McCain was shot down as a patriot and served honorably as a prisoner. His change to NoTrump and subsequent disgrace is a mystery. He is no hero but does not deserve concentrated hatred.
He was shot down because he was flying too low against orders, his injuries were from not following proper ejection procedures and he cooperated with the enemy in making propaganda tapes.
He is no hero.
He deserves concentrated hatred for his continuous advocacy of amnesty for illegal aliens which will cement in place the demographic changes that have resulted from the 30 year bipartisan policy of non-enforcement of laws and borders that I call the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA).
“He is no hero but does not deserve concentrated hatred.”
He has provided aid and comfort to foreign terrorists and jihadists who have committed war crimes and attempted genocide against Christians and other religious minorities in Syria and elsewhere. He has worked to earn all the derision and condemnation heaped on him in this life and the next.
McCain is an author of McCain-Feingold - and said that he knew it was not enough to accomplish what it (supposedly) is intended to do.McCain-Feingold is premised on the conceit that “the press” is distinct from “the people,” and that “the press” has rights in 1A that “the people” do not enjoy. McCain-Feingold thus undertakes to stipulate who is “the press,” and by implication who is not.
Honest interpretation of 1A is that “the freedom of . . . the press” is a right of the people, not of a priesthood/nobility which condescends to enlighten the unwashed masses. It is the right of the people - yes, to read newspapers &c - but also to print them. As such the fundamental premise of McCain-Feingold - that there are objective journalists and there are unwashed masses to be led by them - is arrant, arrogant, nonsense.
IMHO authorship of McCain-Feingold is an assault on the Constitution which disqualifies someone from "the tribute of patriotism.” (Washington’s Farewell Address)
And that is apart from his infamous suggestion that Obama would make a good POTUS. Both at the senatorial and the presidential levels he has selfishly deprived the people of his state and country of the choice of a better candidate than himself (and better candidates than John McCain are a dime a dozen).