I have said it all along, the "Straight Talk Express" has a broken wheel axle and swerves all over the road.

Since the US electorate hasn't questioned all the lies they have been fed by the Bush Regime for the past 7 plus years, how likely is it that they will question McClone's many lies ?

How likely is it that the American public will much question the Democratic Party's lies?

The Flip-Flop Express?

It's been more than a year since I've met anyone who will admit publicly they voted for Geroge W. Bush, although some of them, in 2004, told me they did and defended his policies. If Bush comes up in the conversation these days these folks tend to stay mute or try and change the subject.

Similarly, I have found few defenders of McCain recently, even among avowed Republicans. If pressed, they would use a stock line, "Well, he's got to be better than Bush." Within the past few months, though, even this stock line has disappeared, along with confessing any affinity for the GOP.

This doesn't mean that they won't vote for him, but I see no eagerness anywhere for a McCain presidency except among the higher echelons of the GOP and his 'Straight Talk' sycophants in the Corporate Media.

I think it's telling that in my lifetime, and I remember Ike, I have never encountered this total lack of enthusiasm for a major party candidate out amongst us Proles.

"You move from your base to the center after you get the nomination."

Flip flopping is a survival skill if you care to get elected. And then you, the candidate, have been hollowed out by your lack integrity, and your supporters, once hopeful, have once again come to see the process as nothing but an exercise in cynicism.

There must be a better way! Or is the above just a reflection of the prevailing culture values!

www.StudentsForTheEarth.org

The "Straight Talk Express" (which was mostly a fictional creation) went off the rails for real when the Rove South Carolina Primary smear in 2000 worked spectacularly. After that, McCain sold whatever soul he may have had to join with the forces of darkness and go with their playbook. The problem with going with an already utilized playbook is that the opposition has seen it and devised counter plays. That McCain can not then counter respond merely points to a candidate that is void of original ideas and plays.

canuckchuck June 18th, 2008 2:48 pm
"The Flip-Flop Express?"

Dad gum Chuck....you are on a roll today!

Amnesty John is spinning like a top these days. If he was against it last time he's for it now and vice versa.

The only two things he is consistent about,
he can't wait to provide his corporate masters with more slave labor or to keep more troops in Iraq than we need.

McCain is a angry, bitter, mentally deranged old man. If he is elected president, you can kiss the world good-bye.

i would not be surprised at all if the republicans nominate somebody else at their convention....even rush and ann coulter knows mccain is weak

Someone should ask 'no Habeas Corpus for enemy combatants' John McCain if he would have enjoyed a fair, open-court trial when he was being tortured -- excuse me, subjected to 'enhanced interrogation techniques' -- by the North Vietnamese. After all, to the Viet Cong, he was definitely an enemy combatant captured during a time of war.

Required reading for the self-indulgent hordes here who swear there is no difference between McCain and Obama and threaten us all with their Green Party votes.

RSJ,

McCain was not subjected to the same torture techniques as his fellow airmen. For three years he agreed to give the North Vietnamese vital and strategic information about the US military in return for less harsh treatment, and in fact, better medical treatment for his injuries suffered when he crashed (his fourth jet). His own corpsmen have attested to the accuracy of this information and call him a fake (I am leaving out the obscenities).

Amen to the article's last paragraph - let's hear the press nail McCain as a flip-flopper and let's hear the Swifties call him a traitor for his cooperation with the Viet Cong, just like they did to Kerry. If McCain is a straight talker, let him answer one question - did he wet start his Skyhawk the day 150 sailors died in the fire on the USS Forrestal? McCain is merely another lying Republican trading on fear; just don't expect the media or the Swifties to point it out.

McCain's overblown reputation as a maverick is largely earned from the brief period after the 2000 "selection" when his anger at Rove/Bush for slandering him during the primaries resulted in his petulantly bucking some of Bush's pals and policies. One can assume he was soon bought off and brought into the party line, so now he is pro-life, pro-tax-cut, pro-war, pro-intolerance, and pro-torture. Even with his few maverick moves, his senate voting record coincides with Bush's desires 95% of the time.

McCain is a dimwitted, reckless, hot-headed carousing playboy with no moral center outside of his own self-interest. He made it through life solely on his family name, sort of like Bush on steroids. Where Bush went AWOL, McCain collaborated; where Bush's recorded "life" begins at 40, McCain's begins (with the exception of his trading on his prison time) after dumping his first wife, the one who waited for him to return from his time in Viet Nam. He is a volatile, treacherous and dangerous man with very little brains, talent, or morals.

I'd love to think these facts and more make McCain a sure loser in the upcoming election, but for those who think their vote still counts for anything I say don't count your chickens. The Republican-nurtured spectre of an elitist black, muslim, flag-hating, liberal commie lawyer in the White House will scare many into voting for the regular old white guy. And then there's the woman who was interviewed after the California primaries as to her political leanings - "This country is moving in the wrong direction. I think we need a change. So I'm voting for McCain!" There's no accounting for outright stupidity.McCain is a dimwitted, reckless, hot-headed carousing playboy with no moral center outside of his own self-interest. He made it through life solely on his family name, sort of like Bush on steroids. Where Bush went AWOL, McCain collaborated; where Bush's recorded "life" begins at 40, McCain's begins (with the exception of his trading on his prison time) after dumping his first wife, the one who waited for him to return from his time in Viet Nam. He is a volatile, treacherous and dangerous man with very little brains, talent, or morals.

claudius [June 18th, 2008 7:31 pm], yes, I have read and heard that information from various sources. Would you happen to have a link to one article that sums it all up?

wcdevins [June 18th, 2008 10:28 pm], you're right and I nearly fell out of my chair the other day when one of the MSNBC afternoon beauty-queen anchors asked a guest, "Is John McCain really flip-flopping or is he just wisely changing his position on some issues?" John Kerry was afforded no such slack in 2004.

I wonder how the Big Media would treat McCain were he not the son and grandson of well-connected US Navy admirals, and if he happened to be a Democrat, as he almost became in 2004.

As far as the election, the Punditrocracy was shocked the other day when one of its own polls showed Hispanics are going for Obama by a margin of 62 percent, and he's in the lead with white voters; in Ohio, he's ahead of McCain by 6 points, and ahead by 4 points in Florida, a state in which he hasn't even campaigned yet. Most stunning, after all of the BM brouhaha about white working-class and rural voters there, Obama is ahead by 12 points in Pennsylvania, a landslide number.

Keep in mind, only a month ago McCain was in the lead in all three of these states and the BM 'Opinion Makers' were gravely intoning that Obama would surely lose all three, and the election, since Hillary Clinton had won them in the primary.

Meanwhile, the insulated corporate infotainment media will continue taking its cues from GOP Talking Points and the regurgitated out-of-touch opinions of such lionized dipsticks as David "Elmer Fudd's Brother" Broder, John "I Work for the Friggin' Wall Street Journal" Harwood, Mike "Mr. Rove" Allen, David "Objective Republican" Gergen, Pat "Southern Strategy" Buchanan, Tom "My Head is Flat" Friedman, David "Space Case" Brooks, and Tom "Didn't He Retire?" Brokaw no matter how often they are out to lunch.

Someone once said that Washington politicians and the national media were always ten years behind the country – in this case, I think it's more like twenty.

It's in the best interests of the corporate media, and the Republican Party, to make it look like a horse race for the presidency this year but, more and more, it's shaping up to be an unprecedented blowout for the Democrats of 1932 proportions.

RSJ,

I will try to dig up an article on McCain's aviation history. If you want an article and link to his personal life (where he dumped his wife for a beer distribution heiress) it is on the "Daily Mail" in the United Kingdom. The article is titled

"The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind" by Sharon Churcher
08June2008
www.dailymail.co.uk/female/article-1024927

Thanks much, Claudius.