re: Very telling story about John McCain in new book

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His Vietnam days built him a big pile of credit and for the rest his life he just lived off that, and mailed it in.

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Yep.

After Vietnam, McCain did absolutely nothing remarkable and original that makes him stand out as a politician.

He was a bitter, self entitled and lazy old man that was narcissist to his core and he had no redeeming qualities to make that up.

He had none Donald Trump's courage and bravery, none of the political gamesmanship of Mitch McConnell and none of the compassion and empathy of Ronald Reagan.

It's so telling that when it was obvious that the brain tumor was going to kill him and he was never ever coming back to the senate for another vote, McCain still refused to step aside, resign and let Arizona have a healthy senator giving them full time representation.

He held onto his senate seat to his very last dying breath and deprived Arizona of a full time senator for nearly a year. There are very few things more pathetic, enraging and self serving than that.