John McCain Just Openly Mocked ‘Dangerous’ GOP Candidates On The Senate Floor

[kpete]

“It’s been so disappointing to see some presidential candidates on the campaign trail engaged in loose talk about reviving waterboarding and other inhumane interrogation techniques. It might be easy to dismiss this bluster as cheap campaign rhetoric, but these statements must not go unanswered because they mislead the American people about the realities of interrogation, how to gather intelligence, what it takes to defend our security and at the most fundamental level what we are fighting for as a nation.”

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[Phentex]

1. said the person who picked Palin...

[malthaussen]

2. His judgement may be faulty...

... but I think he knows a little about torture.

-- Mal

[Phentex]

3. and she's the one who said it was how we baptist terrorists...

and wanted it reinstated.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

28. I thought you wrote that she said 'it was how we baptize baptists...'

My bad.

[Ned Flanders]

7. yet he flip flops on the issue

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2008/02/20/19702/mccain-torture-veto/

[Jackie Wilson Said]

26. True, and yet we know from history that rightwingers are never on the right side of an issue

unless it has affected them personally, as this did him.

[valerief]

29. My first thought, too! nt

[Shrike47]

4. He's right on this one, whatever errors he's made in choosing a running mate.

[Hortensis]

12. Extremely right. He's a true expert on torture.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

40. Exactly... I appreciate him speaking up on this. n/t

[Blueguyinthesky]

5. McCain probably didn't realize how crazy Palin was until after he selected her

to be a little fair on him.

[nichomachus]

6. That's because he was a little crazy when he did

John is not playing with a full deck

[chapdrum]

21. You said it.

Then again, that describes his entire party.

Too bad they're not going away.

[elljay]

16. Advisers

We don't know whether McCain objected to Palin's selection and how much. I wouldn't be surprised if his ad visors and the Republican Party focus group tested Palin and decided that it would help the non-religious McCain to have an evangelical running mate and the Party (meaning the wealthy donors) forced the selection on him. Palin didn't have a national soapbox on which to teeter and demonstrate unparalleled skills in mangling the English language at that time and her speech at the Republican Convention was well-received. The wheels sure came off the cart quickly, though!

[Iggo]

8. On this one issue, he's right. (n/t)

[NoMoreRepugs]

9. One of the few topics he can address with knowledge, plus

I have to think he is not enjoying his obscurity at the moment.

[saidsimplesimon]

32. "Even a broken clock is "right" twice a day."

Senators Graham and McCain believe their "war hawk" cred takes them a long way. Mrs. Clinton may have a number of "moderate" old school Republicans in her camp.

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[Egnever]

10. Takes one to know one

Thanks for the insight just the same Mr bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran.

[Hekate]

36. McCain was tortured while a POW. On this issue he is correct; always has been.

[Egnever]

42. Doesn't make him any less of a nutjob

Which was my point. One nutjob pointing a finger calling another nutjob a nutjob does not impress me.

[Hekate]

43. On the issue of "enhanced interrogation" being torture, we ignore him at our peril.

I can hardly wait for McCain to retire; it's time. You don't have to like the messenger to realize the critical importance of the message.

BushCheney led us down a very dark path in the annals of our country.

There have always been individuals who torture -- but we prosecute them when caught. There have always been rogue elements in law enforcement ditto, but we never made it legal. There is a dark streak in human-kind that lusts for vengeance and victory at any cost and will justify "whatever it takes." And there are sadists who just like torturing other people.

But only under the BushCheney regime did we go from being a country that never sanctioned torture .... to one that does. That is an abomination.

Obama has pulled us back from that brink as far as he can by himself, but please note that the GOP in Congress will not let him close Gitmo.

Now we have GOP candidates for president all competing to see who can be Torturer in Chief, minimizing it, redefining it, expanding its range. Beating their chests over how manly and American this is, while thousands cheer.

If one old warrior in the Republican Party (and he is an old warrior, not a chickenhawk) is actually speaking out against this terrible trend, I for one am grateful as all get out.

[Egnever]

44. Once again all of that has nothing to do with my post

McCain is an idiot and a loon. The fact he is against torture does not change that.

[dmr]

11. I agree with him & I'm hoping others listen to him.

Whatever bad decisions, statements, or Senate votes he's made in the past, he's right on this one.

Sadly, he knows torture first hand. I can't imagine the nightmares he may still suffer through, meaning the torture continues.

[totodeinhere]

14. Trump or Cruz supporters will not listen to him. n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. I know a Trump supporter who called McCain a "whiny bi**h"....

Such is the level of statesmanship on their side.

[Arugula Latte]

15. These fuckers don't like the monsters they've worked so hard to create for three decades.

This is the spawn of Fox News and hate radio, you GOP numbnuts.

[Phentex]

20. ...

[Ford F-150]

30. I think a more appropriate term would be:

GOP fucktards!

[bullwinkle428]

17. I'm willing to bet major $$$$ that he'll bring Palin down to AZ for

campaign appearances, to help him defeat his inevitable tea-bagger opponent in the primary.

[keithbvadu2]

46. Palin might support the teabagger.

JM might want to be careful what he wishes for.

[Javaman]

18. oh mccain, you fed the fire of stupidity by throwing the palin log on it. nt

[saidsimplesimon]

33. Great sarcasm, may we use it going forward?

[Javaman]

35. go for it. :) nt

[FSogol]

19. I'm glad he finally realized it. Did he announce his resignation too for his part in the mess?

[chapdrum]

22. The fount of political decorum has spoken

The same one who approved Palin for vice president, and risked having her become um, president.

For good measure: It's great to see his presidential campaign manager Steve Schmidt, as a TV talking head.

[santafe52]

23. McCain is always right on every issue..

and always wrong on every issue. That's what happens when you take both sides in every argument and change your mind as often as you change your underwear.

Mad John will come out in favor of torture in a few days.

[Hekate]

38. When has he ever "come out in favor of torture"? He himself was tortured as a POW.

[Tarc]

24. I do admire McCain in general, but...

...it is just really, really hard to get past the "he's the one that plucked Palin out of obscurity" fact. I liked it when he took the higher ground against Bush and Rove's sandbagging in 2000, and that he shouted down those repugnant excuses for human beings the "Swiftboat Veterans" in 2004 and their anti-Kerry bullshit....

But the Palin pick is such a stain, she is such a cancer on American politics.

[rladdi]

25. The Arizona Conservatives have throw McCain to the curb. They have selected a

radical female doctor to run against him. John was too much for the Conservatives, accomplished too much for Arizona. There mission is deadlock and do nothing while in office. Just pick up your pay check, but don't do any work, vote for any bills. This is the new GOP Conservatives. John has saved thousand of jobs in AZ, esp for the air force bases, saved the A10, but AZ conservatives are mad.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

41. What's with all these conservative doctors?

I thought doctors were supposed to care about people, but it seems we've got a lot of them that care about money more.

[d_legendary1]

27. Broken clock comes to mind when I think of McCain

and it looks as if he's right on time today.

[saidsimplesimon]

34. I agree. thank you

[chknltl]

31. KnR Sen. McCain has this one right

There are plenty of reasons to criticize Senator McCain, this OTOH, is one area where he agrees with many if not the majority of those of us who call ourselves Liberal or Progressive.

[Hekate]

37. I wish he'd take that speech on the road to educate Americans.

Waterboarding is serious torture. During WW II the Japanese used it on POWs, and after the war American military officers brought the torturers to trial and hanged them by the neck until dead. I was horrified when BushCheney made this part of thei US armed forces arsenal.

[Dorian Gray]

39. In

my best Trump impersonator voice....



"He's a loser! I like people who weren't captured and made into prisoners of war!"


He is the man who thrust Sarah Palin on the national stage, and for that we can always blame him. And some of his policies are questionable. But he's been consistent on the subject of torture (It's bad!), and he's right here. We have some scary men running for the republican nomination, and they are dangerous in the precedents they say they will set.

[keithbvadu2]

45. Those who support torture done by America

are also supporting the same torture done to our own troops.

[robertgodardfromnj]

47. Pot meet kettle, Mr. McCain. You unleashed Palin onto this world.

Still, it's amazing just how crazy the current GOP candidates are compared to John. I don't think even Reagan would be welcomed in today's GOP party.

[rocktivity]

48. That's telling 'em, Senator We Should Stay In Iraq for 100 Years!

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[LS_Editor]

49. Says the guy who lives in a glass house.