Kelli Ward still mum on McCain should be 'hung' comment

Last week Arizona Senate President Andy Biggs took a little heat for attending an event – and saying nothing -- after a speaker said that Sen. John McCain should be hanged for treason.

Biggs defended his silence by claiming he did not wish to interfere with the speaker's First Amendment rights.

(This is me silently allowing you to exercise your First Amendment right to snicker at such a lame excuse.)

Turns out that Biggs wasn't the only member of the Arizona Senate to attend a recent meeting in the Valley of a group called the Oath Keepers, however.

Also there was state Sen. Kelli "Chemtrails" Ward, who has been exploring the possibility of challenging Sen. McCain in the 2016 Republican primary.

On it's website, The Oath Keepers refer to themselves as a" non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military, police, and first responders who pledge to fulfill the oath all military and police take to "'defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.'"

Founder Stewart Rhodes was upset about how the Ron Paul delegates were treated during the 2008 Republican Convention -- the one in which McCain was selected as the party's presidential nominee.

In a video of his comments he says of that process, "John Cain (Yes, he dropped the Mc from the senator's name) is a traitor to the Constitution. He should be tried for treason before a jury of his peers — which he would deny you, he supports your denial of a jury trial, he supported the NDAA saying that he could just have the president slam you into a brig in North Carolina or South Carolina or wherever else he wanted to, try you by military tribunal and have you executed. He would deny you the right for trial to jury, but we will give him a trial for jury, and then after we convict him, he should be hung by the neck until dead. But that was their candidate!"

Nothing.The Arizona Republic's Dan Nowicki spotted Sen. Ward in photographs of the event and contacted her office – several times – to ask what she thought of the comments.

I sent the senator a note myself and haven't heard back.

Funny, it's usually impossible to prevent an ambitious politician from talking.

McCain hasn't had much to say about all this. He's taking the high road.

Although, honestly, for something this low that isn't particularly difficult.