Sen. John McCain, the Republican from Arizona, served his country for decades and was a patriot and a war hero.

The senator from Arizona sadly lost his battle with brain cancer this past weekend, and millions are grieving his passing this week and will continue to for some time.

McCain, a Navy man, famously was shot down on a bombing mission over Hanoi, North Vietnam, in 1967 when a Soviet-supplied ground-to-air missile blew a wing off his Navy A-4 Skyhawk attack jet.

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He ejected and landed in a lake — breaking both arms and a knee in the process. North Vietnamese soldiers and civilians dragged him from the lake and beat him.

That was only the beginning of McCain’s five and a half-years of horrible treatment in the “Hanoi Hilton” prisoner-of-war (POW) jail.

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McCain, years later, went on to serve with passion as a United States senator for the state of Arizona. He left behind his wife, Cindy, seven children, five grandchildren, and his mother, Roberta McCain.

However, amid the contention in Washington, D.C., over his passing; amid the no-love-lost relationship between the now-deceased senator and President Donald Trump; and amid the Democrats’ falling all over themselves to praise McCain right now, it’s worth listening to what some everyday Americans across the country are saying.

It’s not politically correct.

It’s not Washington-speak.

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It’s frank, it’s forthright — and it’s fresh.

It’s real.

The people are fed up with hypocrisy — they’re fed up with dramatically different statements about the man depending on timing and how the wind blows. They’re fed up with the swamp.

Here’s a sampling of what readers are saying on Facebook in response to a piece LifeZette published on Tuesday morning, called “What Democrats Said About McCain That They’d Now Like You to Forget.”

These same Democrats can’t heap enough praise on McCain now that he is gone. But as the piece recalled, many of these same people — Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi — made devastatingly negative comments about McCain not all that long ago.

It’s almost painful to recall — but it’s all documented in their statements, their TV interviews, their debates and more.

Here are 20 comments readers have shared (so far this morning) on Facebook about this:

1.) “I bet they all [these Democrats] said a whole lot worse about [McCain] in private … if only WE could have ‘wiretapped’ THEM.”

2.) “They are Democrats. Of course they change their minds on an hourly basis. They say what you want to hear. Nothing new.”

3.) “Just yesterday Schumer said we should be more like McCain and not put party before country and reach across the aisle to work together. Has he done that recently?”

4.) “They can get away with it because they are part of the swamp like McCain was. It’s like wrestling on TV — they are enemies, but in real life they laugh and drink together about how they have still managed to keep their jobs [as] paid for by taxpayers. Trump is not part of their club — so no matter what he would have said or done, they still would have criticized him.”

5.) “What does it say about McCain that he chose the hypocrites to eulogize him while excluding the president?”

6.) “John McCain was a RINO! It’s quite obvious his liberal friends mourn the loss, since he voted against things we true Republicans fought hard for. Will NEVER forget his theatrical performance and final vote on Obamacare. Already sick of all the ‘show’ over his death. Lay him to rest and get on with it. There’s a country to run here!”

7.) “Hate to generalize, but the Dems are a disgrace and becoming more socialistic by the day! We are in trouble in this country and people don’t seem to realize where we are heading.”

8.) “McCain was always a troublemaker seeking attention for himself.”

9.) “The corrupt MSM [mainstream media] have proved what a big joke they are … They do everything to advance the LEFT agenda.”

10.) “Chuck and Nancy are crying because they lost a vote, that’s all.”

11.) “They really ought to coordinate their double standards so as not to confuse the hell out of everyone.”

12.) “What do you expect from the swamp? A bunch of hypocrites.”

13.) “Self-serving hypocrites, every one of them.”

14.) “At least Trump holds true to his feelings.”

15.) “They sure didn’t have anything nice to say about him in 2008. They only decided they liked him after he let Obama win.”

16.) “They should bring these up to the media every day! Sure they won’t show this! People these days have others think for them.”

17.) “Expediency of the moment.”

18.) “Funny, really. They think no one remembers.”

19.) “Democrats speak with forked tongues.”

20.) “Phonies. I, for one, couldn’t live like that.”

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