Once-foe McCain makes a friend of Bush dynasty

[lovuian]

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Looks like Poppy Bush has chosen the next successor...

Cut to a week ago at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum here in this Texas college town. McCain and former president George H.W. Bush sat in the elder Bush's office, talking of long-ago wars and baseball stars. Later, McCain gave a lecture sponsored by the library, and George and Barbara Bush hosted him at a dinner salted with top Texas Republicans.

As McCain prepares for a second presidential run, it is no surprise to find the onetime upstart in the heart of the Bush dynasty. McCain and prominent Republicans are embracing each other in ways unimaginable during his brutal 2000 contest with George W. Bush.

McCain has grown closer to the current president and his family. He has voted to extend some Bush tax cuts he once opposed. He has reconciled with the Rev. Jerry Falwell, whom he once called an "agent of intolerance."
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This is so sad a day for McCain...

[neoblues]

1. If you can't beat 'em, lick 'em (or brown nose 'em)

McCain has squandered a real chance to be a potentially great leader; while not owing to his own personal qualities, he managed to catch the imagination of America. People imagined him to be a man of distinction, quality, integrity and leadership. That's all it was, imagination. Though some quirk of body language and expression, perhaps even his reluctance to express his opinion, people gave him the benefit of the doubt. Had he been a man of real vision, integrity and leadership; he could have gone far.

Happily enough (after all, he IS a Republican), he's pretty much blown it and shown himself just to be a mere, petty, greasy little politician. Just another zebra in the herd. It's for the best, since that's all he ever really was. Seems to me he's a bit too tightly packed, sweaty, tense and self-involved (and ambitious without being deserving) anyway.

Indeed, he's flip-flopped on some real issues too. His notion that since unwise, damaging and immorally motivated tax-cuts have reduced taxes that now he can't vote to restore them--since now that would be considered a "tax increase"--and he has a blind, firm, fixed rule that he cannot vote for any tax "increase"... is just a load of steaming pooh (from a man who's so full of pooh it's coming out his pores).

What's he done for the people of this country besides lend his name to half-hearted bills that were primarily for "appearance" anyway.

In any case, I simply could not care less if it's a sad day for McCain. He can go get with his "unlikely" pals (Bush, Falwell...) and they can <blank> themselves!