John McCain (RINO/D-AZ)

I have been trying for years to convince people that Sen. John McCain (RINO-AZ) is not now; was not in the past; and will never in the future be a conservative. In my personal opinion the RINO status I afforded him in my book Freedom Permits no longer applies. He has finally and completely crossed over to the dark side. He has never been a Conservative. He has always been a “Republican maverick” that would reach across the aisle and side with liberals more often than his own party. He was always a liberal media darling and would prostitute himself on each occasion he could in order to get accolades from the left-leaning media. Of course that all died when he ran for president against Obama in 2008. He quickly found out that he was not a true hero to the liberal left once he ran against their true savior Barack Obama. I believe he pines for that status again and his feud with Donald Trump is his way to recoup the media status he lost nine years ago. He is a pathetic loser who can’t distinguish between right and wrong. I’ve never liked John McCain and each day he opens his mouth makes me dislike him even more. His “maverick” status has become a continuing detriment to the conservative cause. He has allowed his personal animus toward Trump to offset any semblance of common sense that he had left.

Because I did not serve in Vietnam I will not in any way discredit John McCain’s service. I say this with all sincerity: “Thank you John McCain for your service to our country”. That being said I will limit my comments about John McCain to his 30 or so years as a US Senator.

The reason I have finally dedicated a specific blog to John McCain is because of his speech at the Security Conference in Munich, Germany yesterday. Without ever having spoken Donald Trump’s name he badmouthed a ghost of Donald Trump and every Trump policy except defense spending. What Happened to the long-held tradition that American politicians do not go overseas and badmouth America? Actually, that long-held tradition was discarded by Barack Obama when he did his "apology tours" at the very beginning and the very end of his eight years. It seems McCain has taken it to a new low by getting even more specific and bad mouthing and disrespecting a sitting American President. I am hard-pressed to avoid concluding that John McCain and his Trump hating diatribe in Munich is without a doubt the most pathetic show of anti-American sentiment I have witnessed since Obama. And there have been plenty to choose from.

McCain is now and has always been an advocate of illegal immigration amnesty. This has been going on since early in the Bush years. Do you recall the “Gang of Eight” that introduced amnesty legislation in 2013 sponsored by Republican senators John McCain (R-AZ), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), along with four liberal senators Michael Bennet (D-CO), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and Chuck Schumer (D-NY). Now is that not a fine group of questionable characters to pick from? Fortunately for America their efforts failed at that point in time but they have never given up hope for illegal immigrant amnesty.

Do you remember the McCain-Feingold legislation that would not allow incumbent candidates to have their voting records revealed or even discussed within 60 days of their upcoming election? It was appropriately called "the incumbent protection act". Common sense would dictate that knowing whether or not your potential representative in Washington DC would vote in favor of the ideology you hold near and dear would be an important tidbit to know before you vote. But then again the minuscule spot in John McCain’s brain that dictates common sense seems to go dark when he teams up with liberals.

John McCain supports a global governance system and hates Trump’s “America First” slogan. He told the Munich Security Conference that the world is in greater peril now than it was under Barack Obama. I guess John McCain feels it is his duty to warn the rest of the world that Trump is a big threat to a world global dictatorship. He has entered the lunatic zone of socialist ideology and shows no desire to find the exit from that destructive maze that leads to the global march to communism.

McCain claims that Trump has no sense of separating truth from lies. I believe the mainstream media should be who McCain is most concerned about in the category of fake news. He must believe that it is okay for the mainstream media tell lies about Trump on a daily basis. 

McCain stated at the Munich conference that he is alarmed by the “resentment” that Trump has towards minority groups, refugees, immigrants, and especially Muslims. Trump has no animosity towards minority groups. Trump’s bans on the seven countries picked by Barack Obama were specifically targeting potential terrorists and not a ban on Muslims. Another note to make is that Donald Trump does not resent immigrants. At least be truthful with what Donald Trump says and insert “felonious, illegal” in front of the word immigrants. Failure to insert the word illegal in front of immigrant is a liberal ploy to mask the true meaning of acceptable conservative immigration.

McCain is a big advocate of the North American Free Trade Association established under George W. Bush and the Transpacific Partnership established under Barack Obama. As far as NAFTA goes it has enough history to prove it is responsible for the loss of hundreds of manufacturing businesses and thousands of manufacturing jobs because they were allowed to migrate from the United States to neighboring countries. The TPP has the same potential of sending American manufacturing and jobs to the Pacific region.

McCain lamented that Trump is “laying down the mantle of global leadership”. That tells me McCain is not an advocate of “America First” and has no intentions of advocating for America being the lone superpower for the World. It also tells me that John McCain seems to be leaning more toward the United Nations as the most prominent authority for global leadership. McCain blames Trump for the threat to traditional world order. The traditional world order has not been working very well John. Maybe we need to try something different.

The Senate voted straight party line to approve Mick Mulvaney as Trump's new Office of Management and Budget Director, except for John McCain as the only dissenting Republican. Sour grapes anyone? McCain voted "yes" on every nominee until Mulvaney. What made this pick so offensive to McCain?

McCain has fought Trump from the very beginning of Trump’s race to become president. He must sit there every day and wonder why an uncouth man like Trump, with no Washington Beltway experience, could be elected president and he failed. He can’t comprehend, like all his establishment Republican colleagues, that the American people were tired of the Republican leaders making campaign promises they had no intention of keeping and then picking losers like him to be our nominee for Commander-in-Chief. Wake up John, Heartland Conservatives will no longer listen to your liberal leaning B.S. Please just change the “R” behind your name to a “D” and be done with it once and for all! If you switched to caucusing with the Democrats you would again be the media darling and could easily reestablish your “maverick” status with the lunatics across the aisle. On top of that it would make the Trump agenda harder to achieve with a mere one Senate vote advantage to support him. That seems to be your ultimate goal lately. It probably wouldn’t even hurt you with your constituents in Arizona because they already have to know what a left-leaning Republican you are and they still vote for you every six years. As the comedian Ron White would say: “You can’t fix stupid”.

God Bless America!!!