printStumpy arms moving rapidly and rigidly up and down, McCain can be heard these day shouting the following mantra in that deranged monotone: “Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight! America is worth fighting for…fight, fight fight…”
What is he fulminating about? Senile git.
I understand those who say they will vote for McCain because he’s somehow more palatable than the radical Obama. But those who’ve begun to see in McCain a man who knows something about the Constitution and the limits of government are worse than Panglossian.
McCain has been among the worse offenders against liberty and the Constitution.
In a sense, McCain is more dishonest than Obama, who has a Constitutional philosophy he does not hide. Obama believes in sundering the Founders’ Constitution by means of the living-constitution doctrine.
McCain, whose idols are Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, doesn’t believe in the Constitution at all, although he claims to be an original intent or strict constructionist.
I recommend Matt Walsh’s piece “Be Afraid of President McCain,” as it addresses McCain’s philosophy of government. Barry Goldwater’s dislike for McCain is especially telling:
McCain is at his most unintentionally revealing when writing about his Republican predecessor in the Senate, Barry Goldwater. “I really don’t think he liked me much,” he wrote in Worth the Fighting For. “I don’t know why that was.…He was usually cordial, just never as affectionate as I would have liked.”
That it never occurred to McCain why a libertarian Westerner might keep a “national greatness” conservative and D.C.-bred carpetbagger at arm’s length is both touching and deeply worrisome. Does he not understand that there are at least some people in American life who take liberty as seriously as McCain takes his notions of national duty? Judging by a comment he made recently on the Don Imus radio show, the answer seems to be no. Defending campaign finance reform, McCain said, “I would rather have a clean government than one…where ‘First Amendment rights’ are being respected that has become corrupt. If I had my choice I’d rather have a clean government.
Update (November 4): McCain AGAIN today: “fight for America, fight for this country, America is worth fighting for… I choose to fight; fight, fight, fight, fight.”
Definitely “borderline senile.”
McCain is lying, as usual. He doesn’t want clean government, and his involvement in the Keating Five scandal should be all the evidence one needs of this man’s profound dishonesty.
I agree with your assessment on his constitutional outlook. The man has an open contempt for the law of the land. After all, what part of “Congress shall make no law…” didn’t he understand when authoring the odious Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002?
For those who rely on checks and balances to rein in government abuse, the executive signed his bill and the Supreme Court has upheld much of its language. So much for checks.
If the people of Arizona had any sense at all, they would have rejected this sleaze long ago and forced him to get a real job. Better yet, he should be in jail. That the cretin has a shot at becoming president should scare people.