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McCain Melts Down (Ronald McDonald Rejects VP Offer)

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McCain looks as pathetic as he truly is beating this dead horse relentlessly. But now it’s gone farther than that even. This week McCain described Obama – who, by the way, never fails to honor and admire McCain before disagreeing with him on policy questions – as someone who "would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign". That sort of sleazy personal attack is way beyond the pale, especially when describing one of the few brave souls in American politics who opposed the war from the very beginning, back when doing so was a serious political liability, especially for anyone ever contemplating running for president. I felt bad for McCain when the Rove pigs savaged him in 2000. But now he has become them, and I am reminded of other pigs, those being observed at the end of Orwell’s Animal Farm: "The creatures outside looked from Rove to McCain, and from McCain to Rove, and from Rove to McCain again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

Regressivism is a sickness, and it has infected John McCain, who now appears to be capable of saying or doing most anything to gain the presidency. Fortunately, however, there’s just enough health left in the American body politic that the metastisizing cancer of the last thirty years is likely to be ingloriously expelled this November. And John McCain, its latest avatar, with it – just another political hack seeking personal affirmation through presidential ambition. Indeed, one so seized with the need to be president that he no longer recognizes the irony that he has become the personal embodiment of precisely the opposite of his self-description – a man who puts country ahead of self.

If that were the case, McCain would fire the Rovots he’s staffed his campaign with, apologize for ever having been a Republican, beg forgiveness from the Iraqi people, and vote for Obama on November 4th.

None of that will happen, of course, but very likely it won’t matter anyhow.

As far as I can see, about the only thing which could possibly save John McCain right now, in the America of 2008, would be if he were running against, say, a black man, as the Democratic presidential nominee.

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Great Conclusions for Campaign gone Bad. by psycheboat on Thursday, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:45:07 PM
McCain by Archie on Friday, Jul 25, 2008 at 3:56:48 PM
Great analysis by Gregg Gordon on Friday, Jul 25, 2008 at 5:53:21 PM