As with William F. Buckley, I’ve never agreed much with the politics of Sen. John McCain of Arizona. Indeed, I believe he placed the conservative movement and the Republican Party on a slippery slope when he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate in 1968. But I nonetheless respect him as a person and (unlike Donald Trump) I admire the manner in which he handled his capture and imprisonment during the Viet Nam War.
While McCain can from time to time be as uncooperative and obstructionist as the next Senate Republican, as Evan Thomas pointed out in the New York Times (10/23/16), “as a defeated presidential candidate in 2008 he showed grace and respect for democracy.” Late on election night that year, McCain made this statement:
“This campaign was and will remain the great honor of my life, and my heart is filled with nothing but gratitude for the experience and to the American people for giving me a fair hearing before deciding that Senator Obama and my old friend Joe Biden should have the honor of leading us for the next four years.”
Think we’re likely to hear anything remotely resembling those sentiments on the evening of November 8, 2016?
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