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I’ve cited an article below that I hope everyone will studiously contemplate, then forward to as many as possible. It concerns Senator John McCain, who it appears may well become the Republican Party’s presidential standard bearer. Shortly we may all see election placards in front of homes, in windows and on vehicles promoting his candidacy.
Please, please, please read the article. This is not simply a matter of liberal versus conservative, Democrat versus Republican. Read the article, then consider the very real costs of not opposing someone we all should respect for the service he has rendered to his country, but more importantly, someone we should fear, should he actually assume the mantle of power. Read it. Then decide for yourself what is at stake. And then, if you are as anxious over the prospects as I am, forward it to all you know.
— Ed Tubbs
GOP Senators Unload on McCain as President
An article in today’s Washington Post (Monday, February 4, 2008) (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/03/AR2008020303242_pf.html), iterated how several of Senator McCain’s closest Republican colleagues are quite concerned over the prospects of a McCain presidency. Furthermore, their anxieties did not revolve about how much of a true “conservative” the senator might be. Rather, and much more consequent to issues that ought to matter to all Americans, their concerns had to do with John McCain’s temperament.
As the article noted, Senator McCain once testified under oath that a Senate colleague inappropriately used tobacco corporation donations to sway votes on legislation. He cursed out another colleague in front of 20 senators and staff members, questioning the senator's grip on immigration legislation. And, on the Senate floor, McCain (R-Ariz.) accused another colleague of "egregious behavior" for helping a defense contractor in a move he said resembled "corporate scandals."
The article went on to report that “In a chamber once known for cordiality if not outright gentility, McCain has battled his fellow senators for more than two decades in a fashion that has been forceful and sometimes personal.”
Because of his penchant for angry tirades, reflecting a temperament “unfit for the Oval Office,” many have resolutely rejected the notion of McCain as president.
Mississippi’s Chad Cochran opined "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."
Former Pennsylvania Senator, Rick Santorum noted "John was very rough in the sandbox. Everybody has a McCain story. If you work in the Senate for a while, you have a McCain story. . . . He hasn't built up a lot of goodwill."
The past seven years have demonstrated how costly to everyone — not just Americans, but people everywhere — a confrontational, chip-on-the-shoulder/my-way-or-the-highway attitude can be. However we might prefer otherwise, some friction with the opposing party is to be expected. With McCain, the grating even extends to his own party’s senate leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. In testimony in 2003, McCain came close to accusing McConnell of breaking federal law. In sworn testimony, he accused the Kentucky senator of attempting to scuttle his tobacco industry settlement legislation by spreading rumors that the industry would devote millions opposing those senators who tried to defeat the bill.
It is imperative to bear in mind that the remarks concerning the Oval Office aspirant’s demeanor are attributed to Republicans. The president is Commander in Chief, the person who can launch attacks that may not necessarily be limited to scathing verbal assaults. Can we, can the world, afford to suffer someone whose basic judgment and emotional stability are, by manifested incontrovertible evidence, even more legitimately suspect than that of George W. Bush?
— Ed Tubbs
