Posted on 06/17/2018 12:40:36 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Arizona Sen. John McCain - scion of Navy brass, flyboy turned Vietnam war hero and tireless defender of American global leadership - now faces terminal brain cancer.
I am a scholar of American politics. And I believe that, regardless of his storied biography and personal charm, three powerful trends in American politics thwarted McCain's lifelong ambition to be president. They were the rise of the Christian right, partisan polarization and declining public support for foreign wars.
Republican McCain was a champion of bipartisan legislating, an approach that served him and the Senate well. But as political divides have grown, bipartisanship has fallen out of favor.
Most recently, McCain opposed Gina Haspel as CIA director for "her refusal to acknowledge torture's immorality" and her role in it.
Having survived brutal torture for five years as a prisoner of war, McCain maintained a resolute voice against U.S. policies permitting so-called "enhanced interrogations." Nevertheless, his appeals failed to rally sufficient support to slow, much less derail, her appointment.
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The cycle always repeats in the end. Trump is only "the worst President ever!!" until the next Republican President.
“Vietnam war hero and tireless defender of American global leadership”
What BS! A better description would be a traitor and disloyal ingrate.
There’s the old saying you judge someone by the company they keep.
We all remember how McCain and his POS campaign chief Steve Schmidt treated Sarah Palin.
McCain is a putz without honor and duty. He deserved to lose.
Somehow, I can’t remember hearing any of this praise from the MSM in the Fall of 2008.
McCain NEVER BUILT A DAMNED THING. He has always CONSUMED the production of other, better people!
“Songbird” is no Vietnam hero either, except in his own demented mind.
This is why, sadly, we must push back against simply allowing more women to serve in political positions.
For every one Sarah Palin, you get dozens of Nancy Pelosis.
And we're still waiting for an American "Margaret Thatcher".
Values?? Like dumping your ill wife and latching on to a rich heiress?
She forgot Liar, Cheat and Thief - He owns at least a dozen luxury homes around the country. Paid for on the backs of everyone he stole from.
They loved McCain as long as he was a thorn in Republicans’ sides.
The media quickly turned against him when he threatened Democrat power. Throughout it all, he remained their devoted friend.
There’s nothing that commends him to me or that makes me want to like him.
Note to John: You can leave anytime.
“For every one Sarah Palin, you get dozens of Nancy Pelosis.”
For every one Sarah Palin, you get millions of Nancy Pelosis.
Juan McShame is now and has been the turd in America’s swimming pool. That’s all I’m going to say.
What values?
Like he had any.
He promised to vote to repeal Obamacare and then he voted to keep it.
A man of his word, indeed.
Charm, no. But the guy didn't fade into the wallpaper. He had a talent for getting his name (and his comments) into the papers. If you're able and willing to attract attention like that people can't help wondering what you'll say next. For all McCain's hatred of Trump (and vice versa, maybe), they do have that in common.
“She wrote this piece for The Conversation, where it first appeared.”
Is this an opus? Did he FINALLY CROKE?
Trump demands attention because he’s trying to further his program of making our country great again.
McCain demands attention because he thinks he deserves it because he’s HIM.
I do see a difference.
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