I had an idea once. It was awful.
To understand the Republican position on Cuba all you need to know is that whatever Obama does is wrong. That's all. Sen. John McCain,
please demonstrate.
Yesterday, for example, McCain issued a joint press statement with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), offering a rather predictable condemnation.
“We agree with President Obama that he is writing new chapters in American foreign policy. Unfortunately, today’s chapter, like the others before it, is one of America and the values we stand for in retreat and decline. It is about the appeasement of autocratic dictators, thugs, and adversaries, diminishing America’s influence in the world. Is it any wonder that under President Obama’s watch our enemies are emboldened and our friends demoralized?”
But:
In May 2008, the Arizona Republican was his party’s presidential nominee, and he traveled to Miami to endorse the same U.S. policy towards Cuba that’s been in place since 1960. The Wall Street Journal ran this report at the time, noting the degree to which McCain had “evolved” on the issue.
Sen. McCain’s stance on Cuba appears to have evolved since the 2000 presidential primaries, when he faced Mr. Bush, then the Texas governor. At the time, Mr. Bush played to the Cuban-American exile community and Mr. McCain acted the moderate, recalling his role in normalizing relations between the U.S. and Vietnam and saying the U.S. could lay out a similar road map with the regime.
What a noble thought. Shame you flushed it as soon as the elections were over.
It is getting to the point where we may need to offer serious cash money to any Republican that comes up with an actual policy on something—don't care what—that is not either a long-discredited fiscal notion that has been repeated for decades after it was first attempted and failed or, worse, just a rote declaration that whatever the opposition does is wrong, whatever it is, even if the opposition did what you were saying they should damn well do before they did it.
Seriously, this is an embarrassment to our democracy. We can't have a two-party system if one party exists as nothing more than a music box.