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John McCain: 'Never forgive' John Lewis over vague church bombing reference
AL.com ^ | July 31, 2013 | Madison Underwood

Posted on 01/15/2017 4:36:24 PM PST by Trump20162020

U.S. Sen. John McCain has been known to hold a grudge, but there's one grudge the Republican from Arizona has been holding for nearly five years now.

It stems back to comments U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, made during the 2008 presidential race, when McCain and his veep pick, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, were running a heated campaign against then-Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

In a lengthy New Republic interview with McCain published Tuesday, McCain compares some of the rhetoric his campaign was using against Obama ("palling around with terrorists") to rhetoric directed at his campaign.

"With all due respect, you never heard about when John Lewis said my campaign was worse than the Birmingham church bombing?" McCain asks the interviewer.

"Maybe Sarah Palin said 'palling around with terrorists,' but the things that were said about me and her were far worse. I'll never forgive John Lewis."

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.al.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 115th; churchburning; johnlewis; johnmccain; mccain
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After getting away with this, and the lie about the Tea Party hurling racial epithets at him, Lewis and his media/DNC cohorts are angry that Donald Trump dares fight back against the persistent liar and vicious attack dog for the Democrats.
1 posted on 01/15/2017 4:36:24 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Trump picks his fights more carefully than many realize.
The majority-minority district Dems are very weak.


2 posted on 01/15/2017 4:39:18 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Trump20162020

Wow. John stands up to him finally. Feels good doesn’t it John?


3 posted on 01/15/2017 4:39:32 PM PST by Mercat (Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
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Doesn’t sound like he’s standing for Trump, just himself.


4 posted on 01/15/2017 4:47:18 PM PST by Rusty0604 (bc)
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To: Mercat; Rusty0604

Article is from 2013.

Guessing you won’t see McCain stand up for Lewis like others in the pathetic #NeverTrump crowd (Kristol, Sasse).


5 posted on 01/15/2017 4:48:55 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

That makes two of us I will never forgive McCain for his treachery and backstabbing.


6 posted on 01/15/2017 4:52:46 PM PST by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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Me neither.


7 posted on 01/15/2017 4:58:07 PM PST by connyankee (#MAGABEGINS)
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Doesn’t cost him anything.


8 posted on 01/15/2017 5:06:30 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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Wow. John stands up to him [in 2013]. Feels good doesn’t it John?

Note the complete absence of anger from the usual suspects: Obama, the NAACP, the CBC, all the 'news' networks, all the 'news' papers.....

.... that's because they like to keep Democrat infighting hidden.

9 posted on 01/15/2017 5:08:58 PM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP LIED TO ME!!!! ....He said I'd get sick of winning.... AND I'M NOT SICK OF WINNING YET!!!!)
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To: Trump20162020

I can’t believe that McCain took time out of his busy schedule to be interviewed by the New Republic (extreme sarcasm)


10 posted on 01/15/2017 5:10:07 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Rusty0604

Ah, we know what he is. Let’s take it and run.

I don’t give a #### who’s at the inauguration from congress and who’s not. Don’t care if they say Trump attended orgies in Manhattan every week.

He’s president for 1400+ days.

And there ain’t no changing that :)


11 posted on 01/15/2017 5:10:13 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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McCain might be standing up for himself, but in doing so he just sent Trumps stock straight up. Not that Trump needs it though...☺
12 posted on 01/15/2017 5:10:26 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Trump20162020

I don’t thin McCain forgave George Bush (and the Republican Party) for the 200 South Carolina primary.


13 posted on 01/15/2017 5:12:48 PM PST by McGruff (#LameDuck)
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To: connyankee

John McCain is a RINO POS. As for John Lewis, he has been living off of his affiliation with Rev. Martin Luther King for far too many years.

Lewis spoke against the nomination of Sen. Sessions for AG a few days ago, and later we see a photo of him in the front line of an anti-segregation march many years ago locking arms with the same Jeff Sessions. What a absolute phony is he.


14 posted on 01/15/2017 5:13:43 PM PST by CdMGuy
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I can’t stand John McCain but seriously, John Lewis is a liar and an idiot who has been constantly used by the democrats and has done nothing at all for his district in Atlanta.

If black democrats in Atlanta weren’t such know-nothing idiots themselves, they would have gotten rid of Lewis a long, long time ago.


15 posted on 01/15/2017 5:22:32 PM PST by Bullish (May as well just rename Hollywood---> Hypocrite city)
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blimp


16 posted on 01/15/2017 5:24:57 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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John Lewis Old Race Baiting Poverty Pimp is the new Straw Boss, tasked with keeping Negroes down on the DemonRat Plantation.

Keeping the "N" word relevant...

17 posted on 01/15/2017 5:26:01 PM PST by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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Seems to me that John Lewis protests way too much. I wonder how much of his vaunted heroism is true. We have a long record among leftwingers of "stolen valor," and somehow Lewis just doesn't smell right. He probably was at the right place at the right time, but has anyone actually documented and verified his claims about being such a victim?
18 posted on 01/15/2017 5:28:01 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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If RINO and traitor John McCain wants to take a shot at Lewis, I'm fine with that.

And it was a pretty good shot.

19 posted on 01/15/2017 5:35:55 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: Trump20162020

Exactly.


20 posted on 01/15/2017 5:39:39 PM PST by Bigg Red (To Thee, O Lord, I lift my soul. Thank you for saving our Republic.)
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