John McCain helped save 25 million Americans healthcare with a thumbs down

And he was under ENORMOUS pressure from his party not to. For that alone he earned my respect. His public defiance of Individual-1 in my opinion doomed this maladministration.

We are all a complex tangle of hero and villian. All of us. And I disagreed with many things worked for. But I never hated John McCain. Not even for Sarah Palin.

That moment last year in the well of the Senate, late in the night, his epic thumbs down in Mike Pence's face will be forever etched in my memory.