2020 in Arizona: Arizona Republicans lose both US senators; the state winds up being a key to Biden’s election; and two elected Congressional representatives identified as ringleaders in the attack on the nation’s Capitol.
And how does the party deal with extremism? Attack the wife of the practically canonized late Senator John McCain, that’s how. BRILLIANT!
The WaPo:
The [AZ GOP] party just rolled out a “censure resolution” against Cindy McCain. Childish and bizarre, it attacks the wife of Arizona’s beloved late (Republican) senator for having “a past riddled with drug abuse.” (She admitted three decades ago to a previous pain-medication addiction.)
It admonishes her for supporting “leftist causes such as gay marriage.” It scolds her for endorsing Biden, “in direct opposition to … the Constitution.” It upbraids her for objecting to Trump’s “criticism of her husband” — and then it repeats such slander, saying the late senator, a war hero and POW, committed “serious wrongdoing during his military service
The text then says Republicans will “officially censure her” at their “Jan. 23, 2020 Mandatory Meeting.” (I’m still writing 2020 on my censure resolutions, too.)
It doesn’t get much crazier than that when it comes to understanding what just happened a two months ago. The nutters evidently have a stranglehold on GOP politics in the state of Arizona. They’re blind as bats.
Looks like the state’s in for a nice long period of Democratic pastry. Way too much sun for those dudes.