The Senator John Sidney McCain III (R-AZ) (Cap't., USN - Ret'd.) Story

We might change "liberal" to liberal media saps in the last paragraph, had we written this (Fat chance of that.) which provides a brief run-down & explanation of Sid's career, on the off chance anyone still believed that McCain was whatever that maverick thing was supposed to mean in the first place. (Apparently those linked in the item did.)

Meanest paragraph:

As the presidential campaign showed once again, McCain’s actual acquiantance with the substance of any policy, especially domestic policy, was extremely sketchy and poor. During at least the last ten years he never adopted a domestic policy position because he had studied the issue carefully and determined that a certain kind of legislation made the most practical sense or was the best expression of certain guiding principles. He determined that the fastest way to get attention and to aggrandize himself was by breaking with his party in melodramatic fashion over issues that happened to appeal to mainstream media journalists and pundits. The latter played along because they liked what he was saying, and they wanted to reward a Republican politician for strongly disagreeing with his party. They helped McCain to invent the myth of his being a “maverick,” when he was really the most predictable establishment “centrist” on almost every important issue. It helped that he always frames his disagreements with others in the most obnoxious, moralizing way possible, so that he is always playing the heroic crusader against corruption and his opponents are tainted villains on the take.

How does a useless barnacle like Trey continue to be elected? Besides Cinderella's money, recent developments in the Great State Of AZ would indicate they don't think they need too many of their legislators to know what the hell they're doing.