A genuine hero?

Maybe it’s time to take a close look at this guy’s “hero” status.  Consider:

• Who has John McCain ever been “loyal” to?  Even the Senate rules and traditions he claims fealty to seem subject to how the invocation maintains his “maverick” status
•  As one of the most inept presidential campaigners in modern history, he ran harder against his own party and its down ticket candidates than he did against Obama
• His votes to derail the GOP’s effort to repeal and replace Obamacare were as predictable as his betrayal of his voters . . . and virtually anyone else who has ever relied on him
• Just ask Lindsey Graham, the former Mrs. McCain, his Arizona voters . . . and the American people

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One question that has in recent years, especially beginning back in 2008, is: Has John McCain ever been been loyal to anyone or trustworthy about anything, except when he believes it would benefit him personally?

In 2008 McCain ran one of the most inept presidential campaigns in modern history. More remarkably, however, he campaigned more vigorously and more aggressively against his own party and its other ‘down ticket’ candidates than against his Democratic party opponent, Barack Hussein Obama!

More on that later, especially for Quad Cities readers who saw stark instances of it first hand.

John McCain, for 50 years or so has enjoyed a status as a true “American hero”. A graduate of Annapolis, Navy attack pilot, shot down and captured during the Vietnam war, tortured, refused to accept freedom when offered to him as a propaganda ploy as the son of a of highly regarded US admiral. He’s alleged to have declined freedom from the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” POW prison “until all his comrades could be freed”.

John later parlayed his Vietnam war “heroics” into a long political career and union with a wealthy wife.

The other side of John McCain’s biography, however, is such that, I believe, it demands another look at those legendary exploits he so jealously craves, promotes and preserves.

Stories that reveal a much darker side to Senator John McCain have been told and written about but generally not very widely seen, read, or heard.

Perhaps for a variety of reasons. But before McCain “rides off into that glorious sunset”, maybe some of those stories deserve to be recalled and soberly considered.

As examples:

– Pretty much well-known, and never denied by McCain, he had a most undistinguished academic career as a midshipman at the US Naval Academy, graduating at virtually the bottom of his class of almost 400. Some have suggested he likely would have “washed-out” had he not had such a distinguished “pedigree” as the son and grandson of accomplished Navy admirals.

– Reported but rather “so what-edly” is an episode in his life that many might find very revealing about McCain’s true character. Before his Vietnam experience, McCain had married a beautiful model, an intelligent classic helpmate and loyal spouse. She impressed many by her dedication and loyalty to John during his 5 years as a POW. During that period and not long before McCain returned home, she was in a horrific auto accident and suffered permanent disfiguring and disabling injuries.

She had refused to allow people to tell John while he was in captivity because she said, “he had enough to worry about”.

When McCain returned home, however, he is said to have failed dramatically in returning her loyalty. McCain allegedly began almost immediately to see other women, with a particular eye out for wealthy ones. It wasn’t long after McCain’s “welcome home great American hero” that he divorced his wife and married “Cindy”, a very wealth daughter of a very rich beverage baron.

With his hero cachet and his new wife’s money and connections, a career in politics was inevitable.

– As a Republican US Senator, John McCain solidified his warm relationship and lofty status with the liberal media, and the generally unwary Arizona voters by building a carefully crafted image of a “bi-partisan maverick”, who would not hesitate to follow his “good conscience” even when it conflicted with the goals of his own Party.

– As the GOP’s presidential candidate in 2008, McCain rewarded the adulation of the media for helping him get there even though they dumped him immediately after his nomination.

McCain campaigned much harder against other candidates in his party, and against many elements of its platform than against his opponent.

QC voters may recall that he refused to allow the area’s GOP congressional candidate to appear with him on stage at an appearance because years earlier he was accused of disparaging gays. Another Iowa candidate experienced similar treatment from McCain’s team for other possibly contrived reasons.

During the campaign the press gleefully reported that McCain ordered a county campaign chairman in another state fired for calling his Democratic opponent by his full name, including “Hussein”.

Well known during his career as that Republican “maverick” McCain could often be relied upon to derail some major GOP initiative or undermine some Republican campaign promise.

What he could never be relied on for is his support for fellow Republicans or important GOP positions when the “chips are down” and maximum liberal media and Democratic party “admiration” for the “American hero” is likely.

Around DC, it is ‘rumored’ that McCain is well-known as an angry, ill-tempered, unreliable even with his friends, and out strictly for John McCain, and nobody else.

Just ask Lindsay Graham, Mitch McConnell, Arizona voters to whom he promised to work tirelessly for repeal of Obamacare. And ask some of his fellow Navy pilots (about his “aviation prowess”) and fellow POWs willing to talk openly . And, most of all, perhaps, ask the former Mrs. John McCain.

DLH

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