Once again Non Prof John trolls under the wrong bridge. So lets give McCain some equal time. Many of us like McCain as a person, but but he is not exactly the sharpest knife is the drawer, he has the charisma of wilted lettuce, and says I am a trusted leader when the US military and the republican party never let him have a single true leadership role.
But in many ways, the GOP is totally two faced when picking its Presidential candidates as its become the party of image over substance and the party of promise one thing and do the exact opposite. In our now 63 year old post WW2 history, we have had a Republican President in most of those years. Yet in all of those 46 years of of a republican President, I cannot think of a single Republican President who has been vindicated by history. And I can't think of a single democratic President except maybe LBJ
who has not been vindicated by history in the 27 years of a Democratic President. And in many ways, Eisenhower was the last semi honest one in bunch, Nixon had the lone single virtue of recognizing China, Ford was in for too short of a time but has worn well, and George H. Bush at least spent his last three years in some sort of fiscal sanity while running an engaged and not totally dishonest foreign policy. After that, the well of good things to say about Republican President runs rather dry.
A then deeply unpopular Truman is now vindicated by history, Kennedy has also been vindicated, and even LBJ can point to his work on civil rights even though he lost his way on the Vietnam war and too much social spending. A deeply unpopular Carter has been proved right on foreign policy with a Nobel peace prize to show for it, and the Bill Clinton years were the *most scandal free administration in recent American history with a balanced budget surplus to put a cherry on top. The *exception of the Monica Lewinsky blow job was a personal Bill Clinton failure and did not effect public policy. And of course we all know what GWB&co. did with the budget surplus as he has gone on to rack up 3.6 trillion in public debt. As for scandalous looting of the public treasury by GWB&co, that too is legendary and we don't know the 1/4 of it yet.
But here we are in 2008 and the Republican party of image over substance has even outdone itself by running McCain. And the GOP has even managed to finally confuse itself by running McCain. Here we have a fellow who gets a 100% conservative rating, yet many in the GOP are convinced he is a flaming liberal because he has taken a few rational stances against GWB. And the Republican leadership stands 100% in lock step support of GWB to the point of gridlock at exactly the time about 81% of the American people are convinced the country is heading in the wrong direction and GWB popularity is now something on the order of 27% and falling. And now McCain must somehow convince the American people that he will go off in a new direction while continuing the failed policies of GWB&co.
And here we are in the eve of a historic general election and Non Prof John starts another thread dedicated to the proposition that the Republicans can fool the American public yet again. Surely this is not the same Non Prof John who so missed the mark on his predictions of the election of 11/2006. But I will give PJ one thing, he is one the few, the bravely irrational, and one of the last few remaining people somehow convinced that the GWB years were anything but unmitigated disasters.
Thats the other thing PJ missed about American history, when the American people get a truly bad Republican President, a democrat wins the Presidency the next election. And GWB&co. really really really stinks and is almost certainly the worst President in US history.
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