Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who ran for president in 2008, joined the chorus of other conservatives wary of the demands some of the 2016 GOP contenders are floating for future debates.
“I think their complaints are legitimate, but come on, man up and move on,” McCain said while in the U.S. Capitol Tuesday, according to Reuters. “I think it’s OK if the temperature isn’t exactly 67 degrees.”
When asked whether he made his own debate conditions during his White House run against then Sen. Barack Obama, McCain said he did not.
“I should have. I don’t know why I didn’t. Maybe I’d have done better,” McCain said. “I should have said, ‘Barack Obama’s only allowed one answer. How’s that?’ It never crossed my mind, to tell you the truth.”
Tell us how many Senate votes you missed while campaigning. As I recall, when the economy hit the fan in Autumn 2008, you wanted the whole campaign to stop while you caught your breath, but Obama taught you that man-up-and-move-on strategy.
McCain Mans-Up™ on Fiorina’s Man’ing-up™ to tell the men to Man-Up™.
(rolls eyes)
It doesn’t have to be all POTUS election all the time, TPM. How about covering something important like the idiocy going on with the ACA’s co-ops and how the GOP and good ole Ben Nelson set them up to fail from the get-go in order to protect the insurance giants from competition? And how they’re now failing and the GOP/Teatrolls are now trying to pretend they had nothing to do with it?
I feel safe speaking for everyone when I say that we really don’t feel the need to hear and sniff every single mouth-fart that comes out of these idiots mouths about the POTUS election. Nobody gives a fuck what McCain has to say anymore except his estate planners.
Life is bad when you have to say this to the candidates of your own party.
Says the guy who unleashed Palin on the country. Without that, none of this happens. He simply lowered the bar to the point where any idiot can play, and have.