the current president. everything he s saying are things a lot of folks don t have the courage to come out and say, and not enough republicans are willing to say those things. making the distinction about this nationalism populism that s effected the republican party that trump has fueled, and steve bannon has really fueled, is dangerous. it s very dangerous. there s a difference. they re cloaking this as patriotism, and it s not. there s a big difference between nationalism and patriotism. and the tribalism. here s the fact of the matter. senator kean was much closer to secretary clinton when it comes to foreign affairs. this global intervention ideology that the senators advocated for a number of
location. the word that jumped out at me, unpatriotic. kean himself was tortured for our country. he s an american hero. and for him to call a policy unpatriotic he was running against barack obama and never used language like that. back then, there was a woman at a town hall who didn t trust barack obama and he said, he s a decent family man, a citizen i happen to have disagreements with. that s what a lot of republicans i like john mccain, but i can hear rush limbaugh saying exactly what you just said, that he didn t go nearly as hard after barack obama as his own team. because he thinks what the president s doing is unpatriotic. he thinks it s a half-baked
nationalism. there s a sense amongst some conservatives that people like mitt romney and john mccain, they re good at beating up republicans, but they get into a general election going up against barack obama or hillary clinton, they don t take off the gloves. does he give cover to anyone else at the republican party to speak out if they want? perhaps maybe because corker has now done it. john mccain has always been a maverick. there has a lot of criticism over john mccain. he was never hesitant to go after people in his own party. he s owned the right to have the opinion he has, to say whatever he wants to say because he is a hero, and he served this country honorably. i ve had many policy disagreements with kean, but that doesn t take away away from the validity of his criticism of