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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Well he couldn’t expect Viet Nam to stay communist forever.
There are literally dozens of un-American malevolent things McCain has done but McCain/Feingold continues to stick in my craw more than any other to this day. It was like spitting in the faces of our Founding Fathers, rebuking the War of Independence and wiping his arse with the Constitution all in one.
Elizabeth,
McCain was only accidentally a Republican Party member. His in laws laid it out for him and he said okay to have access to her money.
With his heart and mind in the Washington lobbyist pocket he played to keep his seat.
THAT TITLE IS A GOOD THING!!!
LET’S HOPE IT KEEPS GOING FURTHER AND FURTHER FROM HIS VALUES.
Without reading the article, but only the headline: Am I to assume they are talking about Vietnam ?
That's what I assumed.
I think she has it in her mind to be appointed.
McCain served his masters well, the country, not so much.
Scion of Navy Brass? LMAO. He was an 0-6 Captain
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His father and grandfather were both admirals.
They will be replaced by McSallycain and an as yet unnamed Amnesty Senator, probably Meghan McCain.
Then it will be on like donkey Kong. Don’t care were it is. Likely to be a line.
he’s known for taking bribes from Charles Keating, but hey, vote for who you want to.
Yes, I know.
My dad was an O-6 Navy. 32 yrs. Me, one tour E-5.
My dad was an O-6 Navy. 32 yrs. Me, one tour E-5.
Duh. That is exactly what happens when you campaign one way (partisan) and govern another (bipartisan). In your next life Johhny Boy, try doing it right, just once.
Bipartisan legislating to a leftist is just a euphemism for ‘he gave into our demands and we had to give nothing in return’.
JoMa
Elizabeth Sherman lives in fear of the Christian Right
I’m shocked as usual
Why do all liberal Jews think religious Christians are just one epiphany away from pulling the cattle car whistles with glee
Bigotry is why I’ve sadly come to understand
Pure base prejudice and bigotry all the while claiming the mantle of victimhood in a land where they are tolerated and actually somewhat even celebrated and loved
What are his values? To destroy America.
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