- Banned
- #1
We Arizonans always had mixed feelings about McCain. Surely he was better for us than any democrat but usually not by much. His political patrons here included the entrenched hospitality industry and their need for cheap, easily intimidated illegals. Mac never supported any real immigration reform. He fought the Bush tax cuts and hated Wall Street. When he was first caught up in the Keating Five S&L scandal, we assumed he was a goner but he survived. Again, we don't care for statist democrats here so he was never really challenged, and when he was primaried, he was brutal to any challenger. He used to brag he never brought us a single budget earmark. We just shrugged because we were growing so fast and doing so well on our own we didn't need Sam's help. He did ramrod through the Central Arizona Project and got our fair allotment of Colorado River water the thieving Kalis had been stealing for years. But they built it with open canals which lost a major portion of the water to evaporation instead of running it underground. His wife Cindy is the heir to a local liquor baron. He left the wife who'd waited for him while he was a POW and lived through the nightmare adjustment years after his return from Hoa Lo prison. She was younger, better looking, and her daddy had the million$ McCain would need in his political future. His campaign against Obama was pathetic. If he'd listened to Sarah Palin and not given up on the Rustbelt he might have won. So tonight he knows what none of us know....is there a Heaven and Hell? We'll have to wait to find that out for ourselves. So long John, R.I.P.
