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There was a report from Bloomberg of "audible gasps on the Senate
floor" as John McCain voted NO on the Obama Care skinny repeal bill.
Gasps, really? I would've gasped had he done anything different.
McCain was simply, predictably, being McCain. This is the same
McCain who continually tries to sabotage Donald Trump. This is the
same McCain he's been for at least 25 years.

Consider a little history for context sake:

The Arizona Senator and I first crossed paths during the 1992
Campaign between incumbent George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. McCain
was emerging as a media darling during this time, putting his days
in the Keating Five Savings and Loan Scandal behind him. The Keating
Five? Oh, McCain and four Democrats, of course. Some things never
change. Certainly not McCain.

Meanwhile, Clinton's team of James Carville and George
Stephanopoulos had put North Carolina squarely in the cross hairs as
a must-win state in 92, and a series of odd events had landed me as Communications Director of NC Bush Quayle. Thus, as a small
government pro-liberty Reagan conservative, I was in the service of
a mushy moderate President who was determined to distance himself
from Reagan, along with his rhetorically challenged VP. It was a
root canal experience, let me tell you.

Team Bush was struggling because they couldn't, or wouldn't, run
clearly to the right of Clinton and expose the differences. When
Ross Perot entered the race, he further muddied the waters because
his agenda agreed with the conservative agenda about 75% of the
time, yet he clearly despised Bush more than he wanted to defeat
Clinton. Whatever Perot's motivations were, the result was that the
92 election was an ideological mess, and Bush was not a man who even
understood that, let alone overcame it.

To make things worse, enter John McCain, who was riding his war hero
story, and a questionable passion for the pro-life position, into
stardom on the right during this time. A big part of McCain's self-
serving strategy was to ingratiate himself to the liberal media by
trashing other Republicans, which he did often. So, paradoxically,
he gained credibility on the right, by trashing the right, because
he became the only man (ostensibly) on the right that the media
liked, and we were desperate on the right to be liked by anyone in
the media. Consider: talk radio was new and small, CNN was the only
cable channel, and Andrew Breitbart was just starting to emerge from
his "hippy dippy" liberal youth (his words).

The Mainstream Media still ruled the roost, and McCain's message to
them was that Bush "must stop being so extreme," as in so extremely conservative. The exact opposite was true. Bush wasn't nearly
conservative enough, nor capable of articulating those views on
which he was conservative. Clearly McCain knew this, wanted Bush to
lose, and to climb the ladder in the vacuum a Bush loss would
create. And the media was all too happy to help. I was forced to
try and use whatever media influence in North Carolina I could
muster to overcome McCain's message, which is why I remember it like
yesterday.

And yes, I fully understand that now, everybody on the planet is
onto McCain's schtick. Most of that didn't really happen until at
least 2000, and into 2008 and beyond. In ‘92 however, I was on a
lonely planet. I even got into a heated dispute with the host on the
G. Gordon Liddy Radio Show in early 1993 about this. Gordon was
still drinking the McCain Kool Aid, as were all of his listeners.

Now back to the future: everyone knows what's in the Kool Aid now.

So here we are, with McCain shaking off the effects of cancer to
cast a vote that ensures we probably won’t get the same treatment he
did. The John McCain who sabotaged the so called 'skinny repeal'
vote over Obama Care, and who fought openly with Donald Trump months
ago, is exactly the same John McCain he has always been. He not only
trashes conservatives at every opportunity, he then takes credit for
being this courageous "maverick," even as everybody knows that
trashing conservatives to the media is the easiest, most gutless
thing a person can do.

Almost everything about McCain's carefully crafted image is a lie.
It always has been. And now, in a somewhat cruel irony, McCain has
access to massive amounts of Obama Care-exempted health care, while
voting to make sure you and I remain trapped under this failed
disaster. In other words, McCain is just being McCain. This is who
he's always been.

He "reached across the aisle" in the 1980's to enrich himself while
the Savings and Loan scandal was bankrupting average Americans. He
reached across the aisle in the 90's to help Bill Clinton. He
reached across the aisle in 2005 and 06 in the name of comprehensive immigration reform. He reached across the aisle to help foist the
corrupt Dodd-Frank bill on us. And on and on it goes.

Now he's reaching across the aisle in service of a corrupt, lobbyist
contrived and bureaucrat enforced abomination called ObamaCare. Of
course he is. This is who John McCain is, and always has been.

[Fuck you, John McVain!]

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Dems & the media want Trump to be more like Obama, but then he'd
have to audit liberals & wire tap reporters' phones.

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