Where does Eric the Blue get off calling McCain a "lout"? Well, I think he is a lout, but perhaps my diction could have been better. He's craven and unfit to govern.
As a senator McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts for the same reasons the Democrats did; now, as a candidate for president, he wants to make those tax cuts that he opposed permanent. As a senator McCain co-sponsored with Ted Kennedy The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007; now, as a candidate for president, he's against his own bill. When McCain ran for president the first time, in 2000, he referred to Falwell, Robertson and that ilk as "agents of intolerance"; now, as a candidate for president in 2008, he is making a concerted effort to suck up to those dolts. As a senator McCain supported the single greatest foreign policy blunder of recent American history, the invasion of Iraq, but the former conductor of the Straight Talk Express now has little to say about the judgment he exhibited on that defining occasion. As a senator McCain railed against lobbyists in the manner of an Old Testament prophet; now, as a candidate for president, he has hired them to run his campaign. That McCain would do or say anything to advance his chances of winning the presidency is confirmed by his choice of Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska for the past twenty months, as his running mate. He puts himself forward as a stand-up guy. What a joke. Every time his judgment is questioned he reminds us that he once was a POW.
Craven. Unfit to govern.
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