Dude, Reagan suffocated the soul of the GOP. And Nixon before him. Back in the Eisenhower days when the Democrats were the racist party, they had some solid things to stand for, but those people are in the ground at this point, and have been for a long, long time. McCain was arguably the last of his kind, back when you could be a decent person and still have some standing in the GOP, which is why they’ve now edited him out like Emmanuel Goldstein.
A lot of the Democrats are shit, too. But the thought leaders of the Democratic Party are, by and large, the relatively decent ones. We’ve reformed (somewhat) since Clinton. The Republicans have been digging down to new levels of hell with every new generation for roughly 50 years now, and Nixon was already psychotically bad.
This. People who think that the Republican party has been honorable in recent memory haven’t been paying attention. There have been honorable Republicans in my lifetime like John McCain, but the party as a whole has been little more than a cabal of grifters appealing to the worst parts of us with the sole purpose of enriching themselves and punishing the “other” in sociopathic glee. Trump didn’t start this. He just pulled off the mask and made it OK to speak and act openly.
honorable Republicans in my lifetime like John McCain
L. O. L.
I don’t know if your definition of ‘honorable’ has a low ad bar, or if you’re just calling him ‘honorable’ in comparison to a flock of shit birds, but that statement is fucking laughable.
Ha - I thought the exact same thing; I just edited my thing specifically to talk about McCain. Yeah, he was the last of the old guard; already out of step (telling that woman at his rally not to attack Obama as an enemy of America). But at least in his day you could be decent and run for president as a Republican. Now they’ll throw you out of congress for trying to be a normal human person as a Republican. Maybe next year it’ll be prison.
Dude, Reagan suffocated the soul of the GOP. And Nixon before him. Back in the Eisenhower days when the Democrats were the racist party, they had some solid things to stand for, but those people are in the ground at this point, and have been for a long, long time. McCain was arguably the last of his kind, back when you could be a decent person and still have some standing in the GOP, which is why they’ve now edited him out like Emmanuel Goldstein.
A lot of the Democrats are shit, too. But the thought leaders of the Democratic Party are, by and large, the relatively decent ones. We’ve reformed (somewhat) since Clinton. The Republicans have been digging down to new levels of hell with every new generation for roughly 50 years now, and Nixon was already psychotically bad.
This. People who think that the Republican party has been honorable in recent memory haven’t been paying attention. There have been honorable Republicans in my lifetime like John McCain, but the party as a whole has been little more than a cabal of grifters appealing to the worst parts of us with the sole purpose of enriching themselves and punishing the “other” in sociopathic glee. Trump didn’t start this. He just pulled off the mask and made it OK to speak and act openly.
L. O. L.
I don’t know if your definition of ‘honorable’ has a low ad bar, or if you’re just calling him ‘honorable’ in comparison to a flock of shit birds, but that statement is fucking laughable.
Dude. If you have dinner with Nazis, you’re probably a Nazi.
McCain had dinner with Nazis
Ha - I thought the exact same thing; I just edited my thing specifically to talk about McCain. Yeah, he was the last of the old guard; already out of step (telling that woman at his rally not to attack Obama as an enemy of America). But at least in his day you could be decent and run for president as a Republican. Now they’ll throw you out of congress for trying to be a normal human person as a Republican. Maybe next year it’ll be prison.
Didn’t McCain call his wife a harlot for playfully messing with his hair?
Edit: it was a trollop and the c word. I don’t know how I only remembered the mild insult
https://web.archive.org/web/20170120190529/http://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/mccain_temper_boiled_over_in_92_0407.html#expand
You should check out the Behind the Bastards episode on him. He was not a swell dude, he just played one on TV.