RIP John McCain

[tinselwolverine]

WSJ.

 

[Gulo Blue]

I like McCain for butting heads with other republicans.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I voted for McCain for president in the 2000 California Republican primary, and then in 2008 in the general election.

 

[Michchamp]

I like McCain for butting heads with other republicans.

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In 2008, the press mostly, finally fell out of love with McCain, in part because he was running against Barack Obama, but also because it became painfully clear that McCain was and always had been a mostly unremarkable party-line Republican, whose obvious discomfort with the far-right was not actually supported by the backbone necessary to challenge the far-right. Now, with a deranged Republican president and a wholly Republican Congress, McCain will once again try to paint himself as a voice of reason and a courageous truth-teller, while not actually doing anything.

Most of the political press is amnesiac and sycophantic enough to fall for it again, but it is obvious at this point in his long career that Senator John McCain is not going to ?fight? Trump. He?s going to say various anti-Trump things, on TV and to reporters, while never using his very real power as a senior Republican senator to interrupt the implementation of Trump?s, and his party?s, eschatological agenda.​

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McCain has been a fairly reliable Republican vote since entering the Senate in 1987. From 1987 to 2015, McCain voted with the Republican Party 87 percent of the time on party-line votes1 in the average Congress. The median senator during that period voted with his or her party 91 percent of the time. So McCain?s body of work in the Senate doesn?t look very maverick-y, even if he has been slightly less likely to vote with his party than the median senator.​

Praising McCain as a "Maverick" or decrying Joe Biden as a "leftist" is like actually believing Andre the Giant was a bad guy, and Hulk Hogan was an American hero in that one wrestlemania. Kayfabe..

 

[Michchamp]

Not that it's as bad as his Iraq War vote, or all the excessive military spending he helped push, but McCain also went out of his way to oppose making Martin Luther King Jr Day a federal holiday... from at least 1983-1994. link.

Maverick!

Don't forget how hilariously the use of that stupid term blew up when Sarah Palin took it to oxymoronic levels by declaring McCain-Palin "a team of mavericks"

 

[Gulo Blue]

Yeah? Well, I like McCain for butting heads with other republicans.

 

[Michchamp]

Yeah? Well, I like McCain for butting heads with other republicans.

You also must get real worked up watching WWE Monday Night Raw or whatever.

 

[sggatecl]

You also must get real worked up watching WWE Monday Night Raw or whatever.

 

[sggatecl]

Not that it's as bad as his Iraq War vote, or all the excessive military spending he helped push, but McCain also went out of his way to oppose making Martin Luther King Jr Day a federal holiday... from at least 1983-1994. link.

I'll choose to remember this McCain that repeatedly shut down every racist attack from his supporters that he came across during his 2008 campaign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=jrnRU3ocIH4

 

[sggatecl]

"I like people who weren't captured." ~ Donald Trump

 

[tomdalton22]

Not that it's as bad as his Iraq War vote, or all the excessive military spending he helped push, but McCain also went out of his way to oppose making Martin Luther King Jr Day a federal holiday... from at least 1983-1994. link.

Maverick!

Don't forget how hilariously the use of that stupid term blew up when Sarah Palin took it to oxymoronic levels by declaring McCain-Palin "a team of mavericks"

there are too many federal holidays.

They don't need MLK day, President's Day, Veterans Day or Columbus Day.

 

[sggatecl]

there are too many federal holidays.

They don't need MLK day, President's Day, Veterans Day or Columbus Day.

The worst.

 

[biggunsbob]

Get rid of Columbus day!!!

 

[tinselwolverine]

The worst.

We don't have Columbus Day in Los Angeles anymore. We have Indigenous people's day.

Hispanics parade through the streets with faux heads of Columbus impaled on sticks.

 

[tinselwolverine]

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So...basically...the gist of these two articles is that McCain has voted his party's line the majority of the time - like most members of Congress - and his calculations regarding Iraq were as accurate, or inaccurate, as were the calculations again of, most members of Congress.

How enlightening.

How has neither of these two ever won a Pulitzer?​

 

[Michchamp]

So...basically...the gist of these two articles is that McCain has voted his party's line the majority of the time - like most members of Congress - and his calculations regarding Iraq were as accurate, or inaccurate, as were the calculations again of, most members of Congress.

How enlightening.

How has neither of these two ever won a Pulitzer?

No... basically.... that's not it.

 

[tinselwolverine]

No... basically.... that's not it.

The first article is titled something like ?don?t fucking talk to me about John McCain until he?s dead??

Well the journalist is about to get his wish.

Maybe when McCain actually dies Trump should invite the writer to the White House.

The two seem to have a common hatred for for McCain.

Maybe they can take marine one to air force one to John McCain?s grave and dance on it together.

 

[sggatecl]

Senator John McCain, ex-POW and political maverick, dead at 81

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran unsuccessfully for president in 2008, died on Saturday at age 81, according to a statement from his office on Saturday.

McCain had been battling glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer discovered in July 2017 and had not been seen at the U.S. Capitol in 2018. McCain had undergone surgery in mid-April for an intestinal infection.

 

[Gulo Blue]

McCain on FoxNews



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtkL80q_k1E

 

[tinselwolverine]

I just heard it reported that amongst McCain’s final wishes is that he does not want Trump at his funeral.

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