John McCain is the single greatest political leader of our time

[Right_in_Virginia]

John McCain is the single greatest political leader of our time
Washington Post, May 11, 2018, Dana Milbank

<snip>

McCain is still with us, and this is no obituary. But as Trump loyalists besmirch this good man, I thought I would put in writing what I have often thought over the years: John McCain is the single greatest political leader of our time. He is, in a way, not of our time, for his creed — country before self — is unfamiliar to many who serve in office and utterly foreign to the man in charge.

Only once during the nearly quarter of a century I’ve been covering politics did I think I could work for a politician, and that politician was McCain. I first got to know him in early 1999, when there were just a few of us driving around New Hampshire with him in an SUV, before the “Straight Talk Express” rolled. Had he beaten George W. Bush (he surely would have defeated Al Gore), and had he been president on Sept. 11, 2001, I know he would have done great things with the national unity Bush ultimately squandered.

I’ve had a closer relationship with McCain than with other politicians. I remember flying with him and Cindy McCain to Phoenix during the 2000 campaign, talking about sports, music, a war buddy — and the issue that defined him: removing the corrupting influence of money from politics. That’s why so many liked him even if they disagreed on the issues: With McCain, everything was going to be on the level.

I believed, perhaps naively, that in the free marketplace of ideas, uncorrupted by special interests, we would usually arrive at a sensible consensus. A generation after Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) inspired his “Clean for Gene ” followers, McCain inspired me.

On my Bush-Gore election ballot, I wrote in McCain. When I saw him later in the Senate, I’d greet him as “Mr. President.” He’d reply by calling me “Mr. Pulitzer.” I took pride in 2009, when McCain read aloud a column of mine on the Senate floor and called me “one of my favorite columnists.” He regretted that a few months later, when I took him to task for momentarily shedding his “maverick” ways, and he tried to disavow me.


Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/john-mccain-is-the-single-greatest-political-leader-of-our-time/2018/05/11/f7d33e22-5553-11e8-abd8-265bd07a9859_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.45b222fb4088

[GrouchoTex]

Dana Milbank, you're wrong and....
 
IM ON TO YOU!

[sneakypete]

John McCain is the single greatest political leader of our time
Washington Post, May 11, 2018, Dana Milbank

  I remember flying with him and Cindy McCain to Phoenix during the 2000 campaign, talking about sports, music, a war buddy — and the issue that defined him: removing the corrupting influence of money from politics.

@Right_in_Virginia   

I had a mouth full of coffee when I read that,and came damn close to spitting it out on my keyboard. There is "clueless",but this woman is braindead.

[Right_in_Virginia]

@Right_in_Virginia   

I had a mouth full of coffee when I read that, and came damn close to spitting it out on my keyboard. There is "clueless",but this woman is braindead.

Sorry ... I probably should have put a warning in the title:  NO LIQUIDS WHILE READING 

@sneakypete

[RoosGirl]

@Right_in_Virginia I'm seriously considering reporting you to the mods and asking for your lifetime banning for posting this article.

[TomSea]

@Right_in_Virginia   

I had a mouth full of coffee when I read that,and came damn close to spitting it out on my keyboard. There is "clueless",but this woman is braindead.

Actually, is a man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Milbank

@sneakypete

[Frank Cannon]

@Right_in_Virginia I'm seriously considering reporting you to the mods and asking for your lifetime banning for posting this article.

You go girl.

[GrouchoTex]

@Right_in_Virginia   

I had a mouth full of coffee when I read that,and came damn close to spitting it out on my keyboard. There is "clueless",but this woman is braindead.

It's almost as if the Keating Five never really happened, and Dana Milbank could wish it all away.

[Right_in_Virginia]

@Right_in_Virginia I'm seriously considering reporting you to the mods and asking for your lifetime banning for posting this article.

Just trying to toughen up the team for funeral week @RoosGirl   

[Right_in_Virginia]

It's almost as if the Keating Five never really happened, and Dana Milbank could wish it all away.

Thank you @GrouchoTex  I was beginning to think I was the only one who knew about the Keating Five!

[sneakypete]

Actually, is a man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Milbank

@sneakypete

YIKES!

Has anyone told him this?

[GrouchoTex]

Thank you @GrouchoTex  I was beginning to think I was the only one who knew about the Keating Five!

@Right_in_Virginia

Unfortunately, there are plenty of voters now who were not even born then, and may buy into this piece by the WaPo if they are not educated about things like the Keating Five.

[jpsb]

Dana Milbank is a he and he is also a fool.

[Bigun]

Thank you @GrouchoTex  I was beginning to think I was the only one who knew about the Keating Five!

Oh I know about that.  And a lot of other stuff that most don't as well.

[Right_in_Virginia]

@Right_in_Virginia

Unfortunately, there are plenty of voters now who were not even born then, and may buy into this piece by the WaPo if they are not educated about things like the Keating Five.

It's like it's been erased from the history books.  Poof ... never happened.   

@GrouchoTex

[Right_in_Virginia]

YIKES!

Has anyone told him this?

 

[XenaLee]

Actually, is a man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Milbank

@sneakypete

And his name should be Duhna, not Dana.  Just sayin.....

[XenaLee]

John McCain is the single greatest political leader of our time
Washington Post, May 11, 2018, Dana Milbank

<snip>

McCain is still with us, and this is no obituary. But as Trump loyalists besmirch this good man, I thought I would put in writing what I have often thought over the years: John McCain is the single greatest political leader of our time. He is, in a way, not of our time, for his creed — country before self — is unfamiliar to many who serve in office and utterly foreign to the man in charge.

Only once during the nearly quarter of a century I’ve been covering politics did I think I could work for a politician, and that politician was McCain. I first got to know him in early 1999, when there were just a few of us driving around New Hampshire with him in an SUV, before the “Straight Talk Express” rolled. Had he beaten George W. Bush (he surely would have defeated Al Gore), and had he been president on Sept. 11, 2001, I know he would have done great things with the national unity Bush ultimately squandered.

I’ve had a closer relationship with McCain than with other politicians. I remember flying with him and Cindy McCain to Phoenix during the 2000 campaign, talking about sports, music, a war buddy — and the issue that defined him: removing the corrupting influence of money from politics. That’s why so many liked him even if they disagreed on the issues: With McCain, everything was going to be on the level.

I believed, perhaps naively, that in the free marketplace of ideas, uncorrupted by special interests, we would usually arrive at a sensible consensus. A generation after Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) inspired his “Clean for Gene ” followers, McCain inspired me.

On my Bush-Gore election ballot, I wrote in McCain. When I saw him later in the Senate, I’d greet him as “Mr. President.” He’d reply by calling me “Mr. Pulitzer.” I took pride in 2009, when McCain read aloud a column of mine on the Senate floor and called me “one of my favorite columnists.” He regretted that a few months later, when I took him to task for momentarily shedding his “maverick” ways, and he tried to disavow me.


Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/john-mccain-is-the-single-greatest-political-leader-of-our-time/2018/05/11/f7d33e22-5553-11e8-abd8-265bd07a9859_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.45b222fb4088

Coming from a WaPo leftie, this sounds about right.   The lefties and Democrats all do just luv McCain.  He's one of them, after all.

[Frank Cannon]

Soon after Palin was added to the ticket in '08 there was a McLame rally where I live. Since Sarah was hot I figured I would waste a Tuesday afternoon and go check her out. It was a huge 2+ hour line to get in because of Palin. Hot well dressed chicks galore. As I was rounding the building in line there was the midget Dana Milbank wearing a sandwich board mocking Crazy Johnny for something stupid he said. The little twerp was trying to bait rally goers into making news. No one was playing because 99% of the people thought he was some retarded child and didn't even know who he was.

If McLame is such a great so and so Dana, why did you mock him at his rallies?

BTW Dana is about 4 ft tall on a good day. He is a grubby little creep.

[RoosGirl]

Soon after Palin was added to the ticket in '08 there was a McLame rally where I live. Since Sarah was hot I figured I would waste a Tuesday afternoon and go check her out. It was a huge 2+ hour line to get in because of Palin. Hot well dressed chicks galore. As I was rounding the building in line there was the midget Dana Milbank wearing a sandwich board mocking Crazy Johnny for something stupid he said. The little twerp was trying to bait rally goers into making news. No one was playing because 99% of the people thought he was some retarded child and didn't even know who he was.

If McLame is such a great so and so Dana, why did you mock him at his rallies?

BTW Dana is about 4 ft tall on a good day. He is a grubby little creep.

I did a Google image search for him.  This is what came up:

[Oceander]

McCain is an average politician, and certainly not much of a leader.  He did diddly-squat when he ran for president. 

And yes, I too recollect the Keating five.

[skeeter]

Typical. Each time a well known republican dies the left proceeds to project all of their progressive fantasies onto them & then lament how there aren't any reasonable opponents around like so-and-so anymore.

The only difference here is with McCain Millbank didn't have to do much projecting.

[mystery-ak]

How many McCain bashing threads do we need...I think just about everything has been said about him

[RoosGirl]

How many McCain bashing threads do we need...I think just about everything has been said about him

I thought this was a thread to bash Dana Milbank.

[GrouchoTex]

How many McCain bashing threads do we need...I think just about everything has been said about him

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what did I win?

(Oh, sorry, the question was rhetorical)