The RNC said what???? WTF????

[malaise]

The Republican National Committee issued a strong rebuke of Donald Trump’s mocking of Sen. John McCain’s military service Saturday, saying his comments “have no place in our party or country.”

“He was a war hero because he was captured,” Trump sarcastically told host Frank Luntz during the 2015 Family Leadership Summit. “I like people who weren’t captured.”

RNC Chief Strategist and Communications Director Sean Spicer released a statement hours later that read:

"Senator McCain is an American hero because he served his country and sacrificed more than most can imagine. Period. There is no place in our party or our country for comments that disparage those who have served honorably.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/248429-rnc-rebukes-trump-for-mccain-remarks

[spanone]

1. so, trashing mexicans is just fine, but mccain crosses the line?

that will certainly secure the latino vote!

[malaise]

7. and being a lying racist birther

calling the President an illegal immigrant

[Chemisse]

2. Just like a Republican.

There is no place in our country for someone who says something we don't like. Perhaps that whole 'free speech' thing was thought up by those same Communists who somehow made us include separation of church and state.

[Renew Deal]

3. ***Excluding Democrats like John Kerry & Max Cleland

[AwakeAtLast]

18. EXACTLY!

They only mean GOP Veterans, of course.

[BeyondGeography]

4. Where is she now?

[elehhhhna]

8. dunno but the devils balls abraded her chin, evidently.

[Gothmog]

5. Trump scares the RNC

[PearliePoo2]

6. I KNEW this was going to be interesting (Trump's big mouth)

and it's not over yet.
So now RNC's Director is telling Trump to leave the country?
more refreshments needed ...

[Sunlei]

9. yet, 5 million people who have lived in America for decades are to be thrown out of their homes

[sufrommich]

10. "There is no place in our party or our country for comments that disparage those who have served"

Unless they're mocking Purple Heart recipients. Fuck those hypocrites.

[Martin Eden]

11. Does that include the swiftboating of John Kerry?

Hypocrisy, thy name is RNC.

[Betty Karlson]

13. Well, Kerry came back without being captured, so maybe the RNC feels he hasn't sacrificed enough?

YES THAT WAS LOADED WITH SARCASM

The plain fact is that the GOP always lets people sling outrageous comments, and only acts when it is in the party's interest to reign them in. The GOP has no more morals or priciples, only a set of orthopraxy credentials to which lipservice must be paid by the politicians, and which must be strictly enforced in ways that help the corporate masters of the party or pander to the reactionary radicals on its right wing.

[11 Bravo]

16. And Max Cleland still has one arm, so clearly ...

he could have given more.

The GOP is truly a miserable collection of despicable fuckwads.

[gratuitous]

12. Dear Mr. Spicer

Your forceful words are welcome. Could you please let John Kennedy, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, John Kerry, Tammy Duckworth, and Max Cleland, know of this new-found respect Republicans have for those who have served honorably? It's a little late in a couple of those cases, but it would be nice to see that your heart is truly in the right place at last.

[MH1]

14. Oh, so NOW there's no place for it. It was just fine when John Kerry was attacked.

FUCK THE GOP. FUCKING HYPOCRITE BASTARDS.

[freshwest]

15. But they let everything else slide and defend that fraudster to the end. n/t

[B Calm]

17. Trump is no different than most Republicans, they hate veterans.