John McCain's Imperial Hubris (generation, campaign, Republican, conservative)
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Lately, He'd make a great Dubya White House spokesperson.
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As a presidential candidate, McCain now unabashedly apologizes for every twist of the downwind spiral of the Bush Administration foreign policy, from wasteful weapons to inhuman torture.
John McCain is simply suffering from being John McCain. He spent years as the self described, "maverick" that much of moderate America enjoyed. Not too much of this or too much of that. However when running as the Republican candidate, he is having to appeal to that base, no duh, but in doing so he is having problems remembering where he stood on issues back in 2000 compared to today as he makes his pleas to the right. This gives him the appearance of a flip flopping pander, which in some respects, nearly every politician who runs for President is. Unlike many more traditional campaigns that give rise to left or right politicians attempting to appeal to the middle, McCain is more from the middle trying to appeal to the right and is having limited success. The only thing keeping his chances alive is that a half black, youthful man is running in opposition.
Being former military, he also seems to have a very chain of command oriented mindset where loyalty is extremely important. Which is a good thing or a bad thing depending on how far and extreme you take this. Given the Bush administrations popularity with most people ( those partaking of the Jim juice) he is reaching out to barely 25%, and hoping that another 20>% will fall into play out of the same fears that bought Bush another four.
Personally, I don't think McCain has a chance considering both social and fiscal conservatives are holding their noses to pull that lever, not in favor of his positions but out of opposition to Obama. This election will likely also be quite dependent upon who they choose as VP more so than any previous election in a generation.
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