Days.
That’s how long Senator John McCain likely has to live. When the Arizona senator passes, it will be the end of a long and storied career in public service.
The New York Times is reporting that John McCain has stopped seeking treatment for brain cancer.
From the report:
Senator John McCain of Arizona, who has been battling brain cancer for more than a year, will no longer be treated for his condition, his family announced on Friday, a sign that the Republican war hero is most likely entering his final days.
“Last summer, Senator John McCain shared with Americans the news our family already knew: He had been diagnosed with an aggressive glioblastoma, and the prognosis was serious. In the year since, John has surpassed expectations for his survival. But the progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict,” the family said in a statement. “With his usual strength of will, he has now chosen to discontinue medical treatment.”
Breaking News: Senator John McCain will no longer receive care for his brain cancer, his family said, a sign that he is most likely entering his final days https://t.co/VUz7Z1ltdA
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 24, 2018
A terminal illness can be unpredictable. But we know from experience that when someone rejects treatment, usually death isn’t far behind. The same thing happened to Barbara Bush earlier this year when she passed away after battling multiple illnesses, including COPD. (RELATED: Barbara Bush In Failing Health.)
We’ve known this day was coming for a while. McCain hasn’t been present in the Senate for most of the year. There have been numerous reports that he’s been saying goodbye to friends and family at his ranch in Arizona. (RELATED: Senator John McCain Will Not Be Returning to the U.S. Senate, Prepares for the End.)
In his last days, McCain has even come clean about his biggest regrets in his career. Agree or disagree with him, you have to respect it when someone admits a mistake, no matter how late in life. (RELATED: McCain Admits Iraq War Was A Mistake.)
This appears to be the end for the long-time senator. Pray for John McCain’s family. Even if you disagreed with him politically in this life, pray the man finds peace on the other side.
John McCain should have stepped down from office a decade ago. To die in office and people to vote for him smacks of royalty. I was no fan of his. Despite his “heroism” as a POW there are some who do not remember his captivity as all that virtuous and labeled him the songbird and claim he cracked under the extreme not waterboarding, arms torn out of sockets. He was the victim of extreme brutality, it is unfortunate that his suffering was not recognized by the same people he tried to reach across the aisle to as a moderate. It is his position as a moderate I find most discouraging. The moderates stopped being moderates a decade ago and simply became DNC simps. For example he did back Mubarak stepping down and favored the Egyptian Army take over rather than leave it to the Muslim brotherhood a terrorist organization, but when 5 Republicans advanced a Bill in the USA to make the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization he opposed it with everything he had. F the moderates they know not what they do. And quite frankly if his wife takes over his term damn him for dying in office like some sort of self entitled royalty.
Respectfully to the office of Senator,
Good bye John…I have no idea what God thinks of RINO’s………………
IF McCain really cared about America he would have stepped down and left the Senate after the cancer was discovered. But NO Joyn just had to vote and flap his gums and try to destroy President Trump and the American people. He slapped Arizona’s voters in the face when he voted against the Obamacare mess. He is NOT a hero in anyway shape or form! If anything John McCain is a traitor to America.
To the governor of AZ–DO NOT APPOINT McCain’s wife to his seat!! That would be a disgrace!!
Public service my ass….the only service he gave was to himself….by by john…
This person will have a big to-do burial , he’s no hero in fact I consider him treasonous bastard for siding with and going into Syria, talk about aiding and abetting the enemy. He had no business going into the Middle East and the same goes for Pelosi when she went during Bush Jr term. Time to clean house and get rid of the long term people in the House and Senate.
HA, HA, “republican war hero?” Since when? He’s no republican, nor is he a “hero,” but a useless traitor. Good riddance when he keels over. Undoubtedly there’s already a line forming to piss on his grave.
John served but not with honor. American POW’s are dead because of him. He was never really a republican either, a RINO but leaning more towards a democrat. Why on earth the good people of AZ keep people like him and Goldwater in office when they prove over and over they are not good for the people I will never know. Then his criminal involvement with Keating and the “Keating Five” where he joined in with 4 other senators to cheat investors out of their life savings. Must be nice to have such clout that you can do all of these things and still be a so called leader of me. Bah Humbug!
He was not a war hero. He was a prisoner who sang like a bird. He lived to fight again, but let’s put that aside because of how he saved himself. Also let us remember he had to have a pardon to keep from going to prison. Had his father not been a general he would have been in bad shape after starting a fire onboard a ship. Sorry he is dying, but he should have resigned from office once his cancer was diagnosed.
Everybody has a breaking point, that does not mean the person is a traitor. I voted for Trump but I wonder had he been drafted, would he have held out indefinitely and forego any medical treatment for his serious injuries? It is an entirely different matter how he behaved later on as a Senator; I was truly disappointed.
Jet Wrecker McCain, the single Swamp Rat responsible for Obongocare NOT being totally flushed down yet (GET ON THIS, TRUMP, and stop yakking about it), is directly responsible for my young adult son having to pay $1100 a month for UNUSABLE CRAP that poses as “Health Insurance”, so he doesn’t get penalized by the stinking IRS for NOT buying the Federal crap sandwich.
Commie Poofter Demonrat Obongo, and his Repukian and (((Nation Wrecker))) co-conspirators created their sick joke “Affordable Care Act” to take good care of underclass BLAK. Beaner and Muzzy worthless Muds AT THE DIRECT EXPENSE OF WORKING WHITES, thereby minimizing the financial burden on The Federal General Fund that pays for junkies, AIDS donors, skid row aklies, the wandering crazed, mindlessly breeding BLAK sows, illegal wetbacks, Indo-Paki H 1(b) labor pool diluters and other similar dregs to get the latest and the greatest medical care FOR FREE.
I hope McCain suffers unto his last breath.
btw, the rat was NEVER a War Hero. He was a Navy Legacy shytehead that would have never been admitted to The Academy, much less allowed near a fighter jet, if Daddy and Grandpop weren’t Admirals.
God works mysterious ways
Your comment is very amazing. Unfortunately you didn’t say whether you knew him as a POW or how. I would really like you to expand on your comments with details.
I remember Traitor McCain from 1967 in Viet Nam as I was there and I do not forgive him. May hi last day come very, very soon. . He is no Hero as some claim. He was and is a Traitor, a backstabber, a Liar and a outright SOB and POS. Myself and Many, Many vets hate him.
Senator Ted Kennedy was also allowed to vote in the Senate when he was diagnosed with cancer. Let us leave it up to Senate regulations who can vote and who cannot anymore.
I’m sorry for McCain. He has a serious tumor but one like many other people have faced. My question and concern is why he hasn’t resigned from the Senate. It can’t be he needs the monthly salary and to think that a man dying from a brain tumor is able to vote in the Senate is disgusting.
His biggest regret that he cannot take with him another couple of billion people
I agree with Mr Trashcan1…..McCain is not a war hero, and should not be referred as such. He was the cause, along with Jane Fonda, of many American soldiers death. He was pardoned but that does not exonerate him from the traitor he was and still is. He will answer to God for his evil deeds.
Oh, please. I never saw anything like this. The build up to his death is going on for perhaps 8 months already? Yet, I see no evidence that he’s actually dying. This man is not a hero–he is a songbird–he betrayed his fellow servicemen in Viet Nam. Now I admit I’m a coward and I would talk if tortured. But he promoted himself as a hero–he’s nothing more than a scumbag narcissist. He is part of the deep state–a collusion to impede our president and destroy our country. No, I don’t pray for him and it’s not a simple matter of disagreement. His character and his evil deeds are the problem and he deserves punishment on the other side.
While his story is indeed tragic he should hold no greater position over the many, many others that have and are fighting this dreadful disease. We will pray for all of them equally.
She gets a free pass to the senate from douchey…no spelling error here….
A time to be born
And a time to die,
Get him out of the Senate and don’t appoint his wife to the position!
Tragic? Time for him to go. May God have mercy on his soul.
John McCain should have stepped down from office a decade ago. To die in office and people to vote for him smacks of royalty. I was no fan of his. Despite his “heroism” as a POW there are some who do not remember his captivity as all that virtuous and labeled him the songbird and claim he cracked under the extreme not waterboarding, arms torn out of sockets. He was the victim of extreme brutality, it is unfortunate that his suffering was not recognized by the same people he tried to reach across the aisle to as a moderate. It is his position as a moderate I find most discouraging. The moderates stopped being moderates a decade ago and simply became DNC simps. For example he did back Mubarak stepping down and favored the Egyptian Army take over rather than leave it to the Muslim brotherhood a terrorist organization, but when 5 Republicans advanced a Bill in the USA to make the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization he opposed it with everything he had. F the moderates they know not what they do. And quite frankly if his wife takes over his term damn him for dying in office like some sort of self entitled royalty.
Respectfully to the office of Senator,
Good bye John…I have no idea what God thinks of RINO’s………………
IF McCain really cared about America he would have stepped down and left the Senate after the cancer was discovered. But NO Joyn just had to vote and flap his gums and try to destroy President Trump and the American people. He slapped Arizona’s voters in the face when he voted against the Obamacare mess. He is NOT a hero in anyway shape or form! If anything John McCain is a traitor to America.
To the governor of AZ–DO NOT APPOINT McCain’s wife to his seat!! That would be a disgrace!!
Public service my ass….the only service he gave was to himself….by by john…
This person will have a big to-do burial , he’s no hero in fact I consider him treasonous bastard for siding with and going into Syria, talk about aiding and abetting the enemy. He had no business going into the Middle East and the same goes for Pelosi when she went during Bush Jr term. Time to clean house and get rid of the long term people in the House and Senate.
HA, HA, “republican war hero?” Since when? He’s no republican, nor is he a “hero,” but a useless traitor. Good riddance when he keels over. Undoubtedly there’s already a line forming to piss on his grave.
John served but not with honor. American POW’s are dead because of him. He was never really a republican either, a RINO but leaning more towards a democrat. Why on earth the good people of AZ keep people like him and Goldwater in office when they prove over and over they are not good for the people I will never know. Then his criminal involvement with Keating and the “Keating Five” where he joined in with 4 other senators to cheat investors out of their life savings. Must be nice to have such clout that you can do all of these things and still be a so called leader of me. Bah Humbug!
He was not a war hero. He was a prisoner who sang like a bird. He lived to fight again, but let’s put that aside because of how he saved himself. Also let us remember he had to have a pardon to keep from going to prison. Had his father not been a general he would have been in bad shape after starting a fire onboard a ship. Sorry he is dying, but he should have resigned from office once his cancer was diagnosed.
Everybody has a breaking point, that does not mean the person is a traitor. I voted for Trump but I wonder had he been drafted, would he have held out indefinitely and forego any medical treatment for his serious injuries? It is an entirely different matter how he behaved later on as a Senator; I was truly disappointed.
Jet Wrecker McCain, the single Swamp Rat responsible for Obongocare NOT being totally flushed down yet (GET ON THIS, TRUMP, and stop yakking about it), is directly responsible for my young adult son having to pay $1100 a month for UNUSABLE CRAP that poses as “Health Insurance”, so he doesn’t get penalized by the stinking IRS for NOT buying the Federal crap sandwich.
Commie Poofter Demonrat Obongo, and his Repukian and (((Nation Wrecker))) co-conspirators created their sick joke “Affordable Care Act” to take good care of underclass BLAK. Beaner and Muzzy worthless Muds AT THE DIRECT EXPENSE OF WORKING WHITES, thereby minimizing the financial burden on The Federal General Fund that pays for junkies, AIDS donors, skid row aklies, the wandering crazed, mindlessly breeding BLAK sows, illegal wetbacks, Indo-Paki H 1(b) labor pool diluters and other similar dregs to get the latest and the greatest medical care FOR FREE.
I hope McCain suffers unto his last breath.
btw, the rat was NEVER a War Hero. He was a Navy Legacy shytehead that would have never been admitted to The Academy, much less allowed near a fighter jet, if Daddy and Grandpop weren’t Admirals.
God works mysterious ways
I remember Traitor McCain from 1967 in Viet Nam as I was there and I do not forgive him. May hi last day come very, very soon. . He is no Hero as some claim. He was and is a Traitor, a backstabber, a Liar and a outright SOB and POS. Myself and Many, Many vets hate him.
Your comment is very amazing. Unfortunately you didn’t say whether you knew him as a POW or how. I would really like you to expand on your comments with details.
I’m sorry for McCain. He has a serious tumor but one like many other people have faced. My question and concern is why he hasn’t resigned from the Senate. It can’t be he needs the monthly salary and to think that a man dying from a brain tumor is able to vote in the Senate is disgusting.
Senator Ted Kennedy was also allowed to vote in the Senate when he was diagnosed with cancer. Let us leave it up to Senate regulations who can vote and who cannot anymore.
I agree with Mr Trashcan1…..McCain is not a war hero, and should not be referred as such. He was the cause, along with Jane Fonda, of many American soldiers death. He was pardoned but that does not exonerate him from the traitor he was and still is. He will answer to God for his evil deeds.
His biggest regret that he cannot take with him another couple of billion people
Oh, please. I never saw anything like this. The build up to his death is going on for perhaps 8 months already? Yet, I see no evidence that he’s actually dying. This man is not a hero–he is a songbird–he betrayed his fellow servicemen in Viet Nam. Now I admit I’m a coward and I would talk if tortured. But he promoted himself as a hero–he’s nothing more than a scumbag narcissist. He is part of the deep state–a collusion to impede our president and destroy our country. No, I don’t pray for him and it’s not a simple matter of disagreement. His character and his evil deeds are the problem and he deserves punishment on the other side.
While his story is indeed tragic he should hold no greater position over the many, many others that have and are fighting this dreadful disease. We will pray for all of them equally.
Tragic? Time for him to go. May God have mercy on his soul.
A time to be born
And a time to die,
Get him out of the Senate and don’t appoint his wife to the position!
She gets a free pass to the senate from douchey…no spelling error here….