This is the most splendid political cartoon I think I have ever seen

[Soph0571]

Just perfect

[Sherman A1]

1. Great!

[duforsure]

2. Yes it is.

[Beakybird]

3. McCain is no angel. He supported Trump in 2016.

[moonscape]

5. And he allowed way too much crazy to

run amok when he ran against Obama.

I’m so sick of him getting credit for telling an insane woman that Obama was not a militant Muslim at his town hall. Well duh. It was in his face and at the time I was not impressed, more like =finally!= And that is played over and over like an incredible moment. Too little too late.

I lost respect for him during that campaign and it made me sad the extent to which he compromised himself.

[PatSeg]

24. Same here

I'll give McCain credit for the times he was right and there were times, but what he said to that woman at his town hall was just what I'd expect any reasonable person to say. The credit he has received was overblown. I was more impressed when he voted against his own party and Trump on repealing the Affordable Care Act.

Like many people, I'd always liked John McCain, but as with you, I lost a lot of respect for him during the 2008 campaign. His "maverick" image faded considerably as he succumbed to the usual cheap republican political tricks and came across as weak, indecisive, and wishy-washy. He wasn't a very good candidate on the national stage and he never came across as presidential.

Its rather funny how the media is so quick to give republicans great credit for doing the right thing, reinforcing the fact that they so rarely do. Meanwhile, when Democrats do the right thing, they are portrayed as weak for it. The double standard lives on.

[captain queeg]

9. Yeah the bar is pretty low to depict McCain as an angel.

[marble falls]

11. He had little effect to Trump being elected or not. But he did save ACA with his one vote ...

... he was responsible for us handing Trump his first big defeat.

[Beakybird]

14. He chose Sarah Palin

He voted for horrible judges, tax cuts for the uber wealthy, had a terrible legislative record on the environment. He was a hack.
Because of his heroism in Vietnam and his occasional adherence to general decency, he's venerated.

[PCIntern]

19. Yes. Very low bar with Rethugs.

Dems however need to approach saintly status to be mentioned well.

[My Pet Orangutan]

26. And he was one of Joe Biden's closest friends.

I'll go with Joe about McCain's humanity.

[Beakybird]

29. I posit that any decency McCain had was born out of his friendship with Biden.

[FakeNoose]

30. I think he got his arm twisted on taking Palin as a running mate

I really don't believe she was his first choice. She may not have even been his 10th choice.
But you know ... the rest is history.

[reACTIONary]

31. Exactly... Palin was the proto-trump. nt

[Oppaloopa]

13. Remember him calling his wife the C word during his campaign ?

[niyad]

16. I do not forget that. The tiny bit of respect I had for him ended then.

[JI7]

20. John Lewis liked him

[Hortensis]

25. John Lewis was a big man who found what was to like

in everyone he worked with, without being a fool about what was not.

Please remember that Lewis worked passionately to create the ACA, while McCain opposed it just as hard and then worked for the next 10 years to it take away, lying constantly to voters that it was too flawed to survive. He only stopped he was dying. Perhaps he didn't want that final betrayal to be his legacy, but plenty of others are.

Lewis of course knew it all.

[polmaven]

4. Splendid indeed!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. The Canadian de Adder (from New Brunswick) has been really hot last couple of years.

[nuxvomica]

8. I love his use of hatching and cross-hatching

As a kid, that type of shading seemed almost magical to me. He uses it to great advantage.

[Callalily]

7. Very moving.

[Joinfortmill]

10. Love this

[Gothmog]

12. Their two states honored them by flipping blue

[CTyankee]

15. That cartoon is what I would call "aspirational."

However, I have seen and heard Cindy McCain speak recently and she impressed me with her good sense about this election. And I thought she was just a decent person. So I wonder if it could be that John listened to the better angels of his nature as his life slipped away. I am not saying "redemption" but certainly no trumper.

I think we should all remember how he gently corrected that elderly woman who called Obama a Muslim (like it was a dirty word). He corrected her.

My judgment was in my vote, ultimately. The system worked. He was defeated and never became president.

[Baltimike]

17. Where's Elijah Cummings? nt

[JI7]

21. The Cartoon is about Arizona and Georgia

[Baltimike]

32. Ok. Sorry about that. nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

18. McCain supported Trump in order to fend of a Tea Party challenger and voted with Trump 90 percent

of the time until his death. Let's not rehabilitate the GOP.

[PCIntern]

22. I agree, and would amplify

in saying that with respect to Republicans, it’s always “compared to”, thus George W Bush is FDR compared to Trump. .

[spanone]

23. ⭐️⭐️⭐️K&R ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Celerity]

27. Hard pass on the rehabilitation of the warmonger McCain.

Between these constant McCain and TLP odes I wonder if I am at the right place sometimes. Sure, they all did a couple good deeds, but that doesn't come remotely close to atonement overall. I thank them for the few good things they did and there it ends.

Never ever going to stan on any of them, never.

[PatSeg]

28. This one from a few days ago was really my favorite though

[Cosmo Blues]

33. John Lewis

Has got to be happy Biden carried Georgia, hopefully he can help us some way get the two democratic senatorial candidates elected Jan. 5th otherwise progress will be stifled. John McCain was an ass and going downhill until he got sick and saved the ACA and started speaking out against Trump. So I can see them getting together to celebrate the defeat of the current president in this narrow point of agreement. And if the current president sees this it would irritated him, so there's that