The sad end of John McCain

John McCain is nearing the end.  He’s not dead yet, so is it still okay to speak ill of him?  I think so. 

Instead of mending fences and being a happy warrior in his last days, McCain is going out as the same old bitter aisle crosser he’s been for the last decade or two. Making sure he gets in the last word, McCain is using his last days to settle scores in ugly ways. 

In a statement that never needed to be made, McCain says he regrets picking Sarah Palin as is his VP candidate.  Well from my compound, Sarah Palin was the only thing that made the McCain - Palin ticket palatable. 

Instead of Palin, now McCain wishes he’d picked Joe Lieberman as his running mate.  It might have worked.  Joe Lieberman is the anti-McCain - Joe’s yin to McCain’s yang.  Lieberman always seems to be pleasant enough, McCain not so much.  Lieberman lives mostly on one side of the aisle, McCain not so much.  Lieberman irritates many on the Demo-Dope side, McCain irritates Republicans.  All bases are covered.

So McCain f*cks up his most important decision.  Now in his last days, he’s wondering what he could have been.  In the process he sounds like Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, “I could have been somebody...”  The next line, of course, is…

Well what does it say about McCain that he couldn’t even get his VP pick right?  His first major decision and he now admits he f-ed it up.  It tells me we might have dodged a bullet.  No. Wait.  We got The Empty Suit.  McCain or TES?  McCain or TES?  McCain or TES?  Hmm.  Let me ponder that one for a bit.

What the hell purpose does it serve for McCain to trash Sarah Palin at this point of his life?  None.  It hurts McCain worse than it hurts Palin. He sounds like Shrillda the Hutt making excuses for "What Happened." If possible, it makes him look pettier than I thought he could be. 

He didn’t do Palin any favors by picking her.  She could be a player in today’s politics if she hadn’t signed on with a weak and feckless McCain campaign.  Had Palin known from the start that McCain would be perfectly happy with a second place finish on Election Day, she might have said “No thanks” saving McCain from rehashing what he thinks is one of his worst f-ups in his last days.  

Quick, other than not being TES, what recommended McCain for the office?  What great accomplishment?  Warrior?  No.  His war record rests almost solely of riding out 5 years in Hanoi not leading divisions or corps to victory.

His political accomplishments?  None.  Name one.  He’s more famous for being one of the Keating 5 than any legislation he promoted and passed.

McCain’s the famous aisle crosser who could be counted upon to court favor with MSM azzbags by trashing his own party. It seems he’s still happiest when his own party is losing.

Word has it, McCain doesn’t want PDJT to attend his funeral.  Hmm.  Who said PDJT was coming?  I dunno, I told Mrs. Lex to offer free beer and Bar-B-Q at my funeral to see if I could get a reasonable number of “mourners” to come so she and Lex Jr. wouldn’t be alone.  She said, “What makes you think we’re coming?”

Being a grouchy, score settling and regretful old man is not an attractive look for anyone.  For dying old men it’s a particularly pathetic look.