Funny, when specifically was he no longer a racist?
He was in 2008.
LMGTFY- Media :John McCain is a racist.
LMGTFY
Bush, McCain, Romney, Trump....they are all racists according to the left.
The lefts playbook is thin, but often effective .
Yeah, the media is now in a "love-fest" mode with McCain because by doing so, not only do they believe it reflects well on them, but it represents taking sides AGAINST TRUMP. All the "McCain love" is really just a thinly-veiled attempt at an eye-gouge to the president. The sad truth though is that McCain was only a "war hero" in the first place because the fool flew the wrong mission, went where he was told not to go and got shot down behind enemy lines. No one would have ever remembered much less ever heard of him again if not for his parleying that into a life-long political career exploiting his torture. Then as senator, he did mostly stupid shit against his OWN party over and over most of his life, trash talked his own president (something he never did to Obama), then ran TWO unsuccessful bids for the office of the president, one against a virtual unknown, what he always aspired to be to put himself in his mind's eye as equal to his Admiral father--- and failed. Then took it out on Trump mostly because he resented that Trump came in cold out of nowhere and actually WON his first election against a well-regarded career politician.
McCain? Meh. Hate to see anyone suffer and die, but that's life, and in death, his celebrations now are much more about image, guilt and politics than they are about actual accomplishment.