Yeah, but why are WE honoring John McCain?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

24. I know. As someone said at a science fiction thing I was at this weekend,

you're not supposed to speak ill of the dead but some of them might deserve it. She was referencing Harlan Ellison who was famously awful to a lot of people.

John McCain was an adulterer, and in many ways fundamentally dishonest. I was living in Phoenix when he moved out of his somewhat downscale Congressional District a good six months before he announced that he was running for the Senate, so it no longer mattered where in the state he lived. Oh, and during one of his presidential runs he couldn't even recall exactly how many homes he owned.

He voted against Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan as Supreme Court Justices. Since he did vote in favor of Ruth Bader Ginsberg I hesitate to simply ascribe the two nay votes to simple misogyny, but still.

He originally voted against the ACA.

Back in the early 2000's there was a lot of nonsense out there about McCain becoming a Democrat and then being a VP candidate as a Dem. That was often repeated here by people who didn't look past the absurd claims of his being a "maverick", which apparently meant at that time someone who sometimes didn't go along with everything the Republican leadership wanted. As Stephen Colbert pointed out at the White House Correspondents dinner, McCain was probably using his salad fork as his dinner fork: that's what kind of a maverick he was.

There are lots of other such things that, at least for me, keep him completely out of the hero category.