One of my neighbors (no longer a Millionaire for Obama; now a Millionaire Against Trump) posted the following on Facebook:
Thanks for your service and your leadership Senator McCain.
One of his female friends responded with
Amen. Always a hero, again and again and again!
Another friend, whose profile picture shows an overweight woman past middle age:
Thank God he has a heart.
Another older woman:
He’s a good man
I think that they’re all excited because McCain opposed an ostensible Obamacare repeal (I don’t bother to read the details on these anymore since the last “repeal” that I looked at was almost exactly the same as Obamacare).
It doesn’t surprise me that Massachusetts Democrats like this particular position that McCain has taken. But the unqualified love for McCain from these middle-aged-and-older women baffles me. Why would these women celebrate a guy who divorced his crippled-by-a-car-accident wife to marry a rich woman 18 years his junior?
(McCain sued his wife in 1980, which made him a relatively early adopter of the no-fault divorce law in Arizona (1973). The rich young intended protected herself from a potential second lawsuit by McCain with a prenuptial agreement (NPR) and continued residence in a jurisdiction where prenups will be enforced (see Arizona family law).)
Related:
- “The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind” (Daily Mail 2008)
The answer is much stupider that you think.
“Women” don’t love McCain. The particular subset of women you encounter in upper-middle-class Massachusetts loves whoever the media/Democrat complex manipulates them into loving, which in this case is McCain, who is always transformed into a hate object when he runs against a Democrat but is much more accustomed to being the love object he has learned attacking fellow Republicans reliably results in his being portrayed as.
The cynic in me senses that McCain has come out “no” because he knows enough “yeses” have been bribed. What I can’t understand is why grown Republicans (I used to be one) would return to this hornet’s nest and stir it over and over.
Your assumption is reasonable. They’re pleased with a couple of votes. There’s no need to waste time considering divorce law.
The most stone cold conservative is a female democrat.
Because of his Obamacare repeal votes and his lobbying for ‘regular order’. McCain may not be great – but he is much better than most of the other folks in the current Senate.
C: If the women had said “I like these votes and, when comparing McCain to other Republicans, he is at least a dwarf among midgets” I wouldn’t have been surprised! It is the elevation to near-Mother Teresa status that baffles me.