John McCain: 'This Is My Last Term'

Newser ^ | May 1, 2018 | Polly Davis Doig

[Trump20162020]

Facing down an aggressive brain tumor that's kept him out of Washington for months, John McCain appears to be taking a hard look at his own mortality vis-a-vis his forthcoming book, The Restless Wave. "This is my last term," he writes in excerpts out now, via NPR and the Daily Beast. "If I hadn't admitted that to myself before this summer, a stage 4 cancer diagnosis acts as ungentle persuasion. I'm freer than colleagues who will face the voters again. I can speak my mind without fearing the consequences much."

On President Trump: "He has declined to distinguish the actions of our government from the crimes of despotic ones. The appearance of toughness, or a reality show facsimile of toughness, seems to matter more than any of our values."

[KarlInOhio]

So now he won’t have to pretend to be a conservative in 2022?

[Lurkinanloomin]

Not dead yet......

[Parley Baer]

With any luck this is his last month. Hey John old buddy, hang in there until June 1. Your best friend Parley.

[oldbrowser]

I feel sorry for the poor man. How could he be so wrong?
He seems to be more concerned with form than with solutions.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Is this McCain or the tumor talking???

[HangnJudge]

...“See that my grave is kept clean.”

Tan Me Hide when I’m Dead, Fred

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_Me_Kangaroo_Down,_Sport

[A_Former_Democrat]

God’s seen to that, Juan

[2ndDivisionVet]

[FrankR]

I wish him hell. (damned auto-correct, should be “well”)

ahem /s

[Trillian]

It’s too bad he’ll never admit to being a democrat all this time.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

*APPLAUSE* See ya! ;)

[Pravious]

Good riddance, Juan.

FU

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Couldn’t have said it better myself.

[so_real]

Agreed. It would have been nice if he had spoke his "mind without fearing the consequences" throughout his career rather than stabbing his constituents in the back throughout his career. Pathetic man.

[JayAr36]

Is anyone selling the tickets for his grave site?

[PROCON]

[pepsionice]

Knowing the timing of the North Korea meeting with Trump....it’s likely that it’ll happen right at the funeral period, and the President can hand attendance to the funeral over to Pence and skip this.

Knowing CNN, they’ve probably got twelve hours of material put up and ready to go for the day of the funeral and carry the whole thing live.

[Rummyfan]

Well, there’s a shocker!

[G Larry]

Please Note:

This is a NON-POST....

as I could not find anything nice to say....

[Fiddlstix]

[MUDDOG]

I went to the link, and the first thing I saw was “1960.” I knew it was later than that. then further down I saw that the US hit was 1963.

Bit of a shock to think I’d had a memory lapse that big.