Posted on 08/26/2018 5:20:56 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Senator John McCain died on Saturday. Whatever one thinks of his political career, his early service to the nation and the years of torture he endured and triumphed over as a result of it deserve to be remembered and honored.
May he Rest in Peace.
A complicated man with a complicated legacy. – We now, of course, will be treated to a week of our fake news media using the death of Mr. McCain as a tool with which to bash President Trump – whose relationship with McCain was extremely rocky – and support the Democrat narrative. Because that’s what our fake news media does.
It started even before McCain passed, with the fake journalists at the Washington Post running a story bashing the President for not making a statement on McCain’s halting all medical treatment, even though McCain had repeatedly made it publicly clear he did not want any such statement from Mr. Trump, or for Trump to attend his funeral. McCain’s wife and daughter had also repeated the senator’s feelings on the subject – thus, Trump was simply acceding to the family’s wishes.
The President did issue a statement expressing sympathy for the family via his Twitter feed:
My deepest sympathies and respect go out to the family of Senator John McCain. Our hearts and prayers are with you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 26, 2018
Naturally, he was bashed by much of the fake news media even for that statement, with most fake journalists who hate every Republican – including McCain – pretending to take offense that it does not contain praise for the late Senator.
The reality is that the President can’t win in this situation, regardless of what he says or does. Were he to issue a statement lavishing praise on McCain, the fake news media and Democrats would bash him for being hypocritical, given his frequent verbal battles with the Senator. Were he to express his true feelings about the man, he’d be appropriately bashed for that, given the timing. Were he to have remained silent, well, he was already being bashed for that within seconds of McCain’s passing.
Again, most of this situation is of the President’s own making. His gratuitous taunts at McCain and his military service during the 2016 campaign were childish, inadvisable, reflected poorly on his own character, and set McCain up as the sympathetic figure in their relationship. Mr. Trump simply has no graceful way to recover from all of that.
It’s fair to note that the same fake news media outlets whose fake journalists are praising John McCain today are the very same fake news media outlets and fake journalists who bashed McCain and ridiculed him and his running mate Sarah Palin mercilessly throughout the 2008 presidential contest, after the Republican Party had made him its nominee for the office. As with everything else it does, the fake news media’s relationship with McCain was entirely situational.
Much of that was due to “the Maverick’s” own behavior. After his bitter defeat in the 2000 nominating contest at the hands of George W. Bush, McCain spent the next 8 years seeking out opportunities to go on MSNBC or CNN to bash the President of his own political party. His appearances with Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s “Hardball” program became so frequent and confrontational towards Bush that Rush Limbaugh took to referring to McCain as the “Senator from the News Media,” which, of course loved the fact that a prominent Republican senator was helping them do their own dirty work towards a Republican president.
Thus, McCain had cultivated a fabulous relationship with the fake journalists, a relationship that lasted until about 30 seconds after he had secured the GOP’s nomination for the presidency. Then, he became the enemy, someone to be targeted and destroyed so that the nation could elect the media’s chosen candidate, Barack Obama. Sadly, McCain, perhaps shocked at the betrayal by so many he had undoubtedly thought would treat him fairly, ran a completely feckless and moribund campaign that ended up sentencing the nation to 8 years of socialist “progress.”
But the Senator from the News Media made a comeback during the Obama years. His appearances with Matthews and on the Sunday morning talk shows were less frequent, but most often focused on issues on which he was in “Maverick” mode, opposing his own party and supporting Obama’s agenda. Though he did not vote for the Obamacare bill in 2010, he did achieve one final moment of fake news media glory – poking President Trump in the nose in the process – in 2017 by casting the deciding vote that has allowed the failed healthcare law to persist to this day. Matthews no doubt felt a tingle run up his leg as McCain, with a sneer on his face, raised his thumb down to cast a “no” vote on the repeal bill.
When asked a few years back by a reporter about how he would like to be remembered, McCain said simply “that I served my country.”
John McCain was a very complicated man who had an extremely complicated relationship with the Republican Party, the conservative movement, several presidents and the news media, much of which created negative outcomes during his political career. Not surprisingly, he leaves behind a very complicated legacy.
But he did serve his country and suffered greatly for that service, and for that service he deserves to be honored.
That is all.
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I guess complicated is a nice way of saying rotten.
1. Failure to live up to his campaign promise to repeal Obamacare, and he manipulated it so he was the deciding vote.
2. Failure to do his duty to his country by performing his congressional duties. For the last year of his life he did not do his elected job in the Senate. His failure to resign essentially leaving his seat vacant is testament to him.
Complicated only if complicated is a synonym for excrement.
Near last in his class at Naval Academy.
Incompetent flier for the Navy.
On the take as one of the Keating 5.
Pushed McCain/Feingold to gut the 1st Amendment because he didn’t like the criticism he got for his Keating participation. Law was struck down by the Supreme Court as unConstitutional. (”Preserve, Protect, and Defend”. Right, John?)
Volcanic temper.
Treacherous thorn in the side of the GOP during his whole Senate career.
Warmonger.
Terrorist sympathiser.
Vindictive score-settler right up until his passing.
He never met a war he didn’t like.
What this clown did to Palin was inexcusable, what he did to us was treacherous.
“....A complicated man with a complicated legacy.....”
Ummmm...no, it isn’t. It’s only complicated because NONE of the UniParty want to admit to just how simple it is.
It’s a simple one-word legacy: TRAITOR.
Near last in his class at Naval Academy.
Incompetent flier for the Navy.
On the take as one of the Keating 5.
Pushed McCain/Feingold to gut the 1st Amendment because he didn’t like the criticism he got for his Keating participation. Law was struck down by the Supreme Court as unConstitutional. (”Preserve, Protect, and Defend”. Right, John?)
Volcanic temper.
Treacherous thorn in the side of the GOP during his whole Senate career.
Warmonger.
Terrorist sympathiser.
Vindictive score-settler right up until his passing.
Good list! I might add one.
Involved with foreign governments and U.S. spy agencies in an attempt to nullify the legal election of Donald Trump as President by the The People, according to the U.S. Constitution.
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
~Mark Twain
Thank you for your sincerity.
He sucked donkey balls ..All American traitor and Linda’s butt buddy ...All this BS is worse than Wellstone ...FU McDemocRat. Rot in hell, Juan ...
Let the Orwellian revisionism begin. The past is mutated to serve the hate Trump narrative of the propagandist media. McCain is adulated, his sketchy past is bleached, he is now a useful anti Trump icon to the Left.
When McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.
When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs, surgeons had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter.
But thru sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self.
Today, she stands at just 5ft4in and still walks awkwardly, with a pronounced limp. Her body is held together by screws and metal plates and, at 70, her face is worn by wrinkles that speak of decades of silent suffering.
For nearly 30 years, Carol has maintained a dignified silence about the accident, McCain and their divorce. But last week at the bungalow where she now lives at Virginia Beach, a faded seaside resort 200 miles south of Washington, she told The Mail on Sunday how McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later
You know what? Trump is the closest thing I have seen to Twain in my lifetime
It’s shameful.
Not that complicated
It’s not “complicated”. McCain was a “traitor”, in every sense of the word. Simple, what else matters?
Like ... he was a rapist, but he was a nice guy.
He collaborated with the enemy during a time of war (made propaganda videos and sang whatever tune the enemy wanted (aka “the songbird”)), but he was a POW.
NO! He was a POS.
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