Election Issues Today

John McCain is too decent a man to long endure the sleazy means that his campaign managers want to use to defeat Barack Obama.  The GOP isn’t running a campaign to support McCain ideas and programs and vision.  The problem is that the GOP doesn’t really support the ideas and programs and visions of John McCain.  They just don’t like Barack Obama. So the GOP campaign deteriorates into Character Attack.  Smear Tactics. And Sleaze.

I like John McCain. Always have.  He is a decent guy who is entrapped by his radical, right-wing, anti-everything supporters.  Perhaps Senator McCain’s problem is that he ran for the Congress in the wrong Party.  He should have been a Democrat.  Do you think Senator McCain would have been embraced by the Democratic Party in years past?  Could he have done better in his career if he had been among the ranks of Bill Clinton’s party?  (And Hilary’s)

He likes and respects Hilary Clinton.  She returns the expression of friendship with him–across the aisle as they say.  I think Senator Obama likes him too.  As a matter of fact, I think Senator McCain has gained the respect of more Democratic voters than within his own splintered, fractured GOP.

The GOP seems to be struggling to find the identitying causes for which to stand.  What an awkward sentence–but it does express the awkward situation in which the GOP faithful find themselves. The GOP power brokers didn’t really want John McCain as their candidate: the voters in the primaries selected him.

Now, Senator McCain finds himself defending Senator Obama; finds himself “shushing” his own vocal supporters at his own events.  He may have to campaign for Obama himself.  How does he quiet down the “radicals” in his Party who HATE?   He will be fighting a losing cause.  In fact, I think he is fighting a losing cause, period.