Yes, I voted for him when he ran for President, but I only voted for him in the 2008 general election. His "maverick' reputation had tainted him for me, since he had voted for liberal policies in the past, including his rejection of the Bush tax cuts in 2001. He also voted for climate alarmism, amnesty, and campaign finance "reform", in reality a form of political censorship. The legislation was so bad, that Washington Post columnist George Will had dedicated multiple broadsides against it.
Finally, the legislation was overturned in 2010. The five Supreme Court Justices who had ruled in favor of free speech stood their ground in spite of the abusive disrespect of President Barack Obama. Then came the full-borne floodgates of money, speech, and networking that exposed the political establishment for what it really was. With all that money pouring into television ads across the nation, Jeb Bush merely revealed to millions why he was a tired, unqualified candidate for the White House.
Hillary Clinton spent nearly twice as much as Trump, yet she still lost. Lipstick on a pig, no matter how rare or expensive, will not make beautify the beast. More money in politics has not corrupted the process, but has rather given more voices, groups, and interests the chances to make their case to the broader electorate. In the past, the incumbents scored most of the free press, and the challenges struggled to raise money because of stringent campaign finance laws.
As for climate alarmism, more nations are waking up to the more destructive agenda behind this move: government overreach into our daily lives. McCain wanted to make nice with liberal interests in the United States Senate. He wanted to place himself in the center, commanding demands over both sides of the aisle, to hold onto power the same way that swing justices on the Supreme Court would decide major cases.
There's no principle in that, no policy goals which work for the best of all Americans. McCain was out for himself, and he looked for every arbitrary means to make himself "independent."
What is all the mourningt about in the press, then? Why are we getting bombarded with some of the most average coverage, like "Meghan McCain cries over father's casket"? What did anyone expect her to do? Laugh? Make a field goal? Go to Disneyland?
This is a very trying, hard time for the entire family, and I respect that. The media is propping up their reporting on John McCain because he served as the most reliable foil, the most consistent thorn to conservatives across the country and to the Trump Administration in particular. John McCain served as the signal of never-ending dissension among Republicans. He helped the media continue this lie that President Trump does not really represent the GOP, and that the real estate mogul and reality TV star was a mere aberration.
John McCain was a polished, acceptable version of "The Resistance", a full on Establishment crony who never fought the DC Swamp, who put civility above constitutional civilization. He turned over the Steele Dossier in a brazen attempt to question, undermine, and render illegitimate the Trump Administration.
The press could play up their patriot credibility by fawning over John McCain, too, since he was a Vietnam War Veteran. This time around, however, all the gloating and love for McCain is falling on deaf ears. Most people don't take the mainstream networks seriously anymore. All the junk exposing McCain's anti-Trump, anti-Tea Party animus has come out.
McCain will go down as a veteran who worked for himself once he ascended the US Senate. Period.
We will also recall that his Trump Derangement Syndrome did a greater service purging the Republican Party of unhelpful RINOs who cared more about a globalist agenda that put Americans a distant second behind government and corporate interests.
McCain was all about McCain, and he became Big Media's darling because he hated Trump so much. That is all.
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