Posted on 04/07/2022 8:32:56 PM PDT by RandFan
“The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin,” fumed John McCain back in March 2017. His target: Rand Paul, who had committed the unforgivable offense of momentarily delaying the latest round of NATO expansion. Montenegro, a tiny country in southeastern Europe that most Americans have never heard of, was about to join the sprawling military alliance — and McCain was determined to see the final ratification ritual proceed with as little debate as possible. So he hurled the time-honored “working for Putin” accusation, and sure enough, Paul quickly withdrew his minor procedural objection. The glorious ascension of Montenegro to NATO membership status was thereby assured.
Since that episode, a lot has transpired regarding the public perception of McCain. He delighted liberals by feuding regularly with Donald Trump — even going so far as to denounce Trump for engaging in “disgraceful” and “pathetic” flattery of Putin. “No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant,” McCain raged. He undermined Congressional Republicans’ legislative agenda during the brief window in Trump’s presidency when the party had unified control of government — famously delivering a dramatic thumbs-down gesture to derail GOP hopes of repealing Obamacare, as a chagrined Mitch McConnell watched powerlessly on.
McCain had returned to his most natural state. After annoying Democrats by running against Barack Obama in the 2008 election, and being surly about his defeat for some time afterwards, he had once again resumed playing the “maverick” role he so relished — reviled by “his own side,” and loved by the “other side.” His death in 2018 brought forth the most effusive display of state-sanctioned grief that any US political figure had received since Ronald Reagan died in 2004, with all the universal media adulation that entails.
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Flashback: John McCain on Rand Paul: "The Senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin"
Good ol' Senator "Me First", who promised to help repeal ObamaCare, and then voted to keep it...
I get the feeling his grave smells of urine and fecal matter.
...and back-stabbing...
“Montenegro, a tiny country in southeastern Europe that most Americans have never heard of”
I think Nero Wolf was Montenegrin.
I smiled when I heard that insufferable pr!ck took his dirt nap. I admit I voted for him in 2008, but that vote was really pro-Palin and anti-Barky. It was just coincidence that moron McCain was on the ticket.
McCain should be dug up and relocated to Hanoi. Ted Kennedy should be dug up and dumped in the nearest landfill. Traitors and scumbags all.
Ditto - Sarah Palin was obviously better qualified to be president than McCain, Obama, OR Biden...
Montenegro should change it’s name to Monteafro.
Who/what was paying “you-know-who” to be there?
And that’s coming from the coffin.
How come it's anti-war to cheer Putin's war, but it's pro-war NOT to go to war against Putin. It's a real headscratcher.
(but that vote was really pro-Palin and anti-Barky)
Same here
Warmongering globalists want people of European heritage dead.
It is that simple and that ugly.
Zelenskyy inspires widespread confidence from U.S. public as views of Putin hit new lowThis poll is from before Russian war crimes came to light.
Weeks after Russia invaded his country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy draws overwhelmingly positive ratings from the American public for his handling of international affairs. Around seven-in-ten Americans (72%) have a lot or some confidence in Zelenskyy, higher than any other international leader asked about in a new Pew Research Center survey.Russian President Vladimir Putin receives dismal ratings, with only 6% of U.S. adults expressing confidence in him following his decision to invade Ukraine – an all-time low in surveys going back nearly two decades. The vast majority of Americans (92%) have little or no confidence in Putin’s handling of world affairs, including 77% who have none at all.
McCain’s GOP = Bush League Republicans
Bush League Republican = Assistant Democrat
This has got to be the stupidest poll of all time. I wonder if they polled Russians on Biden's competence?
Good job confirming the poll of what Americans think about Putin.
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