Spinning around the stage at this week's "town hall" debate he looked less like the wise, trial-tested, experience-laden choice for president and more like a Tasmanian devil on speed. But that is just an act to cover up the fact that, in the end, he has no new ideas, no new solutions for any of the crises facing America both at home and abroad, and sadly, not a clue how he has forever damaged whatever honorable reputation he once had.
In the final days of his rapidly sinking campaign, McCain and his Rovian strategists have decided to go for broke. They have abandoned any pretense whatsoever of attempting to win over voters by discussing things like the economy, health care, wars, terrorism, etc. in favor of the search and destroy attacks on Obama's character and honesty. Ironic isn't it? The very ones who smeared him, his wife, and his daughter back in the 2000 Republican primary are now his last hope. And it also has served to reveal something about McCain himself.
Yesterday, I wrote a post in which I called John McCain "gutless". I must apologize for that. I mis-spoke. What I meant to call him was ball-less. Not only has McCain chosen to spend the last dark days of his doomed campaign wallowing in filth, he has decided to hide behind not only Sarah Palin, aka the "pit bull in lipstick" but as of yesterday, his wife, the Budweiser bulldog. And the shrill, red-meat flinging, racist rants that Palin and various other minions have only served to inflame and also expose the most hateful and dangerous elements of the crazed Republican right-wing.
In addition, he has his junior league stand-ins further incite the drooling masses of true believers by using Obama's middle name Hussein in order to reinforce the batshit crazy rumors about Obama being a secret Muslim and a terrorist fifth-columnist just waiting to take over the government of the United States. And here too, McCain is to be found lurking in the background. And while the Hussein ploy continues to be used, his campaign rises up on its tiny little feet and tut-tuts and tsk-tsks and denounces it as having no place in legitimate political discourse. McCain wouldn't know what legitimate political discourse was if it bit him in his saggy old man's ass.
And if he hasn't got the stomach or the balls to face Barack Obama directly, a man he thinks so little of that he calls him "that one", with the charges his campaign surrogates are making, than what are we to expect of such a "leader" in a confrontation with one of America's real threats?
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