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McCain says he would support Rand Paul for President

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So the republicans can't make you happy until they reach the 1.1% make the libertarians do? It's funny when a "party" that musters a 1.1% national vote for president thinks it should dictate to a party of significance their candidates.....what do you think you are the national league of women?


McCain says he would support Rand Paul for president | TheHill

Rand Paul collects yet another establishment politician. Are people still convinced this guy is some fresh outsider that will shake things up?
 
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Nah, McCain said in 2012 he would not back a Ron Paul presidency regardless of if he got the nomination or not. What also concerned me was the smug way he stated that he could influence Rand. Which is true if you look at some of the areas Rand has backed down on foreign policy issues.

McCain is also underwater in Arizona and wanting to run in 2016. Not backing the GOP nominee would not be the wisest election move. He is actually encouraging Lindsey Graham to run for President right now.

McCain talks up pal Lindsey Graham's 2016 prospects
 
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I would hope many would support him. He. Makes the most sense of all the candidates

Only your hard leftist and rhinos will criticize him for it

This is why she brought this up, she's a lefty.. I wonder how many people thought, gee that idiot Al Frankin from SNL is supporting Obama so there's now way im voting for him?? Answer.. no one.
 
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just look at who started the thread. Once you see that, you have to pretty much red flag everything said as being complete bull****

You know, I've thought the same thing about you for a while.
 
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Yeah, it is. Thank you.

what little credibility you actually had took a big hit with this nonsense thread.

on the other hand, Daily Kos loves you now more then ever.
 
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huge breaking news story everyone!!!!!

If by chance a republican named Rand Paul wins the republican primary, the republican Named John McCain would support said republican.
 
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what little credibility you actually had took a big hit with this nonsense thread.

on the other hand, Daily Kos loves you now more then ever.

Here we go with that Daily KOS bull**** again. :roll:
 
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Interesting article. I kind of had a "no ****" moment though:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told The New Yorker he would support Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for president if Paul is the Republican nominee.

I'm going to guess that McCain will support whoever is the Republican nominee. It wasn't really an endorsement for "Rand Paul for President in 2016" which is what I expected to see when I opened the Hill article.

If the republicans nominated a coffee thermos McCain would endorse it.
 
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McCain says he would support Rand Paul for president | TheHill

Rand Paul collects yet another establishment politician. Are people still convinced this guy is some fresh outsider that will shake things up?

.... from a man who's judgement brought us Sarah Palin as a potential VP. He doesn't exactly have a track record of identifying leaders. I'm not sure the John McCain endorsement is worth the cyberspace it takes up.
 
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.... from a man who's judgement brought us Sarah Palin as a potential VP. He doesn't exactly have a track record of identifying leaders. I'm not sure the John McCain endorsement is worth the cyberspace it takes up.

If McCain wasn't such a coward he may have won the election. Palin was not to blame
 
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If McCain wasn't such a coward he may have won the election. Palin was not to blame

It wasn't Palin's fault; it was McCain's fault for thinking she was Presidential material. His judgement came into question. His choice of Palin was indeed a game changer.
 
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It wasn't Palin's fault; it was McCain's fault for thinking she was Presidential material. His judgement came into question. His choice of Palin was indeed a game changer.

McCain ran a weak campaign and would not tell the truth about Obama
 
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McCain ran a weak campaign and would not tell the truth about Obama

....and the "truth" about Obama was what?????

This ought to be good... come up with something without mentioning Bill Ayres, palling around with terrorists or Obama being a Muslim. One of the reasons (and there were many) that McCain lost was that he allowed his campaign to wallow in such shallow nonsense. The argument played well to the uneducated, but was not serious argument. It well showed the McCain campaign desperate and out of control as it grasped for straws.
 
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....and the "truth" about Obama was what?????

This ought to be good... come up with something without mentioning Bill Ayres, palling around with terrorists or Obama being a Muslim. One of the reasons (and there were many) that McCain lost was that he allowed his campaign to wallow in such shallow nonsense. The argument played well to the uneducated, but was not serious argument and should the McCain campaign to be out of control and grasping for straws.

Obama was lieing. Mccain refused to smear Obama in any way. Obama look like a fool when he blamed McCain for using race when it never happened and McCain refused to use that either
 
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the original understanding of the constitution is something I favor us returning too. I don't care if you call it classic liberal, conservative, or origami, it beats the idiotic tenets of "left-libertarianism", which is just a bunch of class zealots crying because they are too stupid to make it in this world without massive government overreach.

The fact that you think left libertarianism requires massive government overreach demonstrates ignorance of the ideology. Please do the research.
 
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Interesting article. I kind of had a "no ****" moment though:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told The New Yorker he would support Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for president if Paul is the Republican nominee.

I'm going to guess that McCain will support whoever is the Republican nominee. It wasn't really an endorsement for "Rand Paul for President in 2016" which is what I expected to see when I opened the Hill article.

This makes more sense. Paul supports deep cuts in military spending. Doesn't make sense that McCain would support him over some other GOP candidates. Unless my assumption is incorrect that McCain supports a well funded military.
 
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This makes more sense. Paul supports deep cuts in military spending. Doesn't make sense that McCain would support him over some other GOP candidates. Unless my assumption is incorrect that McCain supports a well funded military.

No, I think your assumption is spot on. McCain absolutely supports as well funded military.
 
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This makes more sense. Paul supports deep cuts in military spending. Doesn't make sense that McCain would support him over some other GOP candidates. Unless my assumption is incorrect that McCain supports a well funded military.

IF Paul wins the nomination, McCain will support him. Does anyone here really think that Paul has a chance in hades that the old establishment will let him win, or will they nominate another stuffy shirt instead? I don't know, but those young guys with all their ideas and idealism seem to be more of a threat to the ways of old than they could handle.
What is for sure is that, to the average republican voter, it won't matter who the nominee will be.
 
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IF Paul wins the nomination, McCain will support him. Does anyone here really think that Paul has a chance in hades that the old establishment will let him win, or will they nominate another stuffy shirt instead? I don't know, but those young guys with all their ideas and idealism seem to be more of a threat to the ways of old than they could handle.
What is for sure is that, to the average republican voter, it won't matter who the nominee will be.

I don't. Paul will not be the GOP nominee in 2016 or anytime in the near future.

The 2016 nominee will be a governor, IMO.
 
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The fact that you think left libertarianism requires massive government overreach demonstrates ignorance of the ideology. Please do the research.

I'm not too interested in reading the libertarian for dummies book. high school and college was a long, long time ago.
 
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