Does being a jerk work? John McCain is a liar and flip-flopper and panderer and bully and whiner....

[davidnc76]

When people start running to be president, we learn new things about them. The amount and intensity of exposure – the fact that suddenly we are subjected to their thinking on every conceivable issue and non-issue – makes this inevitable. As a result of this our opinions change. We either like them more or less than at the beginning, but rarely in just the same measure.

I've been surprised at how much less I like John McCain than I did a year ago. Granted, I think the Republican party is an affliction and, as I've made clear for a long time, I want Barack Obama to be the next president. But even given that, the political analyst part of my brain can put all that aside and see other strengths and weaknesses (and we'll circle back to this point).

John McCain is a jerk. Alternately a bully and a whiner, and a bald-faced liar to perhaps a greater degree than even George Bush and Dick Cheney, McCain is running a stupid and mephitic campaign that insults even Americans of average intelligence virtually every day.

He has pandered to the right-wing to a degree that the word "shameless" can't possibly begin to describe. He has flip-flopped repeatedly, on taxes and abortion and many other matters. And he quite obviously changed his position on offshore drilling in order to raise pots of money from oil interests. Period.



Read more:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2008/aug/18/johnmccain.uselections2008

[AlinPA]

1. Answer: Yes, in 'murca being a jerk works.

Bush, Coburn, Cornyn, Ritter, Inhofe, Coleman, Lieberman, Craig, ..........

[Democrats_win]

2. Thanks for this article. I'm disgusted that McShame even lives in America.

Let's deport this mf back to Panama.

[DFW]

3. Does it work? The answer lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW

His lease runs out Jan. 20 of next year, but he never should have been granted one in the first place.

The neighborhood went downhill immediately, and hasn't been the same since.

[judasdisney]

4. It works ONLY if you're on the Ruling Class side. If you're not, the media will kill you