More like "Aging Asshole Of The Senate"

[kpete]

John McCain is not a foreign policy expert, unless “foreign policy expert” is a new term of art for an old coot who is always wrong about any and every world event.

McCain is also firmly pro-corruption. Remember when he stopped investigating the Abramoff scandal in exchange for Grover Norquist’s support for his failed 2008 WH run? Oh, and then there was the Keating Five and the long, long list of many other scandals that will always follow him around.

Calling John McCain the “Conscience of the Senate” is risible.

I would have gone with “Angry Old Man of the Senate” or ‘Raging Irrational ID of the Senate” or “Endless War Cheerleader of the Senate” or “Bitter Defeated-by-a black-man Crank of the Senate” or “Aging Asshole of the Senate” or something else.

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http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/07/09/spit-take/

[Demeter]

1. Reagan without the stage presence

[randys1]

2. Nah, he is misunderstood. We just have a difference of opinion, dont dare call him names

or identify him as what he actually is, the words will upset someone here at DU, dont wanna do that.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. Oh, good Lord.

My conscience has never prodded me to sing laughingly about bombing a nation made up of young people held in check by an oppressive government of old religious guys.

If we all had a tiny devil and angel on our shoulders, he'd be the tiny devil, not the angel.

[Gothmog]

4. McCain has become a joke

[madokie]

5. Raging asshole is more like it

[longship]

6. Older than the chocolate chip cookie.

Older than shopping carts.

Things younger than John McCain.

Some are surprising.

And I am older than dirt.

[hobbit709]

11. When he was in school, Latin was THE language used.

[Xipe Totec]

7. Get off my Law! nt

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. Someone who actually picked Sarah Palin as a running mate and wanted to place America in her hands

if he had become President and then died ... has no conscience and only wanted to win at any cost.

[pleinair]

9. "foreign policy expert"

"a new term for an old coot who is always wrong about any and every world event." Too true, kpete--and this applies to most of the talking heads on the Sunday shows.

this old HuffPo article details the workings of the Washington Examiner, a free, daily right-wing tabloid published by right-wing 1-per-cent-ers for the sake of their own vanity and craving for influence: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terry-krepel/right-wing-tilt-drives-wa_b_191379.html

[lame54]

10. I'd go with...

"Why the hell is he still in the senate?"

[GeorgeGist]

12. Ho Chi Minh's revenge.

[Staph]

13. Interesting.

If you search the Interwebs, three other names pop up as "the conscience of the Senate" -- Philip Hart (D-Michigan from 1959 to 1976), Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia from 1959 to 2010) and Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts from 1962 to 2009).

These three gentlemen were able to reach across the aisle, to stand on their own principles and to stand up to their own party when they believed the party was wrong.

Tell me again how John McCain deserves that title?