Everybody around here wants to know: Who're you voting for, Barack or Hillary? Everybody around here being a Democrat.
Well, I don't know. If only I were in Chicago and could vote twice. Or, here's another wish: If only I could vote for John McCain again.
That's right, I voted for him in the 2000 primary. I changed my registration to Republican so my vote would count, not for him so much, but against George W. Bush. Even then I knew the Busher was a snake in the brush and, besides, I'd met McCain and like many left-leaning media people, I leaned a little to the right and liked him. "Another media pinko for McCain," as his California campaign manager put it. At the time, in front of San Franciscans, McCain seemed so apologetic about the GOP positions on gays and abortion, almost as if this old Navy fighter jock was embarrassed by the religious nuts who dominated his party.
Anyway, however conservative McCain is - and he is plenty conservative - he would have been better than Bush turned out to be. He wasn't an alcoholic former prep-school cheerleader, a failure at everything, who had to overcompensate for his dad's success by adopting a cracker accent and invading Iraq, failing at that, too.
In the last few years McCain has put the "ick" in "maverick" by throwing his support to Bush's plutocratic (no relation to this blog) tax policies and threatening to keep us in Iraq for 100 years if necessary. Actuarily speaking, that's 90 years more than we can expect McCain to live and 105 years more than is good for the United States. So what's the appeal of this old goat?
Simply, Rush Limbaugh has warned that McCain's nomination would mean the destruction of the Republican Party and Ann Coulter has claimed that she would campaign for Hillary Clinton before she would endorse John McCain. All of this I want to see.
The Republican Party, as currently constituted, and as defined by a radio-enhanced drug addicts and Jimmy Choo-wearing bigots, deserves to be destroyed.
The only problem would be keeping McCain from winning the presidency. That I leave to the history-making Democratic ticket.
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It's weird - I like McCain for his honesty but disapprove of his right-wing stand on almost everything. He's like Reagan for me - hated his viewpoint but respected that "what you see is what you get," unlike so many scripted, coifed, fake politicians who will say anything to get elected.
Where is Pat Paulsen when you really need him?
Whichever Republican is most likely to get a Democrat elected is alright by me.
You can either accept, or decline. But you've been tagged over at "Mad Meat Genius" http://madmeatgenius.blogspot.com/ for a Meme.
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