Yesterday I wrote this diary where I acknowledged the good things John had done while urging him to run a clean honest campaign of ideas. While warning that hell hath no fury like a former admirer scorned.
And he blew it within 24 hours. Senator Obama gave him the perfect chance to have an honest dialog about Senator Webb's GI Bill. If Senator McCain truly believed the bill would be disaster to the armed forces this was the perfect time to explain why. If there really are holes in the bill, wouldn't his specific and genuine advice be helpful? Perhaps tweaks could still be made if it really was so horrible.
But no. John McCain fired off a thousand word rant where he threw everything at Barack save for the kitchen sink. Predictable far right wing extremism. When confronted with an issue that is a loser for you, bark louder.
Well, up yours John McCain. Up yours today, tomorrow, and damn sure in November.
(more ranting on the jump...)
What a shameful display of character Mr. McCain. You were tortured by the Vietcong, yet you will deny our veterans favorable benefits because they might take them? Disgusting.
This isn't even something you can blame away as a temporary position to secure your base. You won. It's now general election time and you need to be worrying about mainstream America a lot more than your base. Half of your parties Senators recognized this as a jump ship worthy vote. Several enough to actually co-sponsor. Not you though. You chose the safe warm arms of George W Bush and his radical policies. You made it clear, George W Bush tells you what to believe.
How could you? The bill was too generous? Don't you think that radically improving the benefit of military service would improve recruiting? You can live with everyone only serving once if you have many more people signing up. How can I explain this so that your elderly fading mind might comprehend. It's like if there were a great sale on prunes. Sure, getting that many at once some might go bad before you get to destroy them. But you're getting so many so fairly that you can afford to let them go...
Sorry John, but you've obviously lost it. Soldiers who want to go to college so they can do something other than being shot at for a living are a bad thing?. Radical pastors whose support you courted now randomly rejected after similarly bad as before quotes surface? Just whose support are you trying to court here? I applaud your attempts to piss off every single part of your traditional base but I can't get the logic.
You will lose in November Mr. McCain. You won't carry my state, Indiana. You won't carry half the states you think you will. Can we route John "Bomb Bomb Everybody" McCain to historical proportions? YES WE CAN.
See you out in the shit Commando John. Sad to wax a decrepit shell of himself man. But just like your buddy George would probably say, all for the greater good!