If anyone believed that John McCain was going to run an honorable campaign well, I'm sorry, but you've been duped. To think that any Republican would run a clean campaign where he and his opponent would engage on the issues is like saying Brett Favre doesn't indulge in diva-like behavior. There are many reasons why McCain has undercut his brand/message the obvious being is that he is a typical conservative Republican who knows that the American people has caught up to the idea that Conservatives just don't have any ideas as it pertains to the growing Economic woes in this country. There's no point in having a debate on these issues like health care, social security and higher wages because the Republicans don't have any ideas. And the ideas they do have are soundly rejected by the American public.
The other reason for McCain's recent bare-knuckle strategy is that this year is the absolute last time that McCain will ever campaign for the Presidency. I don't think the American people (and God bless them for after all they've given us 5 years of Nixon, 8 years of Reagan and 8 of Bush) could entertain the idea of electing a politician who will turn 76 on August 29, 2012.
The recent ad that compares Barack Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton is designed to sucker people into believing that the Illinois Senator is nothing more than an empty suit who believes his own press clippings. Yet I've come to this conclusion that it is Senator McCain who is nothing more than an empty suit who believes in his own press clippings. Who believes that he is this darling maverick who'll straighten out the folks in Washington.
Utterly ridiculous.
Mr. McCain is nothing more than a typical Conservative Republican. And a consistent trait of a Republican is that their word means nothing. Senator McCain served this country with honor but when comes to keeping his word, it don't mean a damn thing. But why should that surprise any of us? After all this is the same man who attack Bush's tax cuts and then surprise, surprise he said they were good for the economy. This is the same man who correctly pointed out that Jerry Falwell was an agent of intolerance but then out of the blue embraced him like a long lost friend and when declared on television that Falwell wasn't an agent of intolerance.
Do we see a pattern here?
Yes.
But that's just how a typical Republican works.
The McCain camp knows that the recent foreign trip by Barack Obama was a success. The world is eager to engage with a President who will enact a foreign policy that is more diplomatic rather than by the barrel of the gun. The world is sick of our John Wayne approach to foreign affairs. To our neanderthal cowboy thinking. George W. Bush has made the world a scary place to live in and there is no doubt that John McCain will continue with that same gutter, Cowboy foreign policy that has cost the United States over 4,000 lives in Iraq.
Barack Obama is more popular than John McCain. That's if you count what the world thinks and this is what pisses John McCain off. Like Hillary Rodham Clinton, McCain believes that the Presidency is entitled to him. And that everyone should kiss his ass and take his word that he is the real "change" that America needs. Like Hillary, McCain can't stand the idea of a virtual unknown with a thin resume stealing the spotlight that he believes should be afforded to him. So what does he do. His stooges conceive this ad that Obama, while very popular, isn't ready to be the
commander-in-chief. The ad is just plain childish and proves that McCain is unprepared to be President of the United States. If anything the ad shows that McCain has morphed from War hero to a whiny little child who needs his sippy cup and special blanket. That, plus a permanent time out.