Frankly I don't see any difference between McCain and Bush. If Bush was running against Hillary or Obama, would you sit it out or crawl on your knees over a mile of broken glass to keep those commies out of the white house?You are absolutely right. McCain is an extension of the Bush presidency, with all its flaws and strengths.
There is one other point worth mentioning: John McCain is a soldier, a real soldier, not a phony soldier like JFnK, but a man who has truly served his country in time of war.
It's about gdmn time the War Party had a Soldier as its leader. Not that I think there's been anything wrong with Bush's leadership as CiC. But I'm sick of the "chickenhawk" criticism from the Treason Party and the one thing about McCain is he puts that criticism to rest.
And I’m using the word “soldier” in its general sense. I know what branch of the service he was in. Here in FR, you generally can’t use the general term “soldier” without getting jumped on. But it’s the general term I want to use to make my point. So I don’t care what the pedants say.
It’s time we shed the War Party theme and label. A winning constituency cannot be built on the foundations of a war whose aims are so nebulous that its supporters cannot even name the enemy.
>>>There is one other point worth mentioning: John McCain is a soldier, a real soldier, not a phony soldier like JFnK, but a man who has truly served his country in time of war.<<<
So did Benedict Arnold. McCain wants to virtually cripple our intelligence gathering capability by eliminating water-boarding (which McCain falsely declared to be torture) and by shutting down Guitmo. McCain also betrayed us when he colluded with Russ Feingold to push through the most serious violation of the 1st Amendment since the Alien and Sedition Act of the 2nd (the John Adams) administration.