Sorry, but I, for one won’t give him an inch. He more than negated his service to this country by being a total asshole as a Republican Senator, from a CONSERVATIVE STATE where acting that way simply was not needed to get elected.
I have MUCH MORE RESPECT for Olympia Snowe (and Susan Collins) from Maine, who have to answer to a populace inclined to vote Democrat, in most cases. I also have MUCH MORE RESPECT for Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi, as they are only carrying out what their voters expect. I have never, and would never, use the language here against Barbara or Nancy - they don’t hide who they are or what they want for this country...so they earn respect (from me, at least) as human beings.
McCain had NO REASON to be such a dick...he could have been reasonably conservative (like Kay Bailey Huchison, for example) and stuck with the party when we needed him...but no, he was a total a-hole (trying to keep it clean here) - even to the point of threatening to run against President Bush in 2004. If he wanted sympathy from this FReeper, he won’t get it, not at all.
The only good thing he ever did was pick Sarah Palin as his running mate, but I don’t ever remember him coming to her defense when she and her family were repeatedly attacked by the media, or his pals in the Democrat party.
Well said.