Ironically, Tingles only cites McRINO’s foreign policies in his defense.
Via Politico:
Sen. John McCain, under fire from the Arizona GOP for not being conservative enough, got an unlikely ally in his defense against the state party’s censure of the senator, as MSNBC host Chris Matthews went after the author of the Arizona GOP’s critique of McCain.
Timothy Schwartz, an Arizona GOP district chairman, said the state’s Republicans feel McCain is not representing their party in Washington.
“Our complaint is that John McCain is always working on the other side of the aisle and he never lands on our side of the aisle,” Schwartz said on MSNBC’s “Hardball” on Monday night. “We cannot continue to cry out for change and be ignored by a senator who claims to go to Washington on our behalf, but yet he ignores the will of the American people and won’t listen to his own constituents. He is there as a representative for us, not himself, not his own agenda.”
Matthews immediately jumped on Schwartz, asking how Schwartz could ignore McCain’s foreign policy credentials.
“When I look at John McCain, I look at a guy who has been hawkish, supported war in every instance, supported the Iraq war, supported the Afghanistan war, wants intervention in Libya, wants intervention in Syria,” Matthews said. “He is a 100 percent hawk in league with your party. Your party is a hawkish party. Now maybe you aren’t, but your party is on its record with [George] W. [Bush] and the whole crowd that was in office for eight years and since. You have always taken the hawkish position. How can you call him a renegade when he’s with you completely on foreign policy?”
Matthews repeated his question several times, cutting off Schwartz’s answers.
“Why is McCain 100 percent Republican on foreign policy and you act like he is some kind of apostate?” Matthews asked.