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My Republican Party
This is my Republican Party. Trump and Nixon are missing. Is that Coolidge between Lincoln and TR?
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Heroism is not a lifetime pass
Senator McCain was only a Republican in election years. In between, he did as he pleased and never deigned to listen to those in his own party who disagreed with him, labeled by him as “crazies,” “hobbits” and “bizarros.”
During Charles Keating’s Lincoln Savings and Loan debacle, McCain’s flights and close association with the arrogant Keating were surprising and disappointing. While he deserves all due credit for his military service and his courage as a POW, such heroism is not a lifetime free pass for conduct so unbecoming of an officer.
Senator McCain fancied himself a statesman. But is the mark of a statesman that of ignoring the people who gave him that status? He seemed to delight in embracing the other side in defiance of those he represented. Maverick was his label, but duplicity was his specialty.
Out of respect, however, one parting thought: Sen. Flake was much worse.
Marianne Jennings is professor emeritus at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Reach her at mmjdiary@aol.com.
That. Was. Awesome!
Marianne Jennings is great. I’ve exchanged emails with her in the past. She used to write a regular column for the AZ paper, but now only shows up on rare occasions.
My mother taught with her back in the ’80s.
I’m envious, I never had an opportunity to meet her in person.
Well I largely squandered mine as I didn’t really know her – and might well have never spoken to her.
Agreed. However I too was fooled by Romney, or I hadn’t fully realized how traitorous key Republicans really were. I abstained from voting in 2008 in part because I despised McCain.
The piece you posted was great.
As to heroification of Mc Cain, my father was a POW in Japan. They thought he was dead and named a Liberty Ship after him for brave actions he took shortly after he was captured by the Jap sub that torpedoed his ship. I knew him very well. He never played the hero card. Ever. Mc Cain allowed his surrogates to continually use his hero status as a political shield. He would’ve despised McCain.
Trump saw this and inartfully expressed himself. However, the entire clip would show Frank Luntz hectoring Trump for criticizing McCain for calling Trump supporters “wacko-birds ( Mr. Hero also insulted the Tea Party in similar fashion). “But he’s a war hero!” Luntz interrupted repeatedly. Three times. Only then made his famous reply. I knew exactly what he meant. Again it was not politically smart. Or maybe it was… I don’t know.
The propensity to use politics to settle personal scores seems to run In McCain’s DNA ( see Meghan).
He was a mean and petty man, always pretending to be the exact opposite.
Yes, I thought it was time to post that again, once McCain came up. I put it on Ricochet maybe a year ago too.
For what my two cents are worth, I congratulate @rightangles and @drewinwisconsin for swatting down GR’s prejudiced line of questioning. Perhaps he should put that question to his local abortion provider.Perhaps someone should ask GR if he’s stopped beating his wife.
I used to think it was pretty cool I had one of my posts selected for post of the week. Not so sure about that now.
Nah, you should still be proud!
The image of Trump is crossed out at the 49 second point.
Oh they got him for sure this time!
Why try to bring this corpse back to life?
But anyway, I’ll just point out that after nearly 4 months, this “post of the week” still has just 6 – count ’em, SIX – “likes.”
That is incredibly childish.
Beating dead horses is Mr Robbins specialty.
That one is good, but overall I still prefer this one:
14 down:
Five letter word for unnecessary but inflammatory internet post.
Oh, hadn’t seen that one yet.
Girls! Girls! you’re both pretty.
Can we vote for Trump yet?