Posted on 04/30/2018 5:45:50 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., says his brain cancer diagnosis has given him a sense of freedom to speak his mind in what is his final term in the Senate.
"This is my last term," McCain says in an excerpt of a new memoir set for release next month. "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. And I can vote my conscience without worry," McCain writes. "I don’t think I’m free to disregard my constituents’ wishes, far from it. I don’t feel excused from keeping pledges I made. Nor do I wish to harm my party’s prospects. But I do feel a pressing responsibility to give Americans my best judgment."
The Arizona Republican laments about the state of American politics and the rise of politicians unwilling to compromise on issues that must be solved. At one point, he tells readers that they should not support a candidate for Congress who "rides his white horse to Washington" with a partisan agenda.
However, if someone tells you they will build alliances and "split differences where possible to make measurable progress" on national issues, "ask that candidate to run for president," he writes.
Consequences like being tried for treason?
Is he coming out of the closet at last? How will that affect Linda?
I’m feeling freer to speak my mind also.
KMA John.
hard to imagine McShame shooting off his mouth any MORE freely than he always has
but if so, let’s pray we’re subjected to it for a very very VERY short time
I wonder if this prick has any idea just how much he is hated.
Does this mean he’s going to be silent from now on?
“Nor do I wish to harm my party’s prospects”
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The Rat party that is.
When he goes the Media will mourn him like Princess Di.
Freer to be a Democrat more like it
McCain: Why don’t you start voting, retiring or dying NOW.
What the H... is that?
Dead...what in the hell is that?
It’s not like he ever held back before.
..........one of my very best friends died in mid March of Stage 4 cancer. It started in his torso area and then about a year later they told us it was in his brain.
2 weeks later he didn’t really know who he was and wasn’t feeling any pain. We were told that it was because that part of his brain that controlled pain was gone.
Anyway, 2 weeks after that he passed laying in his own bed at around 8:30 on a Saturday morning.
My guess is McCain won’t see June.
My Dad died of colon cancer in 1996..back then getting colonoscopies was considered a hush hush thing so he was afraid to do it..if found early he would be alive today, instead it spread to his liver, he lived for one year..remission, then came blazing back destroyed his liver..watching someone die of cancer is one of the worst things you can experience..my guess is you are right, June at the latest..but his last dying breath will be bashing Trump, in his mind he would have died happy
He probably thrives on it.
Isn’t he just admitting that he has been a political hack all this time?
Just had one today. Perfectly clear, with a touch of diverticulosis...
“...But I do feel a pressing responsibility to give Americans my best judgment....”
Suffice to say America has had enough of his “judgement”.
Just hurry and FOAD, Traitor
Trump should say I am not dying and I will still speak my mind. Especially about John McCain.
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