It would appear that characterizing McCain as “Songbird John” is some sort of trial balloon, to test whether a flat-out lie will gain traction.
Of course ‘Obama born in Kenya’ was a flat-out lie, too, but it at least had the under-girding of ‘his father actually is a Kenyan’ behind it. McCain is well known not only for not talking under torture, but for refusing to accept an early release (offered because of the PR possibilities involved in freeing an admiral’s son), because his fellow-prisoners were not offered the same.
This is a new landmark in vile conduct for the right.
The true Republicans are either completely ignorant about such things because they’re entirely focused on one or two issues and ignore everything else, are so divorced from normal morality they think beating a trans person to death is ‘based’ and truly a great good time and have no political feeling beyond trolling their idiotic mental image of lefties, or feel so constantly besieged the modern world they’ll fall in line behind anyone who promises to make the mean nasty brown people and he-shes leave them alone.
You may think that McConnell is a rat bastard destroying the political norms of American politics for fleeting partisan advantage (and all right-thinking people would agree with you), but he has masterfully gamed the rules and norms of the Senate to achieve his goals.
“His goals” to what ultimate end? That’s what I can’t figure out. He doesn’t seem to aspire to great wealth or even to global power. So what’s the point of it? To be the Ultimate Puppetmaster? To make the other boys feel like losers? Wait, no, that’s his boss’s mission in life. I don’t get it.
I GET what thump’s goal is. He’s as transparent as a greasy piece of waxed paper. It’s twofold: to make the other boys feel like losers and to prove to (dead) Daddy that he’s better than his (dead) brother. And to prove, of course, that his dick is better than anyone else’s, especially any woman’s (you know who I mean), but that is a pointless mission in a cheeseless tunnel.
only of the highest character, this guy earned a spot on the primary ballot. I heard that nearly a third of the party convention supported his candidacy.