Exactly!
A lot of people are - and will - discount John McCain's performance this election season by talking about the headwinds he's facing, the uphill battle any Republican running for office would be, etc. But Matt Taibbi gets it spot on here:
But all of those "headwinds," or almost all of them, are the direct result of McCain having supported policies that are now unpopular. There is absolute justice in his facing a "headwind" from the financial meltdown, from the unpopularity of the Iraq war, and so on. How is that a "headwind"? That's just self-created unpopularity.
If McCain was a true maverick, and had been against any substantial Bush policy that matters to voters, he'd have a better chance here. He's fighting uphill because he put himself at the bottom of that hill.
Hell -- even if he'd voted for NONE of the bills in Bush's agenda to devalue America enough for his dad's pals to buy it ("Where there's chaos, there's profit")-- he lost his claim to "maverick" when he voted against HIS OWN bills -- immigration, torture, etc
ReplyDeleteI was hoping -- post debate and looking down the barrel of a landlside -- hoping (based on who he used to be) he'd only RENTED his soul to the devil, but apparently not
It looks as if he's decided that, if people think he's too old, he'll go back in time to when he was young, and finish his campaign with a third act straight out of the 50's script written by the late, unlamented Joe McCarthy.
And as he stands up and prods his morons into chanting "USA! USA!USA!" and points the finger at his opponent, yelling:"Socialist!" "He'll take your money away." "He wants to spread the wealth around with some kind of Robin Hood program," and is so pathetically unaware that most Americans (hey -- my last corporate job went to Bangalore) would LOVE to have the wealth spread around, that he's so far out of touch he doesn't even realize that most Americans LOVE Robin Hood and it was only the evil Prince John (hmmm -- Johns of a feather? --coincidence") who hated him; that most Americans think Robin Hood was Kevin Costner or Errol Flynn, and that he thinks we don't realize that Joe the Plumber was a plant (aside from the fact that his name isn't Joe and he isn't a plumber).
To paraphrase the man who defined Joe McCarthy's game (and now McCain's) "At long last sir -- have you NO sense of shame?"