Dirty Maverick

John McCain has apparently concluded that the only way he can win is to plumb the depth of the gutter.

No surprise there, he is no maverick. He is just another evil, nasty Republican who doesn't give a fuck if he tears this nation apart, so long as he wins.

He truly is George Bush III, for his policies are nothing more than a continuation of the tired worn-out policies of George W. Bush: Tax cuts for the rich, massive Federal spending to drive the deficit up to maybe $20 trillion dollars. (Don't laugh at that number, after all, it took 208 years to get the Federal deficit to over five trillion and Chimpy doubled that in only eight years.)

McCain is the guy who had his fingers deep into the collapse of the savings and loan industry in the 1980s.

McCain is the guy who has staffed the senior ranks of his campaign with a wide range of lobbyists for foreign nations and failed corporations.

McCain has been an ardent foe of Federal regulation and has backed virtually every effort to deregulate everything, including the banking and finance industries. The fact that we had to bail out Wall Street is in no small measure due to McCain's zeal to let the thieves run wild.

McCain got everywhere he has been on two things: Being the son and grandson of admirals and then being shot down over Vietnam. By virtually every report I have read, in his personal life, he has been a complete scoundrel. His actions in his life have been such that he has to say "did you know I was a POW" every fifteen milliseconds in order to distract attention from his misdeeds.

Far from being a maverick, McCain has turned himself into a right-wing pandering machine. You need only look at the actions of a man who has embraced George W. Bush, after the Bush campaign slandered McCain and his family in 2000, to see that. (A true maverick would have kicked Chimpy in the nuts during the `00 convention.) A true maverick would have picked a competent running mate, not someone who was an obvious sop to the American Taliban.

McCain has transformed himself from a maverick into a thug. And like any thug, he will do whatever he thinks he has to in order to get the shiny toy he wants. If you want proof, go ask Carol McCain.