Trump blasts McCain, bemoans not getting 'thank you' for funeral

[edpc]

McCain was popular in AZ ... not so sure of his popularity beyond that.  He carried a tremendous amount of baggage and I think many just might think that Trump is justified.

Stuff like that still matters a lot, especially when all politics are local and you have to play the electoral game. Another good example is Robert Byrd. The man was an actual Klansman. In his later years, he was a physically and mentally feeble joke. But, the man brought a lot of federal money and pork projects to West Virginia. You can’t go anywhere in the state, without running into a building, bridge, or road named after him. His ghost is everywhere. Go in there as a candidate and start dumping on him at your peril.

[Right_in_Virginia]

John Sidney McCain III is a man who lived his entire life haunted by the knowledge that he would have wound up selling used cars in Phoenix but for his father and grandfather.

And his second wife's money.

[Cyber Liberty]

I had a lot of problems with McCain as a person, Senator, and presidential candidate. However, the man was elected 6 times by the AZ voters. McCain beat his 2016 opponent by 13 points. Trump won the state by 4 points. This is the kind of dumbassery that makes a red state blue, next year.

Yes, the Pubbies are pretty stupid wanting to be conservative.

[Right_in_Virginia]

I had a lot of problems with McCain as a person, Senator, and presidential candidate. However, the man was elected 6 times by the AZ voters. McCain beat his 2016 opponent by 13 points. Trump won the state by 4 points. This is the kind of dumbassery that makes a red state blue, next year.

McCain was the democrat candidate in a military uniform.  That's all he's ever been.

[Cyber Liberty]

I think Trump's mannerisms deeply offended him. He thought he was doing the right thing. I think God will forgive him for that, so we should too.

That's up to God...a bit above my pay grade.

I choose not to, and I'm a generally forgiving person.  I live in AZ, and that is my prerogative.  Tough. My opinion was formed back before Trump was writing books about the art of the deal.

[Bigun]

McCain was the democrat candidate in a military uniform.  That's all he's ever been.

McCain would make a pimple on the arse of the man he replaced in the senate.  And that is being FAR to kind to the SOB!

[XenaLee]

McCain was the democrat candidate in a military uniform.  That's all he's ever been.

Let's put it this way.   What McCain did TO America far outweighs anything he might have done FOR America.   And for the life of me, I can't find a thing he ever did FOR us.   

[Cyber Liberty]

McCain was the democrat candidate in a military uniform.  That's all he's ever been.

McCain was a real snake in the grass who still reaches from the grave.  Look at how people are still trashing the President for having the temerity to criticize the Idol of the Ignorant Fools.

[XenaLee]

McCain was a real snake in the grass who still reaches from the grave.  Look at how people are still trashing the President for having the temerity to criticize the Idol of the Ignorant Fools.

Ignorant fools is being much too kind, CL.  Just sayin....

 

[Cyber Liberty]

McCain would make a pimple on the arse of the man he replaced in the senate.  And that is being FAR to kind to the SOB!

 

And his predecessor had his issues with conservatives, too.  He went full liberal in his last five years after he got married when his life-long wife passed.  He actually endorsed the Rat AND the Pubbie in the Congressional race to replace McCain (my district).  I was furious!

[Dexter]

And for the life of me, I can't find a thing he ever did FOR us.

He attempted to spend his life doing good by our country. I think he had a good heart. I value that quality a lot. Good intentions at least deserve respect in my opinion.

[Cyber Liberty]

Ignorant fools is being much too kind, CL.  Just sayin....

 

They have utterly no idea how much McCain hated his hayseed constituents.

[Cyber Liberty]

He attempted to spend his life doing good by our country. I think he had a good heart. I value that quality a lot. Good intentions at least deserve respect in my opinion.

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

To him, slapping down conservatives at every turn and voting with the Rats in the Senate was "doing good for the country."  Many more Republicans like that and we're undone.

[Cyber Liberty]

Ignorant fools is being much too kind, CL.  Just sayin....

 

 

I've been accused of being too kind...lol

Frankly,this McCain worship is about to make me puke.

[edpc]

John Sidney McCain III is a man who lived his entire life haunted by the knowledge that he would have wound up selling used cars in Phoenix but for his father and grandfather.

Yet, he didn't use his family's extensive connections and influence to get a safe, cushy assignment or deferment.

[XenaLee]

I've been accused of being too kind...lol

Frankly,this McCain worship is about to make me puke.

Same here.   But it fits right into the other stupid crap that is ongoing in America .... especially over the past few years. 

[Right_in_Virginia]

Say whatever you want about his politics; John McCain was an honorable man.

There was no honor among the Keating Five, there was no honor in the unconstitutional Campaign Finance Reform, there was no honor is backing ISIS to take out Assad, there was no honor lying to your constituents and the nation about ending Obamacare, there was no honor joining a coup to unseat a duly elected US President and there was no honor in demanding a funeral your position in life and politics did not justify. 

And there was certainly no honor in accepting the respect and courtesy of the sitting President who lowered the American flag to half staff and sent his Air Force plane to shuttle your casket and family across the country while at the same time you unfold a funeral choreographed as a three day hate fest against the very man showering you and your family with the consideration and esteem above what was deserved.

No, John McCain was not an honorable man @Dexter   And his true legacy will bear this out.

[XenaLee]

Yet, he didn't use his family's extensive connections and influence to get a safe, cushy assignment or deferment.

Probably only because daddy and gramps wouldn't let him. 

[Bigun]

Yet, he didn't use his family's extensive connections and influence to get a safe, cushy assignment or deferment.

Other than to get appointed to Annapolis in the first place, to actually graduate there, to get into Naval flight school,  to actually graduate with the wings of a Navy pilot, and to have his service records scrubbed, you have a point.

[XenaLee]

There was no honor among the Keating Five, there was no honor in the unconstitutional Campaign Finance Reform, there was no honor is backing ISIS to take out Assad, there was no honor lying to your constituents and the nation about ending Obamacare, there was no honor joining a coup to unseat a duly elected US President and there was no honor in demanding a funeral your position in life and politics did not justify. 

And there was certainly no honor in accepting the respect and courtesy of the sitting President who lowered the American flag to half staff and sent his Air Force plane to shuttle your casket and family across the country while at the same time you unfold a funeral choreographed as a three day hate fest against the very man showering you and your family with the consideration and esteem above what was deserved.

No, John McCain was not an honorable man @Dexter   And his true legacy will bear this out.

 

[Cyber Liberty]

Yet, he didn't use his family's extensive connections and influence to get a safe, cushy assignment or deferment.

No, he used it to get through flight school after crashing a few jets (which would have washed out any other man aspiring to be a pilot).  That he got shot down in combat is a testament to the principle of a failure to understand his limits.  I am sympathetic to his surviving as a POW, and I don't have the standing to criticize that, but he was, on balance, terrible for the country.

I could spend the rest of the week expressing my displeasure at a politician who claimed to represent me in Congress and the Senate.  I must cease now before I get really pissed off and start saying things I'll later regret.  I do know my limitations.  A man's got to.

[Wingnut]

Yet, he didn't use his family's extensive connections and influence to get a safe, cushy assignment or deferment.

No, it got him an appointment because of his Dad.  When he ended up as as a "Last In Class" cadet.  John Sidney "Jack" McCain Jr. must have been so proud.  He was the Forest Gump of the MCain familly.  His ancestors had died in every U.S. war and who regards it as his destiny to do the same.  He failed.

[Cyber Liberty]

There was no honor among the Keating Five, there was no honor in the unconstitutional Campaign Finance Reform, there was no honor is backing ISIS to take out Assad, there was no honor lying to your constituents and the nation about ending Obamacare, there was no honor joining a coup to unseat a duly elected US President and there was no honor in demanding a funeral your position in life and politics did not justify. 

And there was certainly no honor in accepting the respect and courtesy of the sitting President who lowered the American flag to half staff and sent his Air Force plane to shuttle your casket and family across the country while at the same time you unfold a funeral choreographed as a three day hate fest against the very man showering you and your family with the consideration and esteem above what was deserved.

No, John McCain was not an honorable man @Dexter   And his true legacy will bear this out.

Top-Notch, my friend! 

I'm too pissed off to express it as eloquently as you just did.  I'm to the point where I can only mutter about how much he sucked.  I, along with many, held my tongue as his shitty little family trashed him at the "Wellstone Funeral."  Apparently I am supposed to hold it forever, and whoever thinks I should can go bugger off.

[Cyber Liberty]

McCain was a bitter loser.  He never got over getting his ass licked in the Presidential election.  Songbird so long.

Ahem!  He got his ass kicked twice.  Just like Hillary!   

[NavyCanDo]

BTW  -- glad you're back posting.   

Thanks. I'm trying to post more. Life has been getting in the way.