John McCain is an interesting cat; I mean, he is the maverick, right? Well, tie me up and call me a silly, but a close look at John McCain’s foreign policy speech shows the persona of John McCain to be nothing other than a political shell game.
Many of us know that the maverick image is a fraudulent ploy. He was against torture before he was for it. He denounced the agents of intolerance before he embraced them. But those are facts, and they have no relevance to framing of a political debate and narrative (I weep with you).
In the present political climate, an adroit presidential candidate is defined by his or her ability to stretch out towards uncharted political waters (i.e. independents) while not disenfranchising core voters in the process. A good candidate can dance a political tango with many partners, arousing those in his or her embrace, romancing their partners with sweet nothings, but never making promises that may be tantamount to infidelity to the one that brought them there.
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