Not just, as Mark Levin noted last evening, a “useful idiot” for the left, but an actual traitor — a man who runs his campaigns lurching to the right only to return to the Senate and cast his lot, intentionally and in a way that was pre-planned, with Senators Reid, Durbin, and Schumer, three of the most anti-constitutional, cynical, and reprehensible Senators in the once august body. Who, because they support fundamental tranformation, and actively agitate for it, are enemies to the country as founded.
John McCain is a walking, babbling, fart-dusting poster child for repeal of the 17th Amendment: he doesn’t represent the interests of his state, which is bad enough; but he also doesn’t represent the interests of the GOP base, whom he despises — we’re Hobbits and wacko birds, remember — just as he despises those who dare to speak for them. As one of his aides let on, McCain “fucking hates” Senator Ted Cruz.
Lacking the courage to hold a colloquy with Cruz during his twenty hours of filibustering (yes, filibustering — as it was intended, remember?), Republican Senator John McCain — in collusion with Democrat Majority Leader Reid and the execrable Chuck Schumer (both of whom fearing intellectual embarrassment, also lacked the stones to go head to head with Cruz, who had previously shredded the hapless demagoguing of Dick Durbin and turned Tim Kaine into a feckless foil) — took to the floor afterwards and made the case for surrender and “settled law”, his pitch being that, because Obama won the 2012 election, the issue of ObamaCare had been decided.
Forget for a moment that the GOP establishment, who had previously given us an awful McCain candidacy, gave us as a candidate the one man who could not fight Obama on ObamaCare, he and his staff, in conjunction with Ted Kennedy, having been the architects of the state usurpation of private healthcare; instead, pay attention to the underlying assertion McCain is making, which comes down to this: rather than a system of checks and balances (the people also elected, for instance, a GOP House), McCain believes the US to have a set of revolving kings whose agendas are set once they win elections. That is, he’s both pro-authoritarian and pro-majoritarian — though only when it suits his purposes.
— For it was John McCain who fought the elected George W Bush on his tax cuts (forcing a battle of their expiration); just as it was McCain who, along with Lieberman, pushed for Cap and Trade — again, against the stance of the elected Republican President.
Meaning, McCain didn’t seem very much concerned at that point over elections having consequences.
The simple thing to do is to declare McCain borderline senile and as a result, easily manipulated by the left. Like a lot of erstwhile “conservative” judges. But that gives McCain too little credit. He has always been pro authoritarian and pro big government, from McCain-Feingold to cap and trade and amnesty, and he knows that what he advocates for gives him what he most desires: plaudits from the left and a “maverick reputation. And so attached is he to that delusion of his importance and influence that he’s already bracketed the 2008 election, in which the press instantly and predictably turned on him.
Just as McCain was a beaten POW, he is a beaten Senator, looking for ways to please those whose ruthless uses of power he so admires.
I wrote before that John McCain may single handedly (and that’s only because I don’t count the dainty wrists and fingers of Princess Lindsay, the slavish yes man to McCain’s Carvelli) bring down the Republican Party.
That may or may not be the case.
But what he is doing is showing us why so many conservatives simply refuse to turn out for elections, and why more and more the people — the Hobbits, the sheep to be herded and managed — are disgusted with a presumptuous, arrogant, overreaching ruling class that has manipulated the system until they believe they are beyond our control and influence.
They may be right. But many of us plan to test that premise.
Personally, I no longer give a tinker’s fuck about being labeled “extremist” by those “conservatives” who tout their own “nuance” and pragmatism — code, merely, for always retreating while rationalizing their retreat as savvy political maneuvering. And I consider people like McCain, who actively collude to undermine the will of the people — McCain can read the polls; he knows ObamaCare is wildly unpopular; and he can see how it is damaging the country and destroying the workforce — while pretending he’s doing so out of sense of political comity and collegiality, out of deference to the “voice of the people” as detailed through a presidential election in which conservatives stayed home in droves, having the choice either to vote for Obama or vote for the man who gave Obama his signature legislation.
This is a lie. And McCain knows it.
He just doesn’t care. Because he is more addicted to the plaudits of the Beltway insiders within the media and the government than he ever was to the desire to represent his state’s constituents.
So yes. I consider him a traitor. And I don’t much care how unhelpful it is to say so.
Now, as far as useful idiots go, there’s always Joe Scarborough. So we’ve got that covered, as well.
There. You may now commence your further banishment of me from the public discourse, barnacles.
Well said, Jeff.
McCain has been a traitor for many, many years. He’s been trading on his stock as a POW for longer than anyone I’ve ever known and I had an uncle who survived the Bataan Death March.
Run into a running chainsaw, Johnny.
Where’s “deadrody” to correct me on my attitude toward pragmatism, winning strategies, etc.?
Seems he’s gone silent since the embarrassing Romney debacle.
If we take up former Rep. West’s suggestion, McCain (together with his GOP allies) fits quite nicely into the role of Ephialtes pointing out the hidden goat-track to The Progressive Clown Disaster’s Darius.
Their ashen piehole.
I mentioned this link in the prior thread. Note the second paragraph. Yet the GOP Elites propped him up to run in 2008. It makes one want to had to kitchen cabinet for the aluminum foil.
I’ve said before, McCain is merely a spiteful child, throwing a tantrum because too many people refuse to acknowledge his brilliance. His goal is to destroy the country which was too foolish to elect him king. And whatever deference to which he was entitled by his time in Hanoi is gone.
JHo,
Their Ashen Piehole sounds like an emo band name.
Term limits for all elected federal officials (states are free to do the same, if they haven’t already) – it’s the simplest way to fix what is fundamentally broken. And I didn’t always think this way: “we get the government we deserve”, “an informed electorate will vote in its best interest” etc. were the arguments I would use to myself and anyone I happened to be having the discussion with.
I was wrong. If it’s good enough for the President it’s good enough for members of Congress. Career politicians are a cancer. Or ebola. No, ebola kills too quickly. I’ll stick with “cancer”.
Shermlaw,
The “Related” box in that NYT link is also interesting and backs up your point. He’s been pissy about losing the 2000 primary and has, in no way, been a stalwart for anything.
Via Jack M. at Ace, here’s one of McCain’s consultants declaring he “only works for Democrats now” and having to be reminded he works for McCain. This was in 2002!
Meghan’s coward daddy did more than anyone to elect food stamp in the first place
#theydidsomethingtohisbrain
Oh boy. An Ace link! Those are so hard to find!
“…but he’s since been seduced by Washington” is what we always need to say along with the obligatory “He was a war hero.”
war heroes and military people generally are consistently overrated as political leaders but people on the right are a bit more deluded about this than people on the left
Relevant links (the one above goes to the New Republic, btw) supporting the thesis of the author being mocked by author? I’m shocked! Shocked!
McCain is no war hero. I believe he has killed more Americans in combat than he has the enemy. On one of his first attempts at a combat run from the deck of a carrier, his plane released the rocket that set fire to the Forrestal, resulting in the death of 134 sailors. Yes, a Navy inquiry found that it was an electrical failure in the rocket that caused the release. Did I mention that McCain’s father was an admiral, who had spent considerable effort covering up his son’s screwups? Like when he crashed his aircraft into power lines in Italy, one of three aircraft he destroyed due to incompetence. On on one of his next attempts to fly in combat after the Forrestal, only 3 months later, he was shot down before reaching his target and captured by the enemy.
I will admit McCain has a great deal of mental and physical toughness. How that translates into giving in on every damn thing the liberals want while lying to your constituents, I’m not sure.
The only thing McCain shows any enthusiasm for seems to be dropping bombs. Whites people, brown people, black people, friends, enemies, Christians, Buddhists, Moslems, doesn’t matter to Ol’ John. Bomb them all!
Now now … he’s a “good man.”
Jimmy Carter, the [R] version.
Doesn’t the accusation of treason imply that McCain had loyalties to something other than his own careerist ambitions?
For a while, I thought I had it figured out. Old, doting John McCain was being manipulated leftward by his headstrong, conniving beached-whale of a daughter. Instead, it seems hot mess dumpling is but a product of Dad’s original recipe.
But. No apology proffered.
“Oh boy. An Ace link!”
Haven’t much needed a pet detective. I’ll keep him in mind if I do.
Too bad people let themselves get wee’wee’d up, so to speak, about the Latin Rite and creepy vigils for still born babies.
‘Cause that fisheater from –Pennsyltucky isn’t it? –he made a lot a sense when he said nominating the guy responsible for the Obamacare prototype was a bad idea.
Throw in the entire establishment bunch.
I’m so sick of hearing about how all the Republicans want to fight this, but just have a different “tactic”. I demand to hear the tactic, and it cannot be “We’ll do it during the debt ceiling debate”, because I’ve seen that show before, and the ending sucked.
At some point, “fighting” involves putting up your dukes, at least metaphorically. Republicans always want to “fight” tomorrow.
Danby, the missile wasn’t from McCain’s plane.
You throw that at McCain, and his apologists will use it to say that all of his detractors are ignorant and uninformed.
the long and short of it is McCain didn’t add any real value to that whole military thing
The rocket hit McCain’s plane, didn’t it?
I just wish the old coot would wander off somewhere………….and take his chubby daughter with him.
I do believe that’s the way it happened, Ernst.
He may not cause the disasters, but they sure seem to happen a lot when he’s around.
Well, he’s incompetent, McGehee.
If his old man hadn’t been an admiral, there is no way he’d have made it through flight school. The guy’s been a disaster since he crawled out of the womb.
Flashback: McCain Used Same Tactic Against Obamacare Cruz Is Using Now
-There’s a line of Crazy running through the McCain Family.
-Frankly, I think McCain is suffering from a mental illness that is getting worse with age. Therefore, I would not go as far as Jeff and put him in the same category as Obama and all of his minions. I don’t think he cares about The United States, whereas, Obama and his Royal Court hate America.
I think he cares about the U.S., the U.S. armed forces, the U.S. Senate, and U.S. Senator John McCain.
Ordering from least to most important, of course.
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The order is correct, Ernst. Mostly, John likes to get on media and talk about himself and how he thinks we should kill everyone.
I think y’all are being a little hard on the Mav. It ain’t like he has ever hid the fact he that plays both sides of the islet. I mean, that’s why they call him the Maverick.
The stupid asshole motherfucking cocksuckers who voted him into the Senate now…they are a real disappointment.
Islet? No, no, no. aisle…
I’ll bet a dollar he only became Maverick after “Top Gun” came out.
Only lexus-nexus knows for sure.
“Top Gun” came out May 1986. McCain first ran for the Senate in the 1986 campaign season.
If only he’d simply become a Scientology addict not a power and political glory one we could be treated to his jumping up and down on talk show couches not jumping up and down on the body politic.
“Top Gun” came out May 1986. McCain first ran for the Senate in the 1986 campaign season.
Coincidence? I think not.
he could be one of those crossfit addicts what poop out all their muscles into a puddle
jen the rubin got a levin lashing tonight. good times.
This what I think of when I hear about John McCain the “maverick”.
I wish I could find the full episode, but many here may remember it.
I remember Limbaugh’s song parody, “Maverick John McCain.” Unfortunately I can’t find the lyrics in the time I’m willing to invest.
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