McCain - Which John McCain will we see at Tomorrow's Debate?

[stevenleser]

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October 14, 2008

By Steven Leser


Who is the real John McCain? Does HE even know who he is anymore? In just the last six weeks, we have seen six different John McCains. We saw the John McCain at the Republican convention who claimed he was the guy who was for real change. He then dropped that. We saw the disdainful John McCain at the first debate that refused to look at Obama and was rude.

Then we saw the vicious John McCain who, before the second debate, was attacking Obama 24x7 with personal attacks. At the second debate, he reversed course on the personal attacks and tried to seem congenial but ended up creeping most people out. After the second debate, he started attacking Obama again and then a few days ago tried to reverse course and admonished his own supporters at his campaign stops if they called Obama an Arab or a Muslim.

Even if another campaign hadn't started calling him erratic, the American people would have picked up on this at least three John McCain's ago.

By the way, McCain didn't start having these issues with claiming to be different things with this latest campaign. Throughout his political career McCain has at times been these odd different things. The first time he did anything noteworthy, he was shepherding Charles Keating's savings and loan through congressional regulations.

When he got his name rubbed in the dirt by that mess, McCain decided he would claim to be for cleaning up Washington, so he approached Democrat Russ Feingold to craft campaign finance reform regulations. He didnt do that to be altruistic. He wanted to SEEM that way, but he was just trying to save his political future. Then, you have the runup to the 2000 election. He attacked the religious right and its role in politics and support of George W. Bush. Then, in the 2008 campaign, he picked the darling of the religious right to be his running mate and prostrated himself before Jerry Falwell and Liberty University.

Before the 2000 election, he often voted with Democrats and wore the Maverick label on his sleeve. After 2000, he became Bush's poodle. He voted with Bush 95% of the time and helped wreck our economy and wage an unecessary war in Iraq. He joined Bush with trying to craft an immigration amnesty bill. Then we have the 2008 election campaign and in the nomination process, he professed to Republicans that he was a true Conservative and supported the Conservative cause and went back on immigration amnesty.

After winning the nomination, McCain tried to become the Maverick again and started with the shifting I described in the above first paragraph. Trying to keep up with all of McCain's gyrations is enough to make the hardiest sailor seasick. Now we hear from the McCain campaign that John McCain is unveiling the new John McCain for the final 22 days of the campaign. Who is he going to claim to be now, the Dalai Lama? What is he going to promise now, a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage?

I've got some bad news for Republicans. I don't know if you guys have been paying attention, but nothing you have done in the last few weeks has had any effect on the trajectory of the campaign and that is because with all of your and John McCain's shifting faces, no one believes nor hardly pays attention to anything that you or your candidates say anymore. Even worse for you, the rabid on and off again attacks on Obama have turned off any independant or undecided voter to McCain's candidacy. At the same time, Barack Obama has been steady, calm and focused on the economy, healthcare and the other things about which the American people are concerned.

In this election, with so much at stake, the people don't want to vote for someone who is constantly trying to be someone different and still, 21 days before election day, has no concrete reason for running for President. I'm sure McCain has some sort of surprise or new gimmick to try to foist on the American people for the debate. That is to what John McCain is reduced, his latest new schemes, gimmicks and new personality three weeks before election day to try to fool the American people into voting for him. I don't think it has the remotest chance of working.

[regnaD kciN]

1. Most likely, Incoherent McCain...

...just like usual.

[stevenleser]

3. That would probably be his best hope

of the outcome least damaging to his and other Republicans chances this election. When people understand him, they get turned off or completely creeped out.

[Kahuna]

2. I was a POW how dare John Lewis assault me in such a way..

Senator Obama needs to denouce him here and now blah blah blah..

[stevenleser]

4. I think Obama's campaign already distanced themselves

from those comments. The danger for McNasty if he does that is that Obama has a laundry list of outrages that McCain supporters have said about him.

[K Gardner]

5. I'm just thankful I'm back HOME for this one and can watch with DU !!

[Historic NY]

6. More of the same form McInsane, he can't help himself...I do hope

Barack pushes the little red button to send him over the edge.

[stevenleser]

7. Kicked for the Tuesday afternoon crowd

:kick: 'ed by all six John McCain's...

[cjsmom44]

8. Goofy Psuedo Gotcha moments?

I don't know...I think that Gramps will be all giddy inside...because he thinks that he has "Obama where he wants him...LOL....He will attempt to throw out some goofy zingers that fall like dead weight over the audience...and he will have this big demented grin on his face...like..."oh goodie...I really nailed him" which will just leave more for SNL to draw from and will probably leave the moderator looking like WTF?

[SurfingAtWork]

9. I predict this (quote from the Simpsons)

We can’t bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell ‘em stories that don’t go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. ‘Give me five bees for a quarter,’ you’d say.
Now where were we? Oh yeah - the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

[Alter Ego]

10. He'll be even more aggressive than he was in the first two.

Since he can't pace the room this time like Grandpa Simpson after wolves stole his pills, he'll do about ten seconds on his own position for every question he's asked, then spend the rest grossly distorting Obama's position on the issue.

[burythehatchet]

11. The old, sour, decrepit, lying, ugly, smelly, asshole one.

[southpaw]

12. Hard to say

Will it be 'stinker' or 'slinker'?