There’s good news and bad news about John McCain’s new book that he’s releasing later this month. The good news is that McCain is announcing that he’s retiring at the end of this current term, making this term his last term:
NBC CHICAGO – U.S. Sen. John McCain is retiring at the end of his term after decades in Congress, giving him a sense of freedom about what he can vote on, he says in a book excerpt published this week by Apple News.
McCain, 81, was diagnosed with cancer in July, which the Arizona Republican writes helped him come to terms with the end of his Senate career. And he says the fact that he’s not running for Senate again makes him more able to vote his conscience.
The bad news is that his current term doesn’t end until 2022 and he’s going to be more RINO than ever before until then:
“This is my last term. If I hadn’t admitted that to myself before this summer, a stage 4 cancer diagnosis acts as ungentle persuasion,” he writes in the excerpt of “The Restless Wave.” “I’m freer than colleagues who will face the voters again. I can speak my mind without fearing the consequences much. And I can vote my conscience without worry.”
He noted that he still feels bound by pledges he’s made to his constituents and wants the Republican party to do well. “But I do feel a pressing responsibility to give Americans my best judgment,” he said.
Of course he continues on to say he wants the Republican Party to do well, but we all know he’s not referring to the conservative wing. No, this is the same man who refused to vote for even a partial repeal of Obamacare. By the time he’s done in 2022, he’s going to make current-day RINOs look quasi-conservative.
Ugh.