John McCain will probably win his primary easily on Tuesday but I don’t think there is a senator who has more richly deserved to lose in the general since Joe Lieberman went up against Ned Lamont. Do you disagree?
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Well, McCain’s act to Weaponize The Stupid by placing Palin on his ticket was a major offense. As has been his 24/7 warmongering.
Actually, now that you’ve asked me to think about it, you may be right. I came here to assign the title of “Most Deserving to be Ex-Senator” to Ron Johnson, but you have a better case than I do.
Add to what you said the fact that McCain has endorsed Trump, and that’s after Trump dissed McCain for getting captured by the Viet Cong and for the forced confessions after torture. And it’s also after Trump has resoundingly endorsed the use of torture, including even “worse” stuff than waterboarding (which the PTB have done a CON job on the US populace into agreeing that waterboarding isn’t “really torture.”). McCain has publically disagreed with Trump’s stand on torture, but still McCain endorses him.
I mean seriously how much more can McCain sell himself out?? It’s pathetic, sad and disgusting all at once. Yes, imo, McCain definitely deserves to lose big time because he’s amply proven over and over again that he has no dignity, no morals, no ethics and frankly no concern for the United States or its citizens, whether in AZ or elsewhere.
McCain really needs to retire. He can provide a trust fund to his daughter so that she can retire and STFU as well. Would do us all a YUUUUGE favor.
This is insane!!!
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Industry concentration aka “monopolization”. What till the “intellectual property rights” rules in TPP pass.
The USA IS becoming Mexico, but because of its home grown politicians, not the immigrants.
Nope. Mexico has cheap pharmaceuticals.
The Mylan CEO, Heather Bresch, did break one of those glass ceilings. Her father must be proud of her.
The DNC can be so proud of him, no?
I suspect he will be retired in 2018.
This is awful news no matter how you look at it. I’m lucky. If I needed it, I’d just have to deal with a copay, so long as I remain employed (aye, there’s the rub). I have occasionally had animal members of my family become diabetic. The increased cost of insulin has not gone unnoticed. Regrettably, I can’t list the animal members of my family as dependents.
Having spent more than twenty years of my life in Arizona (until I finally escaped five years ago), all I can say is nothing can surprise me. I was there when Evan Mecham was governor and when he was impeached. Was there when the state refused to honor MLK and when it backed down. Have dealt with countless folks who I’m sure are Trump supporters. Republicans who hate McCain. And there are Democrats who can’t stand the guy too. If Trump screws the pooch badly enough that it fractures the right, he could definitely go down.
Do you disagree?
No. He’s been waaaaaaay too long at the fair.
Does being marginally less insane than Trump count in his favour?
McCain’s support for Trump, however reluctant and muted, mitigates his superior marginal sanity to The Donald. That support is craven and cowardly. He’ll forever be tarred with it in my mind.
And Lieberman? Not only endorsing McCain, but appearing with him at the Republican convention. That’s the man (so-called) that Obama pleaded to be let back into the Democratic Caucus with full honors and powers.
That’s also the man that Dick Durbin and others endorsed after against the democratically elected winner of the Democratic Primary, when he ran on the sore loser “Connecticut for Lieberman” Party.
Tell me again how “Progressive” the Democratic Party is.
The Lieberman campaign and Durbin’s endorsement happened in 2006. Lieberman’s apostolic support of McCain happened in 2008. Lieberman’s support didn’t win McCain jack shit.
If Lieberman had been booted out of the Senate Democratic Caucus in 2009, it’s likely we would have had a second Great Depression. We certainly wouldn’t have achieved what we did in the 111th Congress, which piled up the longest list of important progressive achievements since the 1960’s. We needed every one of those 60 Senate votes to get anything done.
Lieberman was one of the worst Democrats. He’s wasn’t representative of the best of the Party.
Having a good toke, are you?
I guess this is one of those areas where we don’t agree. š
Hopefully our next happy moment of agreement is coming soon, Brother.
Your recollection is incorrect. The Democratic Senators the endorsed Lieberman in that 2006 general election were:
Looks like 26 Democratic Senators, including Durbin, endorsed Lamont as the primary winner. The others “kept their powder dry.”
However, Congressman [Saint] John Lewis did endorse Lieberman.
Susan Collins was the only sitting GOP Senator that endorsed Lieberman, but doesn’t appear that any GOP Senators endorsed the GOP nominee.
I’m sure you are correct. It does make more sense that Durbin’s endorsement of Lieberman came after or around the same time that Obama called for his reinstatement given that Obama was Durbin’s protege. Durbin has never been a liberal either, except in the eyes of the Chicago Tribune.
He’s not the worst senator by any means in political-policy terms, his votes are often not insane. But he’s become one of the worst human beings over the past 16 years, a coward and hypocrite who’s aware enough to know exactly what he’s doing from the Iraq war through Sarah Palin to his current shamelessness in regard to Trump.
It’s more important to the nation to defeat Johnson because he’s such a stupid man and terrible senator, but McCain deserves to lose most in the sense that he deserves punishment and humiliation.
I really do want him to lose.
Great — the likely Democratic nominee for the seat that Kirkpatrick is vacating is another Republican.
Jeebus.
Can’t risk getting a latter-day hippie, dontcha know.
Considered a hero for sitting out the Hanoi Hilton until release, McCain in Congress has been a profile ind cowardice. The Military Commissions Act and failure to go to the mat against the same kind of torture he was subjected to are major failure.
So is the way he got to Congress, by dumping the wife who waited for him to return and marrying a rich heiress whose daddy financed his campaign–an likely gave him the idea he could do the job.
If Senator outranks an admiral, he finally did better than his dad.