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Fawning Over McCain
Original Content | 8/26/2018 | By Laz A. Mataz

Posted on 08/26/2018 5:56:17 AM PDT by Lazamataz

So, Arizona Senator John McCain finally passed on.

As the left's favorite "Republican" Senator, the headlines and opinions in the left-wing News Misleadia are predictable and cloying. A small sampling is listed below:

The content of the articles are even more obsequious than the headlines. I expected as much. McCain was the left's favorite Senator -- a fake Republican, globalist, and diehard #NeverTrumper who could be counted on to obstruct any of the agenda the right or nationists would embrace.

My mother always told me I should never speak ill of the dead. However, I routinely ignore my mother's advice.

There are factors about his behavior and life that have long been extremely disagreeable, and others that put him in stark opposition to the political party to which he swore allegiance. There are three subjects I will explore: His temper, his grudges, and his policy.

HIS UNCONTROLLED TEMPER

Even before his brain tumor -- when erratic behavior could be better explained -- John McCain was a mercurial and explosive person who reacted to various situations with uncontrolled rage and inappropriate behavior. In 1992, in front of three reporters, McCain called his wife a "c***". Another incident of volatile, unstable behavior was when . There are so many examples, that colleagues in the Senate were quite concerned about his stability.

He was, however, very aware of his unpredictable and anger-fueled behavior, admitted he had a temper problem, though he did so in a manner that absolved him of personal responsibility.

However, it's said that a picture says a thousand words. Here is one, taken during a debate, in which his inner rage is briefly visible.

HIS LASTING GRUDGES

McCain, a petty man who held lifelong grudges, he never forgot slights politicians gave him. Chuck Hagel refused to endorse McCain in 2008, and opposed him during votes surrounding the Iraq war, saw McCain withhold the single vote that would have made Hagel the Defense Secretary.

Of course, his blood feud against President Trump continued to his dying day. He remarked that he hoped that Trump succumbed to the Washington establishment and laughably suggested that Trump was responsible for the Syrians using chemical weapons. He admits he was the primary source of the infamous and specious "Russian Peeing Prostitute" dossier that started the baseless, year-long Special Prosecutor investigation that goes on to this day. Yet, he was proud of his shameful behavior, defiantly telling critics of his actions to 'go to hell'

His vendettas were only punctuated by his disloyalty. His former vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, had backed his reelection effort. For her steadfastness, McCain returned a gut-punch, stating that he regretted choosing Palin as his running-mate.

HIS GLOBALIST AND LEFTWING POLICIES

John McCain was described, often, as a maverick who bucked his Republican party principles. However, a case could be made that he actually was not a maverick, but was consistently on the side of the opposition party. That makes him less of a maverick and more of a betrayer. It was his one vote, cast proudly and with a sense of defiance, that preserved Obamacare. He was a diehard globalist who consistently pushed his Gang-of-Eight amnesty proposals. And, as a stalwart NeoConservative, there were very few military entanglements he did not gladly support.

John McCain's opposition to Conservative Republican ideology was troubling, but his temper and his willingness to provoke and attack our international enemies were terrifying. It is for this that I often remark that we dodged a bullet in 2008. While Barack Obama was a destructive and tragic President, at least, unlike McCain, he did not leave the world a smoking, radioactive ruin.


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To: DarthVader
Then while aboard the Aircraft Carrier USS Forrestal, McCain got angry because he had to wait in line to take off on a bombing run.

He shut off his engines, opened the cockpit, and in his haste to exit the aircraft to chew someone out about his having to “ wait”, he hit the button that released his live bombs onto the deck of the Forrestal.

He took off running, as the bombs exploded, which set off a chain reaction of bombs from adjacent aircraft, and the ensuing explosions and fires killed 133 sailors aboard the Forrestal.

While his fellow sailors were fighting the fire, McCain went to the pilot’s lounge below decks and watched the men fight the fire on closed circuit TV.

Hours later, McCain took off with a New York Times reporter buddy of his, and went on to say that after seeing the effects of those bombs on the Forrestal, he was beginning to question the morality of dropping those bombs on the Viet Cong.

McCain was the direct cause of 133 deaths on his own ship, and was never reprimanded. He was nowhere to be found as the Forrestal had to limp to the Philippines for months of repair work.

This nonsense has been disproven time after time after time. Isn't there enough to criticize McCain for without resorting to lying about his military service?

41 posted on 08/26/2018 6:16:52 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: allendale

That was probably McCain’s dying cackle. “Heh, heh! The media can use my death to attack Trump! Heh, heh! Heh, heh! Heh...” [instruments flatline]


42 posted on 08/26/2018 6:17:00 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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To: depressed in 06

I’ve been thinking about that. I think he ruined her life. Had he not picked her, she would have stayed governor, perhaps would be energy secretary for trump and president in the future. She would be better off never to hear John McCain.


43 posted on 08/26/2018 6:17:04 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Lazamataz

https://youtu.be/7tkBiFZBix0


44 posted on 08/26/2018 6:20:35 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (Say what you will about The Donald, but he has all the right enemies.)
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To: Daveinyork

That’s a great succinct summary of where I’m at.


45 posted on 08/26/2018 6:20:38 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Lazamataz

“””As the left’s favorite “Republican” Senator”””


The McCain hoopla will only last a week. As irritating as it will be, I know we Freepers are strong enough to survive the onslaught.


46 posted on 08/26/2018 6:21:57 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Lazamataz
One of the most hideous actions McCain ever did was torpedoing the Vietnam POW/MIA families efforts to search and return remains of their loved ones in order to help Clinton push MFN status to the communist Vietnamese government.

McCain Berating POW/MIA Family Member in Committee Hearing

Rot in Hell, Scumbag.

47 posted on 08/26/2018 6:23:25 AM PDT by TADSLOS (1. DonÂ’t Forget Nothing.)
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To: FreedomPoster

While watching the fawning over McCain on Fox and Friends, I’m glad to have at least one Freeper agreeing with me.


48 posted on 08/26/2018 6:23:31 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: Lazamataz
Much of this frenzy of McCain adulation is to get Governor Dulcey to appoint a McCain clone to the senate.

Dulcey appears to be fully capable of doing so.

He is quite a disappointment as Governor.

49 posted on 08/26/2018 6:23:38 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Lazamataz

It’s wall to wall mccain... for all weekend... I have the home and garden channel on for company. No more mccain.... he was not royalty and he was a butt to deal with....


50 posted on 08/26/2018 6:30:48 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: Lazamataz
Here is the link to Trump's Tweet on McCain's death.

Aaaand...as expected....the classless Trump-haters are trashing the President on this tweet.

As odd as it may seem, I'm following John "Johnny Rotten" Lyndon's approach. He was no fan of Thatcher, yet he refrained from trashing Thatcher when she died.

Indeed, per this article:

I’m not happy about the boo boo parties… Her politics were really dreadful and derisive and caused a great many issues for me when I was young, for all of us trying to go through that. But that don’t mean (sic) I am gonna dance on her grave, as they say. I’m not that kind of person.

He continues: “I was her enemy in her life but I will not be her enemy in her death. I am not a coward… My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good.” Lydon did, however, say he might have something better to do than watch Thatcher’s funeral on Wednesday (April 17) and speculated that his own funeral he’s “more likely to be dragged along from the back of a wagon.”

He's wrong about Thatcher's politics but if the lead singer of the Sex Pistols and PiL can stay mum on her death....

51 posted on 08/26/2018 6:32:39 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: Lazamataz

I hope he drowned in his own body fluids.

L


52 posted on 08/26/2018 6:35:04 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Lazamataz

Songbird John

From the Halls of Congress to the Shores of North Vietnam

Maverick, my ass. At least that term got the ast 4 Letters right


53 posted on 08/26/2018 6:39:21 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Moderates/Independents/Non-voters" Are DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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To: Lazamataz
I'm a staunch Conservative, aware of all his faults- and certainly no fan; but can't we leave the old fellow to rest in peace?

God forgive him, and comfort his family.

54 posted on 08/26/2018 6:39:47 AM PDT by patriot08 (5th generation Texan-(girl type) SEE MY TEXAS BIO PAGE)
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To: Lazamataz

I think the odds are high that he will be cremated. If he is, I think the odds are 99.99% that one of the following is true:

1. He’s not really dead.

(Did a disappearing act to avoid prosecution for his many crimes. You can get a lot of plastic surgery in 9 months. Or maybe really already in prison and for some reason both sides have reasons not to reveal it.)

2. They lied about the day of his death. He’s really been dead for a long time.

(They lied in order to affect the election/appointment of his successor. Or maybe to affect the news cycle in a big way, to distract from other issues.)

3. They lied about the cause of death.

(Probably either murder or suicide. Too long to go into the many reasons for this.)

There has been something VERY FISHY going on since he disappeared from public view about 9 months ago. Ask yourself WHEN has a politician been so invisible for so long, yet at the same time issuing statements and comments through a spokesperson (always or almost always unnamed). This happened in the old USSR, maybe Cuba, with Arafat, maybe a few others - all of them evil characters attempting to manipulate the public. But when has this ever happened in the USA? Ask yourself why a man who is supposedly dying and so incapacitated that he can’t be seen, can’t vote, won’t resign. If he were really dying, there must have been some point where it was very obvious and he chose to stop fighting, yet he still didn’t resign. That’s not how Americans behave. Not honest Americans anyway.


55 posted on 08/26/2018 6:40:09 AM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Lazamataz

I have long term memory. Sometimes.

56 posted on 08/26/2018 6:42:54 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: Lazamataz

No. It is not too soon.

When I think of McCain, I have mixed feelings. I lost my own father this month so I can freshly sympathize with his family for their grief and loss. It is very hard.

As for him, my mind can’t get past the fact that his vile vindictiveness lives on. And live on it certainly does.

Our nation is divided by the evil lies John S. McCain helped perpetuate and he was proud to do it. A betrayal I will always remember.


57 posted on 08/26/2018 6:43:36 AM PDT by LouisianaJoanof Arc
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To: Lazamataz

Good one, Laz.
No love lost here for McPain. I honestly can’t think of one thing positive that he did for this country.


58 posted on 08/26/2018 6:44:45 AM PDT by meyer (WWG1WGA, MAGA!)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

In 2008 he was the designated loser, appointed to that position by the Deep State. When the selection of Palin (a miscalculation on the part of the Deep State) accidentally energized his campaign and made a win look possible, he had to sabotage the momentum by suspending his campaigning in order to “do important work in the Senate”. As if he single-handedly was going to save the USA by his one vote out of 100. And if I recall there were exactly ZERO votes that were even close. So either that was a lie or his political insight was nil. In addition he began to behave very erratically, doing as much damage to his campaign as possible.

Nope. He knew EXACTLY what he was doing. He had no intention of winning.


59 posted on 08/26/2018 6:45:15 AM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Lazamataz

Still waiting for the media to praise a “maverick” Democrat.


60 posted on 08/26/2018 6:45:41 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator ("Conservatism" without G-d is just another form of Communism.)
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