You'd think a former POW would be against torture and his branding would lead you to believe that, even condemning it during the Bush administration - only to reverse course, as he always did, and sign a bill that not only protected torture but absolved not only the CIA for continuing it but afforded Americans protection from it. Helluva maverick.
Like Bush, born into privilege yet bottom of his class (894/899) at Annapolis yet somehow managed to become a pilot despite crashing multiple times before going to Vietnam. One of the original S&L crooks as part of the Keating Five that cost taxpayers billions to bail out. Helluva maverick.
Apart from being the only state to routinely vote against MLK day, he was invited each & every year to the NAACP conference and always turned it down on top of the well documented racist language he has used towards Asians, Middle Eastern people and being anti-gay. Helluva maverick.
Even President Carter referred to him as a warmonger - The bomb Iran singer who never voted against military intervention but rather was not only a proponent of endless warring but eulogized by Nethanyahu and the Saudi govt AND military contractor & bombmaker Lockheed Martin. Helluva maverick.
Ushered into the world trolls pre-Trump with Sarah Palin. Helluva maverick.
Cares about honor in the Senate as well as tax reform but then joined his fellow Republicans to vote on bills slashing taxes on corporations and billionaires. Helluva maverick.
The same bully nicknamed McNasty who publicly referred to his wife not only as a whore but a c*nt. Helluva maverick.
The same hypocritical politician who claimed to be anti-Trump but voted in line with him 90.7% of the time which is in line with how often he voted with other Republicans throughout his political career. Helluva maverick.
The most accurate depiction rather than the childlike narrative of the man: "Predictable champion of war and empire who occasionally makes toothless references to human rights for the purposes of image curation"