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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs bad as McCain is, the rank and file GOP may be worse.
Think McCain is a tasteless insensitive jerk. So do I. His supporters however applaud his inhumanity shown to the Mother of a victim of the Aurora shooting.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/crowd-cheers-after-mccain-tells-aurora-victims-mother?ref=fpa
Xipe Totec
(44,589 posts)TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)What is the question? Nose on the face stuff there.
chieftain
(3,222 posts)McCain has been such a bitter sore loser that it turns my stomach. Then he goes all in by showing not one scintilla of human empathy to a person standing in front of himself that has lost a child in as horrendous a manner as is imaginable. And he takes pride in his talking straight to her. The man is beneath contempt.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)the people in his town meeting were just nuts.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)that there is a segment of the population, 20 to 30% perhaps, that should be kept chained in the backyard and thrown some raw meat twice a day.
chieftain
(3,222 posts)It seems more like boorish, inhumane condescension to me.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)They're just not that civil of people!
malaise
(297,932 posts)but don't forget the debates and their base's response to their inhumanity.
chieftain
(3,222 posts)Boo gay soldier, let uninsured die.
malaise
(297,932 posts)They are truly awful human beings
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