Politics: How John McCain Became Republicans’ Voice of Reason

Before I get to the post, I should do this introduction where due to random chance, I will now be alternating the posts of this blog on Mondays with that of my TV blog which should also now be on the Mondays that I don’t do this blog. Note that this will mean that if a new episode airs, this would mean that if the blog isn’t updated on a Monday, it will be on a Tuesday as usual. This might also mean there could be a lot more of these political posts for a while to fulfill the needed Mondays until this blog is only updated on Mondays. I’ll let you know of any changes.

First off, and I want to say this in the most sincere way possible: I will miss John McCain. I never thought that I would miss him. I didn’t like him back in 2008. I’m surprised that him constantly calling someone who is developmentally challenged as autistic never got any black lash. There is a huge difference between the two things. But then things changed.

Maybe it was the fact that once the unimaginable happened and Trump was elected president that something changed inside of him. Maybe it was his cancer. But he became his party’s voice of reason. While the rest of the Republicans for the most part had decided to be a rubber stamp on the disastrous agenda that Trump has, John McCain would be the person pointing out the flaws and issues with such things.

I don’t know if it was just the cancer inside him that made him change his mind. But what I do know is that people expected him to vote to get rid of universal health care when he came back to the floor to vote after the treatment of these health problems. But he now has the famous thumbs down as he realized that his treatment was not something that everyone could have if they didn’t have universal health care. Whatever the reasoning behind his vote, the country was saved from the disastrous health care bill before the floor.

Were there other times that he stood up against his party when they needed a Gibbs slap? I like to think so, even if I can’t think of them off hand. He did and said a lot in the last few years when he was in office. Now he’s dead and I might honestly miss him a lot, especially if whoever ends up replacing him just goes with the flow all the time instead of making choices themselves. I do now yet know when a potential special election might be. But I will say this, John McCain, rest in peace. You were the voice of reasoning within the Republican party. I just hope that someone else can now fill that spot.