He also likes to downplay the role his father and grandfather had in his entrance to and graduation from Annapolis (3rd from the bottom of his class!) and his continued flying after his loss of multiple aircraft.

This. I know a few veterans and a couple of them are complete and utter shitstains. You get to play the veteran card with me ONCE. After that, you get treated like everybody else.

I remember people saying they DID NOT vote for McCain specifically because of here potential proximity to the presidency.

Fair enough!

Agreed. Whatever the Republicans did to shut him up and appear on a public stage with the likes of Sarah Palin made the Viet Cong look like chumps.

Which is precisely why I said that McCain the Senator has been a disgrace, even if McCain the service-member was not.

Well, there’s a certain amount of public going along with the acceptable narrative. Whatever happened in Hanoi, he endured something awful and came home and rebuilt his life. McCain certainly doesn’t rate with Admiral Stockdale if you’re looking for an example of badassery in captivity from Vietnam-era Navy men.…

The point is that Alex Pareene did not say this into the depths of her closet, but constantly, on a public platform with thousands of other people. As did many of the other political writers at Gawker.

McCain-Feingold was good.

I’ve been getting all excited that Evan McMullin might be positioning himself to run against useless douchebag Chaffetz. Then I became immediately depressed by the fact that I was excited about the idea of possibly having Evan McMullin in Congress. The bar has sunk so low.

He’s done jack-shit to resist Trump. He’s saying in the media that he will and that Russia is of grave concern but that’s just more McCain bullshit that he goes back on when the rubber meets the road. Then, come election time, he claims to be somehow different than his mouth-breathing idiot republican colleagues. He…

You know this motherfucker cancelled his February Town Hall events and people in AZ are fucking pissed. Also, just try to get anyone on the fucking phone at his Phoenix office. Fuck this guy. He’s a fucking coward.

the thing is, there could’ve be enough democrats who thought like him in flipped states who didn’t bother to vote. all while thinking there would be enough -whats the word...adult - voters to cover their collective asses and vote for clinton in spite of their personal morals and ideological purity. turns out a lot of…

McCain/Feingold was a CYA maneuver that kept him in office after a rank corruption scandal that should have ended his career. And it’s been ludicrously ineffective to boot.

God, remember back when we all thought she was just the battiest goddamned thing to ever come out of politics, and how it was amazing someone that unprepared for office was anywhere even near the presidency?

McCain and Lindsay Graham are both the worst kind of politicians: all talk with no fucking spine to support the words they say.  They are toothless dogs who bark all the time yet will lick the hand of any Republican within range while simultaneously humping their leg.

That’s his legacy. Nothing he did before (certainly not McCain-Feingold) or since is ultimately going to matter, but THAT choice has to be brought up every time we talk about his impact on GOP politics. 

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

John McCain gave us Sarah Palin who gave us literally everything bad that has ever happened since then. I will never forgive John McCain for that.

McCain has done more than most Republican Senators by simply speaking out against Trump, but I lost all respect when he confirmed DeVos. When it comes down to it, Republicans have proven themselves to be Party over Country. and they should be ashamed.