I lost all respect for Sen. John McCain when he nominated Sarah Palin for vice president. While he liked to say he put “country first”, this crass political pick showed he only cares about his political career.
In a tough fight for reelection, McCain has abandoned every value and principle he once pretended to care about. First, he claimed that he never said he was a maverick. Then, he abandoned campaign finance reform. Now, he is trying to win over Tea Party voters by veering sharply to the right.
Sen. McCain has become a disgrace, showing that he is one of the most solipsistic men in the Senate. Here is his latest tirade, against hate crimes and Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell.
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The poor man is in the throes of severe dementia.
He needs to be housed in a care facility until his passing.
I feel so sorry for him. He is so desperate to be reelected that he has thrown out all his principals in order to pander to the extremist fringies of the conservative Republican Party. He may end up being reelected, but at what cost? I respect him for his service to America, but I can never take him seriously again.
” I respect him for his service to America, but…”. Michael: Not to be argumentative but why respect John McCain at all. In 2008 the Rolling Stone did an amazing expose of John McCain’s supposed “service to America” and it shows him to be an utterly narcissistic self-promoter in whatever endeavor he takes on. Frankly, I see no reason to respect John McCain at all. I hope he loses his election, even to a tea-bagger.
Even before he sold his soul to Sarah Palin, McCain was intemperate and trigger-happy. If he had been elected President 10-15 years ago, I fear we might all be dead now from his desire to nuke foes rather than pursue smart foreign policy.
“I see no reason to respect John McCain at all”
When you sit in a sqalid NV POW cell for five years, are tortured and refuse early release ahead of your lesser rank comrades, then you can say that. There is no need to agree with or respect any of his political positions but his service to the country is beyond politics and beyond argument.
Bob, that’s a reason to feel sympathy for him, not respect.
Respect may be due for his actions of 40 years ago — but his some of his actions since then are worthy of contempt.
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