Tuesday, March 28, 2006

McCAIN COZIES UP TO THE PSYCHOTIC END OF THE REPUBLICAN BASE

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I still find myself bashing Bush. It's a waste of time. History has already consigned him to its scrap heap. He can still do-- and will do-- lots of damage. But, let's face it, America has far worse enemies to face in the coming days than George W. Bush. At this point, the treacherous coterie that put Bush in office and has propped up his feeble Regime seems to have coalesced around John McCain for 2008. In the past I've tried to point out that McCain is no improvement over Bush and that he's certainly not fit to lead this country. His p.r. is excellent, however, and Democrats haven't gotten the word out about what a partisan right-wing extremist McCain is.

Today Ari Berman in THE NATION, breaks the news that McCain will be the commencement speaker at Jerry Falwell's Liberty "University." In 2000 McCain made a speech in Virginia denouncing Robertson and Falwell and adamantly refusing to "pander... to their failed philosophy." Today Falwell is celebrating the fact that McCain has replaced "straight talk" with an agreement to support the Federal Marriage Amendment in return for evangelical votes.

Oh, and speaking about what McCain had to say in 2000 compared to what he has to say now that his head is up Karl Rove's ass, Mr. "Straight Talk" once made a modicum of sense when he claimed that "Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right." His comparison between Sharpton and the two religionist psychos may be out of order, but today John McCain lies down with these two dogs-- so expect to see lots and lots of ticks in the run-up to the Republican primary season as he proves that he's every bit the extremist lunatic that Bill Frist, George Allen and even Sam Brownback are.


SUNDAY MORNING UPDATE: STRAIGHT TALK EXPRESS COMPLETELY DE-RAILS

You want to see a lying sack of shit sweat under the hot TV lights and explain why Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell were "agents of intolerance" a few years ago but are now his good buds? Our own good buds at the Center For American Progress were thoughtful enough to tape Tim Russert's show today so everyone could watch John McCain explain why working with dangerous, bigoted fascists may have been a problem in 2000 but is absolutely hunky-dory now that the extreme right has given him the green light to be the next Republican nominee for president. Here's the video (and the transcript).

3 Comments:

At 5:03 PM, Blogger noneed4thneed said...

Great pic of McCain. I lost all respect for McCain when I saw him hugging Bu$h at a campaign stop in 2004.

 
At 6:56 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Liberty University? Hoo boy! You can see Liberty University infomercials late at night on PAX TV. I don't know what degrees they're selling, but they are definitely telling people that the rapture is coming and it's all for white people, and that the antichrist is a multiculturalist. A speech at "Liberty University" indicates that McCain is indeed cozying up to the psychotic end of the repug base.
And why do these Ann Coulter freaks always equate Al Sharpton with Farrakhan & Falwell? Or they will say that Farrkhan is on the "left." No sir, there is nothing lefty about Farrakhan. He is as right as it gets as far as I'm concerned.

 
At 7:18 PM, Blogger KenInNY said...

For me too McCain's gung-ho campaigning for the Bush ticket in 2004 was a turning point. I don't know that I could ever have voted for him (for president or anything else), since after all he never claimed to be anything but a philosophical conservative. But as E. J. Dionne Jr. recalls in his WashPost column today, "A Maverick No More?," once upon a time he truly seemed a man of some principle.

As Dionne points out, McCain understands now that mavericks don't get their party's presidential nomination, and apparently he wants the 2008 GOP nomination. It seems too that the more we on the left scream and rant about him, the more the GOP "base" accepts him.

Well, good luck to him. At this point he and the GOP faithful deserve each other.

K

 

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