For me, this photo captures just how much of a grasping, belly-crawling sellout McCain truly is.

WilliamPitt

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Wed Aug-20-08 02:05 AM
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For me, this photo captures just how much of a grasping, belly-crawling sellout McCain truly is.

Once upon a time, from the 2000 primaries to just before the end of 2003, McCain made no secret of his disdain for the hard-right Fetus-Firsters who dominated the GOP base, and he despised Bush to such a degree that he cobbled together a half-assed campaign finance reform and got it passed, just so he could watch Bush hold the signing pen and squirm.

Bush had to sign it, the politics of the day demanded it, but the GOP base hated that bill and screamed bloody murder when Bush didn't veto it. McCain just sat back and enjoyed the view, with a smile on his face that looked like the grill on a Mack truck.

He hated these people, mostly for what went down in South Carolina. Recall that McCain absolutely annihilated Bush in New Hampshire, just destroyed him, and a lot of the big-time GOP people who'd gotten on board with George were suddenly left wondering if they'd backed the wrong horse. The alarm klaxons began to hoot, and all attention fell upon South Carolina.

When the dust had settled, the general consensus was that the campaign run against McCain by Bush was a mortal lock to win first-ballot election into The Dirtiest Gutterball Elections Hall of Fame. They called Cindy McCain a whore and a drug addict (before anyone knew the addict part was actually true, so that makes them bad people, got it?).

They spread rumors that McCain was fathering Black children all over the countryside, and they dug up that demented psycho Vietnam veteran so he could accuse McCain of being crazy from torture, and worse, of having collaborated with the Viet Cong while a POW in return for easier treatment.

It worked. McCain got wiped out and never recovered. He spent the next two years seething at Bush and his dizzy legions of useful-idiot evangelical voters. He had plenty of reason to despise them, and like I said, he made no secret of it.

But then, late in 2003, McCain felt what Lincoln called "the gnawing of that presidential grub," and realized he wanted to go for the brass ring in 2008.

So he cozied up to Bush.

And he cozied up to the base.

And in the last year, he has absolutely repudiated any and all formerly-held positions if they were offensive to the base. He dumped his environmental concerns, his immigration reform plan, tried to pretend he actually hadn't sponsored that campaign finance bill, nor had he actually voted against making Bush's tax cuts permanent, etc. Nope, never happened, go away, I was a POW, bla bla bla...

In short, he cozied up to the people who called his wife a whore and an addict, who called him a traitor, right there in front of everyone in the world and loud enough to cost him the election. He cozied up with those people. Those people.

A person who willingly perddles their ass to their own mortal enemies is a person who will peddle anything, no matter how valuable or sacred or necessary to the nation that thing may be, if it helps get him what he wants.

He's a sad, sick, sorry excuse for a human being, as you'll see in this photo. Here, McCain has just taken the stage at that Saddleback thing this weekend. He's about to do his big pitch to that segment of the GOP base he has to capture if he wants to win...but all that venomous history makes me look twice at that smile splattered across his face.

That is the top-dog-bull-moose-gold-medal-world-heavyweight-champion of shit-eating, egg-sucking bullshit grins. There hasn't been this much fake in one place since Pamela Anderson got her implants removed.

That is the living definition of "Fraud."

That:

...is John McCain.