Strike a blow against the RINO: Recall McCain and Flake
Lawrence Sellin, PhD.
Republican Senators John McCain
and Jeff Flake are liberals representing a conservative state. By their
statements and actions, they have proven that they are no longer worthy to be
the US Senators from Arizona.
Senator John McCain (R-AZ), who
once described the mainstream media as his political base, has
declared war on conservatives and the people of Arizona; reportedly leading
a purge of the state’s GOP apparatus to pave the way for an easier reelection
bid should he decide to run again in 2016.
In January 2013, Tea Party members
and other conservatives managed
to get John McCain censured by the Arizona Republican Party, for what they
characterized as a liberal record that has been “disastrous
and harmful” to the state and nation. It was not even close; the Republican
Party of Maricopa County, Arizona’s most populous, passed a resolution to
censure the senator on a 1,150-to-351 vote. The state GOP party’s censure
didn’t even require a recorded vote, it passed by acclamation, meaning by a
voice vote.
In Arizona, Republican precinct
committeemen elect local party chairmen, who, in turn, determine how state and
local GOP funds are spent, which candidates are promoted in an election year,
and which political issues are highlighted — all matters of central concern for
McCain heading into 2016, when the threat of a primary looms.
Prior to Aug. 26 2014, when the
races for the party offices were held, the vast majority of the 3,925 precinct
slots were filled by people McCain’s team considered opponents. Now, after an
influx of candidates were recruited by the senator’s allies, around 40 percent
of those offices — 1,531 to be exact — will be held by people McCain’s team
regards as friendly. They will have the power to vote down hostile Republican
chairmen in each of their respective localities.
After securing
the support of conservative Sarah Palin, running a campaign as a
conservative and gaining reelection in 2010, McCain immediately swerved to the left
again, denigrating conservatives and Tea Partiers as “hobbits” and “wacko
birds” while championing the Gang of Eight’s comprehensive amnesty legislation
in the Senate.
McCain’s junior colleague, Senator
Jeff Flake (R-AZ), a member of the Gang of Eight, is also a strong supporter of
comprehensive amnesty for illegal aliens.
Flake has recommended that
pro-amnesty 2016 Republican presidential candidates like former Florida
Governor Jeb Bush ignore
voters in Iowa and entirely skip the first-in-the-nation nominating
caucuses to avoid having his pro-amnesty views scrutinized.
Flake, like all establishment
Republicans, believes the only
way the GOP can win the White House is by appealing to Hispanic voters
through amnesty and a series of citizenship gateway bills reportedly scheduled
for the next Congress. This is despite the fact that the New York Times and the
Washington Post have both found that Republicans can win the White House in
2016 and beyond without supporting amnesty legislation.
Maybe for the Republican
establishment, amnesty is little more than payback to the US Chamber of
Commerce and other wealthy donors at the expense of the American Middle Class.
Ordinary Americans can fight back
against the permanent political ruling class and sidestep McCain’s selfish power
grab.
Article VIII,
Section1 of the Arizona Constitution allows the recall of US Senators with
a petition containing valid voter signatures of 25% of the last votes cast for
the office, completed within 120 days in a process
described here.
America is now a de facto
one-party state, where sclerotic big government Republicanism is indistinguishable
from the policies promoted by the Democrats.
The 2016 election cycle will not
be a contest between Republicans and Democrats, but a battle between the
entrenched power of the bipartisan political establishment versus the rights
and liberties of the American people; a conflict between those who want to
adhere to the Constitution and the rule of law and the party leaders, who wish
to continue the practices of political expediency and crony capitalism.
We already know on which side
McCain and Flake are.
Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is a retired colonel with 29 years of service in the US Army Reserve and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. Colonel Sellin is the author of “Restoring the Republic: Arguments for a Second American Revolution.” He receives email at lawrence.sellin@gmail.com.
An election for President and Commander in Chief of the Military must strive to be above reproach. Our public institutions must give the public confidence that a presidential candidate has complied with the election process that is prescribed by our Constitution and laws. It is only after a presidential candidate satisfies the rules of such a process that he/she can expect members of the public, regardless of their party affiliations, to give him/her the respect that the Office of President so much deserves.
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