John McCain, the worst Republican nominee in the history of our party prior to Mitt Romney.
One of the problems I have had with McCain over the years, is that he proved countless times he was willing to make that one statement that would short circuit reasoned policy.
Even when he ran against Obama, he couldn’t resist saying, “The American public has no reason to fear an Obama Presidency.”
At other times he made comments that short circuited moves to deny Leftist presidents their SCOTUS nominees. It took him more than 25 years to get up the gumption to vote against one. He voted FOR some of the worst of the worst.
When it came to Guantanamo, it was John McCain who short circuited objections to closing the Terrorist Detention Center at Guantanamo Bay. It was John who nearly helped to force all these detainees to be moved to the mainland.
John is your classic Leftist enabler. It was him that sold out our MIA people, thumbing his nose at their families, and the Veteran groups.
After Bush beat out John for the nomination in 2000, John decided to go on the Talking Head shows and destroy his ability to get anything done. I have been very critical of Bush, but some of his policy instincts were reasoned. More often than not over his first term, there was John McCain being the Maverick, killing any chance of momentum.
And then I found out, John had actually joined George Soros, Teressa Heinz Kerry and the Tides Foundation to form a 401c(3) org, which he quickly moved in his top campaign workers into for six figure salaries.
He was pleased to join, Kennedy, Kerry, Feingold, and other Democrats to introduce legislation very detrimental to the United States. He introduced detrimental Leftist climate change legislation with Lieberman three times.
All that being said, Romney is the last guy I want to see nominated this year. I would term him worse than McCain, but after looking at McCain, it’s evident he has sold us out on just about every issue you can think of over the years.
Even when it comes to abortion, McCain was pleased to back some people for election that backed abortion over those who didn’t. Overall I think McCain is much better on the topic, but he has never been above selling us out if it suited him.
He didn’t get that “Maverick” title by agreeing with Republicans and Conservatives all the time. He was the darling of the media for doing just the opposite.
Now, is Mitt Romney another despicable candidate for the nomination? I agree that he is. I am not personally convinced he’s worse, but I can understand some folks coming to that conclusion.
The take-away for me is, that neither of them should be anywhere near the presidency.
Although I think it’s a fraud, Romney at least has the good sense to claim to be a Conservative. That’s something McCain would never do. He has made disparaging remarks about Conservatives numerous times.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Romney had done the same thing at some point in time though.
He certainly wasn’t bashful about introducing his RomneyCare bill in Ma., much to Ted Kennedy and company’s delight.
If I were to evaluate one of these man against the other, it would be a tough call for me. I would definitely be backing a third person as long as I could.
When asked to vote for McCain in 2008, I couldn’t do it. If Romney is the candidate in 2012, it will be the second election in a row, where the nation could not win no matter which candidate was selected. On way or the other, the nation takes a massive hit.