“There’s increasing signs that the administration is coming closer to a normal conservative Republican presidency, said ASU professor David Wells in 2017, “(McCain) may be trying to encourage him (Trump) more along those lines.” However, kramerontheright believes the senator let his ego get the best of him and he missed an opportunity to provide the new president with his guidance.
It’s been reported that Sen. John McCain has been discussing funeral arrangements with his family. That’s to be expected since he is suffering with a sure terminal brain cancer.
Senator John McCain is leaving a sad legacy of a vengeful bitter old man. (crosssandiars.com)
Sadly, I will remember him as a bitter old man as I understand he has told his family that he doesn’t want President Trump to attend his funeral.
Yes, in 2015 candidate Trump foolishly insulted McCain’s prisoner of war experience. Early last year, in an effort to bury the hatchet, the president invited the McCain’s and another Trump antagonist, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) to the White House for dinner.
“I think they’re practical politicians,” said Richard Herrera, a political science professor at Arizona State University, at the time, “They’re going to work with whomever.”
A couple of months later, however, McCain, assured that the spotlight would be on him, voted “nay” to kill the administration’s effort to repeal ObamaCare.
During recent rallies, the president has continued to talk about repealing ObamaCare, including his latest step of killing the mandate. He refers to the vote that killed the GOP effort to repeal it, without mentioning McCain by name.
Senator Graham, more of a pragmatist, has come around and appears to be supportive of the Trump agenda. “In 80 days, he (Trump) has done more to correct the world than President Obama did in eight years,” said Graham.
While another ASU professor, David Wells, advised that “the president can’t be kept at arm’s-length,” McCain become a RINO, a Republican in name only, and has not been a supporter of the president.
McCain sent an aide to London to secure a copy of the Trump dossier with the intent to derail the Trump presidency. After turning it over to the FBI, he embarrassingly learned that the agency already had a copy.
In February, Cindy McCain, appearing on ABC’s The View, told viewers, “We have much bigger things to worry about right now than to worry about what the president says,” as she pushed for more compassion, empathy, togetherness in terms of working together. “We don’t need more bullying, and I’m tired of it.”
Thoughtfully, the president had called her two months earlier to check on her husband’s progress.
“We should want to move on,” McCain’s daughter Meghan has said, “We should want to be a united front. And I don’t understand the in-fighting. I would never boo any politician, no matter how much I disagreed with him personally, because this is America, and we’re supposed to have a difference of opinion.”
It’s unfortunate that her father, who served his country courageously and proudly for so many years, has chosen to leave a legacy, not as a maverick who fought for things he believed in, but as a vengeful bitter old man, who couldn’t forgive, forget … and move on.
Still … may God bless you Senator McCain.
