the first episode of his eponymously named sitcom:

“Son…that’s the stupidest thing I ever heard.”

If I have to be that fatalistic, I might as well start playing Russian Roulette with all the chambers loaded. I’m going to die anyway, right?There are many things out of our control. There are also those that aren’t. The death of the American Republic need not be inevitable. I am not going to stand idly by and let statists who wish to control every aspect of my life gain control, not without a fight. Where would we have been if the founders had just said “Well, King George will do what he wants, we can’t stop it. Might as well lie back and enjoy it.”?You’re welcome to roll with the flow. I, and many others, will do what we can to roll it back.
ThePaganTemple
July 27th, 2011 @ 9:29 pm

Well you’re not too far off, maybe as much as two-thirds of them are, only they’re not all Republicans. I guess that’s my problem with all this, I’m not an idealist, or an ideologist. I don’t see adhering to the constitution as an ideology, I just see it as sticking to the contract that is our basic founding documents. The more it is adhered to, the better off we are. But ideology? No, small, limited government and liberty is just common sense. I leave ideology to the utopians.
Anonymous
July 27th, 2011 @ 9:39 pm

Crazy Cousin, Granny Mitch and Karl Rove never got it. The Tea Party’s purpose was not to get republicans elected but to get conservatives elected.
I hope that no deal is reached until the end of August. The sky will not fall but the hysterics will be exposed for the frauds they are.

I’ve already taken a short position on our government.

Resistance is not futile.
Anonymous
July 27th, 2011 @ 9:47 pm

Good Policy is supposed to be good politics.
Anonymous
July 27th, 2011 @ 9:49 pm

Dungbat.
JeffS
July 27th, 2011 @ 9:58 pm

Funny, I never heard that from a leftie when John McCain was running for President. He was too old, crippled, married to a (gasp!) beer heiress, had no executive experience, and on and on and on. The war hero side was dissed, including lefties laughing about his torture.

How do I know this? I supported McCain in 2008. Doubly so after he selected Sarah Palin. I had lots of arguments with lefties who were in love with Obama. “McSame” was a common jeer, as lefties felt he was just Bush reincarnate.

(Which makes the “They said if I voted for McCain, things wouldn’t change….and they were right!” joke all that more ironic!)

Now, he’s saying things that you like, and you want to respect him? Please. I was born at night, but not last night. That you support him now is easily sufficient evidence to convince me he’s a mindless twit, and that I really I had actually voted for Sarah Palin, not John McCain.

Fuck John McCain. And fuck you, you sanctimonious, sneering, leftie troll. Go check up on Anthony Weiner’s rehab — maybe he really is free of his peculiar issues.
JeffS
July 27th, 2011 @ 9:59 pm

And do you really think that we should sit on our asses, whine about the problems, and do nothing?
JeffS
July 27th, 2011 @ 10:00 pm

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……
Anonymous
July 27th, 2011 @ 10:09 pm

By all rights, John McCain should have announced his retirement before the 2004 election, and should not have even run for president in 2008. The fact that he has continued in the Senate is a testament to his essential selfishness. It’s all about that dishonest old bastard having 40-odd staffers kowtow to him and call him “senator.”

Then when he goes on TV and says something useless, every one of those hired punks says, “Saw you on TV! You were great!”

The man himself is only slightly more disgusting than the vicious sycophants who surround him. He is a magnet for evil.
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dad29
July 27th, 2011 @ 11:46 pm

“Crack political thinking…..”

That lost the ’08 race?

How about the reality? John Mc Cain’s thinking is influenced by crack.
Anonymous
July 28th, 2011 @ 12:41 am

Benedict Arnold started out as an American war hero too.
Anonymous
July 28th, 2011 @ 2:35 am

It’s probably one of those polls of ‘Adults’ with 60 percent of the sample being Democrats or some such absurdity. These kinds of ‘polls’ happen way too often to be pure chance; I view them as enemy action.
Joe
July 28th, 2011 @ 3:01 am

Hayworth was a hack who could not hold his house seat in a general election in Arizona. Seriously, find better candidates to take on the John McCains of the GOP.
Joe
July 28th, 2011 @ 3:02 am

Well, you are right on that point. Fuck yeah!
Joe
July 28th, 2011 @ 3:03 am

You silly twit, you painted him as a retard in 2008 when your ~~war hero~~ cocain sniffin, communist fathered, candidate was running. So fuck you too.