On The John

Remember John McCain? He was going to be president a few years back. And a few years before that. He was a Maverick. Not the car nor the TV show starring James Garner, but rather the kind of shoot-from-the-hip straight-shooter who doesn't really shoot but would probably defend anyone's right to shoot under their constitutionally guaranteed rights. The kind of guy who, though Republican and conservative in the extreme, could still pull off a comfortable guest spot on "The Daily Show." That is, before they resorted to using an angry puppet in his place.
Bitter and disillusioned, John McCain appears to a large portion of the American public as an angry puppet. It might also have something to do with his personal habits: how he chooses his running mates or where and when he chooses to exercise his constitutionally guaranteed right to play video poker. I suppose the fact that he chooses to play a game on his smart phone while the rest of congress is discussing the merits of U.S. military action in Syria shows that he's still a Maverick. But it would have been cooler if he would have been playing "Call of Duty: Congressional Debate" instead.
Which brings us to this past week, when at a town meeting in his home state of Arizona, he is now open to "potentially" legalizing marijuana. This stands in stark contrast to his previous stance, the one that sounded like this: “I can’t support the legalization of marijuana. Scientific evidence indicates that the moment that it enters your body, one, it does damage, and second, it can become addictive. It is a gateway drug.” That was back in 1999. Way before the turn of the century. These days, science suggests that fifty-six percent of Arizonans back legalizing small amounts of pot. It could be that Senator McCain has had some time to consider his stance, especially in light of his own daughter's revelation that she has smoked reefer.
Or just maybe the senator has a touch of, oh I dunno, glaucoma? That might explain all that giggling. And video games. He's not a Maverick. He's a stoner.