Sen. John McCain doesn’t want to go to Cleveland for his summer vacation. The Hill reports:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who is facing perhaps the toughest reelection race of his career, will skip the Republican presidential nominating convention in Cleveland in July.

McCain says he will be focusing instead on his own race against Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick. He also has to worry about a late primary, which is scheduled for Aug. 30.

“I have to campaign for reelection, and I have always done that when I’m up,” he said. “We have a late primary in Arizona.” 

Team Kirkpatrick spokesman D.B. Mitchell doesn’t miss the chance to once again link McCain to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz:

Ann Kirkpatrick has John McCain in the toughest reelection fight of his career, and all McCain really did today was reiterate that he would still support a ‘dangerous’ Donald Trump or ‘wacko bird’ Ted Cruz for president. Arizona voters see right through McCain now after 33 years in Washington, and hiding from the convention for the first time in three decades won’t change that.

CNN has a retrospective of McCain’s many speeches at the GOP convention.

This article appears in Apr 14-20, 2016.

Getting hassled by The Man Mild-mannered reporter

13 replies on “McCain Says He’ll Skip This Year’s GOP Convention”

  1. “There is no more neutrality in the world. You either have to be part of the solution, or you’re going to be part of the problem.” — Eldridge Cleaver

    With all due respect to your military service sir, you have become part of the problem and it is well past the time to go.

  2. Hiding from the convention? What the hell does THAT mean?
    No big fan…..but according to your post there is no connection between McCain and Cruz or Trump.

  3. Just what we need. An Obama/Pelosi/ Liberal who will have no seniority, vote for Justices who will further bankrupt us as they approve ope borders. A senate that will further hollow out the military and make everyone poor. We are on our way to having the empty economy and socialist hell that we deserve!

  4. Maybe Donald Trump was right about McCain.
    If Trump comes to Arizona this fall, where will McCain be then?
    Would be Republican President McCain will not meet would be Republican President Trump, at least not in the open where pictures can be taken.
    At last Arizona turns Blue again, wow we waited awhile and as it turns out the Democrats can’t take the credit. Well, at least don’t deserve the credit.
    GOP shoots self in the foot.

  5. Hakeson, you’re dreaming if you think Arizona will vote for a northern liberal like Hillary Clinton.

  6. bslap, you decide, no wait let John McCain and the Republican National Committee choose, Donald Trump or anybody but Trump?

  7. No worries, the Republican National Convention will still be a clusterfuck with or without McCain.

  8. This is the most amusing year to be republican watching since 1964!

    From the peak of gerrymandering and pushing the Big Lie in 2014 to imploding in 2016…

    And now the establishment repubs are skipping their big booze-up and the call girls!

    Bwaa-haaa-haaa…

  10. This shows how irrelevant John McCain is now. He should get behind my fellow friend Donald Trump and help Trump beat Hillary. John, I met you and Cindy at the Asylum Cafe inside the Jerome Grand Hotel. We backed you for president, and we were your neighbors in Lake Montezuma. Please support Donald Trump, so he can beat Hillary and send her to jail.

  11. Avoiding this year’s GOP Convention is smart – anything (not good) could happen. But putting all political parties and positions aside, why does a man who turns 80 this year want another 6 years in the human meat grinder that is Washington DC? It seems unhealthy, requiring too much ego and weird showbiz – not to mention it’s exhausting and increasingly banal. Sen. McCain’s offices here in Tucson are good, with truly helpful staff, but his incentive to run again is mysterious to my way of thinking – and the same is true for for Feinstein, Grassley, Shelby, Hatch, Inhofe, Roberts and all those other youngsters in their late 70s.

  12. Republican convention may be overshadowed by the Koch Bros endorsing Hillary Clinton as the candidate that can be bought and paid for. How crazy is this? Democrats in bed with the Kochs.

    Both parties are failing us.

  13. I’m dreaming? What a mess. John McCain isn’t attending the GOP Convention, their former Presidential Candidate. The Kochs endorsing Hillary, say it isn’t true. After all the millions already spent on Republicans. That’s crazy! Democrats wishing for Trump, watch out what you are wishing for, Democrats elected Republican Reagan. That’s nuts! I’m with Rat T, I’m not going to either convention. “a plague o’both your houses” A Koch backed Democrat, Trump or Cruz, half-hearted Republicans, insane take your pick. It’s no wonder so many people don’t vote.

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