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This was excellent! You speak for millions of us and expressed perfectly our exasperation with his diva antics over the years.
Great post :)
There’s only one thing I don’t understand: Why a disclaimer?
This is the best description of John McCain I’ve ever seen.
Jeff,
You nailed it.
Regards,
Jim
My disclaimer: I’m just as tired of John McCain’s voting record and superficial “I’m here to save the soul of American democracy” faux gravitas.
But with that out of the way, I think it’s time to look past John McCain and point the finger at the people who hired him and keep re-upping him. His silly antics have been on full display for nearly 20 years now (starting with McCain-Feingold), so Arizonan voters have had more than enough time to familiarize themselves with him.
And yet they’ve re-elected him five times already, despite several well-funded attempts to take him out. At some point, we need to accept that John McCain is doing what his constituents want.
So my question is: what the [censored] is wrong with Arizonans?
Because I truly do respect him up until the point I have to discuss his role as Senator and sometimes in print it may come off that I’m disrespectful of his existence rather than his behavior
Really good, nails him. Only one thing missing. One of his problems is he doesn’t understand why his compromises with the evil party are bad. He appropriately leads the dumb party.
I think he finds compromise in and of itself noble, and that trumps the fallout from the results.
…be it from a place of neediness, a contrarian streak, or an eye personal legacy is his confounding need to peacock to make the story about him, usually as the hero of the story, going renegade against conservative principles in the name of compromise while letting you know in no uncertain terms that the same compromise was all because of the efforts of John McCain.
It was very hard to find just one favorite part, but the above was certainly one of them.
I don’t know much about McCain or psychology, but it seems to me that he has a deep-seated need to justify himself to his enemies. I just wish he had a corresponding need for his friends.
It has been a long time since I thought of John McCain as other than a reliable Democrat in a pinch.
Bob,
If you think about it, he had a chance to make up for all the past nonsense. Instead, he confirmed your diagnosis exactly.
Regards,
Jim
Jeff & All,
McCain is ready for his close-up.
Regards,
Jim
I have become a proponent of a constitutional amendment providing for term limits for members of the House and Senate.
I have become a proponent of a constitutional amendment that anyone who serves in Federal elective office shall be publicly executed under the Capitol dome at the end of their 8th year in office.
It’s the “entitlement program” for politicians. Can’t get rid of that either. But I also thought each Trump cabinet member should made their goal to not have a job in 4 years.
There’s one thing for sure: He is a hero to Portman, Heller, and bunch of other GOP senators who didn’t have to cast the deciding vote. He will be gone from the Senate soon and he’s taken a hit for the sake of the other members of his club.
The other thing that no one is discussed is the insurance industry and its role in all of this.
Why?
This is about the insurance industry and the last thing they wanted is to have this repealed. They are expecting a spigot to the federal treasury and are probably going to get it.
Peggy Noonan thinks Trump is a drama queen. The last thing those who are raising the temperature on the frogs in the pot as they are being boiled is drama because it draws too much attention to what they are doing. Who is performing a public service and who is performing a public disservice?
Congressman Sam Johnson of Texas was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for nearly seven years, but he doesn’t do the weird stuff that John McCain does.
It seems they have a goal of not having a job in 1 year.
I’m convinced TFHJM is naturally spineless and inclined to backstab but more importantly I think the democrats have a whole lot of files on him, of which the Keating scandal is just the tip of the iceberg, that they use to get him to back their policies again and again.
I would never wish anyone to get brain cancer but I can only hope that it takes him sooner rather than later. He voted to continue our enslavement and I have no charity in my heart for him.
Any indulgence he earned in Viet Nam is way beyond its expiration date. Even Trump saw that McCain tried to use his service as a shield for his never ending assaults on our freedoms, in service to his ego. I have zero respect for him.
My mother used to teach me, “If you don’t have anything good to say about someone, just don’t say anything at all.”
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That rule applies to gossiping, not to people taking your money and enslaving you.
And in the end, the Left will cheer his death and mock him, and most us on the Right won’t miss him.
Maybe I should have added: and that’s why I’m not saying anything…at all.
I disagree.
Do it outside – less to clean up that way, plus: we all can watch.
From the most pitied man in America to the most despised in under 24 hours…