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Posted on 07/31/2013 7:55:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It has been difficult to follow politics over the past several months without sensing the presence of a new John McCain. (Again.) He was a crucial player in the passage of immigration reform through the Senate, he has helped Democrats carve out a deal allowing several of President Obama’s appointments to win confirmation, and he has even teamed up with Elizabeth Warren on a bill to regulate the banking industry. The politician who could once barely hide his disdain for the president has suddenly become one of his most valuable partners in Congress. (This makeover hasn’t extended to foreign policy, where he remains an outspoken hawk.)
McCain himself scorns theories into the psychology behind his ideological lurches, but they are invariably attributed to his voluble temper. It was widely assumed that his resentment of George W. Bush prompted him to work more closely with Democrats after 2000. After losing to Barack Obama in 2008, he cast his bipartisan persona aside and became one of the administration’s fiercest critics. By the 2010 midterms, he was advocating for “a dang fence” on the Mexican border and crusading against the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Lately, his irritation has shifted to Tea Party Republicans like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, who have helped bring his beloved Senate to a near halt and whom McCain has dismissed as “wacko birds.”
[SNIP]
Interviewer: When Hillary Clinton versus Rand Paul occurs in 2016, I guess you are going to have to decide who to vote for, huh?
John McCain: It’s gonna be a tough choice [laughs].
He’s a democrat and the GOP needs to cut off all funds to him.
>>Interviewer: When Hillary Clinton versus Rand Paul occurs in 2016, I guess you are going to have to decide who to vote for, huh?
John McCain: It’s gonna be a tough choice [laughs].<<
A) It won’t be a difficult for you, traitor.
B) It is not funny to see someone sell out his constituents and his party.
Perhaps your stay in the Hanoi Hilton did more damage than is visible.
And to the NSA trolls, FU.
Been watching House of Cards on Netflix. The Kevin Spacey character seems, for me at least, to be a working model of McCain. Politics as a series of chess games played out on a board with only the players knowing what has really happened and how the score is kept.
I think McCain doesn’t give a rip about anything other than just playing the game and what his “score” is.
We now have at least 4 additional Democrats in the Senate — John McCain, Lindsay Graham, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.
(Add another name here...)
Is McCain going liberal on us in his old age? What the heck???
“If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain.” — Winston Churchill
I conclude that John McCain is Benjamin Button...
Wasn’t McCain also undecided in 2008?
Don't you mean a daughter, John?
Carl Levin and I are as close as two people can be.
? GHEY!
Well, they are same-sex friends aren’t they? :)
Not one thing McCain has said or done has surprised me.
I’m a little surprised he’s in love with Carl Levin.
His other named favorites besides his little girl Lindsay and his BF Levin are, Chuck Shooomer (not suprised) and Kelly Ayotte.
That does not improve my opinion of Ayotte.
” I’m a little surprised he’s in love with Carl Levin.”
Levin is a life long laborite/Marxist, so it fits .
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