Posted on 05/16/2018 7:25:37 PM PDT by Trump20162020
I’ve been thinking about the first time McCain ran for president in 2000.
It was the absolute best political event I ever covered. Not sure it was entirely a race, since he was up in New Hampshire for months and months all by himself, just going to town meetings and talking about campaign-finance reform.
It was what everybody imagines an underdog campaign would be like — a few reporters and the candidate, driving around in a bus, telling jokes, talking about issues, and of course arguing about where to eat dinner that night. But it was also a crusade — McCain thought if you reformed the way politicians raised money to run for office you could change the world.
And he won! New Hampshire that is. Went on down to South Carolina for the next big primary and everything changed. He was actually a pretty terrible front-runner. Lost the primary, lost the nomination. Went back to the Senate and passed that campaign finance law, which was pretty much destroyed by the Supreme Court.
So I can’t say there was a happy ending. But there was certainly a moment.
His talents were much better used as a senator than as a presidential candidate. And I’m glad that his last big political moment was that vote last year against destroying the Affordable Care Act, and giving Donald Trump the political equivalent of a middle finger.
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John McCain will hate America and Americans to his very last day. Which can’t come soon enough.
The NYT tries to drag Cindy McCain across the finish line with more fake news.
Bret Stephens & other NYTers have gone beyond nutso.
Soon he’ll be banging on doors shouting “Turn in your guns! To me!! RIGHT NOW!!!!!”
He is a man of bad character.
Yep, Where is his video feed?
Why don’t ee hear his voice?
I hope Bret Stephens chokes on McCain's precious bodily fluids.
Maybe McCain does not deserve us.
Maybe McCain does not deserve us.
I’d be happy to puke down his throat.
There are few pols I abhor more than mccain. Trust the NYT to run this..
That a POS like McAmnesty sits in Barry Goldwater’s old senate seat is a travesty.
We deserve him like we deserve a case of terminal hemorrhoids.
Bret Stephens...frozen out at The Wall Street Journal, finds open arms waiting at The New York Times.
We deserve a fake piss dossier (pissoir) alright
The sooner, the better.
Recorded The Manchurian Candidate tonight in honor of JM
We don’t.
NYT admires a senator that advances un-Constitutional legislation.
Not surprising.
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Go back and look at McCain’s 2008 Presidential campaign. How many flatering articles were written about McCain in the NYT back then? I’d fancy none. This is 2018 and everyone knows that the Times only writes glowingly of McCain because they hate Trump. When the next Republican runs for president after Trump, they’ll say he’s Hitler compared to Trump. It’s the same formula that the NYT will use until Judgement Day.
Now, had I killed a few innocent people, then I might deserve him, but even then, I still don't think I would deserve him.
Of course, if I were John McCain, then I would deserve him, and so it seems to me that he is the only one who really deserved him.
I detest John McCain, but didn’t the NYT tell lies about his alleged affair with some women?
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