The Arizona GOP has given Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) the bird, and it?wasn’t a phoenix.?It was the “Digitus Impudicus,” or middle finger, in a pointless censure of?Senator McCain?at a statewide GOP meeting in Tempe, Arizona.
On January 11, 2014, the Maricopa County Republican Committee (MCRC), voted to formally censure the Senior United States Senator from Arizona:
BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED that the Maricopa County Republican leadership censures Senator McCain for his continued disservice to our State and Nation, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that until he consistently champions our Party’s Platform and values, we, the Republican leadership in Arizona will no longer support, campaign for or endorse John McCain as our U.S. Senator.
MCRC is the group that consistently throws its support behind Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a national Tea Party hero who has cost Maricopa County, Arizona,?tens of millions of dollars in civil settlements and who was recently found by a federal court in Phoenix to have engaged in racial profiling and unreasonably lengthy detentions of Hispanics. Maricopa County also elected County Attorney Andrew Thomas, an Arpaio henchman who was disbarred in 2012.
In their statewide meeting in Tempe, Arizona, the Arizona GOP again censured Senator McCain.?Leaders of the Arizona GOP consider Senator McCain insufficiently right-wing, even though his hand-picked prot?g?, the breathtakingly ignorant Sarah Palin, is a Tea Party darling.?Former three term?U.S. Senator John Kyl called the censure “wacky,” and said that what most people do not realize is that party activists at these gatherings?do “not represent the majority of the vast numbers of Republicans.?
Singled out for praise was the uber-crazy Ted Cruz, Republican Senator from Texas, as well as the aforementioned Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who focuses on immigration (normally the province of the federal government) while Arpaio has neglected sexual assaults against his constituents for years.
Untouched by Tea Party or GOP?ire is Arizona’s newest U.S. Senator Jeff Flake, a devout Mormon and father of five whose son Tanner used racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-mentally challenged, pro-animal violenc, and anti-Semitic statements on various social media, while looking at content like a “Crazy Nazi Orgy” story. On one gaming?site Tanner used the handle ?“n1ggerkiller.”?While Flake apologized for the words his son used, he said nothing about disapproving of the sentiments expressed.?Senator Flake himself “supports a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and an amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.?He has a 0% rating from the Human Rights Campaign.?He has a 0% rating from the NAACP.?He has a 7% rating from the ACLU.”
Meanwhile, Senator McCain, who was once falsely accused by the George W. Bush campaign of having fathered an illegitimate black daughter when his daughter was adopted from Bangladesh,?has been censured for being?a RINO, a Republican in name only.?Having the courage to do anything rational, like calling out?crazy, repugnant?narcissist Ted Cruz for conduct unbecoming a U.S. Senator, apparently disqualifies Senator McCain from being a Republican in good standing with the Arizona GOP.
When the Arizona GOP censures?the?U.S. Senator?who served?five plus?brutal years in a prisoner of war camp in Hanoi, but praises a racist lawsuit magnet sheriff who starves jailed prisoners for a mild display of free speech,?you know exactly which side of the Hanoi Hilton the Arizona GOP is on.
Edited by DH.
