McCain is being remarkably candid about his progressivism with this comment.
Most people don’t realize the differences between left wing and right wing progressivism, and perhaps more than any other it’s the use of force internationally, and by whom.
McCain himself has stated lovingly, multiple times in different settings, that Teddy Roosevelt(another progressive) is his personal hero.
Teddy Roosevelt initiated what’s called the “Roosevelt Corollary”, which is nothing more than arrogant interventionism.
As opposed to right wing progressives like McCain and Roosevelt, who wish to see intervention be done by the United States; - the left wing progressives want it to be done by the UN, or NATO, or pick your favorite international entity.
That’s the difference. But either way it’s still big government. McCain is not one of us.
[nodding] He’s the Manchurian Candidate. He’s been brainwashed into being a communist plant in our government. It’s not really his fault, and he should be retired, but the vote counters in Arizona keep electing him.
I don’t know if he is a “Manchurian Candidate” or if he is just such an egotistical bastard that he actually believes that he (and others of his caste) have some sort of Divine Right to provide guidance to the unwashed masses (that would be us).
Whatever it is, I am tired — beyond tired — of him and all his aristocratic ilk. There is really not a dime’s bit of difference between McCain and Reid, although they like to pretend there is at election time.