Yeah, we sure do hate to fire up the crazies

John McCain, speaking here on Serious Republican Contender Donald Trump:

Over the weekend, Donald Trump held a rally in Phoenix, Arizona, that attracted several thousand people. He shared the stage with the father of a man who was killed by an undocumented immigrant—and Trump continued his rant against illegal immigration that began when he launched his campaign and started to surge in the polls. Not every Republican in Arizona was pleased with Trump’s visit. Senator John McCain, the Party’s Presidential nominee in 2008, reacted to the event with dismay.

“It’s very bad,” McCain, who was eager to talk about Trump, told me on Monday when I stopped by his Senate office. The Senator is up for reëlection in 2016, and he pays close attention to how the issue of immigration is playing in his state. He was particularly rankled by Trump’s rally. “This performance with our friend out in Phoenix is very hurtful to me,” McCain said. “Because what he did was he fired up the crazies.”

Now, look, I can appreciate the sentiment here, but we’re all being remiss if we don’t point out that it was John McCain who plucked one Sarah Palin out of relative obscurity in Alaska and effectively made her the Alpha Crazy. And I know McCain is specifically talking about immigration, but guess what? Palin is as bugfuck nuts on immigration as she is on everything else! So how worried are we about firing up the crazies, Senator?

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