In the wake of Rudy's collapse it's looking increasingly likely that
John McCain will be the Republican nominee this fall.

Hey, if the GOP wants to nominate a decrepit old white guy with an
anger management problemhttp://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/8/113442.shtmlwho
thinks we should stay in Iraq for a million yearshttp://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/04/mccain-100-years/and is so hated
by the conservative basehttp://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/beck-juan-mccain/that he almost
quit the Republican Party in 2001,http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/democrats-say-mccain-nearly-aband...
fine by me.

After all, this is a guy who just a few years ago said that, "I will
hate the gooks as long I live."http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/hongop.shtml

Just a few years before that, he bashed then-teenager Chelsea Clinton
for being "so ugly."http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html

He's a guy who dumped the wife who stood by him while he spent five
years in a Vietnamese POW camp, for a woman 17 years his junior.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain

A guy who changed his religion for political convenience.http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=3610781

A guy who told the world last year it was safe to walk around Baghdad.http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/28/roberts-cnn-mccain-iraq/

A guy who joked about bombing Iran.http://rawstory.com/news/2007/McCain_unplugged_Bomb_bomb_bomb_bomb_04...

A guy who recently admitted that he doesn't know anything about the
economy.http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/18/mccain-economy/

A guy who has flip-flopped on everything from abortion to tax cuts to
torture.http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/9776.html

A guy who is so confused, he thinks Vladimir Putin is the president of
Germany.http://www.oliverwillis.com/archives/2008/01/23/mccains-age-whos-the-...

And when conservative luminaries such as Joseph Farah, founder of
World Net Daily, write stuff like this about your war service...http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39892

When the Navy pilot was shot down over a lake near Hanoi, his captors
did not know who he was - John McCain, son of the admiral in charge of
the Pacific fleet.

McCain was seriously injured in his ejection and in need of medical
attention.

In exchange for what passes as first-class care in Vietnam, McCain
talked.

He told the North Vietnamese about his father.

He told them about the chain of command.

He described himself as one of the "very best pilots" in the Navy.

Such behavior by a POW is strictly frowned upon in the Uniform Code of
Military Justice and the military code of conduct.

"OK," you say, "McCain should be given a pass for this because he was
badly hurt. Wasn't his behavior at the Hanoi Hilton honorable after he
recovered from his wounds?"

No, not exactly.

While serving as a POW, McCain was one of the captives who agreed to
be used for propaganda purposes by the enemy.

In fact, some argue that an interview he gave to a communist
publication - detailing an accident aboard his ship, problems with low
morale among U.S. servicemen, the chain of command in the U.S. Navy
and other pertinent information - went far beyond mere propaganda and
crossed the line into disclosing military intelligence secrets.

On June 5, 1969, the Washington Post carried a story titled, "Reds Say
PW Songbird is Pilot Son of Admiral."

The article states that, "Hanoi has aired a broadcast in which the
pilot son of United States Commander in the Pacific, Adm. John McCain,
purportedly admits to having bombed civilian targets in North Vietnam
and praises medical treatment he has received since being taken
prisoner."

...you know you've got problems.

So let's all look forward to a John McCain candidacy this year.

His dull presence, skeleton-filled closet, and campaign platform of
"less jobs, more wars" is sure to set the nation ablaze.http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/29/more-wars/

By EarlG
Democratic Undergroundhttp://www.democraticunderground.com/
I have to add that if he becomes president it will be without my vote!!