I really thought Hume had his act together until I heard him denouncing Trump yesterday for his (Trump’s) comments about McCain; I mean, yes I really appreciate McCain’s service to his country, but a hero? No, a hero saves someone’s life, or kills a bunch of the enemy or something...just because someone gets captured does NOT make him a hero in my book. Add to that the fact that McCain finished near LAST in his class at the academy, and the fact that he never would’ve even made it there had his father not been an admiral, plus the fact that McCain has been a total LOSER as a senator, makes me think Trump is actually onto something.
Don’t forget the Keating Five and how the McCains tried to intimidate the doctor who treated nitwit Cindy for her drug addiction...and how he treated his first wife. Nancy Reagan hated him for that.
None of us want to speak ill of a POW, and I do think there’s a sense in which an honorable POW is living a heroic life every day.
But we don’t believe collaborators are heroes, even if we do understand the difficulty they were experiencing.
Now, there’s no absolute proof that McCain was a collaborator, but we do have an unusual number of vets who speak ill of him.
I’ve never heard the same thing about Admiral Stockdale even when he was Ross Perot’s VP candidate and political enemies would have had reason to bad-mouth him.
“No, a hero saves someone’s life, or kills a bunch of the enemy or something...just because someone gets captured does NOT make him a hero in my book.”
The heroism isn’t being captured. It is being willing to go and fly behind enemy lines, knowing death and/or torture awaits if you are shot down - and being shot down is not something you control. It is also in enduring as much pain as you can before you break.
When an Lt, I met a few Colonels who had been POWs in Vietnam. They said “WHEN you break, not IF”.
And someone can think Cruz and others are better than Trump without being GOP-E. This insistence that anyone who doesn’t agree with you 100% - even if they agree 95% - is an enemy is ridiculous.
If the choice comes down to Jeb or Hillary, I’ll vote for Jeb. Don’t like him. Don’t want him. Will give to other candidates - Cruz being the most likely right now - but I won’t sit out an election that has Hillary in it!
Hume has been leaning left since he became sort of a part-time commentator.