I read online that John McCain was officially running for prez. No surprise there. The biggest surprise is how the Straight Talk Express is now the Ass Kissing Choo-Choo. Here's one example:
In 2000 McCain said, "Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right." Last year, he got a much better sense of who is going to butter his bread in the primaries by giving a commencement address at Falwell's Liberty University.
I'm not naive. Politicians have to get in bed with the people who are going to give them money (and, presumably, vote for them). Also, a candidate has to be a bit to the right of the mainstream to win in the Republican primaries. But, sheesh. McCain's got the balls to stand-up to Bush on torture (the irony of the chicken hawk telling the guy who spent time as a POW what torture is or isn't), but not the clowns on the extreme religious right?
Let's face it--the Christian Right doesn't feel that they have a good candidate now. They should be bending over backwards to find ways to agree with McCain, not vice versa. Guiliani's stand on social issues trumps his 9/11 and pro-war stances in their eyes and I honestly don't think a lot of these southern Christians trust Romney, who's a Mormon, regardless of what they tell pollsters. If the Christian Right sits out the primaries, Guiliani wins in a walk. If they support McCain (or Romney) it'll be a dogfight. If McCain wins, does he then choose to use his political capital to speak truth to powerful interests? Or, does he take the tracks up their asses in search of more votes later?
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