Full on McCain meltdown.. doddering

[annabanana]

He doesn'[t seem to understand that if evidence shows up that indicates that CLINTON or anyone attached to her colluded with the Russians that she would come under investigation; server be damned!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Kind of sad, really. He was completely out to lunch.

[annabanana]

8. my feeling too... time is taking it's toll on him. . . n/t

[AnotherMother4Peace]

10. I was embarrassed for him & had to change the channel. nt

[Les Cowbell]

2. She would be in jail by now if she did what he did

[Moostache]

3. He is intentionally conflating Russia-Trump with Clinton-email

This is directed to give sound bites to Fox tonight .... especially the "double standard there" ... watch, it will be on tonight in a loop.

[annabanana]

5. (not convinced it's intentional)... n/t

[Amaryllis]

13. Me too. Seemed more like very confused or delusional than intentional. Either way not a good sign.

[YCHDT]

6. A good indication that what Comey said over all hurt D2 Scoops

[Egnever]

15. It would have been on the loop

If he hadn't fucked it up so badly. Now it is likely to be on the loop because of how confused it makes him look.

[karynnj]

22. That may have been the intent of the original question - that his staff likely wrote

There he asked why he could publicly say that Clinton was not going to indicted, but - after privately telling Trump - he was not being investigated - why he would not be willing to say that publicly. Now, Comey easily batted that away - The FBI had exhaustively investigated Clinton, and though they were not happy with what she did - the conclusion was that she had not broken any laws. As to Trump, they had just started investigating the Russian interference. He then mentioned that there was a huge downside which was that if the investigation moved that way, he would have to announce that he WAS under investigation.

However, then McCain lost any semblance of coherence, implying that the June statement absolved Clinton of contact with Russia (! I guess to destroy her campaign), while refusing to do so for Trump. This was crazy and I was impressed that Comey found ways to sanely answer completely insane questions.

It was hard to watch - if this is how he usually is, he should not be Senator.

[YCHDT]

4. He was sleep, he just woke up ... slobber running down side of mouth

[cwydro]

23. Is this a new thing?

Saying "sleep" instead of "asleep"?

Seen this a few times. Wtf?

[mainstreetonce]

7. That is sad to see him lose it completely on camera

Escort him out of the room.

[VigilantG]

9. Seriously! Wtf McCain? Is he lucid?

McCain made absolutely no sense.

Clinton's email server issue has NOTHING to do with Trump investigation.

Even Comey was confused by McCain's gibberish. That was a strange exchange!

[Frustratedlady]

11. He obviously can't figure out that the email investigation is totally separate from

the Russian interference with the campaign process. I kept tilting toward this being an act he was putting on to confuse the issue while still getting Clinton's name/case in front of the hearing so it would pull some attention from the Trump collusion with the Russians...get the deplorables riled up.

It's too bad Comey didn't have a clear chance to straighten him out. He was being too polite and McCain was being a jerk.

[MosheFeingold]

12. On the bright side

At least he's not sitting on the deck of an aircraft carrier with loaded missiles.

He's been a dangerous idiot for a long time.

[annabanana]

16. heh . . . . n/t

[maveric]

14. This was his chance to be a true Patriot.

Very disappointing.

[blue neen]

20. Yep.

Instead of being remembered as a patriot, he'll be remembered as a doddering old fool.

[dalton99a]

32. +1

[snooper2]

17. another good reason for term limits, people stay in office even when their brain stops working

[leftynyc]

18. My sister called

and said she thinks he either had a stroke or was having one at that moment. Said he made no sense whatsoever.

[Amaryllis]

19. I was thinking that as well.

[old guy]

21. You would think his handlers

would made sure that he takes his meds before going on national tv in something this big. Alas, they did not.

[jmg257]

24. Holy shit. I am on a delay and he is frigging shot. WTF?!?!

[JudyM]

25. Wondering if he may have been facetiously trying to back-door Comey into conceding that tRump

& Co are under investigation for collusion, and just got tangled up in the subtle threads he had to weave to do it.... like he was looking for Comey to say we knew Clinton wasn't colluding with the Russians, that's why there was no investigation, but we had indications that was not the case with Rump's team.

[L. Coyote]

26. So McCain gets to play the distraction card? Covfefe!

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[yellowcanine]

27. Did he get into Bill Cosby's stash of Quaaludes?

[MerryBlooms]

28. First thought I had was he looked and sounded heavily medicated.

[tavernier]

29. But we now have a President Comey.

Poor old guy. I'm borderline senile myself so I can say that.

[DoctorJoJo]

30. Mental Breakdown

He needs to seek medical help--stat! I'm guessing he will soon retire because of medical reasons. A shame because although we are politically polar opposites, I always admired him, and I salute him as he fades away.

[Alea]

31. I never thought I could feel sorry for a repub senator

but that last quick camera shot of him when the chairman told him his time was up... looked like he didn't even know where he was. He should have retired with some semblance of dignity before his last election.