Sen. John McCain is again a “no” vote on the Republican health care package aimed at repudiating and repealing the Affordable Care Act. McCain makes valid points about coverage and a deficit of details. But make no mistake, this is also about his legacy. It’s only underscored by being an 81-year-old with brain cancer.
McCain is a very proud–and stubborn–politician. He also has a temper that is publicly reined in.
He will never ever admit it, but he just might want to make up for putting Sarah Palin on his 2008 presidential ticket. She was an awful, hardly patriotic, choice for America–and could have been a scary heartbeat away from the presidency. And, ironically, as it turned out, her blatantly unqualified ascendance helped pave the perverted populist road for Donald Trump. That’s not what a maverick does, it’s what a pragmatic pol–or sellout–did in search of a self-serving game-changer.
Plus, you can bet that he never got over the derisive comments Trump made about his Vietnam POW status.