Lovely people being lovely
by digby
Laura Ingraham’s site did a piece on the social media reactions to Meghan McCain’s eulogy yesterday in which she actually criticized some of the GOPers who slammed her. Here are a few typical comments:
- The whole event reminded me of the 2002 Paul Wellstone Memorial. I was shocked by the political/personal attacks on our President, which in turn was an attack on his supporters, you know, the “Crazies” . He hated conservatives, the Tea Party and our President. He was a political traitor to his country, the constitution and his party. I am so glad that God term limited John McCain!
- John McCain was NOT a hero. Being a prisoner of war does NOT make you a hero…. saving someone’s life at the expense of risking your own DOES. Just WHAT did McCAin do that made him a hero?…. graduate from Annapolis at the bottom of his class?, Abandoning his first wife, who was disabled to marry a rich heiress?, Catch an Aircraft carrier on fire because he was a sub standard pilot put in place by his Admiral Father?, or was it his telling all to the Vietcong while in captivity and have his statement recorded to be played on the radio? Maybe his staying in office to the very end, even though he was on death’s door for the last year, putting himself before his fellow countrymen and Arizonians. Or possibly his historical voting record as being the most Liberal of GOP Senators in the history of EVER, even being the deciding vote (he chose to keep it) to abolish Obamacare?
- What exactly DID John McCain do that makes him a hero? I’d love to know.
- I wholeheartedly supports Meghan McCain for Best Actress in her portrayal of Crocodile No Tears for John the hero McCain. Megs was Oscar winning her performance as there were not any tears to make her makeup run, and she lost weight for the role in only 4 meals a day, and just a few bags of Doritos, and saving herself up for the emotional scene which like her mum, Cindy kissing the casket was performed directly at her good angle by a pre positioned cameraman.
- Megs reminds me of the great silent film stars in heavy make up, pale white ghostly faces to add that ghoulish glow and of course her hair pulled back as nothing is worse than a close up in having your hair in the way.
- Meghan McCain is a trust fund baby who used her father’s political fame to get jobs in the entertainment business. Other than that, no one could have cared less about her.
- Change Meghan’s name with Chelsea Clinton’s in your comment. They’re one and the same.
- McCain might as well have called all of us Trump supporters “deplorables” as his good friend Hillary Clinton did. Anybody who wasn’t a “RINO” was a “crazy.” And in labeling us all “crazies”, he labeled Donald Trump a “crazy” too. A week later in Iowa, on July 18, 2015, Trump was interviewed and delivered his response to McCain’s calling Trump-supporters, and, by default, Trump himself, ‘crazy.’ Trump said, ‘He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.’
- As usual, you can’t trust the fake news to report the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
- “A “war hero” doesn’t finish 894th out of 899 at Annapolis Naval Academy and still get stationed at a Navy champagne unit and promoted ahead of all but two of his 898 other classmates. A “war hero” doesn’t crash three U.S. Navy jets out of sheer incompetence and ineptitude, including two during non-combat training sessions. A “war hero” doesn’t get written up on drunk-and-disorderly, fraternization, disobeying orders, and insubordination charges more than two dozen times in less than three years. A “war hero” doesn’t get promoted to squadron commander of the airfield named after his own grandfather immediately after crashing his third airplane. A “war hero” doesn’t have all the military records that cover his time in Vietnam and all disciplinary actions against him censored and sealed “as a matter of national security.” A “war hero” doesn’t get 28 medals awarded all after-the-fact “for bravery” for no other reason than being shot down and captured and then go on a celebrity public relations tour because he’s the son of two acclaimed Navy admirals. A “war hero” doesn’t repeatedly cheat on the wife who’s back in the states waiting for him, and then cheat on her more when he returns to the states, and then divorce and abandon her…
- This is not unusual, McCain and his family were always unhappy and trashing others over anything. PERIOD! Just another group of unhappy people no matter how you try to appease them.
- I never want to see any McCain again, they are hateful,spiteful arrogant people.
- There was no come to Jesus moment for McCain. He knew where he was going.
But they love Trump.
Like I said, lovely people.
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