In an apparent attempt to have a Senate career as old as the country itself, Sen. John McCain has announced that he wants a sixth term in the Senate. As a reminder, when McCain entered that august body, Ronald Reagan was president, the Dow Jones had just broken 2,000 for the first time, and Madonna had yet to hold her first world tour. Today, Reagan is dead, the Dow Jones is at 17,880 and Madonna qualifies for AARP membership.
McCain will be 80 years old on election day 2016. Of course, he’s been acting like he’s 80 years old for a long time. McCain’s shtick these days largely consists of shaking his fist at the modern world, particularly the whippersnapper in the White House who had the temerity to beat him in 2008. (The nation shakes its fist back at McCain for inflicting the train wreck that is Sarah Palin on it.)
If nothing else, we can count on McCain’s continued incoherence on gay issues. This is the man who famously lectured Ellen DeGeneres about why she shouldn’t have the right to get married and who remains implacably opposed to marriage equality. He was especially obnoxious about the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, puffing himself up as an expert because he was a war hero (of the Vietnam War, not the Civil War) and knew that the Pentagon survey of military personnel a half century younger than him just had to be wrong.
On the other hand, McCain urged then-Gov. Jan Brewer to veto Arizona’s religious liberty bill last year. He also voted in favor of the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), although he added amendments to extend religious exemptions. Just to prove that McCain can speak out of both sides of his mouth at once, he also speculated that bills like ENDA can lead to quotas and busing.
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Of course, with time McCain may change his mind. Imagine how liberal he will be when he’s running for re-election in 2046.
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Roland Hamburger
He sure does like a good fisting!
1EqualityUSA
What a flippin’ freak he is! The people who keep voting for this ‘tard are idiots. Mutant!
R Reyes Rutherford
Or needs one? There should be a term limit do there can be flesh blood that us more in tune with the real world.
Giancarlo85
McCain went senile fifteen years ago. He lost his mind. But the again he would have to be mindless representing the state he does. Old flapping gums. And yes, Governor Jerry Brown is the same age, but he has been a wise steady hand who is quite eloquent. Something McCain has never been.
Realitycheck
If he runs again and doesn’t get re elected, it would show yet
another positive shift in the american mind.
Cam
McCain brags that he was ranked 3rd from the bottom in his academy class. He also brags that he holds the record for demerits. Yes, because anybody else, whose father and grandfather weren’t Admirals at the time would have been kicked out.
McCain, even though he had horrible grades was allowed into flight school in the Navy, normally his grades and scores would have kept him out, but, daddy was Admiral.
McCain crashed 4 planes before finally crashing his 5th in Viet Nam. Normally somebody who had crashed 4 planes would have been grounded…….but you know, daddy was an admiral.
McCain claims that during the time he was a POW they told him they would release him but he refused saying everybody else had to go. A nice piece of fiction considering if they wanted to release him, there is nothing he could have done to stop it. But it sounds good in a speech.
When McCain returned, his wife had been in a car accident, he met a younger heiress, dumped his wife, and married her, after lying to her about his age, which he jokes about . A sign that he will lie about anything to get what he wants)
He spent a few months working for his new wife’s rich daddy, and then used said daddy’s money to fund his first campaign. So he went from relying on his Admiral Daddy to get a free ride in the military to relying on his wife’s rich daddy to get a free ride in politics.
He got into trouble for taking money, trips, and vacations from Savings and Loan head Charles Keating, McCain pressed for regulators to stop looking into the Savings and Loan that Keating owned. When that collapsed taking people’s savings with it, it was the largest financial collapse in the U.S. until the recent economic implosion that started under Bush in 2006.
McCain then set about trying to reform his image by trying to pass Campaign finance reform. After it passed he broke his own law while running for president.
Before each election books were written about McCain by his chief of staff, while the Chief of staff was on the govt. payroll taking a govt. salary.
McCain has said at different times that we should put troops on the ground in Libya, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and believe it or not Ukraine, he even said we should plan for huge numbers of troops to be in Ukraine for the long haul and compared it to the huge base we have in Korea. We’ve already spent over a trillion dollars in the Middle East but he wants more.
Then he votes against every bill that would help vets saying we can’t afford it.
McCain allowed staff to pick Sarah Palin for his VP, and in books by his former campaign staffers, he was disengaged, didn’t vet her, and had no interest in making sure that his VP was qualified.
Yeah, Arizona really has a winner there.
Lane Brooks
retire already. too old.
Irish Ryan
Time to go.I believe the President and Senate should both be limited to 3 terms and the House 6 terms.An almost impossible task to accomplish though.
Stephen Rock
“I wanna be President!!”
NoCagada
Please…get a divorce (where is that mannequin woman, anyway?) and go marry Miss Lindsey
MinnesotaNotNice
Arizona voters have a long history of voting in or re-electing terrible candidates to office, John McCain and Jan Brewer being two prime examples. As long as McCain is upright and breathing, Arizona voters will re-elect him just like North Carolina did with Jesse Helms and South Carolina with Strom Thurmond.
Rick Caffey
Oh hell NO in 16.. term limits are very much needed.
jwtraveler
@Irish Ryan: Presidents are already limited to 2 terms.
There should be a mandatory retirement age for members of Congress, and the Supreme Court.
Ron King
Dinosaur… Out of touch with the times.
Chris L. Reynolds
Oust him,it’s time to dismantle the dysfunctional nonsense!
Victor Barry
Grandpa, give it up.
Steve Wyrick
Just no.
Kevin J Desmond
Stick the old bastard in a cage somewhere and forget about him already !!!!
polarisfashion
@Cam: Thank you for sharing, I didn’t know some of that information.
dvlaries
It could be worth it if some candid photos manage to get sneaked out of old Walnuts fallen asleep at his desk, drooling.
excusemydust
Mr. McCain has every right to seek a sixth term, and the people of Arizona can choose to grant it to him, but I sincerely hope they’ll find someone else to represent their state.
Robert Corvo
HE HAS GOT TO GO!
Michael Martinez
Can’t we just make him chairman of the, “You kids get off of my LAWN!: committee?
northwest
Old bitter fool who was wrong about everything and unleashed Palin and all of the other Tea Party jokers on us needs to sit his ass down somewhere far away from the Senate.
Giancarlo85
@excusemydust: Nobody said he doesn’t have the right to do that, but usually public office requires a degree of competence. He’s senile.
Transiteer
There does come a time, when it’s past time to hang up the spurs and go home. Go home John. You don’t need any more houses.
Jerry Mitchell
We need term limits on our congressman and senators.
Roger Honeycutt
So to shady acres and poop in your depends you old fool
Low Country Boy
A gentleman always knows when it is time to leave a party.
Joanne S. f.US Senator
Good evening ya’ll.
I will not undermine his few accomplishments, however I must point out that Mr. McCain now feels that his reasoning for wanting to run again is – he would like Arizona to give him their trust, he has done so little in five (5) terms in office! He talks a good game, I thank him for his services while in the military, I also thank him for his service as U.S. Senator, but I acknowledge that his accomplishments fail in comparison to his failures!
“McCain said he will emphasize local issues during his campaign, such as the drought, his work to benefit a copper mine and legislation to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA was thrown into turmoil last year amid allegations of misconduct and cover-ups at the VA hospital in Phoenix”.
Where has he been all these years? What exactly has he done to deserve the trust of the Arizona people?
I am running for office. In Arizona I decided that it is time to put to pasture some of these Veterans of the Elite.
Unlike most career politicians, I am only a small person, who can make a difference – but making a difference is not up to me, I trust the people of Arizona to give me their voice and I promise to go to Washington and make it be heard! No more can we afford to continue to feed the “ego maniac monsters” that run our country…
Please look for me and support my run.
Joanne Selena Lopez
Peter Bettou
Love his thoughts
1EqualityUSA
Cam, Your comment was concise and exquisite. Thank you! Do you remember when he sang about bombing Iran? He needs to be put out to pasture.
Bob LaBlah
I honestly have no problem with the man, except I would NOT want him as president. What I love about McCain is his ability to say to his party, in an indirect way, you are acting like a bunch of idiots. He has done it on several occasions and even chastised our favorite closeted pillow biter (Rafael Cruz) for that 23 hour filibuster that went no where, as they all knew it would. At least everyone but Cruz that is.
1EqualityUSA
Senator John McCain plays poker on his IPhone during a U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing where Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey testify concerning the use of force in Syria, on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, Tuesday, September 3, 2013. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post/Getty Images)
Playing video games while discussing bombing Syria. He has no respect for life. What a head-case!
Cam
@Bob LaBlah: said… “I honestly have no problem with the man, except I would NOT want him as president. What I love about McCain is his ability to say to his party, in an indirect way, you are acting like a bunch of idiots. ”
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The problem is, he only does it when he thinks it makes good press. Remember, during the election he supported South Carolina using the Confederate Flag, then after the election he said that saying that had been cowardly, then the next election he reversed course again.
He said something not flattering about Jerry Fallwell, then met up with Fallwell and kissed his ring soon after when he was running for office.
Patrick Laney
Die already old bastard…
Bob LaBlah
@Cam: Not only do I see the valid points you made but think along these lines: He more or less is the poster boy for republican hypocrisy, isn’t he? Who else can you name currently sitting in the senate that could be held up as such? Thats why I say keep him in office. Just DONT let him have the top job, the presidency. Seriously, what comes out of McCains mouth that anyone, even his own party, takes seriously? And there lies the problem with the republicans: no one takes them seriously.
I really do want to thank ol’ Sister Sarah Palin for more or less sticking up her middle finger at the republicans every time she opens her mouth. To me, each time she does she is more or less saying to the audience “ok assholes, I’m back preaching this shit you wanted me to say during the election only this time YOU are paying me MILLIONS of dollars to do it. So whose stupid here, me or YOUR ideology that deep down there is no way in hell I believe either.” Some times it is so obvious thats how she feels I always see it in her smile and laughter. She makes these off the wall comments about Obama but at the same time not a stranger to black dick. She had several romps with black basketball players and she didn’t deny it. The republicans are nothing else but a clown car that tipped over years ago and too stupid to realize it,
1EqualityUSA
BobLaBlah, McCain was pushing hard to remove regulations from big business. I don’t trust this man and I don’t like the idea that he has a vote on American lives. This loon has power. He misuses his power and has a mean streak that is prevalent. Making a mockery of your party, intentional or not, is insulting to the role they have been elected to do.
Bob LaBlah
@1EqualityUSA: “He misuses his power and has a mean streak that is prevalent.”
Thats that I love about the old fart. Especially his disdain for the religious right and the look on both of their faces when he has no other choice but to kiss their ass to stay in power. Unlike ol’ Sister Sarah, McCain can’t even pretend to do it with a strait face. Isn’t politics just wonderful?
1EqualityUSA
Love makes the world go ’round…i guess.