Rachel Maddow Smacks Down John McCain, ‘You need to know what you’re talking about’... [View all]

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Rachel Maddow smacked down the defacto foreign policy leader of the Republican Party, Republican Senator John McCain, for being both wrong and incompetent on foreign policy...

...Noting that the Republican Party still hasn’t admitted they got Iraq wrong, and that they ran Mitt Romney who has zero foreign policy experience, Rachel Maddow sees Republicans as allowing McCain to be their voice for foreign policy. This is a problem for the country since he is so often completely wrong on the subject.

After playing a Chris Hayes montage of McCain getting it wrong repeatedly entitled “Arm the Rebels”, Maddow delivered the final blow:

...“There is a basic level of interest and competence required even of the opposition party on the subject, even if the country has decided they don’t want to put you back in the White House, not after what George W Bush did with it. Even if you’re just in congress, even if you’re just the opposition, you need to know what you’re talking about. You need to have a basic level of competence. And doing what John McCain says is not a reasonable substitution for basic competence on this subject.”

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Rachel Maddow Smacks Down John McCain, ‘You need to know what you’re talking about’... [View all]	Indi Guy	Nov 2012	OP
K&R. She made good points.	Overseas	Nov 2012	#1
For the holidays	SCVDem	Nov 2012	#2
One already did.	Archae	Nov 2012	#12
Republicans are affraid of her.	dmr	Nov 2012	#19
I've noticed no one mentions her name at all anymore	lunatica	Nov 2012	#45
The McCain/Graham tag-team ..	DemoTex	Nov 2012	#3
Even Graham seems to be distancing himself from McCain now.	Indi Guy	Nov 2012	#50
McCain never lived up to his hype	67_569	Nov 2012	#51
HE WAS NOT LAST..........	kooljerk666	Nov 2012	#53
Welcome to DU!	hrmjustin	Nov 2012	#57
McCain's brief moments of sanity are becoming more and more infrequent	mountain grammy	Nov 2012	#4
His concession speech when he lost to Obama.	reusrename	Nov 2012	#15
Tis the infirmity of his age	pscot	Nov 2012	#16
Then must we look from his age...	Indi Guy	Nov 2012	#17
True that.	reusrename	Nov 2012	#18
Try to see the humor	pscot	Nov 2012	#31
Thanks. I know your right, but the irony's too much.	reusrename	Nov 2012	#32
Not while James Inhoff	pscot	Nov 2012	#36
It is an impossibly high bar, isn't it?	reusrename	Nov 2012	#38
Where does Mitch McConnell fit in...	Indi Guy	Nov 2012	#39
Not the worst.............	kooljerk666	Nov 2012	#54
Definitely not true	oberliner	Nov 2012	#55
Public figures his age do one of two things	lunatica	Nov 2012	#46
Well, it looks like very few of his colleagues...	Indi Guy	Nov 2012	#20
whats good for the goose.....	cntrfthrs	Nov 2012	#21
This is a good reminder. I did not know that. Our racist past continues to haunt us in even the	libdem4life	Nov 2012	#22
When Bill Clinton in 1992 said that slavery was America's "original sin," I gave	coalition_unwilling	Nov 2012	#24
Truly, as it illustrated the willingness to share, yea to sustain in many cases, but the Western	libdem4life	Nov 2012	#26
The genocide of the Original Peoples was America's biggest sin	Dont call me Shirley	Nov 2012	#28
I stand corrected, and thank you.	Indi Guy	Nov 2012	#29
No offence given to this senior	goclark	Nov 2012	#52
excellent	heaven05	Nov 2012	#33
Thanks for making that point on DU	lunatica	Nov 2012	#47
Good for Rachael! You go girl!	Auntie Bush	Nov 2012	#5
Rachel makes excellent points in this.	samsingh	Nov 2012	#6
"Bomb Bomb	salinen	Nov 2012	#7
ARM THE REBELS....LOL!!	ceeRoy	Nov 2012	#8
I love her command of context. She is the best teacher of politics and policy on television.	ancianita	Nov 2012	#9
I agree! In fact, that segment should be shown on the Senate floor to rebuke McCain's	pacalo	Nov 2012	#27
Megan McCain must be uncomfortable with this - 2 older white guys attacking	We People	Nov 2012	#10
Rachel cuts to the bone. McCain is incompetent.	Jim__	Nov 2012	#11
An excellent point that repukes nominated someone without foreign policy experience	hughee99	Nov 2012	#13
I'm so tired of hearing how the GOP is supposed to be great at foreign policy...	Indi Guy	Nov 2012	#35
I agree, I just don't think spending time on a Senate committee	hughee99	Nov 2012	#41
Being a die hard, kick ass war monger is sufficient foreign policy?	lunatica	Nov 2012	#48
K&R for a righteous smackdown of McBitter. n/t	beac	Nov 2012	#14
Rachel rocks the party! k & r! nt	wildbilln864	Nov 2012	#23
Kicked and recommended.	Uncle Joe	Nov 2012	#25
k and r--thank you for smacking down that disgusting, lying pos.	niyad	Nov 2012	#30
This one's gonna leave a mark.	lindysalsagal	Nov 2012	#34
Unhinged again?	carolo	Nov 2012	#37
Can you imagine the state of our country...	Indi Guy	Nov 2012	#42
Good points and welcome to DU carolo. I'll add McCain's involvement with Charles Keating.	bluesbassman	Nov 2012	#43
Republicans and 'Basic Competence' ...	humanistcafe	Nov 2012	#40
Here's the video for those who missed ...	Wernothelpless	Nov 2012	#44
WKRP	SCVDem	Nov 2012	#49
John McCain not only incompetant, he's been on...	Stellar	Nov 2012	#56