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Keep the focus on McCain
Submitted September 5, 2008 - 12:42 pm by Joy From Illinois (not verified)The only mention of McCain's VP pick should only be to cast a bright shining light on how rash, reckless and desperate he is and how very far he has strayed from the center. He is being held captive once again, as a P.O.W. No wonder he is so obsessed with saying it. He is now a Prisoner of W. This pick makes tranparent the fact that he is no longer his own man.
The far right wing radical faction of the GOP has completely hi-jacked his candidacy. If McCain were in charge of his own campaign, Lieberman or Ridge would have been his VP not this Ann Coulter with kids whom McCain doesn't even know. McCain is a complete puppet at this time and his puppet masters are the evangelical right.
McCain is now a tool of the evangelical right. He is the front the evangelical right is using to fool reasonable centrist voters. This is not a time to run a right wing candidate but they have clearly not ceded power to the centrist candidate they have selected to trick the voting public.
As centrist as McCain might have been, he has no power to be who was. He has become a tool and his (?) VP pick has made this fact absolutely transparent. We must destroy their tool. He IS the evangelical right now. This is the real hiding of the ball.
He has licked the boots of Bush, Rove, Limbaugh all of whom attacked him relentlessly in 2000 and destroyed his candidacy. No self respecting man would ever have anything to do with them. This man has lost all self respect. He is a broken man. Bush and the far right have done what the Vietcong could not do. The have broken John McCain.
John McCain is now a desperate and weak man. He couldn't stand up for his own principles. He couldn't stand up to the evil of Bush and Co. He is weak! How is he supposed to stand up to the terrorist of the world when he has bowed down to the likes of Bush and his legion, those most responsible for bringing America to it's current state of near collapse?!?!
Contrast that with Obama who was under all the pressure in the world from inside his own party, from the media every where to put Hillary ( and I do love her) on the ticket. He didn't cave in.
Who do you think is in the shape to defend America against threats within it's borders and outside of them? A shell of a man who couldn't stand up to the criminals in his own party and take control of his own vision and candidacy or a man who faced down threats and pressures from every side and did not fold?