She said the party doesn’t resemble the GOP she and Sen. John McCain belonged to. Except it does.
By EJ Montini | Arizona Republic
(Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are published for discussion purposes only.)
The widow of Sen. John McCain had some harsh words for the Arizona Republican Party, saying in a podcast that the “local” GOP is not “the party my husband and I belonged to.”
She’s wrong.
It is.
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McCain said during Politico’s “Women Rule” podcast, “We have, on my side of the aisle, on the Republican side, we see a local party in Arizona that’s not functioning well. And it’s excluding people. And it’s excluding people for the wrong reasons. If you’re not walking the line, then you’re out. That’s just not right. That’s not the party that my husband and I belonged to.”
A lot of what McCain said is accurate.
It’s true the Arizona GOP is “not functioning well.”
It’s true that “it’s excluding people for the wrong reasons.”
It’s also true that, as far as party leaders are concerned, “if you’re not walking the line, then you’re out.”
It happened to Barry Goldwater, too.
