To the general populace of the United States he is obscure, extremely so. You don't get to arbitrarily limit the demographic selection to fit your premise.
No, it is you who are off on a tangent, trying to keep up some sort of rant about McCain being a Maoist.
Now of course you and everyone else on this thread knows I have not said McCain is a Maoist, so why are you gibbering about it? It is merely an interesting point of discussion. For the record, I personally don't believe McCain is a Maoist, he's a McCainist - his own ego is so all-consuming there's no room in there for Mao (nor the Founding Fathers, unfortunately). It's all, and always, about John McCain. Read post #126 for an objective listing of some of the possibilities from whence his comment may have originated.
I don't like many positions McCain has taken myself, but they are for the most part withing the left and right lanes of mainstream American politics. They may not all be compatible with sound conservative principles. But they are not subversive to the future of the State.
If you don't understand that McCain/Feingold campaign finance reform, a direct assault on the First Amendment, was subversive to the future of the State (at least the constitutional Republic - it was a boon to the future of the nascent fascist State) then you and I don't really have much basis for rational discussion.
No, you just attacked me when I pointed out that the so-called Maoist phrase that McCain was accused of using was not the least bit Maoist, having been in such currency in the US in official reports of high level commissions.
When you attack me for simply pointing out that McCain is not a Maoist, you leave the distinct impression that you side with that particular position.
you don't understand that McCain/Feingold campaign finance reform, a direct assault on the First Amendment, was subversive to the future of the State (at least the constitutional Republic - it was a boon to the future of the nascent fascist State)
Wow! All that. Campaign finance reform a boon to fascism? Who knew? Thanks for the warning. Now I won't be able to sleep at night. [This is sarcasm in case you cannot tell. Now I know you are a fevered idiot.]