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John McCain is a living,g barely breathing, example of what a politician should NOT do if he wants to keep his integrity while running for office.
Choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate may be the most obvious example of how low he will go to win, but every decision he has made since has demonstrated how naked ambition has completely replaced the integrity that most people saw in him during the decades past.
Essentially the John McCain of old has completely ceased to exist.
I agree. However, I have always had my suspicions about McCain's integrity since learning about how he treated his first wife, the comments made by his fellow POW's, and researching his background.
ReplyDeleteIf he had not been the son and grandson of admirals, if they had not pulled strings, he would not have graduated from the military college nor would he have been allowed to train as a pilot or even continue as a pilot due to his horrid academic and flight records. He crashed so many times that most other men would have been drummed out of the pilot corps.
Yes, he suffered as a POW, but that does not erase his past before that point nor does it excuse his behavior since that time.
He, in my opinion, has always had someone else clear his path, ease his journey - be it influential family members or a rich second wife. Just like Dubya, someone was there to pull him out his own messes.
The McCain we thought we admired may have just been a construct that crumbled when pressure was applied. If his values had been real, had been part of his true character, they would not have evaporated so quickly.
Unless, of course, he is becoming senile. Desperate times bring out your true character.
My folks taught me that as you age, not only does your face betray your true character - so do your actions. You become more of what you are. If you are a good person, you don't suddenly become a bad one - barring chemical abuse or organic mental disease.
I think we may just be finally seeing him as he always was - time and pressure may have stripped away the facade.
In addition to his selection of Palin as a running mate in 2008, and having her campaign for him in 2010, he has also made a name for himself as the embodiment of GOP obstructionism in the Senate.
ReplyDeleteThis is his legacy that will be long remembered, because it negates all the good that came before.
I do believe John most likely has no life outside of politics otherwise why would he keep embarrassing himself. The old ego just keeps humming away... All your supposed buddies will fall away to the next guy with power and you are left there waiting for the phone to ring.
ReplyDeleteDo yourself a favor John, fight for something you can win at.
Note to newscasters....please please stop with the interviews its just sad.
John McCain has not changed one bit. He's always been the songbird and he twisted that into lies to make himself out to be a hero.
ReplyDeletehoping he gets defeated in his re-election...tired of hearing from this ol' windbag.
ReplyDeleteThe old geezer has to be getting more and more senile. He was never a Maverick. Really? He is just like his former running mate, just makin' stuff up; never mind that there is footage, and lots of it available to prove them liars !
ReplyDeleteMcSenile shed his soul years ago, now he is just trying to re-brand.
ReplyDeleteWhile at SeaTac last night I caught McCain's "I never considered myself a maverick" comment on CCN. As a montage of "maverick" campaign clips rolled ad nauseum, a ripple of titters raised to outright guffaws throughout the waiting Anchorage-bound crowd. Sarah and John, meet Rodney Dangerfield.
ReplyDeleteMcCain is a belligerent, out of touch old man whose time has come and gone, if there ever was a time for him to begin with. Think Captain Queeg of The Caine Mutiny. I'm tired of angry Americans who can't accept change and have no ideas to contribute - McCain is always talking about 'fighting' and the teabaggers are an angry bunch who want 'their' America back spouting talking points and adding NOTHING to the conversation.
ReplyDeleteadd pathetic to the adjectives that describe McCain. Rachael Maddow commented the other night that his “long career was supposed to be punctuated with an exclamation point – ‘President John McCain’ … instead it’s starting to look as if the story will end with no punctuation at all, just smaller and smaller font size until nobody can read it anymore.”
ReplyDeleteIt's just a myth that John McCain was so principled. His big bill for campaing finance reform was a PR stunt thought up by his advisors when he got caught in a major corruption scandal. We are just getting a glimpse at the real John McCain. Picking Sarah Pailin was the reckless gambler instinct in him.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant piece. Brilliant. McCain is shorting his own soul.
ReplyDeleteThen again, I never bought his percieved worth.
He is going to go down as a footnote in American political history, even the Texas School Board will minimize his role.
ReplyDeleteWhat he deserves most is being overshadowed by that do-nothing, know-nothing pretender, Sarah Palin.
It's laughable that some of his supporters have referred to him as a "man's man" in comparison with President Obama. I guess by that they mean his adolescent, empty bravado shown in uttering foolishness like "Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran" to the tune of the Beach Boy's Barbara Ann.
ReplyDeleteAny plusses in his character have been sacrificed to his bald ambition to win at any cost. Pandering to the hard right, and hitching his wagon to the "star" of a silly know-nothing like Palin (whose anti-intellectualism is dangerous) have cost him his honor and integrity. He has shown a willingness to say and do anything to win. And I hope he loses this time. If not to Hayworth, then to the Arizona Democrat who will be running against the winner of the GOP primary there.
Did someone say John McCain and integrity? ROTFL
ReplyDelete"The John McCain of old has completely ceased to exist."
ReplyDeleteAnd along with the "new John McCain" this is a bad thing?