PhoneMistress
09-13-2008, 04:30 PM
McCain is haunted by the racist, sexist, theocratic evangelicals like the Kennedys haunted Nixon.
And yet, no matter what happens in November, McCain will lose.
He will lose because his campaign is one that no honest observer would describe as honourable. He will lose because in order to win he has become what he once fought.
Matthew 16:26
At the beginning of July, McCain was going nowhere and so he handed his campaign to Steve Schmidt, a protégé of Bush's bare-knuckle campaign director Karl Rove. The tone of the campaign immediately turned nasty. Then, at the end of August, McCain hired Tucker Eskew -- the very man responsible for the smear campaign that cost McCain South Carolina in the 2000 primary race.
Tucker? What man would hire a someone who called your 9-year old daughter a n-gger?
On climate change, McCain continued to insist the problem was real and urgent until this summer. Then he stopped talking about it. It went unmentioned at the Republican national convention. And McCain's choice of running mate is the governor of an oil-producing state who has said at least once she doesn't believe humans are responsible for climate change.
On torture, McCain sponsored important legislation but then allowed the White House to water it down. And when President Bush attached a signing statement that effectively gutted the legislation, McCain smiled politely and held his tongue.
And immigration? As John Kerry noted at the Democratic convention, "candidate McCain now says he would vote against the immigration bill that Senator McCain wrote."
I voted for Senator McCain in 2000 and like many well-educated, thinking Republicans in 2008, I will not be voting for Candidate McCain.
Damn the Canadians for getting it right. The Ottawa Citizen (http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=ad86cb7e-f4bc-4bda-bc03-91deddf0eaa1&p=1).
And yet, no matter what happens in November, McCain will lose.
He will lose because his campaign is one that no honest observer would describe as honourable. He will lose because in order to win he has become what he once fought.
Matthew 16:26
At the beginning of July, McCain was going nowhere and so he handed his campaign to Steve Schmidt, a protégé of Bush's bare-knuckle campaign director Karl Rove. The tone of the campaign immediately turned nasty. Then, at the end of August, McCain hired Tucker Eskew -- the very man responsible for the smear campaign that cost McCain South Carolina in the 2000 primary race.
Tucker? What man would hire a someone who called your 9-year old daughter a n-gger?
On climate change, McCain continued to insist the problem was real and urgent until this summer. Then he stopped talking about it. It went unmentioned at the Republican national convention. And McCain's choice of running mate is the governor of an oil-producing state who has said at least once she doesn't believe humans are responsible for climate change.
On torture, McCain sponsored important legislation but then allowed the White House to water it down. And when President Bush attached a signing statement that effectively gutted the legislation, McCain smiled politely and held his tongue.
And immigration? As John Kerry noted at the Democratic convention, "candidate McCain now says he would vote against the immigration bill that Senator McCain wrote."
I voted for Senator McCain in 2000 and like many well-educated, thinking Republicans in 2008, I will not be voting for Candidate McCain.
Damn the Canadians for getting it right. The Ottawa Citizen (http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=ad86cb7e-f4bc-4bda-bc03-91deddf0eaa1&p=1).