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Sep. 10th, 2008 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taerowynI've been trying to wrap my mind around the past few weeks in politics. I wish I had been right that McCain's desperation play wouldn't distract too much from the reality of it all, but I think I placed too much faith in the public and too little in how much the McCain campaign was going to channel Karl Rove.
I think that's what really upsets me. Disappointment in Bush means nothing...I never liked the guy. Always felt like he was an idiot that would take this country in the completely wrong direction and hey...would you look at that.
But I remember liking McCain. I remember the 2000 primaries and thinking this, this was a Republican I could actually get behind. Thinking, if he won the nomination, no matter what, the country would be in good hands.
What happened?!?!?!
I couldn't get my brain around it so I couldn't get my words around it so...nothing to say here. But now I don't have to cause Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic has said it far better than I ever could:
For me, this surreal moment - like the entire surrealism of the past ten days - is not really about Sarah Palin or Barack Obama or pigs or fish or lipstick. It's about John McCain. The one thing I always thought I knew about him is that he is a decent and honest person. When he knows, as every sane person must, that Obama did not in any conceivable sense mean that Sarah Palin is a pig, what did he do? Did he come out and say so and end this charade? Or did he acquiesce in and thereby enable the mindless Rovianism that is now the core feature of his campaign?
So far, he has let us all down. My guess is he will continue to do so. And that decision, for my part, ends whatever respect I once had for him. On core moral issues, where this man knew what the right thing was, and had to pick between good and evil, he chose evil. When he knew that George W. Bush's war in Iraq was a fiasco and catastrophe, and before Donald Rumsfeld quit, McCain endorsed George W. Bush against his fellow Vietnam vet, John Kerry in 2004. By that decision, McCain lost any credibility that he can ever put country first. He put party first and his own career first ahead of what he knew was best for the country.
And when the Senate and House voted overwhelmingly to condemn and end the torture regime of Bush and Cheney in 2006, McCain again had a clear choice between good and evil, and chose evil. [Keep reading]
And I hope, how I hope, that the country will see through the BS McCain and Co. have pulled and continue to pull...see that, while once upon a time McCain may have been a candidate worthy of respect, that time has passed, that candidate...that man... is no more.
But then, apparently I'm prone to having more faith in the public than they sometimes deserve.
I think that's what really upsets me. Disappointment in Bush means nothing...I never liked the guy. Always felt like he was an idiot that would take this country in the completely wrong direction and hey...would you look at that.
But I remember liking McCain. I remember the 2000 primaries and thinking this, this was a Republican I could actually get behind. Thinking, if he won the nomination, no matter what, the country would be in good hands.
What happened?!?!?!
I couldn't get my brain around it so I couldn't get my words around it so...nothing to say here. But now I don't have to cause Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic has said it far better than I ever could:
For me, this surreal moment - like the entire surrealism of the past ten days - is not really about Sarah Palin or Barack Obama or pigs or fish or lipstick. It's about John McCain. The one thing I always thought I knew about him is that he is a decent and honest person. When he knows, as every sane person must, that Obama did not in any conceivable sense mean that Sarah Palin is a pig, what did he do? Did he come out and say so and end this charade? Or did he acquiesce in and thereby enable the mindless Rovianism that is now the core feature of his campaign?
So far, he has let us all down. My guess is he will continue to do so. And that decision, for my part, ends whatever respect I once had for him. On core moral issues, where this man knew what the right thing was, and had to pick between good and evil, he chose evil. When he knew that George W. Bush's war in Iraq was a fiasco and catastrophe, and before Donald Rumsfeld quit, McCain endorsed George W. Bush against his fellow Vietnam vet, John Kerry in 2004. By that decision, McCain lost any credibility that he can ever put country first. He put party first and his own career first ahead of what he knew was best for the country.
And when the Senate and House voted overwhelmingly to condemn and end the torture regime of Bush and Cheney in 2006, McCain again had a clear choice between good and evil, and chose evil. [Keep reading]
And I hope, how I hope, that the country will see through the BS McCain and Co. have pulled and continue to pull...see that, while once upon a time McCain may have been a candidate worthy of respect, that time has passed, that candidate...that man... is no more.
But then, apparently I'm prone to having more faith in the public than they sometimes deserve.