What else would we expect from a candidate so idiotic that he filmed a campaign video in the wrong district: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gop-rep-jason-lewis-filmed-himself-canvassing-voters-outside-his-district
Blaming the dead guy?
Exceptionally shallow, even for the GOP…
How about blaming the corpse in the Oval Trailer?
Blaming a dead guy who was widely revered as a war hero, on Veteran’s Day! Brilliant!
Let’s also consider what it means for Rupert’s Boys to have decided this was a good thing to publish. The WSJ op ed page is pretty much a direct window into the wingnut esttablishment.
So money does influence political outcomes? I thought it was benign speech such as “I like Ike”
So hang on, I need to get my notes straight. He thinks that the Democratic fundraising and political points-making on healthcare would have been weaker if the attempt to burn down the ACA with no functional alternative in place had succeeded?
If this is what the outrage looks like now, imagine what it would have looked like with millions more Americans thrown off health insurance, losing protection for previously existing conditions, etc., etc. … which is the GOP fever dream that only that dirty traitor McCain staved off, at least temporarily.
With that kind of lackwit political strategy, it’s no wonder he got booted out on his ear by the voters.
First term Representative not going to be second term Representative. Talk about smart voters…kudos.
This sleaze-ball epitomizes everything that we have come to expect from Trump-era Republicans:
Bombastic, bellicose, and completely incapable of accepting responsibility for their own mistakes, failures, and shortcomings.
Today’s conservatism and today’s conservatives folk. Morally bankrupt white christian bigots, full of hate and anger and intellectually hollow.
Nothing like the party of personal responsibility blaming a dead guy instead of himself for running a terrible campaign.
He was ‘that’ a-hole? Makes sense.
And like all ‘good’ Trumpers, of COURSE it’s somebody else’ fault.
Maybe they wanted to make sure he never ran for office again?
Lewis blaming McCain for his defeat has the same pedigree as most movement conservative AKA Republican rationales: It is abhorrent and also a lie viz
My jaw actually dropped open when I saw this in a print WSJ. The piece’s main premise, that McCain’s vote lent credibility to the notion* that ACA repeal would have gutted preexisting conditions, is baffling. The bill would have gutted preexisting conditions. That’s just a fact.*[emphasis mine]
But it is interesting how consistent fascistic logic can be when it comes to rationalizing failure or justifying revenge; e.g., the stab in the back myth has a long, dirty history as do most fantasies authoritarians rely upon when raging against an insufficiently submissive world. The ‘betrayal’ of McCain is consistent in this regard.
NB: Republicans have been specializing in falsehood and deflection since Reagan – how else to hide their antidemocratic policies in favor of plutocracy – but it is a talent for myth-making, however crude, that really distinguishes Trump’s baneful influence on the civic body: his own sins, the multiple sins he permits, and the sins his fantasies promote and whose violence they excuse. Whatever the motives for Trump’s relentless bullshit were, they are now more than ever a call for his followers to revolt against a world that is not only unsubmissive but actively threatening him.
Gee, couldn’t possibly be your fault, could it?
Well shit, of course not. He’s a Republican.
Hey, maybe he didn’t get the memo that John McCain died and months before he died he wasn’t in D.C. But, you still think it was his fault that Rethugs lost? Why do you guys always, always blame someone else? It is a sickness.
There is crabgrass in my front yard … can I blame John McCain for that?
Only the level of bombast and bellicosity are new. Republicans quit accepting respnsibility for anything and everything long ago. Remember when all the folks who supported W no matter what suddenly decided they were not Republicans but “Constitutional Conservatives” and “Principled Conservatives” and such like bullshit? Remember when they could do nothing about Trump being nominated because “rules?” Their refusal to take responsibilty for anything is a large part of what gave us (and them) Trump.
This from the guy who lamented that men couldn’t call women “sluts” anymore!