Wednesday, October 08, 2008

perspective flip/flop

I honor John McCain, not only for his military service and inspiring spirit of utter determination, but also for the fact that, yes, he has been a maverick at times... maybe ten percent as often as he says he's been!

True, he supported George Bush 90% of the time and has surrounded himself with the same crowd of Usual Suspects. But let's give him credit for having at least verbally distanced himself from his own Party.

He joins me and millions of Americans in blaming the 12-year Republican Congress for removing most regulation and supervision of Wall Street, for plunging our children into debt, for refusing to act on climate change, for neglecting our science and infrastructure and for sabotaging energy research for an entire wasted decade. Since his nominating convention, he's reversed official GOP policy on dozens of issues.

Look, whether you believe McCain and Palin are true "rebel-maverick-reformers"... or you see their long list of Bush-era advisors as proof that they aren't... either way, I am glad John McCain has joined Obama in urging that American out there fire the Republican members of Congress who did all that!

Let the GOP clean its own house, before we let them back into power. Let fresh blood and fresh ideas rise up within the Republican Party, so it can come back to us in the spirit of Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower and Barry Goldwater.

I'm glad John and Obama agree on the need for that era of change, in a Party that promised so much and delivered us only pain. Especially Republican Congressfolk who really should have served us better.

HA!

Adapted from a suggestion by David Brin (around 11:41 AM)

2 comments:

Unknown said...

He joins me and millions of Americans in blaming the 12-year Republican Congress for removing most regulation and supervision of Wall Street~ um, no he doesn't Dave. As per his usual, he now changed his mind and its all Obama and the damn congressional liberals fault..per his newest ad.

daveawayfromhome said...

his loss.


I hope.


heh. "hope".