Posted on 03/25/2017 11:01:12 AM PDT by WilliamIII
Doug Bandow March 21, 2017 TweetShareShare Printer-friendly version Sen. John McCain has the reputation of a foreign-policy maven. He pays attention to little other than foreign affairs. When he ran for president in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis, he admitted that he didn’t know much about economics, which helped doom his candidacy. Unfortunately, he shows no greater sophistication when it comes to his favorite topic.
Nor does he brook disagreement, even if well founded. In his view, those who disagree with him are little better than traitors. Especially Americans who believe that Senator McCain’s most important duty is to protect this nation.
In fact, he has routinely advocated what amounts to sacrificing U.S. interests while pushing confrontation and sometimes war with a long list of countries around the globe: Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, North Korea and, worst of all, Russia. There is scarcely a conflict he doesn’t want the United States to plunge into. And rarely a military deployment he does not want to make permanent. Whatever the international issue, he sees U.S. military action as the answer.
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Wait, McTurd had a prime?
It’s about time someone pushes back against McCain and his tirades. How I loathe McCain. There are a lot of terrible politicians in DC, but McCain stands at the top of the heap in my eyes.
Does an ursid defecate in the forest?
He has become a senile bitter old man who is insanely jealous of Donald Trump and is now out to destroy Trump. McCain has spent his whole life in politics and thought he deserved to be President. Along comes the accomplished businessman, non-politician who schlongs the Republicans.
Yesterday’s repeal & replace disaster showed just how worthless politicians are. All talk & do nothing. Trump has built an empire outside of politics & these idiots couldn’t get a bill passed that they have talked about for 7 years.
Trump has shown how worthless McCain & the others are & McCain can’t handle it.
Past his prime? Heck, he’s past his sell-by date.
As Past as Rasputin.
yes and also well beyond his expiration date as a politician. He needs to be retired as his vote in the Senate is always up for grabs. How many “gang of number” has he been a conspirator in?
How do you measure his prime when he never achieved a start............
Agreed!
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McCain says:
"Why don't you shut your political pie hole?"
Stifling the www? Online Freedom of Speech Act (H.R. 1606)
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“He never had a prime. He was a disaster as a midshipman, as a pilot and has been a disaster as a Senator.”
I like your answer the best.....mcshame is just a very angry bitter old man.
Add treason to the list for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
There was a reason he was at the bottom of his class at Annapolis. He's not the sharpest tool in the toolbox.
What has he ever done in Congress? The Keating Five? McCain-Feingold? A lot of talk but no do. One of the worst presidential candidates for the GOP in my lifetime.
He's an opportunist with no character. He dumped his first wife when he returned from Vietnam because she was disfigured in an auto accident. He is a gold digger. He married a sugar ma'am in his current wife, the heir to the Budweiser distributorship in Arizona.
Trump was right about McPain. Even his fellow POWs loathed the man.
He’s 80 years old and 81 years past his prime!
Agree. He was spoiled and cocky in the Academy. Stretched the rules. Left his wife who waited for him and cared for the children when he was a POW. And more.
He is long overdue for retirement, but Arizona still thinks that he deserves his Senate title for all of eternity due to his POW status.
It is time for him to go.
McCain is bat shyte crazy and needs to be removed from office......IMHO!
Absurd question! It assumes that there was (ever) a “prime”...
McCain, and Lame, and Brain seem to coexist in a tight bundle.
He was always beyond his prime.
What prime?
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