07-20-2017, 10:09 AM
(07-19-2017, 11:41 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Probably my biggest, within my lifetime, national regret, is that McCain didn't win the 2K GOP nomination. I firmly believe we'd live in a much better world if that had happened. Don't bother me with 2008 McCain, that GOP primary broke who he was a person and turned him into a guy solely focused on the objective, damning what it took to reach it. McCain and Powell were the last two Republicans I had 100% respect for.
Any man who served in combat in Vietnam has my respect.
That was the first presidential election I was old enough to vote in and I was pulling for McCain then too. What a disappointing first election to have to choose from Bush or Gore. I guess that was better than what the first timers had to choose from this past election.
On a personal note, for a few months between getting out of the navy and starting college, I did landscaping on McCain's ranch in AZ. I never got the chance to meet him but his wife and children were very nice.
