karl taylor
Jul 20, 2017 · 2 min read

Absurd.

I was born a constituent, I’ve spent years of my life frustrated by the policies John McCain has promoted. He’s done plenty of things to change the way the military works — and not always for the better.

He’s done things that have been bad for the people of that great state, and he’s represented policies I find deplorable.

But what you may not know is that he’s also shown a willingness to stand up to his deep red constituents even when that made his life more difficult.

He took heat from the right for being “too much of a collectivist.” (A code word they use for those of us who believe that we all do better when we all do better.)

He once told his daughter that his attitudes towards marriage equality may be generational.

A few days before the news broke, he had taken a stand to support efforts to soften the impact of plans to unfund the Medicaid expansion.

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the 1967 Forrestal fire. I invite you to examine his recollections here:

Or this clip of his release:

Those stories are the subject of criticism, too.

We are all deeply flawed. That’s what it means to be human. There is a time to hold each other accountable. There is a time to be critical, and to expect our leaders — even the ones we don’t agree with — to do the right thing.

But when you take to dance on the grave of a civil servant, or for that matter anyone, you have lost the moral high ground.

There’s nothing “well-heeled” about acting like a human when it counts. This is the water’s edge.

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