Lifelong Fraud John McCain Is Lifelong Fraud

He was a Maverick! Except, of course, he wasn't any such thing. He had morals and convictions! Except, he never did, about anything. John McCain never did anything but squander the proud military legacy of his family and then carpetbag his way to Arizona where he smelled money and opportunity. He dumped his crippled wife for a young beer heiress. He is a creep and a fraud, and that's all he's ever been. Vanity Fairhas just posted an article about this, in case you were wondering,Who the fuck still believes John McCain is anything beyond a craven toad?

It's quite possible that nothing at all has changed about John McCain, a ruthless and self-centered survivor who endured five and a half years in captivity in North Vietnam, and who once told Torie Clarke that his favorite animal was the rat, because it is cunning and eats well. It's possible to see McCain's entire career as the story of a man who has lived in the moment, who has never stood for any overriding philosophy in any consistent way, and who has been willing to do all that it takes to get whatever it is he wants. He himself said, in the thick of his battle with Hayworth, "I've always done whatever's necessary to win." Maybe the rest of us just misunderstood.

Maybe! Or maybe the political media is just ...dumb. [ Vanity Fair ]