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MadDAsHell

(2,067 posts) Fri Sep 14, 2018, 09:20 AM Sep 2018

If you'd told me 4 years ago that DU's 2 biggest heroes in 2018 would be Mueller and McCain...

...2 conservative RepubliCONS, I would have said you’re crazy.

Times have changed. We’re certainly living in a different universe these days.

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If you'd told me 4 years ago that DU's 2 biggest heroes in 2018 would be Mueller and McCain... (Original Post) MadDAsHell Sep 2018 OP

Excellent observation PJMcK Sep 2018 #1

McCain never did anything that impressed me. Mueller? We won't know what he does until Autumn Sep 2018 #2

NEVER? Wow... just wow... hlthe2b Sep 2018 #7

No Republican ever did a damn thing to impress me. Yes, I'm proud of that. Autumn Sep 2018 #8

My best friend in junior high had a much older brother who was a POW in Vietnam... hlthe2b Sep 2018 #10

McCain being a POW was a part of his life that had no bearing on me or anyone Autumn Sep 2018 #11

I don't consider MCCain as one of my biggest heroes. demmiblue Sep 2018 #3

Somehow, I think a lot of people will defer on your opinion there... Wounded Bear Sep 2018 #4

Groupthink plusgood, Ghost Dog Sep 2018 #5

K & R LAS14 Sep 2018 #6

You could try to say that today, but I think you'd be hard pressed to prove it. MrsCoffee Sep 2018 #9

PJMcK

(22,037 posts)

1. Excellent observation

Reply to MadDAsHell (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 09:25 AM

Sep 2018

The Era of Trump is like the Bizarro World from the old Superman comic books. Nothing makes sense when viewed from our old perspectives.

Autumn

(45,082 posts)

2. McCain never did anything that impressed me. Mueller? We won't know what he does until

Reply to MadDAsHell (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 09:27 AM

Sep 2018

it's done. There's not a Republican alive that I would call a hero.

hlthe2b

(102,272 posts)

7. NEVER? Wow... just wow...

Reply to Autumn (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 10:48 AM

Sep 2018

Autumn

(45,082 posts)

8. No Republican ever did a damn thing to impress me. Yes, I'm proud of that.

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #7)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 10:53 AM

Sep 2018

YMMV.

hlthe2b

(102,272 posts)

10. My best friend in junior high had a much older brother who was a POW in Vietnam...

Reply to Autumn (Reply #8)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 11:00 AM

Sep 2018

He was never the same when he was released and though I long since lost track of that friend, she told me what he experienced. He only spoke of it once, just once, after a few too many drinks with some former combat veterans and died a couple years later of an "accidental" motorcycle wreck.

I have to admire anyone who went through what McCain did. Absolutely. Politics don't come into play. NEVER.

Autumn

(45,082 posts)

11. McCain being a POW was a part of his life that had no bearing on me or anyone

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #10)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 11:24 AM

Sep 2018

other than him and his family. Many who served in Vietnam went thought what he went through, and worse.
As a Republican politician he never did a damn thing that impressed me and I have no reason to admire him. Again YMMV

demmiblue

(36,851 posts)

3. I don't consider MCCain as one of my biggest heroes.

Reply to MadDAsHell (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 09:31 AM

Sep 2018

As far as Mueller, he is doing his job (and doing it well). I don't view him in a partisan lens.

One of my heroes this year would be Senator Merkley for putting the family separations at our border on the map.

Wounded Bear

(58,654 posts)

4. Somehow, I think a lot of people will defer on your opinion there...

Reply to MadDAsHell (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 09:33 AM

Sep 2018

Mueller is doing his job. McCain had a few moments of clarity after a long life of RW bullshit.

I think I can think of a couple of progressives that are more "heroes" than those two.