Greg Kramer
Jul 30, 2017 · 2 min read

I agree with the author on McCain’s stance against some of his supporters at a town hall meeting in defense of Obama.

Also and on a positive remembrance, I recall McCain with his “Straight Talk Express Campaign” against W, which was uplifting in many instances. I also admired his grit at that time when he went against the so-called GOP establishment. It wasn’t worthy of the GOP mud slingers to suggest in the South Carolina campaign that McCain had fathered an illegitiamte Black baby. What a group those SC Atwater types are on so many levels!!!

Senator McCain is indeed a war hero. His stay at the Hanoi Hilton when he could’ve left if he had signed a confession after years of torture is one of numerous contributions he has made to our country: and I seriously doubt there are many Americans that would’ve done the same. On a personal note, I hope I would’ve done the same but I don’t know. To leave almost endless inhumane conditions of lonliness, torture, humiliation, et al would be tempting even if you are leaving behind your comrades.

One final accolade that I can readily recall for the senator is McCain- Feingold.

It is refreshing that the chief architect of blocking McCain -Feingold, namely McConnell, had is comeuppance on Friday.

Senator McCain also has his faults and they are numerous in his politcal life.

Some of the more important are as follows:

  1. S&L scandal/Keating 5.
  2. Nominated Palin for his VP
  3. His sacrificing of his principles on the altar of his quest for the presidency in 2008 and at the expense of his reputation that he had quasi rescued after the S&L scandal.
  4. His last senatorial campaign that only exacerbated his reputation as a straight talker.

On balance Senator McCain is a politician. They all have made campaign promises that they knew they wouldn’t keep. They’ve all taken positions that in a sober moment of reflection and in the future they wish they had never made. They’ve all received contributions from unsavory individuals and PACs then casted votes or made policies that they know deep down is not good for the repubic.

In the end, I am thrilled no matter what his motivation that he defeated the GOP so-called Skinny Bill. It couldn’t have happened without him and to Majority Leader McConnell — one of the worst majority leader in my lifetime.

    Greg Kramer

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