John McCain, though a Boomer, was really a throwback to the post-WWII era: A would-be bipartisan dealmaker with a career founded on military courage. His strengths were often ill-suited to the times and his weaknesses amplified by them. But we shall not see his like again. RIP.
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The best thing to be said about McCain's record is that he took being a senator seriously. He appreciated the powers of his office, and tried to exploit them to the hilt for his conception of the common good. Not something you can say of some/many of his colleagues.
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@RameshPonnuru wrote a piece back in 2007-2008 about McCain's politics of honor that I think was one of the best measures of the man. He was our most Roman legislator, for good or ill or both.Show this thread -
And of course he was Silent Generation, not a Boomer, so the first tweet in this string is off-key. In any case: My God grant one of our decadent republic's last would-be statesmen his eternal rest.
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It made a certain kind of sense at the time to try to fold in the nascent teaparty.
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This is an under-told story. If you watch the 2006 AK GOV debates, you see a very different Palin from what materialized nationally. McCain’s choice was a mistake but not as obvious as it looks in retrospect.
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Sure you can. “That was a mistake, and many saw it immediately at the time.”
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That's one way to say no one researched her at all.
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I remember a puff piece about her maybe a year before she came to national prominence. Don’t remember the author, Kristol? It was a plan.
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