The sad man, who talks so much about principle, then sells out to those that brought him down in 2000. The sad spectacle we've been watching this last week tells us plenty about John McCain. He was willing to make a deal with the devils who tore him down.
Andrew Sullivan made a statement on his blog, that in my opinion is spot on:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.co...
I've come to the sad conclusion that McCain's brand was just that. His real core is about power and ambition, divorced, when necessary, from principle or patriotism. You learn who people really are when they are asked to do the right thing when it might hurt them, not when it helps them anyway. We just learned something that has always been true about McCain. It isn't pretty.
All you have to do is go back to 1989.
If John McCain was such a man of principle, he would have never been involved with the Keating Five. Folks, he had no principles from the beginning. His lack of principles have been the cornerstone of his campaign for the presidency. Now he wants to share those principles with America. He wants to make America great again, by character assassination.
McCain's sole ambition is to become President and judging by the Ayers attacks, at all costs.
His very poor character, his poorly run campaign and his complete disdain of Barack Obama ignited his need to go negative. This appealed to the real John McCain. He sanctioned it. He gave it the go ahead.
McCain was simply using a political strategy in '00. He thought it would work perfectly with his faux talk express image. If he needed to attack back then, as he's doing now, he would have.
The sad truth is, John McCain never stood for anything. He did stand with Charles Keating.
He now stands with the minions who brought us George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, etc. They are the very people who tore him down in 2000.
Now this so called man of principle has no issues rolling in the mud with these characters.
The company McCain keeps tells you all you want to know about the man. It's the sad truth.