Whatever people think of McCain and he was a weasel, making the comment about him being captured was a stupid comment.
Whatever people think of McCain and he was a weasel, making the comment about him being captured was a stupid comment.
McCain was far more than a weasel. John Cornyn is a weasel. Kevin McCarthy is a weasel. McCain did lasting and deep damage to the country through his multiple "Gang of " so-called bipartisan deals like the Gang of Eight on immigration and Gang of Fourteen on judicial filibusters that always gave the Democrats the upper hand. Then there's his 2008 turn as designated loser to Obama in which McCain spent the better part of the campaign telling us what a swell guy Obama is. And finally, McCain's most lasting of damage of all in voting against the repeal of Obamacare to spite Trump on one of his major campaign promises. Of course, it's us, the American people who pay the heavy price on that of a destroyed health care system.
As far as I'm concerned, McCain turned any respect or sympathy he should have being a former POW into utter contempt by what he did as a politician. There is no longer McCain the hero POW, but McCain the bad politican. There's just McCain the galactically bad and damaging politician. He brought it on himself and his legacy.
McCain’s capture may have been the result of his foolhardy piloting of that Skyhawk bomber. After his plane had its wing shot off, he bailed out, landing into a lake. He was taken to a prison cell with broken left and right arms and leg. They tortured him to get military information.
Suddenly, McCain’s cell door burst open, and “The Bug” rushed in, saying, “Your father is a big admiral. Now we take you to the hospital.” The North Vietnamese figured out that McCain’s father, Jack, was a U.S. Naval commander. They started calling McCain “The Crown Prince.”