McCain: A National Disgrace

John McCain, so called maverick who at every turn has used his political capital to move this nation far left in the name of moderation.

I worked for his campaign in 2008 because of his VP choice, and knew the background of the person he was running against.

Immediately, I saw how unorganized his operations were and it seemed to me they were just going through the motions.

The more I heard John say we need to tone down the rhetoric, the harder it became to show up and make calls. But once again I knew there was a promising star being born, and well you see what the alternative has gotten us.

McCain who had been on the Senate floor warning of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mack was running against a candidate who's life as a community organizer was directly involved for pushing this marxist, home ownership policy that would lead to the inevitable collapse of our financial markets.

As the markets began to unravel just before the election, McCain not only stood silent but handed the high ground over to Obama.

After one of the most pathetic campaigns ever run, the same McCain people who refused to criticize Obama for the historic nature of his presidency, began attacking the only light in his campaign, Sarah Palin who's family was being thrashed on a daily basis.

I felt so dirty having spent any time trying to help a man who is wrongly characterized as an American hero, he is nothing but a traitor to the US Constitution, sovereignty of this nation and freedom loving Americans.

I don't care what this man went through, I could pick the average Joe off the street and they would have more of the America spirit running through one vein then this man has in his entire body.

His ideology since coming back home is more in line with his captors then the nation he claims to be a hero of.

The games continued as he coordinated a critical comment at Obama to where Obama basically handed him the reelection by saying "John I won the election".

Within hours of that comment liberals were coming on FOX news, saying that after that exchange, it would be very difficult for his opponent in the senate race to tie John as the establishment candidate he was.

So the same fire that John refused to spark during a campaign against a marxist extremist, was unleashed along with millions of left over money from 2008 against a conservative Arizona.

Sarah Palin who was elevated to the national stage by McCain campaigned for him, while I was not happy about that, I understood that she had no choice and in the end.

Now Mccain comes out and returns Obama's favor in helping him get reelected in the senate by saying how much our dear leader has been moving to the center as he has run up over 3 trillion dollars in debt in 2 years, passed 9000 pages of suffocating laws which will be followed by 90,000 pages for the implementing these stalinist laws, trashed the American people at every turn, gone against the will of the people at every turn and on the verge of successfully collapsing our system.

He says that he will not support another candidate for 2012(Palin), he is content with the current state of this nations collapse.

John, I can't think of another American in the history of this nation that so resemble Benedict Arnold as you do sir.

You have endorsed the fundamental transformation of this country and millions of Americans will never forget what you have done when your nation really needed you; you threw more gas on the fire and attempted to vilify the American people for wanting to live free.

You are more concerned about what the radical liberal left thinks about you or will write about you in the history books than a free America.

America is hanging off a cliff, instead of reaching out to lift her up, McCain jams a boot down on her.

Sorry my friends , I am so very disgusted with people like this. and felt a need to jump aboard the real straight talk express.

Let me post an old reply an unfinished vanity written at the time of the election and at the foot of the old reply draw some application to the John McCain of today:

Understanding John McCain

McCain's Vietnam experience was so shattering that he sees the world through a new lens, the experience so profound that he has emerged from it with a lifelong commitment to country. This gives credibility to McCain's claim that he is a maverick, beholden not to party but to principle and country. This claim to independence is necessary in a political climate in which the present occupant of the White House is found to be unsatisfactory by nearly three out of four Americans. So, the narrative explains why a voter can believe at John McCain is different from ordinary politicians, especially ordinary Republican politicians, and they can't believe he should be trusted to embark on a new course away from current administration policies.

At the end of his acceptance speech, McCain recited how he came to be utterly broken but then restored, even redeemed with a new commitment to service to others when a fellow prisoner urged him by prison telegraph not to quit and die but instead to carry on the fight out of respect for his comrades who even then were carrying on the fight for him.

Psychologists and scholars of religious experience, especially Christian scholars, have long been aware of the empowering release generated by total surrender of the will. One can describe this in psychological language, or in Biblical language, or even in evangelical idiom.

Whatever language one uses to describe these epiphanies there is no question that very often they are real and long lasting. Psychologists would begin to explain the phenomenon by reference to the ego. An Old Testament scholar might think in terms of the first and second Commandments and the muscular faith which follows adherence to them. Christians speak of dying to the self, picking up the cross and following the Savior to become a new man-to be born again. Perhaps the most famous example is recounted in the Book of Acts which tells that Saul of Tarsus was physically knocked off his horse by the Holy Spirit. Saul experiences an epiphany, Saul becomes Paul, and is transformed from a murderous persecutor of Christians to a fully committed martyr who becomes the great evangelist of the early church, indomitable in spirit, inflexible in commitment, and-like the other disciples- utterly fearless. Significantly, Paul, the newbie Christian, does not shrink later from taking on Peter the acknowledged leader of the disciples "to his face" to dispute matters of doctrine.

In contemporary history we have the example of George Bush and his transforming encounter with Reverend Billy Graham. Indeed, we have the Reverend Billy Graham's own epiphany in the forest. We have the numberless examples recited daily in meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous. It is from the success of this group that countless so-called "12 step" groups have been formed to apply successfully the same empowering message of surrender.

The important thing to understand about these epiphanies is that when they are genuine they are often life-long and tremendously empowering. Lives really are transformed forever. Criminals go straight, alcoholics stay sober, and the miserable are made happy. In fact, these newly born spirits enjoy their new condition so much that they seek ways to prolong the joy they have obtained in their moment of sweet release. Almost universally, these people find that proselytizing and service to others is the surest way to prolong that wonderful feeling of well-being.

Isolated, sick, starved and beaten beyond human endurance, John McCain ultimately broke and signed a confession which he mistakenly assumed amounted to a betrayal of his country. Who was this wretched man who lay so anguished in that cell? In his memoir and in his speech, McCain described himself as a kind of a hotshot jet jock, a screwup, a discipline problem in school, and an accomplished accumulator of demerits as a midshipman. Evidently, he was also an enthusiastic swordsman. In short, he was an arrogant SOB. Now, in that cell, he had fallen far. The classic description of the crushing of the ego. At this pivotal moment came the means of his redemption via the prison telegraph: Service to others out of love of country. In his speech McCain declared:

"And I wasn't my own man anymore, I was my country's"

And now we know the rest of the story. This is not to say that John McCain was instantly sanctified in all respects, far from it. He still had to swim his way out of a giant mental, moral and spiritual hangover from his ordeal. His screwing around would cost him his marriage before he could swim to shore. Even today, the old self bursts out in temper. But when one lays this template over the rest of John McCain’s career, one should have little difficulty accepting the story as being essentially true (I for one believe it) and to accept it as a convincing explanation of his career and his conception of his role as president.

Before considering the implications of all of this for conservatives, it is instructive to consider what it means to liberals. [And to compare it to Barak Obama's story]

In a word: "nothing." Liberals do not see it because they cannot see it. They simply do not get it. The whole idea of gaining empowerment through surrendering is as psychologically repugnant to liberals as is the idea of accepting a higher authority in their lives. Consider the Democrat party to be a gigantic creaking contrivance to legitimatize liberals in their insatiable quest to feed their egos. The job of this machine is to provide rationalizations. The obvious examples are sex without consequences and abortion without guilt. These examples demonstrate that the rationalization machine can be quite deadly as it kills 3 to 4 million babies a year. The pernicious doctrines emanating from The Frankfurt School such as moral relativism, feminism, and critical theory find application not just in cultural issues like abortion which kill babies in their tens of millions but across the board, touching all government policy and every aspect of our lives.

To repeat, the whole purpose of this Democrat apparatus is to turn thinking on its head and provide a language to liberals so they can continue to play God (especially with other people's lives). Liberals will never about-face and cast away everything that feeds their ego addictions. That is why we hear them using English words but it comes out as a different language.

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To return to contemporary time and apply this to John McCain post-election as his character reverts to form and he undercuts Republicans by praising Obama: my contention is that John McCain does not do this out of lack of patriotism-such a allegation against McCain is patently absurd and should be dismissed out of hand-nor does he do it out of personal ambition. He is obviously willing to run against the tide at the risk of his own political career and he has done so most recently and very courageously in his lonely support of the surge in Iraq during primary season when doing so left him isolated and his campaign bankrupt. Nevertheless he persevered and he was right.

Why? Because he had concluded that that was the best way he could serve his country. He was still living out his epiphany in the Hanoi Hilton.

The problem with John McCain as I see it is that as his ego was utterly stripped away in this epiphany, it was not replaced with either a religious or a political philosophy. It was replaced only with a noble and intense but unfocused and undisciplined patriotism. That sends John McCain crusading all over the political landscape. That is why he has no party loyalty, because he does not, like many military men, identify party with his patriotic attachment to country.

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