Arizona Senate Candidate, Kelli Ward, Doubles Down on Her Weekend Decency Fail

Last updated on: August 27, 2018 at 1:12 pm by Susan Wright

Arizona Senate Candidate, Kelli Ward, Doubles Down on Her Weekend Decency Fail 2018-08-27T13:12:18-04:00 Susan Wright

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*Sigh*

We’re a day away from the GOP primary in Arizona. Voters will have a clear option in the Senate race. It’s Martha McSally, who, as described by her campaign website, boasts an impressive resume:

Congresswoman Martha McSally currently represents Arizona’s Second Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. She serves on the Armed Services and Homeland Security Committees. The Congresswoman also chairs the Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee, the first Arizonan and the first freshman legislator ever given this leadership role.

Martha was elected in 2014, after retiring in 2010 as a full Colonel in the United States Air Force. During her 26-year military career, she deployed six times to the Middle East and Afghanistan, flying 325 combat hours and earning a Bronze Star and six air medals. She broke barriers for women and girls everywhere — becoming not only the first woman in U.S. history to fly a fighter jet in combat— but the first woman to command a fighter squadron.

Martha was deployed to Saudi Arabia on 9/11 and was a part of the leadership team that planned and executed the initial air campaign in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks. She also oversaw combat search and rescue operations over Southern Iraq and Afghanistan.

And then there’s Dr. Kelli Ward.

They call her “Chemtrail Kelli” in Arizona, I understand, because she’s a conspiracy nut that actually believes there’s merit to the internet mania that would suggest the government is attempting to control our minds by spraying chemicals in the air.

Those vapor clouds you see behind aircraft are simply condensate, Dr. Ward. Calm down.

Also, she’s the soul-devouring succubus that claimed over the weekend that the announcement that Senator John McCain would be discontinuing his treatment for an aggressive and devastating form of brain cancer was intentionally timed to draw attention away from the bus tour she was beginning. This was said only a few hours before Senator McCain passed away.

She deleted that particular comment, but that doesn’t mean she’s learned a lesson from the swift backlash her callousness drew.

It was a bad weekend for Ward. It really was, so of course she attempted to save her reputation in what is the home stretch of this primary race.

She’s just really, really bad at this.

On Monday, Ward went back online to post a tweet attacking “political correctness” that raised several eyebrows because she compared it to cancer — the very disease that took McCain’s life.

“Political correctness is like a cancer!” she wrote.

All the facepalms, at this moment.

I want to reiterate the fact here that Kelli Ward is a doctor. Can anyone conjure up a notion of what her bedside manner must be like?

My first guess would be: Horrible.

She was rightly slammed for this latest decency fail across social media.

Wow, way to hit rock bottom as a decent human being, then pick up a shovel and start digging even deeper.

— Crazy Redhead (@crazyredranting) August 27, 2018

I get it. She’s a devoted Trumpidian coattail rider. She’d do anything to make it to higher office. I also get that we’re very much post-decency in this nation. The election of Trump pretty much confirmed that.

All she had to do was say, “I’m sorry for this weekend’s misunderstanding” and then just let it go.

Nope. She doubled down.

I really hope Arizona Republicans do the right thing on Tuesday.

And by “do the right thing” I mean vote against this plague in such numbers that the fact that she was running at all becomes imperceptible.

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