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‘I Don’t Know What’s Happened to John McCain, But I Find This Very Sad’ — Find Out Who Said This and Why

Mar. 8, 2013 9:29pm Jason Howerton

Newt Gingrich Slams John McCain Over Sad Comments on Rand Paul, Drones

NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 13: Newt Gingrich attends TIME’s Person of the Year panel on November 13, 2012 in New York City. Credit: Getty Images for TIME

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Friday joined a chorus of critics and ripped Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for attacking Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and the senators who stood beside him during Wednesday’s filibuster.

“I don’t know what’s happened to John McCain, but I find this very sad,” Gingrich told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

When asked whose side he was on, “the McCains or the Rand Pauls,” Gingrinch said he was “really disappointed in John McCain.”

“I’m very saddened by it,” he added. “McCain, in his younger years, was a great maverick. He took on his party all the time.”

He continued: “The idea that he’s now lecturing the next generation because they have the guts to stand up, which is–I would have thought John McCain we do have applauded them and he would have said, I may not agree with you in detail, but I’m proud of the fact that you’re standing up for your beliefs, you’re fighting.”

After proclaiming that Paul is “right” in this instance, Gingrich said the Kentucky senator was correct to question the Justice Department’s initial claim that the federal government could use drone strikes on American citizens inside the U.S. with no due process.

“If our Constitution means anything, it means that your government can’t capriciously kill you without the rule of law. And it was very clear from the attorney general’s earlier letters that they were reserving the right– remember, we’re not talking about a combatant engaged in fighting against the US. The minute you do that, you lose all your rights,” Gingrich said.

Taking one more shot at McCain, Gingrich asked: “Does he know nothing of history?”

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woodyee
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:10pm
Worth repeating – ““If our Constitution means anything, it means that your government can’t capriciously kill you without the rule of law. And it was very clear from the attorney general’s earlier letters that they were reserving the right–

- remember, we’re not talking about a combatant engaged in fighting against the US. The minute you do that, [YOU LOSE ALL YOUR RIGHTS],” Gingrich said.

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- 4kinit
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:30pm
  Worth repeating – ““If our Constitution means anything, it means that your government can’t capriciously kill you without the rule of law.
  
  Or arrest you and hold you with out due process because they don’t like your Facebook
  
  Or classify you as a terrorist for questioning the party line
  
  Or prohibit you from owning a weapon
  
  ad infitum………Way to go Rand
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:03pm
  “If our Constitution means anything, it means that your government can’t capriciously kill you without the rule of law. And it was very clear from the attorney general’s earlier letters that they were reserving the right–” Nice Newt. I’m looking forward to you running for President again, so you can raise money simply in order to fly around the country and sell books and support your jet set lifestyle.
  
  But of course Newt’s comments are preposterous. As the editors of the ultra-conservative Wall Street Journal said, “Calm down, Senator,” wrote the editors. “Mr. Holder is right, even if he doesn’t explain the law very well. The U.S. government cannot randomly target American citizens on U.S. soil or anywhere else. What it can do under the laws of war is target an “enemy combatant” anywhere at anytime, including on U.S. soil. This includes a U.S. citizen who is also an enemy combatant.”
  
  Sorry Newt, sorry you guys. The existence of drones, the fact that they physically exist and the US has these weapons, doesn’t suddenly give anyone the authority to “capriciously kill you without the rule of law.” Think about it. Does the mere fact that drones exist allow the government to “capriciously kill you without the rule of law.”
  
  It’s like the entire concept is so stupid, so irrational, that it makes sense to people. Newt knows that too, as Rand does. This is a political appeal to the ill-informed and uneducated. Seriously guys, you’re not that
  
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- redbone007
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:08pm
  This statement stayed in my mind,
  
  “And it was very clear from the attorney general’s earlier letters that they were reserving the right–”
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:15pm
  What do you care SendTheMeateaters?
  
  You’re not even a US citizen JZS.
  
  How are things back in Chile? Hot today Chile tomorrow? Easter Island vacations?
  
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- Jake Dog2
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:23pm
  @SendTheMeteors
  When they send the meteors(drones) to land on your house I hope you remember these comments you made here.
  
  Report this comment
- TexOkie
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:48pm
  As Commander in Chief I hereby declare SENDTHEMETEORS to be an enemy combatant. Execute with prejudice Drone Plan 1776.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:51pm
  METEORS….lol
  
  “As the editors of the ultra-conservative Wall Street Journal said”
  
  The WSJ is “Ultra- Conservative”?
  Nice Try.
  WSJ is Moderate-Conservative at best.
  
  If you had any integrity you’d endorse specific definitions for drone use.
  If we were subjected to another psuedo-Conservative regime you would demand that accountability.
  
  At least define “enemy combatants”.
  Right now, according to your ilk, Sarah Palin probably qualifies.
  
  Hell… half of the law-abiding posters here are convinced that they qualify when they read the SPLC reports.
  THAT’s what concerns us.
  Of course, you understand that but are just doing your job.
  That’s respectable in a way…. nothing wrong with punching a clock.
  Comprende amigo?
  
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- RationalMan
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:53pm
  SendTheMeteors stated…
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:03pm
  “If our Constitution means anything, it means that your government can’t capriciously kill you without the rule of law.
  ——————————————————————————————————————-
  
  What did you mean by “your government”????
  
  Are you a U.S. citizen?????
  
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- antiprogressive
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 3:01am
  Although I do NOT agree with Jane Fonda’s actions back in the day, I do NOT believe she should/would be targeted by drones on US soil – per the PRESENT description of their use.
  
  I therefor disagree with THAT part of Rand’s speech.
  COMBATANT is important.
  He could/should have used another name…
  
  However I DO like the fact that Rand stood up for the “statement” that these drones would never be used here.
  Not that having something in writing means CRAP to the gvmt these days…
  But at least it was a noble effort to get attention to the possibility of their use.
  
  I do find it odd that McCain did not say the same.
  He said the 1st part more or less but left out his thoughts about the use of drones in the future.
  
  And who is to say if “enemy combatant” may be dropped from the description of their use???
  
  1984.
  The Terminator.
  …
  
  All too often SciFI becomes reality.
  
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- savagenatn
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 3:44am
  meteors
  
  or keaton
  
  or encino
  
  you’re the same person trying to disguise with different names. You’re not fooling anyone idiot. Your posts are usually the same lies, immune to any facts whatsoever. And of course the smarky comments you always throw in about Tea party conservatives always sound the same. We know you’re a liberal hack idiot who enjoys trolling here, while living in your mommie’s basement.
  
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- moreoilplease
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 4:17am
  sentimental meathead
  
  “The existence of drones, the fact that they physically exist and the US has these weapons, doesn’t suddenly give anyone the authority to “capriciously kill you without the rule of law.”
  
  No one was making that argument.
  
  “The U.S. government cannot randomly target American citizens on U.S. soil or anywhere else”.
  
  Why not? The language is vague enough to require an answer from the AG. Wait a minute, that’s exactly what Rand was doing.
  
  Senator Graham ironically stood on the senate floor and pondered the vague language of the NDAA of 2012. He said it essentially makes the US part of the battle field of the war on terror. Opens the door for the use of armed drones. This is where the Pearl Harbor arguments come in. Everyone agrees an attack like that gives the military the right to operate on US soil. Did you get that. The issue is that “enemy combatant” is far too vague when using drones on US soil. Why not have specific language for specific threats. The reason is they want to reserve the right to use drones on American citizens. And they did. Doesn’t matter what AG said in his letter, the NDAA of 2012 is vague enough that they could do it.
  
  As usual meathead, you typed a lot of words to make one big false argument. Every story you comment on you use the same rhetorical arguments. Keep it up and your bound to eventually make a legit argument. Probably not on purpose though as you will type just about anything to muddy the water
  
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- dissentnow
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 7:10am
  @Sendthe
  
  You’re either incredibly naive or just an intellectually dishonest political partisan.
  We’re not allowed to go to war without a congressional declaration of war. That certainly has never stopped our government from going to war.
  The issue here is precedent. Anytime that you allow the government to go above and beyond its constitutional limits, you set a precedent and that precedent will get expanded by the following administration. For example, Bush era policies, such as the patriot act and warrantless wiretapping, set the precedent for Obama to sign the NDAA and to double the size of the domestic spy program.
  The NDAA set the precedent that America is part of the battlefield on the war on terror.
  The murder of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, set the precedent for American citizens to be killed, via drone missile strikes. al-Awlaki was a bad man but he was still an American citizen who deserved due process.
  Is it really such a far stretch to think that maybe the next administration or the adminstration after or the administration after might use drones to kill a domestic terrorist or two?
  The precedent has already been set.
  Never forget that in times of great oppression, the “domestic terrorists” are usually the ones fighting for freedom.
  My gut feeling is that if this was President McCain, your opinion about his drone policies would be completely different. Again, that is just my gut talking.
  
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- TAXEVERYONE
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 8:41am
  Wow I can’t believe all of you allowed the meteor troll to suck you into debating him and distract you from your points.
  
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- Your_Senile
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 8:46am
  What you must know
  
  I tapped John McCains foot in the bathroom at the airport. I then pulled out my pocket Assteroids game and proceeded to blow me some Meteors
  
  it is so
  
  Your Senile
  
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- Techcon
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 9:29am
  @SENDTHEMORLOCKS
  
  The Left’s (aka “The Spoiled Brat Hegemony”) pattern:
  
  “That will NEVER happen…”
  
  10 years later….
  
  “It’s happening? GOOD!”
  
  I would NEVER trust an IDEOLOGY that can invent (let alone, use) a shower with a chimney: neither should you!
  
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- JohnofOregon
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 10:33am
  @meteors
  
  You democrat staffers repeat the same cool aid stories.
  
  If you paid attention, holder first wrote a letter indicating the dictator in chief had the power to kill whoever he wants. That was true when he was a state senator working for the Chicago mob, but now he has to play by the rules.
  
  Ten years ago I never thought congress would vote to take away my right to be free of government slavery, but it happened. If you do not render onto Obama care regardless of earnings you are fined. If you don’t pay it, it’s jail time. I doesn’t get more authoritarian than that.
  
  That how you communist converts that were born with a silver spoon in your mouth work. Since you didn’t have a job growing up or earned anything, you don’t appreciate anything. When the time comes you liberal spoiled brats will find that your the first to go. Read your history.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 10:36am
  The problem is that McCain is a Progressive Lifer. If there were term limits we wouldn’t even knoe who he is.Here in Oklahoma we will lose Tom Colburn to term limits. He is disliked by both parties because he tells the public how much pork is in bills. We now know that in California $822,302 was paid to one state psychiatrist in 2011, 11,000 prison guards made more than $100,000 in 2011, 900 prison guards received more than $200,000 in 2011. Also, in 2011 Google avoided $ 2 billion in taxes by routing $9.8 billion through Bermuda. Eighty % of of Googles profits in 2011 were routed through Bermuda. Corporate income tax rate is Zero in Bermuda.
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 10:38am
  McCain has always been an established Commie Liberal – That’s why people didn’t vote for the loser in the Presidential election. Hopefully his days are numbered in the Senate !
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 10:41am
  Mr or ms METEORS,
  
  This is what you must know:
  
  Right again. Your post proves the old axiom, the closer you are to the target the more flak you get.
  
  Who here would have complained about Bush scrambling jets, prepared to shoot Flight 93 out of the sky? Prepared to kill dozens of innocent Americans in US airspace? Shoot down the plane even as Todd Beamer was walking toward the cockpit to take down the hijackers?
  
  Anybody here want to say that’s an outrage? Unconstitutional? Dictatorial?
  
  You people have no core. No honor. You have only victimhood. Stop ruining this country with your relentless need to be offended.
  
  Tell you what. everybody go outside, go for a walk, dig around under the trailer to find an actual principle or conviction, then come back and we’ll have an adult conversation. Until then, save your whines and whimpers for the ‘tards down to the grange hall.
  
  It is so.
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 11:57am
  what happened to John McCain? he was indoctrinated by communists while in POW status. He is a sleeper agent for evil.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 12:23pm
  Hey Monk. The weather in Chili is nice this year. But you know what the best thing is? No drones! I don’t have to constantly scan the skies like I do in the US.
  
  Actually I went to Easter Island last year. This year it’s Tahiti. I’m going to paint topless native women. On canvas, you know, not actually paint their bodies. However I am expecting to be involved with the normal liberal debauchery of the Tahitians. I’ll send you a postcard.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 12:55pm
  Howdy Send/JZS,
  
  Thanks for the update. Sounds like good times. I do miss SCUBA diving in those areas. : )
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 1:30pm
  Why should we care what the self proclaimed Teddy Roosevelt Progressive thinks of his fellow progressive John McCain.
  
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- hawaiianninja
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 2:03pm
  Quote yoursensei (who is fortunately not MY sensei): “You people have no core. No honor. You have only victimhood. Stop ruining this country with your relentless need to be offended.” — This is advice from a “sensei” (mind you, the term is used very loosely here) who is obviously feeling a bit of victimized himself and has no core or honor to follow his own advice.
  
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- desertspeaks
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 2:13pm
  Ok, now someone TELL THE POLICE THIS!! They are running rampant across this nation and need to be STOPPED!
  
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- kathy@49
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 2:25pm
  @Sendtheminions I wish you would just once in one of your rants stop and take a look at what is happening in this country. Rand Paul should never have had to ask the question, it shouild have been clearly stated by Holder the first time the issue arose. When it takes a filibuster to get the Attorney General to reply ot a question concerning the Constitution, then something is rotten in Denmark(US). Everything this administration does is based on politics and not on governing and following the rule of law.
  
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- Fenrirsulfr
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 2:45pm
  You have the right to free speech, as long as you’re dumb enough to actually try it!
  The Clash
  
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- Dr Vel
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 2:48pm
  Nothing happened to McCain He is what He has always been. Did you think He raised a daughter who is now an adult to be so liberal overnight? He may have been hiding His true outlook to get elected on Republican tickets but the light that illuminates ones true self cannot remain hidden forever.
  
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- 2Amend
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 3:29pm
  Meteor- The “Point” wasn’t about, what appears on the surface, to be a ridiculous statement. With this administration, nothing is clear, therefore, ‘clear’ lines need to be drawn in the sand.. and in this instance, regarding drone policy within these United States, it NEEDS to be clear. Also, if this WAS so ridiculous, why the hell did he not just answer, “of coarse not”, and continue? Up to Rands Fillibuster, this was another ‘dead space’ as to what THIS President believes his legal powers are. No one seems to know, not even Obama, as he continualy tries to UnConstitutionaly, usurp Congressional powers.
  He has appointed Holder as AG? A man who is obsessed with defending those who kill Americans through terrorist attacks [google Holder Fast and Furious - 'FALN'-etc]. It is not bothersome that Obama moves Abu WITHOUT Congress’ knowledge, as he is spilling his guts.. to NY, where he’s given Miranda, and stops?? Ignoring Geneva and insisting HOLDER prosecute Abu in “Civil” court and not “Military”, when Abu is considered a “UNLAWFUL” combatant, by Geneva?
  The Government has bought Millions of rounds of ammo.. ‘hollow points’.. which are BANNED by the Geneva Convention. WHY? Why won’t they tell us?
  This is done while Fienstein, and others want guns banned.
  It appears the Government WILL use drones inside our borders, and I for one, WANT to know WHEN it IS OK.
  It isn’t bothersome the drone Q couldn’t be answered so quickly?
  It is to me!
  
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- Kregneva
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 3:29pm
  @Savage Nathan
  
  Hi Nate! Using special software applications, it would be a cinch to out that Libbie-Dippie if it would just have some stones and stick to one name! But it keeps moving around.
  
  It keeps trying to act like it is a bunch of independent persons, when we know there is only one evil troll in the world. (Well, if not in the World, then in some stinking hole like Santiago, Chile maybe. Or Easter Island, or Lake Braddock, or Ballast Point.)
  
  Anyway, because I can’t find a decent job, I have plenty of time to totally humiliate that Troll dude/chick and show him/her the LAW! Just Sayin!
  
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- iampraying4u
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 5:58pm
  Mc Bain hasnt been right for some time
  
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- RockyMountainPATRIOT
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 6:29pm
  @ANTIPROGRESSIVE: “Although I do NOT agree with Jane Fonda’s actions back in the day, I do NOT believe she should/would be targeted by drones on US soil – per the PRESENT description of their use.
  
  I therefor disagree with THAT part of Rand’s speech.”
  
  If you would have actually LISTENED to “Rand’s speech” and not just regurgitating what others have said about it, you would have realized he was reading an article that said even though Jane Fonda was swiveling around on N Vietnamese guns, providing encouragement & entertainment to the people who were killing American soldiers…even though she was doing everything she could to commit treason…EVEN SHE WOULDN’T DESERVE A DRONE STRIKE! EVEN JANE FONDA deserves due process. At NO TIME did Senator Paul say otherwise. Geez, McCain says it & suddenly everyone believes that’s what Rand Paul actually said.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 10:34pm
  2Amend, the rules that govern an attack on an American with a drone by an agency whose job it is to protect the public are the same rules that govern an attack on an American with a gun wielded by a cop to protect the public or you using a gun to protect your family. Same rules.
  
  No, the fact that drones exist does not change the Constitutional requirement of due process under the Constitution. A new weapon does not raise the specter that the government can suddenly start to kill people capriciously without due process (as Newt Gingrich claimed).
  
  Did you realize that there is no law, no statement in the record of any kind that that US couldn’t use a nuclear bomb on Americans? Does that scare you? Did you know that a SWAT squad sniper can kill an American citizen without a jury trial if that American is an immediate threat to others? There’s no law, there’s no regulation that prevents him from doing so. Does that scare you? That a SWAT sniper can just kill you and Eric Holder hasn’t issued a statement saying he can’t? Are you in a panic about that? Does that make you fear you might be taken out for your political beliefs?
  
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- Ragnars Repos
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 1:56am
  Pay close attention, Conservatives. Here are real live “liberals” defending the war machine.
  
  See, if “their guy” is in power, then the war machine ain’t so bad.
  
  Down the road these types will use their malevolent “logic” to justify murdering you all.
  
  For the “common good”, of course.
  
  Their “logic” of late: If “the right” hates it, we LOVE IT!
  
  That giant government fist will come down on them just the same as it comes down on the people on “the right” that hate so much.
  
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- marssnw
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 3:13pm
  @sendthemeteors I think your and the medias perspective would be a whole lot different if Bush was the man in the White House. You lefties are pretty hypocritical. You always want to take the dirt out our eyes when you leftist have a dump truck load of dirt on your own head. I suppose you wouldn’t mind if the CIA dropped a bomb on your home via drone without due process? They (Gov.) are so willing to give Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law his “rights”, but not a American citizen. You don’t find that a little strange? I find it appalling that a terrorist would have the same rights as a citizen.
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 3:14pm
  McCAIN is an example of what defines: HIDE BOUND. I bet that guy is hell on wheels to work for or to be married to. I detest PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE and he is the personification of that horrible trait.
  There is also an equally obnoxious person who must get paid by the inch she spews…Monk has her number. I think we need to totally ignore her. IF I said the sky was blue today, she’d spend 3 paragraphs saying how wrong I was. I wonder what the pay-off is for a paid troll …. ? I wonder about any of these people who think Obama is taking us in the right direction. Do they know that direction is straight to hell?
  GINGRICH scores on this one.
  
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- TexasMade
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 5:19pm
  Except for the fact that the US government has a long history of capriciously killing non-combatant US citizens on US soil.
  
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13th Imam
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:10pm
This is gonna be funny’

The perfect libertarians will be bashing both Mc and Newt as progressives

The conservatives will be bashing Mc

The Moderates will be bashing Newt.

Barry will skate by , as usual

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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:15pm
  Yes…..we should all know who the target is……Because I can promise you that every Christian church in the US is programmed into the Drone Targeting system…….A Christian preacher is nothing more than an American Cleric to…Mr. Marsh-Mellow Balls..
  
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- DEFCON4
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:42pm
  Yeah,….Barry the “Great Communiskater”.
  
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- MartyTr
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:51pm
  It’s not funny.
  
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- USAMama
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 4:23am
  The most important thing that happened Wed is that we are now talking about our civil rights. Too many people keep talking about the “rights” to birth control, abortion, healthcare or food stamps. It’s about darn time we get back to talking about our most fundamental rights! He didn’t take the conversation into the rediculous rhelm as John McCain beleives, but rather he brought it back FROM the rediculous rhelm!
  
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- Former11BRAVO
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 9:08am
  What most Americans don’t understand (and what Rand couldn’t come right out and say), is that, to those currently occupying the White House, “enemy combatant”, “political opponent” and “American patriot” are all essentially the same thing!
  
  That’s NOT irresponsible rhetoric. It’s the truth! Our politically correct, modern sensibilities make a public pronouncement of such truths dangerous – especially, considering most Americans still have no concept of who it really is they’ve put in charge. It’s frightening and hard to believe, but it’s true. Most are still sound asleep, self-centered and myopic (living w/blinders on), or they’re working so hard to stay afloat, they’ve not the time to stay abreast of what’s happening right in front of their eyes.
  
  I can’t imagine living my life in self-imposed ignorance. But, many do. Unless we can wake up 75% of those still asleep (but, who generally believe in the nation’s principles and philosophy), we’re doomed – and, even then, it may be far, far too late.
  
  Another fact. :-(
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 11:07am
  I agree with Newt. McCain was a maverick in his day, but I’ll never get the image of him seemingly to hide behind Sarah Palin’s skirt when he was running. I kept looking at his body language and it was so apparent he had no balz.. When he debated, he showed no sense of power or ability to be President. I saw a very weak individual like he was wishing he wasn’t there.
  
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stumpygrim
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:07pm
newt chastizes mclame,while he promotes jeb bush, um yeah…..all of these old ass washed up so called repubs, need to go away, and take with them the new generation of rinos like rubio…….

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- Smokey_Bojangles
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:40pm
  Rubio has done jumped on that Rand Band Wagon….Or is he just trying to Hijack it like the progressives hijacked the Tea Party?
  
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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:24pm
  Mark Levin likes Rubio…….Rubio could impose a Vulcan Mind Meld on Mr. Marsh-Mellow Balls…
  
  But hey mommies…….How about there is a massive problem with under age sex slave trading in this country…….Obama said on the View that he would not let his daughters on FaceBook…….Hmmmm….But he thinks Zuckerberg is cool….hmmmm…….So FaceBook is OFFLIMITS for his daughters, but its ok for your daughters….hmmmm.
  
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- redbone007
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:28pm
  Gretta told Rand, Rubio gave you some good advice to drink a lot of water. Rand, replied, I did not take Rubio’s advice because drinking water would cause him to leave the Senate floor. In other words, He was not planning to listen to that young man.
  
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- moreoilplease
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 4:24am
  Rubio not hijacking, just riding. It seems as though he is establishment now. I dunno, may be trying to play both ends and it prolly will not work in the end.
  
  I do not look forward to the mud one must traverse to be “involved” in the political process.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 8:50am
  Moreoil, I think you’re right, he’s trying to play both ends. I’m not sure that is possible though. Guys like McCain and Graham hate Constitutionalists like Rand Paul every bit as much as say, Nancy Pelosi. Maybe more.
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 11:10am
  Mr or Ms GRIMMSTER,
  
  This is what you must know:
  
  Let’s see, who is it today? Who is the bastion of conservative values that I will stand with? Rubio? Paul? Well, first I loved them then I hated them as traitors and then I kind of liked them and then I hated them again. And now? Well, clearly Rand Paul is a hero.
  
  Make up your mind.
  
  It is so.
  
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CommenterInChief
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:03pm
Grow up, and stop attacking republicans!

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:12pm
  I hope your message was to McCain and not Newt.
  
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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:09pm
  I actually voted for Mclaim…..Newt sounded totally different before the election…..Is it all about money now??……I mean is it Obama gives you money and now give up all your rights.
  
  The liberals are just mad because They are up in da club every weekend and we are all working with our family on weekends, this is evident from every Judge Show that is on during the week…..But we are the problem, because we love our families and a family actually means more to us than a Bootie Shake contest on a Saturday night Jook Joint……Time for the liberal IDIOT to GROW UP…!!……..College kids party and Liberal adults are still at the bar trying to act like they went to SKREWELL…GROW UP..!!
  
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darkeningskies
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:02pm
In voting for John McCain…….the stench was breathtaking

The republicans need to submit a less odorous nominee……like someone who has conservative values NOT A RINO

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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:12pm
  Read my lips….No More Rinos…..
  
  And NO MORE VIEW…..We can all Hope cant we…..By By Wa Wa….!!!
  
  Donate as if your life depended on it…….It takes a lot more skill and dedication to pilot an F22…..any kid with XBOX skills can pilot a Drone……..How many kids at home get Raging mad over an XBOX game…..enough said…..A religious target is a religious target.
  
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sinner-saint
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:02pm
McCain is getting too old. His leftist wife and daughter probably giving him too much hell at home. He is now a progressive…..not a maverick. Time for him to go.

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- oldironsides
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:34pm
  he is the washington establishment that is entrenched in the status quo for the perpetuation of power. Time for our ‘dear leaders’ to go and representatives of the people to do just that.
  
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- tajloc
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 9:06am
  It is amazing that John could blur over the lines of WAR and claim need for congressional oversite when he helped blur those lines by not voting for a clear declaration of war as is required by the constitution. All the senators since Korea have dodged their responsibilities.
  TEA…our only hope.
  Rand in 2016 (or someone to carry the banner. Maybe the GOP will join us.
  
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- starman70
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 9:42am
  McCain is bad!!! Just look at what South Carolinas have to put up with, Lindsey Graham (Fence straddling RINO supreme). He has become a total lackey for the left.
  
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CommenterInChief
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:02pm
Sorry for the grammar error.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:02pm
Newt’s a self admitted progressive he’s just like McCain two sides of the same POS progressive coin. Lifetime politicians are a big part of what’s wrong with new Amerika,they never get voted out because their constituents are ignorant.

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CommenterInChief
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:01pm
Wake up people. CNN is trying to divide republicans. Judging by your comments, Blaze readers are enabling CNN.

Instead try attacking democrats. Read Saul Alinsky if you need guidance.

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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:10pm
  What is the difference between Republicans and Democrats? I would like it if you could explain this. I see no difference..
  
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- carbonyes
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:14pm
  Today there is little difference between Democrats and Republicans.
  The Republicans have lost both their mooring and their bearing – one of the main reason that Barack Obama won a second term.
  When you try to be more like the other guy to obtain votes or vascilate back and forth, you lose your credibility and any significant differentiation, particularly when you discard your values and your principles. Gee, does John McCain and Mitt Romney ring a bell? John McCain, Mr. Go Along To Get Along himself. Romney? Left the attack mode after debate one and never responded to false TV adds and stuck foot in mouth with his ignorant “47% statement”. Know people personally in the 47% who were considering voting for Romney and bailed on his stupid comment.
  
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Blazen420
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:59pm
Time for McCain to get off the government tit. He has never been worth a damn.

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- Stoic one
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:24pm
  I disagree. He has been there too long.
  
  If you work for the sewer dept for six months or a year; the stench will wash off. – 20 or 30 years and you are stuck with the stench.
  
  No offence to sewer workers…right to work or otherwise.
  
  MCcain stood for something years ago – no decades – now he appears to be just another crony politician.
  
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- Pokerjoe
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 12:29pm
  He was a good man at one time and a hero all the time. But now if he is not in the spot light well he just can’t stand it. Time to go. He has drifted to the left for some time now. Time to go. One more thing. Let these guys stop getting the perks after they leave office.
  
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taxpro4u03
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:58pm
Newt MAY be a slimy ‘newt’ in his personal life (past and/or present — who cares, so long as it doesn’t directly or indirectly affect anyone else’s RIGHTS) — but he is one of the FEW around articulate enough to carry on an ADULT conversation and immediately call out stupidity. Big gubmint neo-con or whatever label folks throw on him — HE ‘should’ have been the nominee – yesterday’s news — The only choice now is to decide if you’re an American who believes in Freedom, or a ‘commie’ social marxist. BOTH parties are predominantly PROGRESSIVE, and have been since at least 1912 – History tells us the status quo was ‘broken’ when some dude named Lincoln FAILED in his early senate runs against Douglas — but managed to become the puppet for a new party — the Republican party — which we also know from scrubbed history was essentially run by Sec of War Stanton — the apotheosis ceremony following his demise elevated him to god status — was he? No. hated by north AND south, alike — It is also interesting that no one has brought forth Russia’s involvement in the Civil War :-)

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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:58pm
Look, McCain just had dinner with Obama, and he must have had some of that special Hope AND Change Koolaide plus a liberal helping of a turd sandwich. That kind of meal just brings out the Progressive Republican in him, it’s just the same meal he served his daughter all those years. So it doens’t surprise me, no one can resist the koolaide Obama serves.

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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:08pm
  Mark Levin would never have dinner with Obama….
  
  People dont kill people, Drones operated by Obama kill people….
  
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- Improvise.Adapt.Overcome
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:25pm
  Levin would have dinner with Obama. Obama would decline, as he KNOWS he would be outmatched!
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:28pm
  @RIDEMODELS
  LOL, true.
  
  Like I tell people at work, if a bad guy gets through my alarm, my dog, they will face a very mad assault weapon, and we all know, they kill all by themselves. I just sleep through it, and clean the mess up in the morning. The good part of having a self killing gun, I don’t get very many door to door salesmen, but it did bring home a couple of deer.
  
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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:46pm
  @darmok……Lol…I never thought of an AR like that…..They actually do kill on their own……Unlike a Drone who has Obama behind it pushing the button….I will have to check my Moss 500 and see if it is set to auto kill, and that the legs are not too cold because I think that will cause a targeting problem.
  
  Remember the good ole days when women wanted big SUV’s to protect their children……..Now we got cafe standards and everything is cool with women…….I guess when a your Sunday sermon is interrupted by the buzz of a Drone, then the conservatives will not seem all that crazy….If Mr. Marsh-mellow Balls can kill a cleric then what is the difference when it comes to any Christian in this country……He is just mad at us because he has made a mess of the middle east…..The middle east was actually calmer during the peak of the Iraqi war….It was calmer. What is Mr. Marsh-Mellow Balls doing wrong..??
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 12:49am
  @RIDEMODELS
  Can I get an Amen Brother. That was a mouthful of truth.
  
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Warphead
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:57pm
Gingrich as well as McCain need to retire, like yesterday.

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- Improvise.Adapt.Overcome
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:15pm
  Warphead, I agree! Gingrich is just as progressive as McCain. They just keep pretending to be conservatives (though they are RINO’S) to get the GOP to submit to their will. It disorients and divides the GOP constantly and thats why we are where we are. We always have to fight ourselves before we fight the Dems.
  
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:49pm
Progressive Newt Gingrich, The Tea Party hijacker, is just trying to benefit from Rand Paul’s current popularity.

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- 13th Imam
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:01pm
  Just who is politically pure enough for you?
  
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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:35pm
  Wayne La’pierre is pretty conservative pure for me….
  
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- Smokey_Bojangles
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:38pm
  Obama is what everyone knows he is. Cant say that about Newt.Newt fools a lot of people.
  
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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:49pm
  Newt just wants jobs for certain donors……If you are a donor then he is for you…..and Obama owns the job market at this time….Unfortunately for us…….It is however good for us that Obama is an Idiot and always has been….There are plenty of idiot bums on American streets, its only a matter of time.
  
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RLTW
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:48pm
Gee, thanks Newt. Now STFU take your position on the sidelines and promote real conservatives.

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Max jones
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:45pm
Delusional politicians with myopia. and burning hemorhoids…….

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crusaderx9
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:43pm
“If our Constitution means anything, it means that your government can’t capriciously kill you without the rule of law. And it was very clear from the attorney general’s earlier letters that THEY WERE RESERVING THE RIGHT – remember, we’re not talking about a combatant engaged in fighting against the US…”

Sobering, truthful, and deadly serious words.

The end of our Republic is near. McCain and Graham openly ran interference for the regime with their infantile mocking attacks; it now only appears a matter of time before such betrayals cripple our chances of remaining a Constitutional Republic.

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phrogdriver
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:42pm
Newt can really make sense about half the time. The other half of the time he thinks the president should be hiring and firing high school janitors.

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Southernsoul
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:41pm
Looks like Gingrich, the self-proclaimed progressive, is trying to make a little room for himself in the “New Republican Party”

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- Lt_Scrounge
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:52pm
  Newt is a historian. Any idiot who knows anything about history knows that what this administration is doing is the precursor to an attempt to establish a dictatorship.
  
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Kupo
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:40pm
Wow, Gingrich actually said something that doesn’t make me want to puke. Amazing!

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justangry
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:40pm
I’m beginning to sense some of these R’s are only coming out on Rand’s side because they know their gig is up. I truly believe Cruz, and Lee were there because they believed it was right. I even believe Wyden was there standing up for civil liberties, but some of the other support seems a little disingenuous. I mean Rand didn’t say anything his father hasn’t, yet some of these guys ripped Ron Paul a new one every chance they had.

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:49pm
  Newt has always been adept at recognizing which way the wind blows.
  
  McCain proved during his Prez campaign that he couldn’t feel a breeze if you farted in his face.
  
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- Fla.Patriot
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:26pm
  Really got to agree with you JUSTANGRY. Part of being a successful politician is being able to read the pulse of the nation. However, you do have some who are not politicians, they are Statesmen. Reagan was probably the last great Statesman we have had, but there is a lot of real hope with some of the Freshman class of 2010. If Obama could actually read the pulse of the nation, he would be afraid for his life. There is a current of dissent in this country that is not necessarily a bad thing. One of two things are going to happen. We will be permitted to elect true Statesmen who truly wish to effect change for the benefit of the Nation and ALL citizens, and when I say permitted, I mean NO RIGGED ELECTIONS. Or, option #2… all out civil war. I’m kind of leaning towards #2 given the Feds. increasing intrusive behavior and given the fact that it already seems that they, Our elected officials, have already seemingly declared war against decent law abiding citizens. It almost has gotten to the point where the only way you can be assured of being treated with any degree of respect from the Gov. is by being just as depraved and abnormal as possible so that out of P.C. you will actually garner MORE rights than ANY citizen is entitled too. Sad times we’re living in
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:39pm
  Rand Paul voted YES to confirm all 4 of the nominees. But hey he can give one heck of a speech. When do the actions of a person out way their words? Voting for things like NDAA mean nothing when you can talk like a patriot.
  
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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:32pm
  Ok…well tell you about the pulse of the nation……there are a lot of women bosses climbing the ladder on the private front….So I expect a cat fight really soon and I am with the ones I see in the private sector, since I have no idea what these Bootlickers look like in Washington.
  
  I just hope that the ones in Washington realize they will go down in history as the Satanist Bootlickers…!!
  
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- katzkiner
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 11:35pm
  Paul voted against NDAA. McCain wrote it. Repubs are through. The dems have 53%in their corner. I don’t see that changing anytime in the near future. All the dems have to do is go slow enough they don’t arouse the rable and they have won. Get used to living in a
  socialist state. You can’t get conservatives off the couch much less throw a riot. Obama will transform America because we are lazy cowards afraid to risk our necks. Freedom is never given, it won with rifles and blood. When the chains are locked on your neck it is to late to fight. When the 2nd Amendment is annulled the chains of tyranny are locked around our necks permanently.
  
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USAMama
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:38pm
The pot calling the kettle black. He wouldn’t be saying this if Mitt Romney were in office and it were a liberal standing up.

John McCain needs to retire and let the new generation lead. I stand with Rand!

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- USAMama
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:48pm
  Let me clear that up, I agree with everything Newt said. It’s his sincerity I question. He is very good at feeling which way the wind blows and saying all the right things. The only difference between him & McCain is McCains not as good at that and tends to spit in the wind and get himself in the face. But neither one of them are actually looking out for anyone but themselves and the “Grand OLD Party .”
  
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- Hobbs57
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:57pm
  Please .. like McCain was really worth anything but a negative association in which McCain might get chopped. Romney pays his dues last election, McCain isn’t owed nothing from Romney and best just keep his distance. McCain cheated in Florida, teaming up with that Charlie guy, plastic as they come. Plus, Bush didn’t endorse Romney because he respected the agreement with Charlie that nobody would endorse in their state… Then they endorsed McCain last minute, swung the largest latino voting block .. And also took a hard smear on Romney in the midst of it … They all ran Romney hard, the dude works hard, is as straight as they come. He can’t win, if Mormons don’t play scratch my back games, but do honest trading.The media sold Romney to a large divide in our country… as greedy .. they hate oil, even in Western Pa, where we are sitting on our children’s future for 20 -30 years in that industry.. This is what you dream of …The tides will change though … But the future is very unpredictable .. Our country’s operations are co-putt, and we don’t hire the guy who has an excellent record putting operations back in order, while more friendly to conservative idea’s.. in more ways than most people ever know .. Everything gets run through federal channels, nothing get’s settle at the lower levels and this is unbalanced .Romney’s condition would have promoted local solutions .It is what it is, but some very crazy stuff is going on in government.. Maybe I am watching to mu
  
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- USAMama
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 4:08am
  I have no idea what any of that has to do with my comment, but ok!
  
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- katzkiner
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 1:45am
  Let me explain USMama, the country had a chance to hire a skilled and sucessfull manager, instead they hired a pot smoking, coke snorting left wing and “kool” flunkie. If we make it to 2016 we will be the luckiest nation on the planet. I pray Obama gets his act together, I am not holding my breath though. The best we can hope for is Beyonce keeps him entertained and Tiger keeps him on the golf course.
  
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teawithjill
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:36pm
McCain is just a selfish old man or loses his cool when he is not the center of attention. Fox needs to stop having him on, he has no creditably!

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- Grover_Standpipe
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 5:26am
  Whereas the ex-Speaker who used his brief tenure as Republican frontrunner to present the voters with his not at all crazy proposition to fund and build Moonbase Newton as a first step toward lunar statehood, he has lots of credibility.
  
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dfhall
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:35pm
Newt is so right about McCain.

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Patriot760
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:33pm
Got to agree with Newt.

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- Jinglebob
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:38pm
  Mc Cain can’t even control his daughter.
  
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- PayneInMyHeart
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:41pm
  I agree with Newt too. Remember that McCain was one of the guys who stood up against waterboarding… Flippin’ waterboarding enemy combatants he has a problem with – but he’s out having dinner with a President who’s trying to reserve the right to kill Americans on American soil without due process.
  
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- justangry
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:56pm
  @PayneInMyHeart, Not only that, but while he was at dinner with Obama, Rand was filibustering Brennan, who had to bow out of consideration for the same position four years earlier because he SUPPORTED TORTURE. I just don’t know if it’s dementia or corruption. My guess is the latter.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:19pm
  JINGLEBOB
  
  “McCain can’t even control his daughter.”
  
  dude… Meghan McCain is 29 years old.
  Only sickos try to control their adult children.
  
  I have many beefs with John McCain but his daughter isn’t one of them.
  Her psychotic Progressiveness is a beef i have with HER.
  
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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:41pm
  No parent out there can control their daughter……when their daughter gets date raped Up in Da club……then they might wanna listen to daddy…….This has been the liberal agenda for decades and they are mad that mommies are actually putting their foot down about their daughters……But school is taxing……Work is taxing……and the View seems so cool to some people…..We are all suffering in this country and the liberals are just being Gay and laughing cause that is just what they have always done, while we act conservative.
  
  Christianity has become the new bad guy……Forget about all the soup kitchens…..for some reason Christians are Evil to the liberal agenda.
  
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