Watching JJ squirm
by digby
Because I just can’t get enough of this stuff:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) defended President Barack Obama at a Phoenix town hall Wednesday when a constituent asked him why Congress had not impeached the president.
“I do not believe that the President has committed impeachable offenses — that’s high crimes,” McCain said in response to a woman named Angelica. While McCain received scattered applause for his answer, Angela received significantly more cheers from the audience for her question.
“But I would remind you, and I hate to remind you, I really dislike reminding you — the president just was reelected by a majority of the American people,” he added.
It was a strangely familiar position for McCain, who, during the 2008 presidential election, famously defended then-candidate Obama at a town hall when a questioner said the Democratic candidate was “an Arab.”
Over four years later, McCain is still dealing with conspiracy theories. One of the last people to ask McCain a question on Wednesday asserted that Obama won elections “because of voter fraud.”
What does he expect? What do any of these Republicans expect? They’ve been peddling bizarroworld reality for a very long time. I agree that it’s shocking so many people believe this crap, but there you have it.
And, by the way, when it really counted, McCain was spinning like a top trying to get re-elected. And every day that he pimps Benghazi like it means something, he adds to this lunacy.