McCain For Sale Photo Source
Well you gotta wonder what John McCain gave up, paid out, and pledged to deliver, in order to get so close to winning the Republican Party's nomination. Mr. Crooked Talk has been working hard the past few monoths to seduce the radical right wing fringys. From his commencement speech at Repressive University
to his support of Bush Administration torture tactics (this from the only Congressperson to ever have been tortured himself...so far.)
and of course "the hug".
He gave up something big, though obviously his soul was traded in long ago. What has he promised the Skull & Crossbones crowd? What is the back room deal that has Karl Rove and Dick Cheney always smiling nowadays? Something stinks and whatever it is, McCain is the delivery boy.
I know that because when McCain's campaign was faltering (okay dead-in-the-water) he fired his staff and took on Steve Schmidt. Who the hell is Steve Schmidt?
Steve Schmidt Photo Source
He's the "fixer" the Rove lieutenant who saved Arnold Schwarzenegger's ass in California back in 2006.
The New, Improved "Green" Arnold
He's the plumber who helped squeeze now-Supreme Court Justice Alito through Congressional pipes.
Alito's Wife cries him a river.
He's the skank who comes straight from Dick Cheney's bomb shelter with orders from the devil himself. And most recently, Steve Schmidt is "fixing" John McCain as ordered to be the keeper of the newly entrenched Fear-Based, pre-emptive war-making, Oligarchy that is Bush/Cheney Corp.
King-maker, power-keeper
Whenever Schmidt is in the game you can rely on "Swift-boat" tactics, racism, sexism, cheating, lying, stealing political games until they win what they want.
Read what Glen Greenwald has to say about him.
So, even with our Dem nomination still in flux (but oh it's a beautifully real and honest thing isn't it?) we have to prepare for the toughest political battle of our lives, and perhaps the life of this country. Both of our remaining candidates, (hell all the previous ones too) are 10 thousand times better for America than John McCain.
We bloggers are the foot soldiers of this movement and also the canaries in the coal mine. It's up to us to seek out information and spread it far and wide. We must be vigilant, determined, and focused on the goal, winning back the American people's house on Pennsylvania Avenue.