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The crowd at #CAGOP17 just booed George W. Bush and John McCain. "Hang him!" one man yelled about McCain.
Bannon's mention of Sen. John McCain, George W. Bush draws boos at California GOP convention
Mere mentions of former President George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) drew loud boos and catcalls as former Trump advisor Stephen K. Bannon derided the GOP leaders in his address to California Republicans on Friday night at their fall convention in Anaheim.
Bannon, who runs the far-right website Breitbart News, blasted Bush for his harsh assessment of Trump and his policies, which the former president delivered at a policy seminar in New York on Thursday. Bush suggested that Trump has promoted bigotry and falsehoods, violating this country’s values.
“President Bush to me embarrassed himself. Speech writers wrote a highfalutin speech,” Bannon said. “It’s clear he didn’t understand anything he was talking about. … Just like it was when he was president of the United States.”
Bannon, who was ousted from the White House in August but said he considers himself Trump’s “wingman,” didn’t stop there. He ripped into Bush, saying he allowed China to grow as a world power under the premise that global engagement might shepherd the county toward democracy.
“There’s not been a more destructive presidency than George Bush’s,” Bannon said.
Bannon also had no love for McCain, who has openly clashed with Trump and helped torpedo Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
He praised McCain’s military service, but said as a politician, “He’s just another senator from Arizona.”
The boos from the crowd of Republican donors and activists show how much the state party has changed as its influence has waned and its numbers have dwindled in California. The brand of conservatism belonging to Bush and McCain resonated with California’s GOP voters during their presidential campaigns. Both men forged deep ties with the state’s Republican elected leaders and donors, raising tens of millions of dollars here for their political campaigns.
In California, Bush received 1.1 million more votes in the November 2004 presidential election than Trump did last November. McCain received almost 600,000 more votes in the November 2008 presidential election than Trump received in the state in 2016.
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We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Booing, and screaming "Hang Him" about a war hero with cancer.
Their mom's must be so proud. 
I'll say one thing for Bannon and his white nationalists:
They're a pleasure to hate.
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Re: These People MUST be Defeated
Steve Bannon is a man without conscience who fervently believes what he says is truth despite the facts that are in direct opposition to his rants. He is dangerous to our government and society. The more he succeeds in proliferating his distorted, angry, demented point of view the more harm will come to this country. He is a belligerent, loud mouthed bully who has little regard for rational discourse.
All reasonable people should just ignore him, his inane speeches, and his idiotic antics.
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Observations:
1. Can you imagine the Fox and Breitbart headlines if folks at a Democratic Convention screamed "Hang Him" about a war hero?
2. Some of the same people who consider it "Highly Inappropriate" for a reporter to even question the statement of a former Marine general have no problem booing a guy with a Purple Heart, 3 Bronze Stars, and a distinguished Flying Cross.
I guess that respect for someone's service is a sometimes thing.
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We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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