The Real John McCain?....

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Friday September 05, 2008 · 6:00 AM PDT

2008/09/05 · 06:00

From today's NY Times editorial:
The Real John McCain

On Thursday, Mr. McCain said he would reach out to "any willing patriot, make this government start working for you again." Mr. Bush, too, promised the same bipartisanship in his campaigns, and then governed in the most divisive, partisan way.

Americans have a right to ask which John McCain would be president. We hope Mr. McCain starts to answer that by halting the attacks on Mr. Obama’s patriotism and beginning a serious, civil debate.

The Real John McCain? The real John McCain is the same John McCain he has always been. An opportunist. A war-mongerer. A bitter ex-POW. An angry man who feels America deserted him. A man who believes this country owes...big time. A man who has created the sham persona of the maverick (cf. previous post on definition of a maverick). A man who will turn his position on a dime if it thinks it benefits him personally. A man filled with so much rage that his fellow senators avoid confronting him. A man bereft of core values and principles. A natural-born actor who can con the media with the best of them. A man who acts first and thinks later. A man who waves his bloodied banner of POW as part of the greater con he is perpetrating on the American public.

A man who would ultimately betray the country he claims to love and honor by putting the very safety and security of the nation into the hands of a 44 year-old political nobody. A man whose callousness is unlimited. A man so cynical that he believes that no matter what he says or does the voters are too stupid to figure out they're being played. A man who can raise the rallying cry "Country First" and say it with a straight face.

The real John McCain? There is no real John McCain. Just a one-dimensional figment of the media's imagination. The real John McCain is the one described best by one of his fellow Republican senators:

"The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine," Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), also a senior member of the Appropriations panel, told the Boston Globe recently. "He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."

America, you've been warned.

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