On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:34 AM, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I disagree. Yes, he's not quite as young and combative as he was the first > two times he ran for prez, but McCain has NEVER been viewed as "the > establishment", until he suddenly got the republican nomination. Now, > suddenly, he IS the establishment??? I don't buy it, even if he is employing > some of the standard republican tactics for campaigning (appealing to the > base, etc.)
For me, McCain lost the respect I had for him and joined "the establishment" when he started making calculated moves to the right to try and position himself for the nomination. The worst, for me, was making up with Jerry "agent of intolerance" Falwell. And then starting to hang out with Rev. Hagee and his ilk, cozying up to the fundamentalist wing. It also included more time voting the party line on things like tax cuts without spending offsets, sharing birthday cake with Bush during Hurricane Katrina, etc. Now I don't believe that McCain likes Bush. I want to think they are ideologically different and that there is no love there, especially after what Bush did to McCain in the South Carolina primary in 2000. But then McCain goes and hires the PR dude from the Bush campaign that smeared him in SC. Maybe McCain was swallowing his pride and just trying to do what he needed to in order to win the nomination and then believed he'd be able to go to the center for the national election. But then things got tough and he picked Palin who is another character from the far right that fits in perfectly with the Bushies. Perhaps deep down inside McCain hasn't changed and he is doing this out of expediency. Maybe he thinks that the ends justify the means and that all he needs to do is win and he'll be able to make up for the campaign with 4 good years in the Whitehouse. After being beaten by a clearly inferior candidate in Bush in 2000, I could see the rationale. But that isn't, to me, how a maverick is supposed to do things. I don't buy victory at all costs. Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:274237 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
