A Case For McCain

This blog has been very critical of the Republican party and some of John McCain's campaign tactics but the truth is, McCain or at least I do not believe McCain is a dyed in the wool Republican by any stretch. He is probably one of the least republican Republicans in congress and thusly I suppose is the reason the Republicans put him up to this election task after the last 8 years of Republican debacle. Personally I believe John McCain is saying most of what he says on the campaign trail to keep the Republican base in line, that is, motivated and ready to come out and support him in November. His advisors have told him he must do this to be elected but make no mistake, McCain finds this repugnant. So why can he tolerate "repugnate"? Because he has been through the toughest gut checks a man can probably go through and one more for the sake of his country is not so hard to summon up.

I do not believe you are hearing the real McCain in this campaign. The truth is I believe he will end the Iraq war possibly quicker than Obama if a new rationale can be made to do so. I also believe he will come back around to opposing any more tax cuts for the rich. You see, McCain has already said he is in this for one term. In other words he is letting some know, who are concerned enough to read between the lines, that he will not be trying to get votes for another term which in effect means he is going to do what he always believed he should do and those are the positions he has held most of his career prior to the last two years of personal subjugation to the Republican base. Why do I believe that? Because he has chosen to stand alone refusing to go along with the Republican party on many issues. When he could have taken the easy path, he did not. He has demonstrated political courage rarely seen in politicians these days and such character should not be dismissed easily. Let me repeat, such character should not be dismissed easily. The U.S. congress is awash with cowardice in so many matters involving money with far too many congressman having little backbone to stand up to the influence of money but John McCain has stood up to the power of money countless times on the senate floor. He is not a money serving politician to the extent of most Republicans. He strongly believes that no one should be able to buy political power with money and this is at the crux of why John McCain is a good candidate for president. The desires of the people are not being met in the halls of our government. If you look at virtually all the polls on varying issues of the day you will see how our government virtually ignores those desires almost across the board and the reason for that is that the rich, the powerful people, the corporations are using their money to buy off our congressman to get them to vote against the will of the people and vote for the greedy policies of themselves, the rich and powerful. In simple terms McCain thinks this sucks, and it does. It is base servile cowardice to the power of money.

John McCain has the necessary mettle and he will stick to his principles when it comes down to reforming government in order to return it to the intended integrity of the founders. If there is a reason he should be elected president it is this; that he will actually bring change to Washington by taking corrupt money out of our political system, not talking about it but actually carrying through with it. He has walked the talk. There is a lot of desperately needed change the Democrats will bring to the country but McCain is poised to bring the most fundamental change, the change that will return the power of the government back to the people. This is the truth.

Make no mistake, reforming money's influence in politics will make the many other things possible which the Democrats and the people have desired. You see, McCain's position makes sense, it is just that he can never articulate it as such if he wants to get out the Republican base to vote for him and that is his only hope of election. It is the reason that the Republican establishment have never favored him and why he has been on the outside of their little money serving country club world.
Remember that in 2000 McCain almost ran as a candidate of the Reform party, the party of Ross Perot but at the last minute he saw that too much of the Reform party was extremist at both ends of the spectrum. McCain is commited to reforming money in government and that is real change, the biggest change that any politician can bring today. If elected McCain will blow this thing wide open and all the talk from the Democrats on reform will be put to the test as there will be no veto block from McCain on passing reform but there will be taunting from McCain if the Democrats back out. Do you really think this will not occur when after all those years McCain has been rejected by his own party and stood alone and put up with so much flak in supporting money reform of which the Republicans opposed. It will occur and the Democrats had better be ready to face the day. On that day if courage prevails real fundamental change will come to America.
Obama has been pushing this reform of political money since he got into politics but there is concern over just how beholding he will be to the number of contributors to his campaign. He has set record levels of campaign contributions and refused to keep his promise of only accepting federal election money for his campaign as McCain did. McCain stuck to his principles of limiting money even as the election of his life was on the line and that says volumes.

There is concern that Obama is becoming the establishment candidate who will do whatever he must to ensure the continued success of the first black candidate for president meaning a presidency similiar to Clinton's yielding no real reform of political money, no rocking the boat of his contributors that can help his presidency run smoothly. Conversely there is no doubt the establishment fears McCains candidacy with his proven resolve and audacity of courage since they may lose their establishment money influence over congressman. Again; McCain stuck to his principles of limiting money even as the election of his life was on the line. With Obama it is a matter of belief in the heart of the man and the cause of a community worker and it is in truth a heart and a cause with proven integrity but when it comes to money in politics there is the proven record of McCain. The truth, it must be remembered, is that both men have made compromises but both aspire to bringing change they have commited their life to.

If you believe that taking money out of politics is going to get you, the people, the influence that you should once again have in government, that cutting politicans off from the money of the rich so that your vote can have it's proper impact on those politicians to run this government the way you want it run and should be run then consider all this on November 4th, 2008.

The truth as this blog sees it is that this nation needs a Democratic president and a Democratic congress in order to correct the many across the board mistakes and injustices from the last eight years but it is also true that either way you vote this November you will get significant change for the better.