Digby - St John the annointed.

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St John The Anointed

by digby

I just love watching St. John McCain sticking it to the Democrats with everything he's got after they spent the month of September anointing him as the premiere national leader on security and military affairs. This looks pretty stupid now, doesn't it?

"When conservative military men like John McCain, John Warner, Lindsey Graham and Colin Powell stand up to the president, it shows how wrong and isolated the White House is," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. "These military men are telling the president that in the war on terror you need to be both strong and smart, and it is about time he heeded their admonitions."

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said, "Instead of picking fights with Colin Powell, John McCain and other military experts, President Bush should change course, do what the American people expect, and finally give them the real security they deserve."



What were they thinking? Now you have McCain out there talking total nonsense about North Korea and since he's been portrayed not only as an expert, but as a highly moral and decent man whom everyone including the president should trust, the media and everyone else are raptly listening to his crazy utterances like a bunch of fangirls.

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So, how long will it take before the democratic leaders understand what most of us have understood, that McCain is a whore who will stop at nothing to backstab them if it can help him, and is probably a worse hawk than Bush himself.

[rkc3]

1. 1999 - during the primaries.

John McCain didn't stand up for his family when bush operatives were calling in the South reminding voters that he had a black child - what makes you think he'll stand up for America.

That's been thrown around here many, many times. It's a negative political ad that would cost McCain many, many votes.

[Solly Mack]

2. It really should have been patently obvious during Selection 2000

and McCain's embrace of Bush after all the hate filled attacks on McCain and his family by the Bush campaign and it's supporters.

McCain's words and actions can't be used like a stick to beat Bush with because McCain always - always - embraces the abusers. McCain's stick comes with a carrot attached...but it's not for him.
He's not the one following it - he's in control of it.

So when a person follows the carrot and proclaims, "Yes. McCain understands!", they have just done what McCain wants them to do...so when McCain embraces his abusers once again..how can you then say "McCain was right before he was wrong"?

Doublebind extraordinaire.

I don't wonder how McCain survived his long ago captivity - I wonder what he learned from his captors.