Worth Pondering

I had thought of digging through some internet news to make a post like this, but since Jim Geraghty gets paid and has more time for research, I'll just link to this piece by him on what he calls "the fair-weather admiration of John McCain."

The senator, who died Saturday, is being lionized by many who, at different points during his career, said other kinds of things about him. Some of that may be a case of people deciding to pay proper respect to someone who has passed so as not to add to the family's grief, which is an honorable choice. And I'm inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to many who now praise Sen. McCain after  damning him when it was more convenient to do so. I think they mean their condolences and tributes to his courage and decency.

Which would lead me to suggest they didn't mean their comparisons to fascism and jabs at his supposed wealth and insinuations he had an affair and hints that he had anger-management issues and questions about whether or not he would survive his term if he had won the White House, and so on. That's the kind of thing that should make one upset with those folks, but they had shouted, "Monster!" so many times at so many different people who weren't monstrous that when the real monster showed up with his bizarre hair and minimal depth and lack of character, people no longer listened. They now live and work in the situation they warned against, largely due to their own efforts. That's revenge enough.