Thread: GOP Sentator: McCain Betrayed Republican Principles

November 15, 2008
GOP senator: McCain betrayed Republican principlesPosted: 10:22 AM ET

From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby


A Republican senator hammered John McCain on Friday.

MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (CNN) — South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint on Friday became one of the first high-profile Republicans to publicly criticize John McCain following his electoral defeat, blaming the Arizona senator for betraying conservative principles in his quest for the White House.

The conservative senator, speaking to a group of GOP officials gathered in Myrtle Beach at a conference on the future of the Republican Party, described how the party had strayed from its own "brand," which, according to DeMint, should represent freedom, religious-based values and limited government.

"We have to be honest, and there's a lot of blame to go around, but I have to mention George Bush, and I have to mention Ted Stevens, and I'm afraid I even have to mention John McCain," he said.

DeMint offered a long list of complaints about McCain's record in the Senate and on the campaign trail.

"McCain, who is proponent of campaign finance reform that weakened party organizations and basically put George Soros in the driver's seat," DeMint said. "His proposal for amnesty for illegals. His support of global warming, cap-and-trade programs that will put another burden on our economy. And of course, his embrace of the bailout right before the election was probably the nail in our coffin this last election. And he has been an opponent of drilling in ANWR, at a time when energy is so important. It really didn't fit the label, but he was our package."


Bush and Stevens, he said, had corrupted the party brand by expanding the size of government and engaging in wasteful government spending. Had Republicans not strayed from their core beliefs in recent years, DeMint argued, the election results might have been different.

"Americans do prefer a traditional conservative government," he said. "They just did not believe Republicans were going to give it to them."

DeMint said he would introduce a Senate resolution next week to boot Stevens out of the Republican caucus, and "force votes" on Senate seniority rules that have allowed certain members to hold onto power. However, DeMint twice confused Ted Stevens with Ted Kennedy, drawing chuckles from the audience of Republicans, who hold neither senator in particularly high regard.

"One of our principles is that power corrupts, and you need to disperse it," DeMint said. "And if our own party allows ourselves to be destroyed by this idea, and are not willing to stand up, then we have to change everyone at the top."

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Exactly.

Love Jim DeMint. I think he is running next time.

I've been blasted for saying this.... but it is my gut feeling and my true belief... Blast me again if you want, but John Sydney McCain is a piece of shit. That bastard doesn't deserve to shine your shoes. And he is the typical example of the end of the USA. He is A typical of the majority of magots we now have serving in our Congress, who do nothing each day but figure out how to steal every dime you have, and destroy your children's futures.

McCain has nothing in his background to prove he is worth a crap. He destroyed several aircraft, he dumped his loyal wife for that bimbo he is now married too... he had several affairs with other bimbo's while married to this bimbo...

Just the guy you want to lead the nation, right?? You will never convince me that 2008 elections were not pre-determined and pre-decided by the Council of Foreign Relation (CFR) years ago. How in the hell can you take a magot and loser like John McCain, who has not done one thing right in his entire life, and make him the presidential nominee for the republicans? And put him up against another low life, who hasn't done crap for anyone in his life or his country, or wherever the heck country he comes from...Barack Obama??

Wake up guys, if any of you are still sleeping. This is logic.. Who owns this place??

I don't know why you'ld get blasted for speaking the truth Dianne. I can't really find anything wrong with your assessment of the situation. Both major candidates are CFR members or are in cahoots with them to one extent or the other. McLame is a known CFR'er and is only there to do their bidding as he couldn't win a game of solitaire without their help. And for Obama he was a nobody, and where and how did he get the backing to come out of nowhere with nothing. Remember as Winston Churchill said, nothing in politics happens by accident. Not anymore anyways.

Originally Posted by Dianne

I've been blasted for saying this.... but it is my gut feeling and my true belief... Blast me again if you want, but John Sydney McCain is a piece of shit. That bastard doesn't deserve to shine your shoes. And he is the typical example of the end of the USA. He is A typical of the majority of magots we now have serving in our Congress, who do nothing each day but figure out how to steal every dime you have, and destroy your children's futures.

McCain has nothing in his background to prove he is worth a crap. He destroyed several aircraft, he dumped his loyal wife for that bimbo he is now married too... he had several affairs with other bimbo's while married to this bimbo...

Just the guy you want to lead the nation, right?? You will never convince me that 2008 elections were not pre-determined and pre-decided by the Council of Foreign Relation (CFR) years ago. How in the hell can you take a magot and loser like John McCain, who has not done one thing right in his entire life, and make him the presidential nominee for the republicans? And put him up against another low life, who hasn't done crap for anyone in his life or his country, or wherever the heck country he comes from...Barack Obama??

Wake up guys, if any of you are still sleeping. This is logic.. Who owns this place??

Dianne, there are millions of us that feel the same as you do...I too feel the election was pre-determined, pre-decided.

I like to know how we ended up with all these corrupt politicians that are taking over our government? It's like a cancer spreading throughout America !

Molly,

It's called money and power consolidated into fewer hands who with the accumulation of the former and the latter think they know what's better for you than you do. It is quite pretentious, and arrogent on their part. But it is no different than any people or government in the past, or the present. Greed and power corrupt. Aboslute greed and power corrupt absolutely.

The industrial revolution that led to the expansion of the states across the American continent allowed a few individuals to grow rather wealthy and "influential". No different than the feudal lords of Europe and the British Ilses did in the medieval period. It created a false moneyed aristocracy that as time passed instituted a seudo-feudal system in the United States. Once these families who amassed huge fortunes established themselves, the next step is to prevent someone else coming along and taking it from them by using the political system and laws to put roadblocks in the next guy's way to stop them from becoming just as wealthy, and possibly tumbling a dynasty.

Originally Posted by Hylander_1314

Molly,

It's called money and power consolidated into fewer hands who with the accumulation of the former and the latter think they know what's better for you than you do. It is quite pretentious, and arrogent on their part. But it is no different than any people or government in the past, or the present. Greed and power corrupt. Aboslute greed and power corrupt absolutely.

The industrial revolution that led to the expansion of the states across the American continent allowed a few individuals to grow rather wealthy and "influential". No different than the feudal lords of Europe and the British Ilses did in the medieval period. It created a false moneyed aristocracy that as time passed instituted a seudo-feudal system in the United States. Once these families who amassed huge fortunes established themselves, the next step is to prevent someone else coming along and taking it from them by using the political system and laws to put roadblocks in the next guy's way to stop them from becoming just as wealthy, and possibly tumbling a dynasty.

Touche, Highlander. I couldn't have said it better myself about these money-grubbing scum.

This is one of the reasons they set up the Federal Reserve -- to consolidate banking/financial power in New York City and D.C., protecting themselves from competition by regional banks, and stealing from American citizens to do so via the income tax. The creation of the Fed had nothing to do with "stabilizing" the economy as they claimed. Now this monster has grown so large it has led to our current financial crisis and is devouring our real economy.

These wealthy leeches (er, I mean, families) do not even appear in the top richest lists of magazines like Forbes, Fortune, etc. That's how they keep themselves hidden. I just read the other day that one of the families -- the Rockefellers -- has a net worth of something like $14 trillion dollars! That's more than Bill Gates or Warren Buffet or Carlos Slim or any Arab emirate. And the Rockefellers are even the richest! I dread to see what the Rothschilds are coming in at!

Any guess as to who that $700 billion bailout (which will actually turn into $5 trillion) will actually benefit? The bastards.

Aboslutely agree with you Anna. And do you notice that the big selling point of the Federal Reserve was stabilization of the economy? Over the last 95 years the Federal Reserve has anything but stabilize the economy and preserve the buying power of the American monetary system. It is a legalized counterfeiting group, that preys upon the people like a spider waits for flies.

The Federal Reserve system has done what Jefferson feared, and I too fear we are seeing it come to fruition in our lives.

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

If only people would take the blinders off. As I believe that the people are forced to work so darn much now, that we have fallen into the trap that Jefferson again feared,

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...[we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers... And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for[ another]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.

McCain has been betraying conservative principles Republican principles form quite a few year now. My question is why did the GOP allow him to be a presidential candidate since they already knew of his liberal views?