Let me see....wasn't it the people that decided not to vote in the last election to "teach the republicans a lesson" that lost us the republican majority to begin with?? Sorry, I don't see how McCain not casting a vote against the democRAT treason is a good thing.
"Sorry, I don't see how McCain not casting a vote against the democRAT treason is a good thing."
This wasn't a vote on the proposal. It was a vote on whether or not to end the debate and allow a vote on the proposal. They had to have 60 votes to end the debate.
Let's say this had been a proposal to, oh, abolish the 2nd Amendment, a non-binding resolution. Let's say you're a Senator who knows that they can never get enough votes to bring such a dastardly resolution to a vote. Can't you imagine saying something like, "this is such an assault on freedom, such an insult, that I'm not even going to participate--I'm not even going to help legitimate it by showing up."
I can certainly see myself doing that; refusing to show up for a farce of a sham of an insult, knowing that my adversaries have no chance of winning.
The situation is in no way like people staying home from the polls on election day. It might be a bit like that, if we had Democrats mandating that people come and vote for their candidates. In that case, wouldn't you tell them to go to hell? Wouldn't you stay home?
All it would have taken is for ALL Republicans to have refused to participate in this non- binding charade of a motion to have made their point -
That Republicans are not up here in Congress to play political games at the expense of our troops.
If all Republicans had united on refusing to vote in respect to our troops then they could have avoided playing sheeple to the people of their districts.
By refusing to vote a Republican senator or representative would be announcing that their careers are demonstrably secondary to the lives of our soldiers. It would have been understood that a vote boycott would signal our disgust with demonrat tactics while supporting our troops.
Only the demonrats would be flailing and cursing among themselves and be shown to be the cowards that they are.
For the life of me, I don't know why Republicans did not unite and adopt a boycott vote strategy - except for the fact that the Hegels and their ilk had to preen for the cameras for re-election purposes.