hahahaha I guess.
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Quite an active twitter user, actually. Frequently tweets criticisms of Spanky and calls for the country to come together.
https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/status/1002978966620295168
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Tweeting is, literally, the absolute least he can do.
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There is way too much opprobrium of McCain in this thread. I have many, many policy disagreements with the man and he has done some venal and self serving things in his time for sure, but he’s a POLITICIAN. That’s what they do. Obama, failed to go after the banksters, he caved quickly (and was roundly criticized for it) on the Public Option whose include in the ACA would have made a huge difference. Hillary was too quick to jump on the G.W. Bush Iraq war bandwagon and too slow to admit error and she gave quarter million dollar speeches to Goldman Sachs. ALL politicians have skeletons, it’s an unavoidable part of the business if you want to more than a gadfly. One of the most consistent pols in voting on principal is Sanders and you all know how he gets treated here.
Look at it another way. The Regressives have one “maverick” in McCain (although there are a few Tea Nuts who vote againstt he party because it’s not regressive enough - but I don’t count them as mavericks). On the Democratic side there are several; Manchin, Tester, Heitkamp to name a few. This speaks to the fact that the Progressive side welcomes debate and incorporates a measure of diversity, it in our nature to be open minded, accepting of different ideas and respectful of them. The other guys, not so much, that’s why they freak out about McCain even though he was with them 83% of the time.
McCain, is not perfect, he’s not my hero, but he did some hard things in his life (could have left Nam early but would have had to leave the other POWs behind. It’s OK to point out his faults and failings, but they aren’t the full measure of him and he incessant rehashing of those here doesn’t reflect all that well on our community either.
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That’s very funny.
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Exactly. This guy is no maverick. I can’t stand his daughter either.
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What you seem to ignore is that Sanders is an independent and represents a very small state. He’s an incumbent and can support the NRA and vote any way he wants and he’ll keep winning as long as he keeps wagging that finger and bitching about everybody else.
He doesn’t have to deal with all the other crap that gets thrown at dems when they run for reelection. No one cares about one senator from Vermont, and frankly, Leahy has done far more than Sanders.
Get off the soapbox.
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Ummm, McCain himself said he’s not a Maverick. What’s this revisionist bullshit?
He’s one of the toughest guys I’ve gotten to know,” Salmon said. “It’s not a disease that most people diagnosed with are successful at fighting. But they’re not John McCain. He’s a fighter.”
Well not to take anything away from McCain and how he’s fighting this but let’s not pretend his status, name and money isn’t helping in this battle.
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An article of which any self respecting press agent could be proud.
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Whitewash. McCain scooped up a lot of cash as a crooked promoter of lifting restrictions on S&Ls before their crash tanked the economy for awhile. Didn’t just take campaign donations, took actual bribes of stock. A beneficiary of Republican ethics, he was not charged, was handily re-elected, and was eventually nominated for president. There was virtually no mention during that campaign that Mc Cain took bribes. So, a maverick obviously.
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He even flipped on being a maverick:
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If he really wanted to be a maverick he would have taken 2004 VP offer from Kerry…
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Yeah, and McCain’s remark was a non sequitur. A deplorable person woman says, “Obama is a Muslim,” and McCain says, “No, he’s a decent family man.”
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Blah, blah, blah.
This hagiography is a bit much, unless it’s supposed to serve as a eulogy.
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Saw this prayer somewhere WRT Krauthammer and think it’s appropriate here as well:
John McCain
May his suffering be brief
And may his peace be lasting
May he feel the love of family
And may all his ailments pass swiftly
Into Trump’s scrotum and sphincter…
Amen.
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The stain of the Keating 5 will forever mark McCain as a crooked, corrupt, pathetically opportunistic politician who was never a maverick. He’s like Susan Collins and the other tepid rethugs who trade on undeserved reputations of “bucking their party” from time to time. McCain is actually worse than the heinous GOP members who at least parade their brazen misanthropy for all the world to see; he’s cultivated an entirely fake persona in order to serve his very personal political goals. He’ll go to his grave with the Keating 5 scandal tacked to his legacy.
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Oh, are you and I on the same page. Maverick my ass.
There’s plenty to complain about McCain but him not dissecting his words as he said them and not going through multiple permutations until finding the best sounding one on the fly in two seconds the same way you took minutes or more to write and think about yours is an unrealistic and impossible standard for any person lto live up to. He’s a conservative Republican, not a Democrat, he’s not going to push back as if he was a liberal Democrat or even an moderate Independent. Through the lens of a moral philosophy class he failed, through the lens of his reality he did not. He implicitly told the person they were completely wrong at a time many in the right wing media were telling that person they were right.
There’s plenty to dislike and even despise about McCain’s history like his unmerited military promotions from his four star Admiral Daddy and four star Admiral Pee-Paw pulling strings even though he was a sub-par pilot that crashed three times due to his errors (Though he clearly deserves the awards he won, including the Purple Heart, for his time as a POW.) to the Keating Five scandal to dumping his ailing first wife to marry a super rich heiress, that all his children boycotted and took years to reconcile, to countless votes for odious legislation.