Don't be like John

Okay….let’s get down to business here.  It has been right at a week now, and the deification of John McCain is almost complete.  I don’t think that the US has seen such a spectacle, or what the media might call a “death event” on such a scale since the murder of John F. Kennedy.  In my lifetime Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley, both five star generals, one a President, architects of the victory over NAZI fascism died and their ceremonies and the media coverage APPROACHED that of McCain, but the hullabaloo itself have eclipsed the man itself.

I didn’t know McCain, didn’t hear him speak, was a kid still when he returned from Vietnam.  I wasn’t aware of the carrier fire in which he was involved, his infidelity to and divorce from his first wife.  I WAS aware of his POW time,  I was aware that his father and grandfather were flag officers and he was not, and I was aware that most people “in the know” consider his role as head of an instructor wing to be a sop to the McCain family and reward for his service, but without the flag rank.  I know he was caught up in the Keating Five scandal, the ONLY republican among the bunch (I am just sayin’).  Of course we all remember that he was the Republican candidate for President, which did not turn out well (of course….for the nation, it was a lose-lose situation).

But let’s face it…..John McCain has not been a friend to conservatism for some years.  People always said that he was quick to “reach across the aisle” to work on issues, and I always assumed that he so readily reached across the aisle because that is where the rest of his party, and virtually all of his friends, sat.  I absolutely do not know how he garnered the appellation of a “Lion” in the senate.  The last time I heard that term used for a deceased senator was when Ted Kennedy died, so I sort of thought that it was a colloquialism for an alcoholic, murdering, philandering socialist.  I think I must have been wrong on that.

In recent years John McCain became more and more a republican in name only, and a conservative not at all.  I know that many of you blame his recent behavior on his brain cancer, but I am not so sure that had anything to do with it.  He loathed Trump, showing that for all of the accolades he got for working with the liberals, he was such a small man that he could not shirk a perceived insult by the President.  He single handedly killed the repeal of Obamacare, even though he like others constantly berated the elimination of choice and taxation included in Obamas’ socialist program and campaigned on its’ repeal.  He did absolutely nothing to stem the flood of illegals into his state and through his state into the nation as a whole, and opposed President Trump at every state.  Essentially John McCain was a toad in the road, a turd in the punchbowl, for the last three years (make it since his failed run for President).

I know his family will miss him, and I sympathize with them.  Even his loud mouthed fat daughter who is about one brain cell smarter than Chelsea Clinton, I do feel for her….not everyone had my jacked up family life (should I say “monkeyed up”?), some had loving relationships and my heart does go out to the McCains’.

In closing, or close to it……someone posed the question of why McCain was allowed to remain in the senate when he developed what had to be a brutal disease that affected his faculties.  The truth is that there is no requirement for him to resign the seat under such conditions, and the democrats an RINO’s would never move to have him recalled….he was more valuable to them the more infirm he became.

John McCain should be a cautionary tale……for all men.  Don’t miss an opportunity to NOT die an embittered, angry old man; it can happen at any time.