Amen! I just wonder when the talk show hosts (Rush, Sean, Laura, Mark, etc.,) are going to finally acknowledge it.
BDS
Your statement, coupled with your tagline is a study in contradictions.
McCain had done more to destroy the republican party than anyone else could have hoped to. In his hateful vengeance toward President Bush for defeating his presidential aspirations eight years ago, the little ratbasturd set up his own shadow government to undermine President Bush every step of the way.
McCain has been a stalwart member of the The Republican Main Street Partnership.
The November 1994 mid-term elections were commonly referred to as the "Republican Revolution." Given the great gains made by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, a group of moderate House Republicans began informal meetings to discuss ways to further a centrist, pragmatic Republican agenda --
... there was great concern that a dramatic shift to the right was quickly approaching...
The discussion group began to craft a moderate Republican agenda with a fiscally conservative background.
McCain founded the Reform Institute, funded by George Soros!
Inside McCain's Reform Institute
Meet the open borders family: McCain, Hernandez, Soros, and the “Reform Institute”
John McCain Gets Soros Cash
Then of course there is The Shadow Party!
The Shadow Party emerged from the dense thicket of campaign finance reforms engineered by Senators John McCain and Russ Feingold. [and FRED THOMPSON…why everyone continues to leave him out is curious!]
Thanks to the soft-money ban enacted by the McCain-Feingold Act of March 27, 2002, the Democratic Party entered the current election cycle hard pressed to raise enough money legally to undertake a winning campaign. This created an imperative that found its inevitable loophole (as critics of McCain-Feingold always warned it would). Consequently, the driving force in the political war against George Bush is now a group of billionaires and millionaires operating through the veiled structures of the Shadow Party.
The principal mover behind the Shadow Party is Wall Street billionaire and leftwinger George Soros.
Under his aegis, the Shadow Party has created a new power base for the left, independent of the mainstream party apparatus – a leverage point from which to tilt the party in an ever-more-radical direction.
In 2000, Soros stepped up his attack on the status quo – dramatically raising his profile in U.S. electoral politics in the process – by sponsoring the so-called “Shadow Conventions.” Organized by author, columnist, social climber and political gadfly Arianna Huffington, the Shadow Conventions were counter-cultural events that gave a spotlight to critics of the electoral mainstream, most from the far left. In an effort to lure news crews away from the national party conventions, Huffington held her “Shadow Conventions” at the same time and in the same cities as the Republican and Democratic conventions in Philadelphia and Los Angeles respectively.
Not all the speakers were hucksters in the Jackson mold, however. Senator John McCain whose campaign finance crusade had put him at odds with both parties was one of the few mainstream politicians to accept Huffington’s invitation to speak. He made an impassioned plea for campaign finance reform, a crusade which – perhaps not coincidentally – George Soros had been a major force in pushing since 1995.
McCain has been the chairman of the International Republican Institute since 1992, IIRC.
McCain is a long time member of the Senate Centrist Coalition, which is also linked to the Third Way.
The name of the Senate Centrist Coalition is "Third Way," subtitled, "A Senate-Focused Progressive Advocacy Group."
"The Centrist Coalition is a group of moderate Democrats and Republicans seeking common ground and compromise on issues. ... The Centrist Coalition helps to bridge the two parties ... It brings together progressive national policy initiatives while promoting growth for businesses and increasing personal responsibility for Americans.
The group does not have an official membership, but a core group of about 15 senators usually attends,... In past years, the coalition has come up with alternative budget programs...
... the members who frequently attend the coalition's meetings 'have the potential to have a great deal of influence' in the current Senate
All they need is a swing group of about six or seven, and then they can be very influential...(Gee, sound familiar...Gang of 14?)
The group also exerted influence in helping to push for enactment of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill.
Third Way thinking is reshaping progressive politics throughout the world.
...the revival of center-left parties which either control or are part of the governing coalition forming throughout the European Union. From Latin America to Australia and New Zealand, Third Way ideas also are taking hold.
McCain is listed under "Affirmations of Insiders" on the Bush Regime website, along with other paragons of conservatism as Helen Thomas, Max Cleland and another disgruntled former republican, Christine Todd Whitman.
Take a moment and get some insight as to what President Bush has had to deal with and know that MeInsane has been the dagger sticking out of President Bush's back!
Senate moderates seek stronger voice, January 25, 2001! Seizing a rare moment in Senate history, senators from both parties who consider themselves centrists are uniting to help Congress and the White House find common ground on education, taxes and other fundamental issues.
About one-third of the Senate, which is evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, showed up Wednesday for a brief organizational meeting of the Senate Centrist Coalition. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, acknowledging their potential influence, appeared before the group to give their blessing to the endeavor.
The Senate has 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats, which prompted Lott and Daschle to forge a unique [unique or unconstitutional?] power-sharing relationship.
Among the Republicans aligned with the coalition are Education Committee Chairman Jim Jeffords of Vermont, Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain of Arizona, Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Fred Thompson of Tennessee, Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner of Virginia and Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico.
Daschle acknowledged that it's now popular to be considered a centrist in this age of political parity, joking, "There was a meeting called of the fringe element and no one showed up."
The consistant LIE that President Bush had control of ALL houses in the government grew old a very long time ago. The SINate was a "republican" majority for ONLY 2 years, 2005-2006. When a THIRD of your own party actively works against you what options does one have?
To continue with your BDS rants while promoting the POS MeInsane is disgusting and hypocritical!