{"id":37344,"date":"2017-02-20T04:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37344"},"modified":"2017-02-19T11:45:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T16:45:48","slug":"rand-paul-mccains-been-wrong-on-just-about-everything-over-the-last-four-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/02\/20\/rand-paul-mccains-been-wrong-on-just-about-everything-over-the-last-four-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul &#8211; &#8220;McCain\u2019s been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Rand Paul got some media coverage for his <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/320290-rand-paul-were-very-lucky-john-mccains-not-in-charge\" target=\"_blank\">criticism of Senator John McCain<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) ripped fellow Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on Sunday after McCain criticized President Trump\u2019s escalating war of words with the media.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that the nation is \u201cvery lucky\u201d that Trump is president and not McCain, who won the 2008 GOP nomination but lost to Barack Obama in the general election.<\/p>\n<p>Paul said that McCain\u2019s recent criticisms of Trump are driven by his \u201cpersonal dispute\u201d with the president over foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>He added that McCain and Trump are at odds because McCain supports the wide deployment of U.S. troops to protect and promote American interests abroad while he characterized Trump\u2019s views as closer to a <em>realpolitik<\/em> approach to foreign policy.<br \/>\n\u201cEverything that he says about the president is colored by his own personal dispute he\u2019s got running with President Trump and it should be taken with a grain of salt because John McCain\u2019s the guy who\u2019s advocated for war everywhere,\u201d Paul said on ABC\u2019s <em>This Week<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe would bankrupt the nation. We\u2019re very lucky John McCain\u2019s not in charge because I think we\u2019d be in perpetual war,\u201d Paul added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Rand Paul got some media coverage for his criticism of Senator John McCain: Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) ripped fellow Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on Sunday after McCain criticized President Trump\u2019s escalating war of words with the media. He argued that the nation is \u201cvery lucky\u201d that Trump is president and not McCain, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,13],"tags":[86,1037,548,573,517,553],"class_list":["post-37344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-criticism","tag-donaldtrump","tag-johnmccain","tag-randpaul","tag-republican","tag-senate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Ik","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37346,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37344\/revisions\/37346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}