Look .. despite my own personal wishes, I get it that I have apparently taken on the job of family conservative. So here goes. I was very excited when John McCain some how managed to win the nomination in a field filled with disgusting people like Mitt Romney. I didn’t want a social conservative, I wanted a fiscal conservative who didn’t waste my time with social issues. One who didn’t polarize Washington. To me, John McCain was that man. And I think he was to many other people as well.
Yet here we are, the general election nearly upon us, and he has completely floundered. It’s obvious to anyone who has been paying even a bit of attention who has won this campaign. It’s not surprising given the political climate these days. What does surprise me is how convincingly the Obama team managed to paint McCain as a carbon copy of Bush. And I think it all started with that silly picture over there.
What happened John? Years of being at odds with the party and the administration, years of being regularly attacked by Conservative talking heads, and now you’ve successfully been painted in to Bush’s shoes right when it mattered the most. And up until just recently, you didn’t even fight it. Why not? Did the thirty some odd percent Bush approval rating not mean anything to you? Was your campaign surprised by this totally obvious choice of attack? It wouldn’t have mattered WHO won the Republican nomination, this same route would have been taken. Hell, even Ron Paul would have been subject to it, although good luck with that. Why did you just sit there and let it happen?
And then of course there’s the horrible campaign you yourself ran. You ditched the team that wanted to run a something different for the same group that has catered to Bush the last couple of elections. As if that was going to work again. You seemingly decided to ignore the impact Obama standing in front of a hundred thousand people would have in the media versus your little meetings at retirement homes with a crowd of fifty. You decided to save everyone the trouble and sat around mocking yourself while Obama was jet setting around the world getting face time with foreign dignitaries. You’ve made bad decision after bad decision; calling the economy sound at the beginning of a down turn, suspending your campaign for a reason that still doesn’t make any sense, letting your crowds virtually turn rabid with hate for their opposition, choosing a running mate in the middle of a freakin abuse of power investigation. And that’s just recently, the list goes on and on.
In short, you’re losing John, and you deserve to be. This was your last chance at this office, and you’ve blown it. So for the next four years, while we have a completely Democratically controlled federal government passing every new program and benefit they can think of, give that subject some thought. Because the rest of us sure will be.
