John McCain Destroys His Legacy - Again

What Is Wrong With This Man?

Senator John McCain could have been hailed a hero by historians.  But everytime he does the right thing he offsets it with doing the wrong thing.

McCain was a war hero, suffering massively in Vietnam and staying a POW when he could have gone home ahead of his cellmates.  He then got embroiled in a scandal in Congess involving Charlet Keating.  Surving that he ran for President in 2000 on the Straight Talk Express, but lost the nomination to dirty tricks.  To get the 2008 nod he turned into a bitter conservative and he did get nominated in 2008.

He ran a nasty campaign, but the highlight was his push back against a woman who called Obama a Muslim and disloyal to the nation.  McCain defended Barack in elegant terms.  But he never lost his bitterness over losing in 2008 and personified the Republican nasties. then in July he cast the deciding vote against repeal of ACA, once again putting nation and principle over party.

Now he has sided with the Republicans in supporting a terrible tax bill.  History will remembert him, not for what he was but for what he could have been.