Sen. Flake's GOP challenger: McCain should resign

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Kelli Ward, who is running for Senate in 2018, is urging GOP Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to resign after being diagnosed with brain cancer and pitching herself as a replacement.

"I hope that Sen. McCain is going to look long and hard at this, that his family and his advisers are going to look at this, and they're going to advise him to step away as quickly as possible," Ward told an Indiana radio station this week.

Ward, who has also offered condolences to McCain, added that "as a Christian, I know there can always be miracles. But the likelihood that John McCain is going to come back to the Senate ... is low."

Ward, who has aligned herself closely with President Trump, lost in the 2016 Senate GOP primary to McCain and is now running against GOP Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) in 2018.

She said McCain's diagnosis could bring the GOP agenda to a halt, adding that with the 80-year-old senator "out of commission, we don't have 51 votes on the the Republican side."

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/343155-flake-gop-challenger-john-mccain-should-resign

[Skittles]

1. extremely distasteful

the man deserves some time

[Merlot]

10. Why does he deserve time yet the public doesn't deserve healthcare?

What I find extremely distateful is clinging to power and voting to take away peoples health care.

He's a public servant and should put the needs of the country above his health issues. Unless the doctors say he can come back soon, he should resign.

[marybourg]

14. The AZ governor is not going to put in someone

who will vote for a healthcare law we can live with. Quite the opposite. So as far as I'm concerned McCain should stay in office and away for D.C. as long as he wants.

[Skittles]

16. and you think his replacement will do that?

and why is everyone so sure he was going to vote for that piece of shit bill

[dubyadiprecession]

15. McCain's time as a mortal is running out.

In the senate this year, in Arlington next year.

[yardwork]

2. Cannibals.

[gademocrat7]

3. Despicable and inappropriate.

[avebury]

4. And for that, McCain should stay in office as long has he can.

I may not agree with everything that McCain has said or done but Ward's statement is highly distasteful.

[Mr. Ected]

5. Too soon?

Yeah. Too soon.

And we're the loyal opposition, for God's sake.

[Iggo]

6. I only hear a long hum after someone says "As a Christian, I..."

[hatrack]

9. Right up there with "I'm not a racist, but . . . . "

[salin]

7. ghoulish.

She'd fit right in with some of the TeaParty types in DC.

[Achilleaze]

8. Republicans want to bury McCain as quickly as they can

So they can put another Republican/Russian SYMP in there to do The Kremlin's bidding

[Initech]

11. "Give me that it's mine!!!"

Sounds like the MO of the GOP tea party.

[Me.]

12. Cold, Freezing Cold

[yellowcanine]

13. Kelli Ward after hearing the news about John McCain's cancer.