Posted on 08/26/2018 5:56:17 AM PDT by Lazamataz
So, Arizona Senator John McCain finally passed on.
As the left's favorite "Republican" Senator, the headlines and opinions in the left-wing News Misleadia are predictable and cloying. A small sampling is listed below:
The content of the articles are even more obsequious than the headlines. I expected as much. McCain was the left's favorite Senator -- a fake Republican, globalist, and diehard #NeverTrumper who could be counted on to obstruct any of the agenda the right or nationists would embrace.
My mother always told me I should never speak ill of the dead. However, I routinely ignore my mother's advice.
There are factors about his behavior and life that have long been extremely disagreeable, and others that put him in stark opposition to the political party to which he swore allegiance. There are three subjects I will explore: His temper, his grudges, and his policy.
HIS UNCONTROLLED TEMPER
Even before his brain tumor -- when erratic behavior could be better explained -- John McCain was a mercurial and explosive person who reacted to various situations with uncontrolled rage and inappropriate behavior. In 1992, in front of three reporters, McCain called his wife a "c***". Another incident of volatile, unstable behavior was when . There are so many examples, that colleagues in the Senate were quite concerned about his stability.
He was, however, very aware of his unpredictable and anger-fueled behavior, admitted he had a temper problem, though he did so in a manner that absolved him of personal responsibility.However, it's said that a picture says a thousand words. Here is one, taken during a debate, in which his inner rage is briefly visible.
HIS LASTING GRUDGES
McCain, a petty man who held lifelong grudges, he never forgot slights politicians gave him. Chuck Hagel refused to endorse McCain in 2008, and opposed him during votes surrounding the Iraq war, saw McCain withhold the single vote that would have made Hagel the Defense Secretary.
Of course, his blood feud against President Trump continued to his dying day. He remarked that he hoped that Trump succumbed to the Washington establishment and laughably suggested that Trump was responsible for the Syrians using chemical weapons. He admits he was the primary source of the infamous and specious "Russian Peeing Prostitute" dossier that started the baseless, year-long Special Prosecutor investigation that goes on to this day. Yet, he was proud of his shameful behavior, defiantly telling critics of his actions to 'go to hell'
His vendettas were only punctuated by his disloyalty. His former vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, had backed his reelection effort. For her steadfastness, McCain returned a gut-punch, stating that he regretted choosing Palin as his running-mate.
HIS GLOBALIST AND LEFTWING POLICIES
John McCain was described, often, as a maverick who bucked his Republican party principles. However, a case could be made that he actually was not a maverick, but was consistently on the side of the opposition party. That makes him less of a maverick and more of a betrayer. It was his one vote, cast proudly and with a sense of defiance, that preserved Obamacare. He was a diehard globalist who consistently pushed his Gang-of-Eight amnesty proposals. And, as a stalwart NeoConservative, there were very few military entanglements he did not gladly support.
John McCain's opposition to Conservative Republican ideology was troubling, but his temper and his willingness to provoke and attack our international enemies were terrifying. It is for this that I often remark that we dodged a bullet in 2008. While Barack Obama was a destructive and tragic President, at least, unlike McCain, he did not leave the world a smoking, radioactive ruin.
Was it not John McCain’s amnesty push that gave us Nancy Pelosi in the 2006 midterms?
I always thought so.
He ratted on his fellow POWs and did propaganda for ‘Charlie’ and the ChiComs. Then had his military record sealed.
And then they ran him for president.
Just like they ran Romney right after Obamacare.
Well said and so right that McCain was a petty man. I’d not even sure I would use the word “man”. He was really more of a petulant child in my eyes. Maybe the Vietcong did something to his brain to stop him from maturing past that point. I don’t know how many deaths McCain caused whether it be hundreds on ships, thousands or even millions elsewhere. I do now he was never a good man. Leaving his crippled wife after she stood by so loyally was the true nature of this cretin who deserves very little praise. He was nothing more than an opportunist and a cad. He might have come from good people but he wasn’t one himself.
The media and the left will have their days of glorifying him. We know the truth.
I just visualized that and LOL’d.
Bringing Sarah on board was what caused me to vote for him and not just against 0bama. It propelled them upward in the polls, causing them to overtake 0bama. It brought donations to his campaign. He could have beaten 0bama if he’d really tried, but he didn’t.
Why?
McCain was a treasonous pos as bad as they get. A curse on him and his house!
Wow! You’re right! Nine years to the DAY!
Failed McCain.
Almost failed at the academy.
Mediocre pilot at best
Failed as a prisoner, ask his prison mates.
Failed as a husband
Failed as a Senator, too spiteful to be of any worth.
Failed!
One of the Munchkin’s song keeps running through my head and it sure as L ain’t “Follow the Yellow Brick Road”.
That's right. He successfully kept a Senate seat voting in the D column while occupying a space in the R column. That's a big two-fer for the Left.
I am so sick of the media and people in general worshiping him as if he were the second coming of Christ!
Never too soon
Zell Miller was the only one I think of that ever came close while staying a Democrat. And you're right. No praise for him. Reagan and Trump were both Democrats at one time and became Republicans after their party left them.
Keating Five
Selling his fellow soldiers out in Nam
Lying about his injuries in Nam
General a hole behaviour on the campaign trail ( what he did to JD Hayworth was despicable)
What he did to his first wife
I could go on but I don’t want my blood pressure to go to high
I abslutely cannot stand even five seconds of the obsequious fake news fawning! It’s all based on hatred of Trump, not on genuinely felt admiration of McCain. It’s truly sickening.
So today I am again avoiding the fake news, it’s too nauseating. I will be watching “Longmire” on Netflix, the Little League World Series, and the Waterford crystal shows on Evine.
These same people were calling McCain “Hitler” when he ran against Obama in 2008.
Nailed it Good!
I can never forgive him for his thumbs down no vote on repealing Obamacare. What a piece of shit!
It’s never too soon, or too late.
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