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Always thought it was super weird that John McCain was too left for some people
The modern Conservative movement found President Eisenhower too far to the Left.
Hell, some John Birch Society loons thought Nixon was too far to the left.
Nixon.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mad-magazine-super-patriot/
Original cartoon was in 1968, and nothing has changed since. Well, maybe the part about them hating the 'Very Rich.'
I hate absolutely everyone just on general principle. I guess that makes me a Super Duper Mega Ultra Patriot!
Incidentally, McCain was the last Republican presidential candidate I seriously evaluated as a possible choice, though I did end up voting for Obama.
At the time, I thought that if we had McCain as President, we wouldn't have to listen to the GOP go after Clinton for four years. I soon realized that any Dem, no matter who, was demonic in their eyes.
That's true, but Obama really broke their brains... I wonder what it was about him that made them so upset. Hmmm.
Probably because they hate brown....
Brown mustard!
Look up 'Travelgate' and Vince Foster. They were creating Clinton scandals from Day Zero. I know a lot of people who think that if they'd held their fire until they had Monica they could have actually gotten Bill Clinton impeached and thrown out. But by the time they got an actual offense everyone could see that it was a witch hunt.
He had some shitty beliefs and policies but dude was a POW. I could respect him for that.
reminiscent of Bush getting respect for his TX ANG service (which many think he didn't even complete) vs. John Kerry's actual vietnam service.
Which got 'swift boated' by a bunch of chuds the media gave way more attention to than should have ever happened.