Always entertained when liberals feel some sort of attachment to McCain. In the UK, class based education ensures success for numerous idiot-childs of the aristocracy. Yet with the McCains, was it not the same? Because of multi-generational service within that family, his ranking at Annapolis (bottom 1 percent) counted for shit. In fact, having grandfathers as admirals etc. probably preventing him from being kicked out. Connections were more important. That healthy rebellious spirit, in fact, was a stench of entitlement! His love of Senate entitlement and so-called bi-partisan spirit, in fact, is it not really a love of Washington insiders and decorum (while falsely portraying himself as an outsider)?
McCain dislikes real outsiders such as Palin, Cruz or Paul.
If he should be compared to anyone, it is Le Pen in France. Both are quintessential insiders comparing and positioning themselves as total outsiders (when in fact they have been members of the elite for decades and decades). Both switch sides on policy positions (adopting left and right positions) when it is convenient.
Hereās a theory for you: after he got blindsided and shot down in 2008 he decided to try sucking up to those people so he could be the popular kid.
No, it doesnāt make sense. Thatās why I think it might be true.
Or maybe he just went nuts.
He was never really a maverick. He once said his greatest life lesson was that he needed the support of other people. I think he was a needy guy who built a maverick persona so cool people would think he was cool. Kinda like a hippie or something.
Itās so easy to fake that sort of thing.
A typical politician is always trying to rise to the top of some tribe or other. A real leader builds his own tribe.
Also, āmaverickā is just a word. A cool sounding word, but just a word.
Thatās a clear indicator of how he wasnāt being true to himself during the 2008 election. He didnāt really believe in the Tea Party and Fox news talking points, and he only selected Palin in hopes of winning them over. That 2008 stint seriously lost him points with the majority of voters, but is also indicative of how broken the current election system is, and how critical it is to remove money from elections.
You canāt get money out of anything, let alone politics.
No excuses. He got used and abused in that campaign because he wasnāt savvy enough to avoid the traps.
And afterward he was angry. Canāt fault him for that, except he was angry indiscriminately. He never did figure out who his real enemies were, even when the biggest one stared out at him from the mirror.
Oh, and envy. Trump succeeded where he had failed, and at the same time showed what a real maverick looks like.
