Bizarre indeed, but vintage McCain. He got our message about “comprehensive immigration reform” too. He plainly didn't agree with the message or plan to absorb and act on it in any way, but he got it. McCain is just throwing us a bone. It's insulting.
You can't win an election if your front man can't make your arguments because he doesn't believe them. The financial crisis has turned next month's vote into a referendum on capitalism. McCain is an authoritarian statist who doesn't care a bit about freedom, economic or otherwise. Occasionally he'll go on a riff about how his POW experience makes him prize liberty. Unfortunately he's talking about the absence of incarceration. He has never grasped what liberty means beyond that.
McCain won't argue for capitalism because he doesn't believe in it. He won't attack Obama as a socialist revolutionary because, fundamentally, he's got no problem with socialism.
The man would be a disaster if he came on the heals of a Reagan. Following W, who never had the ability or inclination to defend himself against his political enemies, McCain may mark the moment when the decline of Western Civilization became irreversible.
It is hard to understand how Republicans could have screwed up this badly during the primary season, but they did.
“The financial crisis has turned next month’s vote into a referendum on capitalism.”
Yours is perhaps the most insightful comment I’ve seen on this election from ANYone.
But... as good as it is.... I pray that you are wrong.
- John
For the real insider party hacks, it’s a matter of whose turn it is. It was McCain’s turn to run for President. His total unseriousness was revealed when he said: “You don’t need to be afraid of having him in the White House.” Translation: “I’m a fighter! I’ll fight for you to my last breath and last drop of blood!!! Or—vote for Obama—it doesn’t make much difference.”