Thursday, November 13, 2008

John McCain on Sarah Palin: Too Little, Too Late

Six days after his staff started aggressively trashing Sarah Palin (which they actually had started with CNN before the election was even over, although CNN had no credibility on the subject), John McCain went on Jay Leno and "defended" Sarah Palin.

Bill O'Reillly is right on this one. (I sometimes surf the beginning of his program, although I no longer regularly watch either Fox News or O'Reilly.) It was way too little, and way too late.

McCain did not aggressively condemn his staffers for what they have been saying about Sarah Palin, as he aggressively condemned his own supporters sometimes in the campaign (for being too "harsh" to Obama). There was that example early in the general election campaign, when McCain condemned a conservative radio host in Ohio for merely using Obama's middle name (still "Hussein").

McCain has shown no hesitancy in jumping down the throats of conservatives, over the years, for real or made up stupidity or intolerance/rudeness/unfairness. Yet, McCain has allowed this trashing of Sarah Palin to proceed, when he could have stopped it. See Sunday's "Flying, Fickle Finger of Fate" entry in this blog.

Nope., I stand by what I have said. As a politician (rather than a war hero), McCain's reputation is gone. He showed no class at the end of this campaign, and the most charitable thing that can be said of him is that he has acted cowardly, for fear of "offending" his new/old friends in the mainstream media, and on the left.

I have no respect left for McCain, as a politician. This is my own particular bigotry toward "moderate" Republicans so willing to trash Sarah Palin, and blame here for this election defeat. As I have stated, you may not really hate "moderate" Republicans of this indefensible type, but would you really want your daughter to marry one?

I am glad McCain has his (deserved) reputation as a war hero to fall back on. He has no other (good) reputation left.

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