Posted by
Locutisprime on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:59:49 AM
US Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain in New
Based on yesterday's headlines? One would think that pigs are about to begin racking up frequent flyer miles. But somehow I don't think so. I can remember this time four years ago. Back when the media was hyping John Kerry and assuring the nation that a change was coming. The people said so, the polls said so and the media danced wildly and said it would be. But it didn't happen in 2004.
Now comes the candidacy of John McCain. The beltway inside outer if you will. The maverick and the man who has spent a career being on the outside looking in. Someone more comfortable with the term RINO than any supposed republican should be. But this is his chance at the brass ring. It was almost as if it had been written in some scribed foretelling of futures to come. John McCain would be standard bearer of the GOP for 2008. And so it has become.
And now having died and been resurrected no less than once in the past twenty months, John McCain believes that it is time to roll the stone away from the sepulcher once again and view the once again risen candidacy of the curmudgeon of politique 2008. I am sorry, but somehow I just don't get all the arm waving and the repetitive assertions of fight the fight. Somehow, I have to believe that the opportunities have been missed and that regardless of what John McCain might like or wish to be, we have now come too far down the course for him to somehow miraculously come from behind to grasp the golden chalice.
I'm sorry John, but I just don't see it.