Posted on 10/09/2008 8:33:07 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
If your parents live long enough there comes that awful moment when you look at them and realize: they’ve grown old. Suddenly, they’re unsteady on their feet. They tell bizarre, wince-inducing jokes. They’re the only ones grinning - and grinning weirdly at that.
That’s how I felt watching John McCain on Tuesday night. What happened?
Remember when he burst onto the national scene in 2000? Remember all those New Hampshire Republicans, independents, even Democrats who fell in love, who said they had never supported a candidate with such passion?
McCain was the bad boy/fly boy war hero turned wry, caustic reformer. “Faith of my Fathers” and “Why Courage Matters.” These were his books. Honor and country first. These were his mottos.
How ironic. How unfair. McCain was beaten in 2000 by the Bush campaign’s dirty tricks, those slimy rumors about an illegitimate black child. Now he may be beaten because voters see him as too close to that very same Bush. And it’s eight years later. Too much time has passed.
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perhaps, but truth be told- John is looking very old
America will survive Obama, but in what form?
Reagan was 70 when he took office ON HIS THIRD RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY.
Yup........this is what they want you to believe. John McCain is looking dam good for his age and has more experience in his little finger than Obama has in his whole body. The experience Obama does have is dangerous for this country. I have no doubts that if Obama gets elected, this country will be in big trouble.
If true, it's a rumor I never heard or gave a moment's thought to.
McCain was beaten because the base looked at them both and decided Bush was the better of the two. Maybe the deciding moment was when McCain tried to attack Bush for visiting Bob Jones University. He and the left wing press, tied at the hips, tried to split the Catholic vote from the Evangelical vote. McCain was ranting about "right wing religious fundamentalists."
But it didn't work. The bishops reached out to the Evangelical pastors, and the attack failed. The result, of course, is that McCain alienated most of the South, and lost the election right there.
But there is regretably a little truth in the basic premise. McCain is indeed looking old and sometimes confused. And he does have a regretable habit of reverting to the past, as if his days of reaching across the aisle were appropriate in a campaign that amounts to a war to the death that could destroy our country.
Yes, reach out to the PUMAs. But don't try to reach out to Obama, for heavens sake.
There are the two individual candidates and there are the positions of their parties on the various issues. I am voting republican because of the issues involved, not because of the individuals.
Nothing lasts forever.
Reagan never looked and acted his age, as unfortunately John McCain is doing more and more these days
C’mon now, after the debate didn’t it just cross your mind McCain was in such a big hurry to leave the stage because it was past his bedtime?
The last couple of weeks he has talked and acted with all the vigor and energy of a patient on lithium ...
Reagan with his rosy cheeks and sunny smile never looked as old as he was. McCain looks way past his expiration date.
Its the same Obama spin, lets be honest nonsense.
Who the hell are you people trying to FOOL ?
Its the same Obama spin, lets be honest nonsense.
Who the hell are you people trying to FOOL ?
I think McCain looks more Presidential. That’s the important part. BO is a better speaker and stand straighter. BO didn’t get his ass kicked on a daily basis in a prison camp. (probably on the school yard though)
McCain has to scare people into voting for him. BO is far too risky and anti-American. The Palin factor also plays into the equation. Keep her in front of the public and let Sarah be Sarah. She’s still breaking attendance records. She’s coming to Richmond, VA on Monday and there is a lot of excitement. her handlers sent her to the wrong part of town though...(the “Arthur Ashe Center” is an unsafe area with NO McCain fans)
The way he rambled around the stage in the second debate didn't help -- one of the people I was watching with said he looked like he was going to wander off until he had to push his LifeAlert and report that he'd gotten lost.
Multiply that by 200 and that’s what the average person in America is reading on a daily basis. If we pull this off it will be a miracle.
It doesn’t bother me one bit that McCain can’t raise his arms above shoulder height. He has learned well how to compensate for that in his public appearances. And I have noticed how Sarah Palin adjusted to it as well, modifying her own gestures when she appeared on stage next to him.
But it did bother me the way he sometimes seemed to lose focus and energy during the debate, and made no effort to fight. He gave some excellent closing remarks, but he does have a tendency to lose focus. Not at the Convention, but in both debates.
I’m also worried about his way of living in the past. Not in the way this liberal writer tries to portray. But in the way that conservatives have always objected to—reaching across the aisle, failing to fight the enemy right there on the stage with him. This is a new ballgame, but he still seems to think he can win it by pulling a new McCain-Feingold or McCain-Kennedy out of his hat. What happened to the new McCain who said to “drill, baby, drill?” He was there at the previous day’s rally, but not at the debates.
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