This is simply something I cannot do justice by writing on it. You must hear it for yourself. The boldness expressed is due to McCain’s support of jihadists in Syria, his kowtowing to Barack Obama and the senator even going and having his picture made with enemies of the United States. The man couldn’t even keep his attention on the very serious matter regarding the support of jihadists in Syria. He was too busy playing poker.
The man wasn't playing poker; he was making an ass of himself.
Look, we all know what John McCain is. He's corrupt going back to the Keating Five affair; he's waged war against his own party ever since his first presidential bid fell short against George W. Bush thirteen years ago; he was the architect of the infamous "memo of understanding" that kneecapped then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's plan to put down the Democrats' filibustering of Dubya's appellate court nominees; he's played kissy-face with the media for years; he undermined the War on Terror with his "torture" grandstanding almost as egregiously as any Democrat; he took a dive against Barack Obama in 2008; and, yes, he lacks the strategic acumen to recognize that we have no ally in the Syrian "civil war" and the sense God gave a doorknob not to (1) recognize jihadists when he sees them and (2) pose for "road pics" for good measure.
But John McCain is not a traitor.
Sure, we also all know how much mileage he's milked out of the seven years he spent in the Hanoi Hilton. If you didn't know better you could almost have believed that he deliberately let himself get shot down over Vietnam for the express purpose of undergoing that ordeal with an eye toward how useful it would be in a future political career.
But we do know better. And the fact is that John McCain did spend seven years in the Hanoi Hilton, enduring all manner of torture that left him physically scarred and partially disabled, without ever breaking or being "turned". Maybe he used up all his honor and courage in those seven years, leaving little or none left for his "service" as a congressman and senator. Which would render him a skunk now.
But not a traitor.
It's just such overheated, ill-considered rhetoric on the part of, shall we say, "RINO-critics" that discredit and "crankize" them vastly more than the RINOs they condemn.
Yet another example of why "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" is not always the best approach, and political discretion is oftentimes highly underrated.
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