odinsblog:

You don’t have to lie about McCain. Just be honest and remember him for all the terrible things he stood for. And I’m not talking about foolish mistakes that someone made in their youth either.

If I can “disrespect” John McCain just by speaking the truth, then he probably wasn’t worthy of respect.

McCain was willing to put Sarah Palin—SARAH PALIN—within a heartbeat of the presidency. THAT’S how much he “cared” about America.

Right up until the end, McCain was against Obamacare and universal healthcare for average Americans, even as he himself was receiving the best possible healthcare in America. What a swell guy, right?

In 1998, at the age of 61, John McCain publicly “joked” about how ugly Chelsea Clinton was while she was still a teenager.

John McCain was a warmonger who never met a war he could say no to. Remember him joking about “bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran”? What a jokester that guy was, right?

And after his first wife, Carol, was in a crippling car accident and began putting on weight, he dumped her and abandoned their three young children to marry a wealthy heiress named Cindy. Ah yes, such fine moral character.

At a town hall meeting, John McCain once told the mother of an Aurora shooting victim that she needed some “straight talk” about why guns didn’t need more regulation. Such empathy.

John McCain repeatedly voted against making Martin Luther King Day a holiday in Arizona. He voted for Trump’s massive tax cut bill that cut funding to services like Meals On Wheels. And as he voted for his congressional raises, he continued to vote against raising the minimum wage for everyone else.

I could go on and on and on. John McCain was not a nice person.

Oh, but he served in the military and got brain cancer, so now everyone is supposed to develop amnesia and politely forget about every horrible thing he did?

Noap. Sorry, not today.

If you want people to say nice things about you when you die, then you should probably at least try being a good person while you’re alive. Especially if you’re a US Senator holding the power of life and death other people’s lives.