No one who knows me thinks I am “well-meaning.” My comments were sarcastic, bitterly so. Mittens is a two-faced scoundrel of the worst order. I have no use for McCain, but the guy did fly planes off of a carrier and did get shot down and did endure some pretty brutal treatment. Mittens spent his life as a vulture capitalist with no redeeming qualities in my book.
> “I have no use for McCain, but the guy did fly planes off of a carrier and did get shot down and did endure some pretty brutal treatment.”
Actually he flunked flight school and was expelled but his Admiral father got him reinstated.
His plane downing in Vietnam was the result of flying too low against the clear orders of the flight plan. In other words, he screwed up.
He was given preferential treatment in POW camp. He wanted to confess and he did confress because he wanted to get out early but Admiral Stockdale who was in with him told all POWs “No one gets out of here unless we all get of out here together.”
Because his father and grandfather were US Navy Admirals, he was given favorable treatment as a POW.
His medal citations for heroism were suspicious as those citations are written according to a manual of instruction and require a clear and detailed description of exactly what the medal awardee did to receive medals of bravery and heroism. In McCain’s citations there was none of that. Other POWs had the citations written according to manual but not McCain’s. It’s almost as if someone was told to write a citation for heroism without knowing what heroic acts were involved.
Many Freepers including me did scions of research on McCain when he was badmouthing Trump everyday in the 2016 campaign. We uncovered incontrovertible facts about McCain that revealed what he really was. The only allegation against him that was fairly debunked was his culpability with the USS Forrestal fire. And still the jury is out on that, but there are so many other facts found on him showing him to be a fraud that it becomes clear as a bell why Candidate Trump said:
“He’s not a war hero,” said Trump. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”
Donald Trump was exactly right. McCain had allowed the media to build him up as a war hero when he was not. There were real heroes that died in the jungles of Viet Nam who were never given so many medals of heroism that McCain was awarded.
McCain was a fraud.
But what really grates me is what he did to his first wife Carol McCain when he got back. What he did is hard to forgive. I don’t even want to bring it up here as it’s so enraging. If he had at least confessed to the Lord and promised to be a better man, it would have made many think of him more sympathetically but he never asked for forgiveness,
He was elected and reelected in AZ because AZ is a red state with Republicans far outnumbering Democrats. The only way McCain could be put out of office would be to be primaried and JD Hayworth nearly did that but McCain’s campaign got Democrats in AZ to crossover in the AZ GOP primary and vote for McCain against the Republican conservative Hayworth. And of course McCain, like Romney, would speak out of both sides of his mouth and fool conservative voters in the GOP primary. When he would win the GOP primary, it would then be a cakewalk for him to win the general because there would be no way for a Democrat to win.