McCain's SPECTACULAR Fall- "a bitter man now-who can barely tolerate the fact that he lost to Obama"

[kpete]

McCain distinguished himself doubly this weekend, opposing the Dream Act and leading the opposition to "Don't Ask," despite the very public positions of his wife and daughter on the other side of the issue. I used to know a different John McCain, the guy who proposed comprehensive immigration reform with Ted Kennedy, the guy--a conservative, to be sure, but an honorable one--who refused to indulge in the hateful strictures of his party's extremists. His public fall has been spectacular, a consequence of politics--he "needed" to be reelected--and personal pique. He's a bitter man now, who can barely tolerate the fact that he lost to Barack Obama. But he lost for an obvious reason: his campaign proved him to be puerile and feckless, a politician who panicked when the heat was on during the financial collapse, a trigger-happy gambler who chose an incompetent for his vice president. He has made quite a show ever since of demonstrating his petulance and lack of grace.

Read more: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/12/18/two-dreams-one-dead/#ixzz18fDBxSnq

[WhiteTara]

1. he is picture perfect republicon.

this is an excellent description of "old man yelling at clouds" McCain. I don't know why Cindy doesn't divorce him. She can't be against divorce...he divorced his first wife to marry her.

[tabatha]

2. Succinctly stated.

Crashed and burned.

[Skinner]

3. I think what's happened to that man is utterly pathetic and sad.

I remember cheering him on in the 2000 GOP presidential primaries against that incompetent undistinguished asshole who was just coasting on his father's last name. I disagreed with almost everything he stood for, even back then, but at least he seemed to have a shred of honor and human decency.

No more. What a sad, sad man. He has turned his back on everything that distinguished him from his Republican colleagues. He has become everything he used to despise.

[JackintheGreen]

7. I said something like this a few weeks ago

and got absolutely reamed as a delusional near collaborator. I floated the same balloon here on DU and the same thing happened before I was brusquely dismissed with "you better read some history."

I'm just saying I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers him this way.

[Hawaii Hiker]

18. Maybe, if he lost a real close election, a la Nixon 1960 or

if he went thru what Gore endured in 2000 then i could understand him being bitter...But McCain got TROUNCED, lost most states by 10%+, as well as LONG standing red states like VA, NC, and IN...

Now he won't support a treaty (START) that he wouldn't have heistated voting "yea" years ago...

It is hard to find ANY individual (politics or otherwise)who has fallen so far as this SOB has..

[tblue37]

21. He has always felt entitled, and a sense of violated entitlement

is what probably makes him so bitter.

[FSogol]

4. He counted on the country being too racist to elect Obama and lost.

:shrug:

[DirkGently]

5. I used to respect him as well. Lost that with the "Obama miiight be a terrorist" campaign materials.

[n2doc]

6. He sold his soul to the devil to get the 2008 nomination

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Imagine if this man had won the presidency.

He was unfit then, he is worse than that now.

[Pisces]

10. I can't even let my mind go there.

[countingbluecars]

9. His bitterness (or perhaps something worse)

was obvious during the debate when he couldn't look Obama in the eye and referred to him as "that one". It seemed to me he couldn't accept running against Obama let alone losing to him.

[salinen]

11. Well duh he's bitter

he lost to a black muslim anti-american racist indonesian socialist anti-colonialist panther.

[KansDem]

12. He can go sulk in one of his mansions...

...just as soon as he figures out how many he has.

[elias7]

13. I think he misoverestimated his maverickyness

or something. No longer thinking clearly to be sure.

[fatbuckel]

14. It`s the Republican way...Screw everyone and everything.... me,me,me,me,me,me.

[TlalocW]

15. The guy never knew a "different" John McCain

McCain just dropped all pretense of not being a total asshole.

TlalocW

[JoePhilly]

16. McCain is bitter because his DESTENY was to be President ... and it was stolen from him.

Here's how I see it.

McCain's daddy and grand daddy are admirals. McCain follows in their foot steps, his DESTINY is clear. He's going to be an ADMIRAL. But then he's shot down and captured. Left in a POW camp for ~5 years. His destiny has been changed. Stolen.

But then he goes into politics. And suddenly, his new path becomes clear.

JFK, has a PT boat shot out from under him. Goes to Washington. House, then Senate ... WAR HERO PRESIDENT.

GHW Bush gets shot down ... Goes to Washington. House, UN ambassador, Director CIA, VP ... WAR HERO PRESIDENT.

And so McCain, goes to Washington. House, then Senate ... his DESTINY ... WAR HERO PRESIDENT!!!

He runs in 2000 and Bush the deserter wins, only because of daddy's name. McCain is pissed. He was a war hero for christ's sake, what is wrong with this county??!!??

He bides his time. 2008 is coming and he is going to get what he's entitled to. There is not another war hero in site, no other President's kid to steal it. His time has come ... John McCain, WAR HERO PRESIDENT ... he writes it down over and over and over on scraps of paper.

Then, literally out of nowhere, some unknown black guy enters the picture. Surely the American people are going to reward McCain and pay him back for all his suffering in that POW camp. He has EARNED the Presidency!!! It's HIS!!!

But no, the good damned hippies and their "white guilt" ... slavery was over 150 years ago damn it!!!

Obama, hippy liberals, gays, and damn minorities stole what was rightfully John, McCain's "PRECIOUS" (think Lord of the rings) ... his destiny was to be PRESIDENT ... they stole it and gave it to this unknown, and undeserving, black guy.

His anger is eating him alive from the inside. Bitter does not describe his feelings. From now, until he dies, his votes will reflect his rage. Rage directed at Obama, liberals, gays, minorities, and at America too, because Americans did not step up and give him what was HIS.

[COLGATE4]

17. Perfect analysis. McCain has always believed that he had an

absolute 'right' to the Presidency, and out of nowhere that damned n----r stole it from him. He can't see or think straight because of the rage that this caused in him. He's pathological (and dangerous). Thank God he wasn't elected. Can you imagine????

[JoePhilly]

20. I'm not sure what he would have done if elected ...

after all, he is so crazy, he might have concluded that the American people had proved themselves in his eyes. They had seen his greatness, and recognized it.

But I too am glad he is not President, he may have seen the next phase of his destiny as destroying Iran and killing the Muslims.

Bottom line: he's lost it.

[Canuckistanian]

24. Exactly

It must have KILLED him to lose to that frat-boy AWOL deserter. Then he loses to some ETHNIC BLACK GUY from seemingly out of nowhere. Not to mention that he gave up every single redeeming quality in order to "fit in" with his now-extremist party.

Ever since, he been classless and sulky.

It's pitiful more than angering.

[JoePhilly]

26. I think he was able to forgive Bush because after all, GW was also an entitled one ...

I have no doubt that's how he kept from going nuts in 2000.

While Bush had skipped out on military service, at least GW was the SON of a President.

The GOP loves to claim that it is the left who are elitists but nothing could be further from the truth. The GOP is PACKED with the elite and entitled.

They believe that the rich are genetically superior, and that the poor are poor because they deserve to be poor. Helping the poor is a dumb idea, they don't have the ability to make important decisions or lead. If they had those abilities, they wouldn't be poor.

[queenjane]

25. Perfect summation! (n/t)

[AspenRose]

19. 100% True.

K&R.

His moral compass is so compromised, no one on either side of the aisle has respect for him now.

My republican husband refused to vote for him.

[ProudDad]

22. Imagine my sorrow about leaving Barbara Lee territory...

One of the few REAL Progressive Democrats...

To have mcshame and kyl (SOB!) and (SHIT) Giffords as my "representatives"...

:puke:

[ProudDad]

23. Excuse me, but he's always been a PTSD'd out piece of shit...

Doesn't anyone remember the Keating Five???

This guys been a crook since the stone age... :puke: