With the news that John McCain has a likely terminal form of brain cancer, the media is falling all over itself to heap sympathy, best wishes and praise on the octogenarian solon. While I am just as sympathetic to his family as I would be any other, I cannot play the hypocrite and act as if I do not feel a sense of relief at McCain\u2019s future absence from our nation\u2019s capital. McCain has always been a wild card, more truly a Joker, with unpredictability as his premier trait, a political capriciousness that did not endear him to many like me who served in the same war as McCain.<\/p>\n
Many have forgotten that McCain\u2019s BFF in the Senate was John Kerry before Kerry left to become Secretary of State. That totally inexplicable friendship, except as two rich guys, who married right, sharing their good fortunes, left me cold. John Kerry is to me the single most despicable thing that came out of the Vietnam War with his lying denunciations of his fellow servicemen for purely personal political aggrandizement. Jane Fonda was a traitor but at least she didn\u2019t use her treachery to build a political career, which is precisely what John Kerry did.<\/p>\n
That McCain could embrace this oily traitor was proof enough to me that McCain\u2019s judgment was clearly impaired. I tried to credit that to his horrible treatment while a captive in North Vietnam but that line of credit ran out when McCain, as a supposed conservative Republican, time and again displayed a too eager willingness to cave to the liberal opposition and grant them their way. Again and again I tried to rationalize away his abandonment of our conservative principles with the excuse that he still was one of us Vietnam vets so that deep down, he held our best interests at heart.<\/p>\n