Dr. Kelli Ward, McCain Challenger, Says Senator is ���Directly Responsible��� for the Rise of ISIS

Dr. Kelli Ward, the right-wing Republican challenger to Arizona Sen. John McCain in his bid for re-election this year, went after her opponent in no uncertain terms after he accused President Obama on Thursday of being ���directly responsible��� for ISIS.

 

Co-opting the characterization of ���directly responsible,��� Ward seized the opportunity to use Sen. McCain���s attack on the president against the senator himself���not for the purpose of defending Obama, but to call out McCain for policies that she says have engendered and enabled the rise of the Islamic State.

Further playing into Ward���s hands ���in the moment��� was the fact that McCain, after his initial shot across the bow at Obama, attempted to walk back the criticism in what ultimately proved to be a rather ham-fisted effort.

Following is a portion of the statement issued by Ward wherein she accuses McCain of being responsible for the rise of ISIS:

���As we got used to during his 2008 presidential campaign, John McCain has once again thrown a punch at Barack Obama and immediately apologized for it, bowing to lick the boots of the political correctness police- Not surprising for the ultimate establishment insider.

I, however, am not afraid to place the blame right where it belongs:  John McCain is ���directly responsible��� for the rise of ISIS.  Without his dangerously distracted foreign policy, we would not have this ruthless Islamic extremist organization that crucifies children, systematically rapes women, oppresses Christians, and throws homosexuals off rooftops.

Libya and Iraq would not be the ���Harvard of terrorism��� they are now if it were not for his knee-jerk, trigger-happy foreign policy of promiscuously arming the supposedly moderate militants he says he is ���intimate with��� and overthrowing stable, albeit unsavory regimes. He even wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years and joked about risking military lives to ���Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.��� Even George W. Bush and Tony Blair have admitted that the 2003 invasion of Iraq created a vacuum which allowed jihadist ideologies to flourish. Our open border has given those emboldened elements access to our country and our citizens. McCain has been complicit in all of it.���

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large