The bitter end:
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) has reportedly not been invited to attend funeral services for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), her onetime running mate.
NBC News reported Wednesday that Palin had not been invited. A source within the Palin family told NBC News that “out of respect to Senator McCain and his family we have nothing to add at this point.”
As a reminder:
A parting lesson in American civility from Sen. John McCain lies in the roster of leaders he personally selected to pay tribute at his memorial service Saturday at the National Cathedral.
It was a day in early April when Barack Obama received an unexpected call from McCain, who was battling brain cancer and said he had a blunt question to ask: Would you deliver one of the eulogies at my funeral?
Palin has always been loyal to John McCain. Obama trashed him. That's how civility works, folks.
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Even in death, we have to wonder whose side he's on. Or maybe we don't; maybe he was always on the side of the state as he viewed it.
Agreed, McCain proves with his final choices he considered himself a part of the elite who views those who disagree and those who are not part of that insider elite with disdain.
As much as President Trump's reaction may be criticized (and I did so), the reaction of those critical of Senator McCain was predictable.
For me, the question of civility comes down to a personal choice. I can't make others be civil, but their incivility doesn't mean I have to be as well.
i want to know what the hell did this cranky, bitter old bastard do to merit funeral coverage rivaling that of Ronald Reagan?
Drop his corpse in the hole and be done with it already!
I can answer your question, Gino.
If you’re a Democrat, or someone sympathetic to the causes Democrats espouse, John McCain was the Perfect Republican. He never questioned the base assumptions Democrats make. He was always more likely to criticize the people who were ostensibly his allies than his opponents. Even more so, he’d stick a shiv in the back of his party from time to time to demonstrate he was an independent thinker, or so he thought. When he was finally the Republican standard bearer, his friends on the other side of the aisle did not hesitate to call him Hitler or worse, but that never seemed to bother him much. Most of all, he always lost without making much of a fuss about it.
Back in the 1980s, the Wisconsin Badgers had a basketball coach named Steve Yoder. Bobby Knight, Jud Heathcote, Tom Davis, Lou Henson and the rest of the coaches in the league loved Yoder, always lavishing him with praise about how he ran his program the right way. The real reason they loved Yoder was because they could beat him like a drum. John McCain was the Steve Yoder of politics.
i expect a certain amount of fanfare for any president that passes. I fully expect the same treatment of Obama as Reagan or any of the worthless Bush's, or Carter... being the democratically elected Head Of State does come with a certain level of recognition, even for Trump.
but this asshole, and i use the term 'asshole' properly, was a just a senator... a senator that refused to represent the people who elected him for the last year of his life.
being a US Senator, he was even less of a factor in his govt than the woman he later chose to disrespect, a real Chief Executive on her way to making good things happen, when he drafted her for his own selfish ends.
The last comparable presidential election loser I can think of who died recently was George McGovern, back in 2012. I’d have to check to be sure, but I sure don’t remember this level of hoopla. Walter Mondale and Bob Dole are not far from death’s doorstep; it will be an interesting comparison, especially Dole (as you’ve already noted).
Dole, yes... And he never shived his own. That man was honorable, always.
McCain is a prime example of term limits being needed. There was so much fanfare that it did seem presidential. Senators, reps, and governors can act like assholes. A president can not. The obnoxious drunk at the end of the bar should not be leading the free world. Especially when it's just a bartender acting like he's a drunk in order to get the drunks support.
One isn't required to be as stiff as a board in order to be presidential. Reagan and GW Bush were both folksy. And it worked out well enough. And wasn't Dole pretty much a moderate? I don't recall him being that much less liberal that McCain was
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