John McCain greeting his opponent after being defeated. Is this the man you want protecting us from our enemies?
As if we haven't been tortured enough after seven plus years of wincing through almost daily Bushisms, from food on our families, to co-existing with fish, to fool me once,
, can't be fooled again. Now we get another buffoon in John McCain, the so-called foreign policy expert who can't tell the difference between Shias and Sunnis, a couple of tribes who've been fighting each other for a mere 1,400 years. And if this wasn't enough, he was quoted as saying he'd be happy to keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years if that's what it took for victory.
Of course, like his newest best buddy Bush, he can't quite articulate what victory in Iraq is unless it was one of his many inane statements, "until they stop killing us." I'm still trying to make any sense of this. Does it mean once every Iraqi is dead then they won't be able to kill our soldiers anymore?
Scary is that he's denying any of these statements even though he's been caught on tape. Scarier is the media letting him off the hook by not looping it 24/7 like they do with far less meaningful dem gaffes. But what caught my attention was a report this week on The Huffington Post claiming that after the 2000 election McCain said he didn't vote for Bush and that his wife Cindy voted for her husband on a write-in ballot. This was confirmed not only by Arianna herself, but also two other witnesses.
In true Bush mode McCain denied having made this statement and claimed he had in fact voted for Bush. Is this constant lying a republican thing? No need to answer that. Nonetheless, this is more than a he said - she said thing, because it really does come down to character. The guy has flip-flopped, pandered and changed his stance on almost everything he stood for in 2000 to appeal to the wing nutters in the republican party. And they say Hillary will do anything to get elected. He's made so many contrary claims the past few weeks, including he never said he didn't understand the economy, that how can we believe anything he says? He's all over the map in contradictions.
We know the MSM can't be trusted to save us from another dangerous loon in the White House, so it's left to the liberal blogosphere to hammer home every single miscue, gaffe, stumble or inane utterance McCain makes. The GOP started this, the only difference is they're wrong on every issue and have to rely on just making shit up about our candidate. Stuff that has zero to do with the issues.
I'm certainly no expert, but if I were a dem consultant using GOP rules, this is an ad I'd run against McCain:
"John McCain claims he has more experience in foreign affairs and is the best candidate to fight terrorism. After the dirty tricks Bush pulled on him in the republican primary in South Carolina in 2000, this is how McCain reacted."
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