Man, where to start with this one? First, I think there are a lot of people out there who only know two things about John McCain: 1) he was a POW in Vietnam; and 2) he's supposed to be a maverick. The first is indisputable; the second I highly doubt.
First of all, as we know, he has pretty much toed the party line. His record says that he has voted with Bush 95% of the time. Yeah, that's really being a maverick, there! Second, let's review what happened in South Carolina in 2000 during the Republican primary, why don't we?
Just before the primary in S.C. there were phone calls made to registered Republicans asking whether the voters in the household knew that McCain "had a black child." The inference was clear - that McCain had had a child out of wedlock with a black woman. The truth was that the black child that McCain indeed did have was a Bangladeshi child that he and Cindy had adopted from an orphanage. A very magnanimous thing to do, wouldn't you say?
George Bush won the South Carolina primary, in part because of those phone calls and other equally dirty, underhanded tactics used by his campaign.
My question is -- why didn't McCain call a news conference the next day? Why didn't he ream the Bush campaign for using these tactics? He could have given a rousing speech about how wonderful it was to have his daughter in his life, how he and Cindy just fell in love with her at the orphanage, yadda yadda yadda... and had the country in the palm of his hand. In other words, he could have stood up for Cindy and his daughter, even if it meant he lost the support of the RNC. THAT would have been the moral thing to do. THAT would have been the RIGHT thing to do. But instead he shut up and let Bush take the nomination. Why? Did he think Bush wasn't going to win the election anyway? Or did he just not want to rock the boat because it would tick off TPTB? Was his political career was more important to him than standing up for his family?
To this day I haven't seen this child with the McCains, except for one very brief shot of her with her mother getting on the campaign plane weeks ago. They refuse to allow her to be interviewed. Why is that? She's around 16 now, I believe, definitely not a small child... could it just be that they don't want certain voters in the Republican base to know she exists? Facing a mixed race opponent, one would think that McCain would find it advantageous to him to mention her now and again... I just point these things out, readers, make up your own mind.
What are my other issues with McCain? Well, I disagree with him on several political issues and I could go on for pages about that... but in particular I want to point out his attitude toward women. Let's take his treatment of his current wife, Cindy, in public, for instance. In front of dozens of people he called her a trollop and another word that even I won't use (and I can cuss like a sailor when the situation calls for it). Look up the circumstances around his divorce from his first wife, something he called his biggest moral failure at the Faith Forum with Rick Warren -- a statement I noted Warren did not follow up on. I think you will find that someone most people think of as a beloved political figure is really just as much of a political animal as anyone could be. Oh, and while you're at it, look up the Keating Five scandal, in case you're too young to remember it. It almost cost him his entire political career. The MSM has not been mentioning these things, yet they've reported ad nauseum on every aspect of Barack Obama's past. So much for the "liberal" media, eh?
I also find it disconcerting, to say the least, that some women who are evidently angry at Hillary not getting the Democratic nomination (that's why it's called a democracy, ladies, look it up) are backing McCain for that reason. Not only is that short-sighted, it's downright ridiculous. But some of these ladies have neglected to even do the most basic homework about his stances. Case in point: one of the members of a group called Latinas for McCain is a former Clinton supporter who did an interview on NPR. In that interview she said she thought McCain was not strictly pro-life. If you're not going to bother to even look up his basic views, then do everybody a favor and stay home on Election Day!
I don't think McCain has the temperment to be president, and frankly I think he's mostly on an ego trip. His treatment of women has at times been deplorable. Ladies, you have to give thought to this before you decide you're going to vote for him, no matter how disappointed you are that Hillary did not win the Democratic nomination. Your disappointment is nothing compared to the mistakes the entire country will suffer should this man be elected.
