New McCain Is An Old Unifier Turned Divider Investor's Business Daily:
By E.J. DIONNE JR. | Posted Thursday, September 04, 2008 4:30 PM PT
Once upon a time, John McCain promised to be a different kind of politician and a different kind of Republican. He was about straight talk, reform and nonpartisanship, a resolute foe of the slashing politics of the slaughterhouse. McCain wants voters to remember that man. But that man has disappeared. His convention, including his running mate Sarah Palin's big speech on Wednesday, dripped of divisive ridicule as speaker after speaker worked to aggravate the country's cultural schisms and replay worn-out lines about weak liberals who are soft on terror. The Republican crowd here gleefully played into the very worst stereotypes of their party as a privileged class resistant to social change. When Rudy Giuliani referred to Barack Obama's past as a "community organizer," the crowd broke into ugly, patronizing laughter. These, presumably, are people who never needed a neighborhood advocate. Imagine if Democrats ever reacted to someone who worked as, say, an entrepreneur or a church leader as these Republicans did to Obama's old line of work. And it's unlikely that even a convention of the American Petroleum Institute would erupt into raucous chants of "Drill, Baby, Drill!" McCain has not changed this party because he has not even tried. To win the presidential nomination, McCain has pandered to a Republican right wing he once disdained on issue after issue, from oil drilling to immigration to tax cuts for the wealthy. Just as important, he has decided that his last chance for the presidency rests on a systematic effort to make the old politics of demonization work one more time. No matter how much McCain talks about his desire to transcend Washington's partisan divides, his campaign and his convention will leave behind a bitterness that will turn his promise of a new day into ashes. His single most cynical act was choosing Palin as his running mate. And "cynical" is precisely the word that his former adviser and friend, the Republican consultant Mike Murphy, used about the pick in an unguarded moment caught by an open microphone. McCain knows perfectly well that the first requirement in a running mate is preparation to succeed to the presidency. The choices he preferred, by all accounts, included Joe Lieberman and Tom Ridge, both of whom could be seen as plausible presidents. But when it became clear that their support for abortion rights rendered both men politically toxic, McCain veered toward the last-minute pick of Palin. She was someone McCain barely knew, and his campaign misled reporters about the extent to which she had been vetted. Palin was a quintessentially political choice. She could help McCain bid for the votes of women and appease social conservatives whose views she shares (and who have never been enthusiastic about McCain). Palin's address here got boffo reviews from many of the very "reporters and commentators" whose good opinion the Alaska governor dismissed as irrelevant. But her speech was as cynical as the decision to put her on the ticket. She joined in the campaign's fake populism by deriding legitimate concerns about her record, her knowledge and her governing style as the carping of the "political establishment" and the "Washington elite." She ran as the tribune of "small town" Americans by way of suggesting that worries about one person's readiness to be president amounted to an assault on all who hail from localities of modest size. She dared to compare herself to Harry Truman. She then proceeded to distort Obama's views on taxes, mock his eloquence and accuse him of wanting "to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world." She also demonstrated how little she respects constitutional rights with this chilling declaration: "Al-Qaida terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America; he's worried that someone won't read them their rights." But these thoughts, of course, were not really Palin's. They were words prepared by the campaign of John McCain, the unifier turned divider. McCain will certainly try to remind us of the man he once was, to draw on his past as the maverick statesman-politician willing to join his Democratic colleagues in grappling with some of the country's most difficult issues. It will be a hard sell because McCain has capitulated to the very Washington he so often condemned and is employing the very tactics that were used so ruthlessly and so unfairly against him when he first ran for president eight years ago. It's possible that the new McCain could claw his way to the White House. It's the old McCain who deserved to be president.
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"I would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade, which would then force women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations." Senator John McCain
Source: Ron Fournier, Associated Press Aug 24, 1999
Exactly, He has become corrupted like the rest in Power for 8 years. He has all of a sudden jumped on the change wagon to try and get the Republican administration in for one more grab at the money. The only change you would get from him is a another bad statistic on things getting worse. If we had 8 more years or even 4 of the same strategy, america would be unsavable.
There have been a lot of these "Investor's" articles surfacing here in the forum as of late. Looks like they are seeing the light on occasion. Perhaps they are "fair and balanced"?
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"I would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade, which would then force women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations." Senator John McCain
Source: Ron Fournier, Associated Press Aug 24, 1999
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"I would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade, which would then force women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations." Senator John McCain
Source: Ron Fournier, Associated Press Aug 24, 1999
Just click on the E.J. Dionne Jr. link at the top of the page, and it will bring you to the list of his latest editorials, showing his dislike of anything republican, and his complete infatuation with the democrats. He talks about the man the McCain used to be. Why is it we don't see any articles about the man Barack Hussien Obama used to be????
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Future DNC Message - From this point, all illegal aliens will be referred to Unregistered Democrats.
How much more of a divider can you be than the most liberal senator in congress? Like Edwards' supporters criticizing someone for adultery, or liberals thinking Palin should be a traditional homemaker.
Must have hit a nerve with you guys knee-jerking on Investors B.
There have been several Investor's B. articles posted lately slamming Obama. Maybe it hurts to see that they're not pure McCain desciples at Investor's B.?
Looks that way.
I posted this to keep it "fair and balanced" here in the forum.
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"I would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade, which would then force women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations." Senator John McCain
Source: Ron Fournier, Associated Press Aug 24, 1999
Investor's Business Daily: McCain the Divider
Exactly, He has become corrupted like the rest in Power for 8 years. He has all of a sudden jumped on the change wagon to try and get the Republican administration in for one more grab at the money. The only change you would get from him is a another bad statistic on things getting worse. If we had 8 more years or even 4 of the same strategy, america would be unsavable. 
