I posted this very prediction a few minutes ago...the media is going to OVER DO the fawning on McCain to try and make Trump look negligent in doing it.
“Personal achievements”?
Last in his Navel Academy class...that’s an “achievement”?
Crashing five Navy planes...that’s an “achievement”?
Getting captured and becoming a “songbird”...that’s an “achievement”?
Running for President, and being saved by an embarrassing defeat by unknown Sarah Palin.
Uncontrolled temper tantrums...”that’s an “achievement”?
The media is using this as another tool to try and embarrass Trump, however, a lot of people agree with Trump about McCain...he was no hero.
He “ran” for President with the strongly-held conviction that it was his world-historical duty to lose graciously to Obama. Sarah Palin was too blinkered to understand the script that had been written for her and ran to win.
> “Personal achievements”?
Don’t forget that he sent a representative to get a copy of the all-important Trump dossier. We don’t know how important his role was but he certainly played a part leading to the Mueller attacks on political opponents. That’s THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the world to quite a few people today, so quite an achievement even if his role was small.
He may have helped fundamentally change the country so the government can use laws to crack down on political opponents with support of the press and people. While it’s always happened, it’s never had broad support. If the young generation thinks this is “normal” and continues it when they get power we are experiencing the biggest change since the Declaration of Independence. Many people are now saying the Declaration was wrong and the king (or those in power) can do just about anything to individuals or groups he doesn’t like. And McCain played a non-trivial part of making that happen.
You forgot his most important “Personal achievement”:
The only Republican member of the “Keating Five”.
The man was an embarrassment to RINOs all over the country. He should have done like Arlen Spector and just changed his affiliation to Demonrat years ago. Hell, he acted like one.
“Maverick”, my butt. “Useful idiot” was more like it.