John McCain, Underachiever Extraordinaire

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John McCain, Underachiever Extraordinaire
Submitted by pmcarpenter on Thu, 07/17/2008

THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter


Johnnie, we hardly knew ye before George viciously trampled you underfoot in that rather humiliating pas de deux of 2000.

Since then, with George as your Father Superior, issuing party dicta from ahigh, you've mostly managed to behave yourself as the obedient altar boy. Sure, you had your incorrigible moments early on, such as when you protested his insanely otherworldly, deficit-defying tax cuts, but you returned to the fold soon enough.

There was always 2008, and you needed his sheep. Best to lie low -- or bend over -- and go with the political Zeitgeist. But oh how that strategy has failed you.

You never dreamed the party faithful and other hangers on would become this disaffected with George's reactionary liturgy, or that Hillary wouldn't be here to so easily kick around anymore, or that a gleaming Pied Piper of Change would come along to lure the masses and stomp the bloody hell out of all that preceded him.

No, you, Johnnie, stuck to your adopted ideological guns in the gauzy hope that allegiance to George would firm up a good 40 percent. It would then be a simple matter of target practice on the middle 20.

Well, the best laid plans, as they say.

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