John McCain Working To Purge Tea Party
Click here for reuse options!As the longtime Republican senator lays the groundwork for a likely 2016 reelection bid, his political team is engaging in an aggressive and systematic campaign to reshape the state GOP apparatus by ridding it of conservative firebrands and replacing them with steadfast allies.
The ambitious effort — detailed to POLITICO by nearly a dozen McCain operatives, donors, and friends — has stretched from office buildings in Alexandria, Virginia, where strategists plotted and fundraisers collected cash for a super PAC, to Vietnamese-American communities across Arizona, where recruiters sought out supporters eager to help the incumbent defeat the tea party.
Team McCain’s goal? Unseat conservative activists who hold obscure, but influential, local party offices…
McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, has long faced opposition from conservatives who view him as too moderate, particularly on immigration. During the height of the tea party movement in 2010, McCain stared down a spirited primary challenge from J.D. Hayworth, a conservative former congressman. Many in the state expect the senator to face another primary challenge in 2016.
Until this year, however, McCain aides had never seriously considered a concerted effort to remake the state GOP apparatus, which has traditionally been dominated by his conservative antagonists. That changed after the January censure, which rapped the senator for having an insufficiently conservative record that was “harmful” to Arizona.
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Ed Snowed Us January 1st, 2015 at 00:02
The Legendary Senator McCain was 100% RIGHT on Syria and staring down the monstrous WMD-using Bashar Assad. . . Weenie-Liberals and that Fool in the White House – 100% WRONG.
Besides 100,000 more corpses, add 2 MILLION more refugees, and ISIS swarming.
Obama should have BEGGED McCain for advice.
bpollen January 1st, 2015 at 06:52
“Obama should have BEGGED McCain for advice.”
He did, and McCain replied “I like pie!”
OldLefty January 1st, 2015 at 07:02
Actually, it’s EXACTLY the opposite, as usual.
Obama got Assad to disarm without firing a shot, Putin is imploding, and dingbats McCain were warned about what would happen when they broke the Middle East and 2007; Iraqi
refugees in syria http://www.fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/Iraq/08.pdf
2007; Iraqi Refugees in the
Syrian Arab Republic: A Field-Based Snapshot
http://www.brookings.edu/fp/projects/idp/200706iraq.pdf
Iraqi refugees facing desperate
situation
15 June 2008
Iraq’s refugee crisis is worsening, while the international community fails to
respond in a meaningful way.
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/iraqi-refugees-facing-desperate-situation-20080615
Ed Snowed Us January 1st, 2015 at 08:52
“Obama got Assad to disarm” – tell that to those dodging 2,000 pound bombs (old oil drums + TNT) and Russian heat-seeking rockets and Russian rocket batteries and Russian surveillance drones seeking targets. 2200/month fail to dodge them.
We can both judge McCain for ourselves as the great Senator McCain will have a forum to give advice to Obama on Syria – Iraq – ISIS, as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
So just leaving Bashar Assad to Bomb the ones still there. in Syria is a solution? He is bombing starving and torturing Palestinians living as
refugees in Syria for decades.
Truly sad, that some returning to Iraq, only just in time for ISIS to roll in
from their safe haven in Syria, murdering and raping based on some
sicko edict.”
—
Right, just ignore the GENOCIDE in Syria, the Industrial Scale Torture Starvation and often Murder in his prisons- thousands per year.
You want links here you go:
Ex-Ambassador: CIA Wrong On Not Wanting To Arm Syrian Rebels
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/22/ambassador-cia-syrian-rebels_n_
6028480.html?utm_hp_ref=world&ir=World
August 2013: (white stuff is BURN cream)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUPf3jebaPI&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs
Syria ‘Industrial’ Killing: Report Details Deaths Of 11,000 In Assad Jails http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/21/syria-industrial-killing-ass
ad-jails_n_4636199.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
Thanks to Russia and China contributing $0.00 to Millions of refugees,
http://www.businessinsider.com/syrias-humanitarian-catastrophe-is-about-to
-get-even-worse-2014-12
150 similar links to follow.
OldLefty January 1st, 2015 at 09:05
So just leaving Bashar Assad to Bomb the ones still there. in Syria is a solution?
________
No one said it’s a solution. Just a vast improvement. The time to really worry about it was before de-stabilizing the region in 2003.
After that, it requires a massive debate in this country, (including even Congress) about solutions ranging from letting the locals work it out to a declaration of war and everything in between.
We told you this was going to happen in Iraq when the PNACers planned to go in, abandoning the fight against terrorism in order to pursue a 1999 plan to take over Iraq.
(And the USA is more more “Evil” than the “Evil” policies enacted at the time. If you think that whatever event the USA is engaged in or NOT engaged in, call THAT what you will).
And the main issue was chemical weapons;
Declared Syrian chemical weapon stockpile now completely
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/08/18/declared-syrian-chemical-weapon-stockpile-now-completely-destroyed/destroyed
It’s the best that can be hoped for , after 50 years of arming these guys.
William January 1st, 2015 at 11:54
Obama should have BEGGED McCain for advice.
Because John has always displayed such great judgment.
Ed Snowed Us January 1st, 2015 at 01:02
The Legendary Senator McCain was 100% RIGHT on Syria and staring down the monstrous WMD-using Bashar Assad. . . Weenie-Liberals and that Fool in the White House – 100% WRONG.
Besides 100,000 more corpses, add 2 MILLION more refugees, and ISIS swarming.
Obama should have BEGGED McCain for advice.
bpollen January 1st, 2015 at 07:52
“Obama should have BEGGED McCain for advice.”
He did, and McCain replied “I like pie!”
OldLefty January 1st, 2015 at 08:02
Actually, it’s EXACTLY the opposite, as usual.
Obama got Assad to disarm without firing a shot, Putin is imploding, and dingbats McCain were warned about what would happen when they broke the Middle East and 2007; Iraqi
refugees in syria http://www.fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/Iraq/08.pdf
2007; Iraqi Refugees in the
Syrian Arab Republic: A Field-Based Snapshot
http://www.brookings.edu/fp/projects/idp/200706iraq.pdf
Iraqi refugees facing desperate
situation
15 June 2008
Iraq’s refugee crisis is worsening, while the international community fails to
respond in a meaningful way.
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/iraqi-refugees-facing-desperate-situation-20080615
Ed Snowed Us January 1st, 2015 at 09:52
“Obama got Assad to disarm” – tell that to those dodging 2,000 pound bombs (old oil drums + TNT) and Russian heat-seeking rockets and Russian rocket batteries and Russian surveillance drones seeking targets. 2200/month fail to dodge them.
We can both judge McCain for ourselves as the great Senator McCain will have a forum to give advice to Obama on Syria – Iraq – ISIS, as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
So just leaving Bashar Assad to Bomb the ones still there. in Syria is a solution? He is bombing starving and torturing Palestinians living as
refugees in Syria for decades.
Truly sad, that some returning to Iraq, only just in time for ISIS to roll in
from their safe haven in Syria, murdering and raping based on some
sicko edict.”
—
Right, just ignore the GENOCIDE in Syria, the Industrial Scale Torture Starvation and often Murder in his prisons- thousands per year.
You want links here you go:
Ex-Ambassador: CIA Wrong On Not Wanting To Arm Syrian Rebels
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/22/ambassador-cia-syrian-rebels_n_
6028480.html?utm_hp_ref=world&ir=World
August 2013: (white stuff is BURN cream)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUPf3jebaPI&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs
Syria ‘Industrial’ Killing: Report Details Deaths Of 11,000 In Assad Jails http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/21/syria-industrial-killing-ass
ad-jails_n_4636199.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
Thanks to Russia and China contributing $0.00 to Millions of refugees,
http://www.businessinsider.com/syrias-humanitarian-catastrophe-is-about-to
-get-even-worse-2014-12
150 similar links to follow.
OldLefty January 1st, 2015 at 10:05
So just leaving Bashar Assad to Bomb the ones still there. in Syria is a solution?
________
No one said it’s a solution. Just a vast improvement. The time to really worry about it was before de-stabilizing the region in 2003.
After that, it requires a massive debate in this country, (including even Congress) about solutions ranging from letting the locals work it out to a declaration of war and everything in between.
We told you this was going to happen in Iraq when the PNACers planned to go in, abandoning the fight against terrorism in order to pursue a 1999 plan to take over Iraq.
(And the USA is more more “Evil” than the “Evil” policies enacted at the time. If you think that whatever event the USA is engaged in or NOT engaged in, call THAT what you will).
And the main issue was chemical weapons;
Declared Syrian chemical weapon stockpile now completely
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/08/18/declared-syrian-chemical-weapon-stockpile-now-completely-destroyed/destroyed
It’s the best that can be hoped for , after 50 years of arming these guys.
William January 1st, 2015 at 12:54
Obama should have BEGGED McCain for advice.
Because John has always displayed such great judgment.
booker25 January 1st, 2015 at 09:55
McCain stands about as much chance of winning as a fart in a wind storm.
Böcker January 1st, 2015 at 10:55
McCain stands about as much chance of winning as a fart in a wind storm.
crc3 January 1st, 2015 at 11:31
It’s time for McCain to go to retirement land and live in one of his 7 homes….
crc3 January 1st, 2015 at 12:31
It’s time for McCain to go to retirement land and live in one of his 7 homes….
AnthonyLook January 1st, 2015 at 16:17
Republican clown car presidential primary is looking like leftovers.
AnthonyLook January 1st, 2015 at 17:17
Republican clown car presidential primary is looking like leftovers.
illinoisboy1977 January 2nd, 2015 at 19:16
I think McCain underestimates the influence of the TEA party, in AZ. I also think he’s committing career suicide, if he tries to engage them in open “warfare”. A true politician would be able to smile and feed them a line of placating BS, while working toward what he feels is the best interest of ALL his constituents. Challenging them head-on will end badly for him.
illinoisboy1977 January 2nd, 2015 at 20:16
I think McCain underestimates the influence of the TEA party, in AZ. I also think he’s committing career suicide, if he tries to engage them in open “warfare”. A true politician would be able to smile and feed them a line of placating BS, while working toward what he feels is the best interest of ALL his constituents. Challenging them head-on will end badly for him.