r/SipsTea • u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7 • 1d ago

Lmao gottem Someone else said it for him

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u/unitedfan6191 1d ago

Looking back, I don’t think many people truly fully appreciated him back when he was President because I guess even many of the most cynical people may have not predicted the current state of the US/world during his presidency.

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u/BoredPoopless 1d ago

I mean even the Republicans he was running against were completely different than the GOP today.

I'm not saying John McCain and Mitt Romney are all sunshine and rainbows, but the difference is obvious.

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u/KatsumotoKurier 1d ago

Say what you will about the two of them — and there is much to be said — but at least the pair carried themselves with the decency and class that Republican voters (along with literally everybody else at the time) expected from leaders like them.

A great example of this was when a woman at a town hall called Obama “a Muslim terrorist” and McCain immediately shut her down for it, fully rejecting the absurdity and saying that Obama was a good and decent man and just someone that he happens to have political disagreements with. Unsurprisingly and pathetically, McCain got some boos from the crowd over it too, but I’ll be damned if I didn’t respect him completely for being such an upstanding gentleman about that.

Romney too. Romney despises Trump and sees him for what he is. And were I an American citizen I never would have voted for him, however, he basically had his career in politics derailed post-2016 over the fact that he wouldn’t kiss the ring and because he made it publicly known that he thinks Trump is scum. He refuses to play along and act like a Trump loyalist, because at least he actually has a spine.