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NiteOwl1

(87 posts) Wed Jan 22, 2020, 02:00 AM Jan 2020

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Can't believe I'd ever say this....

but I miss John McCain. He would have kicked some of the GOP Senator's asses.

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Can't believe I'd ever say this.... (Original Post) NiteOwl1 Jan 2020 OP

Maybe. He DID try to make Sarah Palin our VP... NCLefty Jan 2020 #1

I've always had mixed feelings about him. NiteOwl1 Jan 2020 #3

I miss him too. Like a complete Jackass, I thought bcause He and Lindsey Graham were close napi21 Jan 2020 #2

Yeah.... McCain would be kicking Graham's ass NiteOwl1 Jan 2020 #4

and it shows one thing... NiteOwl1 Jan 2020 #5

I miss Al Franken more Skittles Jan 2020 #6

THIS. calimary Jan 2020 #8

Hmmmm. Not sure we could count on that. stopdiggin Jan 2020 #7

Maybe, maybe not. In the end he was a Republican PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2020 #9

I'll never celebrate any man's death, but... KY_EnviroGuy Jan 2020 #10

NCLefty

(3,678 posts)

1. Maybe. He DID try to make Sarah Palin our VP...

Reply to NiteOwl1 (Original post)

Wed Jan 22, 2020, 02:02 AM

Jan 2020

NiteOwl1

(87 posts)

3. I've always had mixed feelings about him.

Reply to NCLefty (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 22, 2020, 02:11 AM

Jan 2020

His choice of SP was a self-inflicted wound... but he had balls enough to stand for principle over Party unlike any Republican Senator now.

napi21

(45,806 posts)

2. I miss him too. Like a complete Jackass, I thought bcause He and Lindsey Graham were close

Reply to NiteOwl1 (Original post)

Wed Jan 22, 2020, 02:10 AM

Jan 2020

buds, Lindsey would pick up John's sabre and continue to be the Senate rebel. Boy, was I wrong!!!!!!!

NiteOwl1

(87 posts)

4. Yeah.... McCain would be kicking Graham's ass

Reply to napi21 (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 22, 2020, 02:14 AM

Jan 2020

I'd bet on it.

NiteOwl1

(87 posts)

5. and it shows one thing...

Reply to napi21 (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 22, 2020, 02:15 AM

Jan 2020

Power corrupts. Period.

Skittles

(153,122 posts)

6. I miss Al Franken more

Reply to NiteOwl1 (Original post)

Wed Jan 22, 2020, 04:15 AM

Jan 2020

calimary

(81,139 posts)

8. THIS.

Reply to Skittles (Reply #6)

Wed Jan 22, 2020, 04:34 AM

Jan 2020

stopdiggin

(11,254 posts)

7. Hmmmm. Not sure we could count on that.

Reply to NiteOwl1 (Original post)

Wed Jan 22, 2020, 04:26 AM

Jan 2020

McCain had his moments, true ... But most of the time he was a dyed in the wool Republican puke. Much like all the rest of em'.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,817 posts)

9. Maybe, maybe not. In the end he was a Republican

Reply to NiteOwl1 (Original post)

Wed Jan 22, 2020, 05:14 AM

Jan 2020

and I'm not sure he'd have gone against the leadership at this point.

I recall all too well when people were swooning over the possibility of his being the VP selection, and I wish I could recall which year it was (Google is no help at all here) because he was supposedly so "liberal". I remember then thinking that those who thought this was a possibility had no clue at all, least of all about how party politics actually worked.

McCain was a Republican. He'd be falling in line behind the Republican establishment were he alive today. Do not begin to think otherwise.

You might want to look back at Stephen Colbert's White House Correspondents dinner in 2006 and he declared that McCain was a true Maverick. Yes, he was doing something different with the salad fork. What a Maverick!

McCain got credit he never deserved.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,488 posts)

10. I'll never celebrate any man's death, but...

Reply to NiteOwl1 (Original post)

Wed Jan 22, 2020, 05:26 AM

Jan 2020

I'll also never celebrate McCain's voting record in the Senate, or his attachment to big corporate money.

Celebrity politics is killing us and our planet, as it is around the globe.......

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