John McCain’s Demise
John McCain seems to have taken to the Republican way of politics. That is, to lie to whoever you can in order to win support. Two years ago I thought that John McCain was a worthy Republican that stood outside the swill and vomit of the Republican Neo-Cons that were running the show. He did stand up to the administration, a couple of times. But, then he though that this “outsideness” would be his advantage in a potential Presidential run. So, what did he do? He went out and sought the support of the Christian Right. He gave up his Libertarian charm and sought the governmental control Christians to back him.
When he did this, I lost all respect for him. The “Straight Talk Express” couldn’t decide which track it was on. It slammed to a halt and gingerly edged its way toward the Dobbson Christians. Tim LeHay and the Neo-Cons weren’t quite so sure about this stranger in the village and they turned their backs every time he walked by. And, the Libertarians that he had initially appealed to began to see him for the Republican that he really was, a liar.
This is what always seems to bother me about the Republican Party. Every time a candidate rejects the social conservatives and proclaims their favor of fiscal conservative values, like only spend the money that you have and provide efficient and useful services for the common good their will is broken by the threat of withdrawing financial support for their campaign.
Now, John McCain’s campaign is falling out of favor in money circles and in popular polls. I am not surprised, because see him as a politician that has fallen to the political temptation of being bribed to support the people with the money. His announcement of his candidacy on David Letterman’s talk show was an attempt to scrape the bottom of the idea barrel with a news cycle flurry that might spring him a few points higher in the polls. I don’t think that it is going to work. People already know that he will bend and sway in the political wind, like other politicians with no back bone. Republicans will not stand for a flip flopper; we know that from the 2004 campaign.
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Don't forget what Stephen Colbert said, "Reality has a well-known liberal bias."
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