John McCain sold out the Senate, the Republican Party, the American judiciary, and the people of this country.
Jim Jeffords was ahead of his time. He jumped ship before it was popular. As we’re currently learning, the summer of 2005 is the season of turncoats.
John McCain sold out the Senate, the Republican Party, the American judiciary, the people of his state, and the people of his country. On an issue of vital national importance — likely the single most significant domestic issue of the year and of Bush’s second term — he chose his personal interests over all others. He leads a group of Republican cowards who are more concerned with themselves than the state of the union.
Deep Throat, a.k.a. W. Mark Felt, is just as bad — but he’s old, so we’ve been instructed to be nice to him. I don’t know why. Can’t we just call him a senile idiot like liberals did to Reagan?
Felt is similar to McCain in terms of the treachery of his actions, but at least McCain wants to be president. Felt doesn’t want anything except money and a few days of good press. If you’re going to stab your country in the back, you should at least have a half-decent reason.
The good news is that Sen. McCain will never achieve his goal. Never will he find himself in the great category of leaders that includes Lincoln, T.R., Reagan, and both Bushes. Never will he find himself represented by glittering red states on a November map. Never will he be forced to choose between Condi Rice and Rudy Giuliani for VP. And never will either of those authentic Republicans consider McCain for anything except immediate replacement.
With Felt, the silver lining is less apparent. Liberals are thrilled to rehash Watergate, one of the few events that pleased them even more than the Abu Ghraib photos, but what they fail to realize is that Americans may have had time to ruminate on the subject. When the Watergate scandal broke back in the 1970s, there was no FOX News. Al Gore hadn’t even had a chance to invent the Internet yet. When Nixon resigned, a significant number of Americans wore — with straight faces — plaid leisure suits. A lot has changed.
Still, liberals charge forward. Felt is now an American hero, in much the same way as Daniel Ellsberg, another law-breaker. This is new for Mr. Felt. John McCain, on the other hand, has been godly for quite some time. For whatever reason, the party that kills babies and opposes successful black women admires him. Last year, as Bush cemented his lead among the public, pundits drooled over a Kerry-McCain ticket. After Edwards was chosen — because of his youth and charisma(!) — the media wanted McCain to be Secretary of State. The love affair hasn’t ended.
Republicans didn’t like McCain in 2000, so we opted for George W. Bush. Our dislike for him was furthered with McCain-Feingold (“Killing Free Speech One Dollar at a Time!”). Now he’s sided with the Democrats on judges, successfully erasing his name from even the longest list of possible GOP contenders. If Hillary keeps moving rightward, maybe we can just swap her for McCain and forget all this nonsense ever happened.
It’s appropriate at times like these to reflect upon how sickeningly genteel Republicans really are. Democrats may call us Nazis, racists, homophobes, and chauvinists, but we’re pussy cats. Consider the kind of country this would be if Harry Reid led a 55-seat majority. Would Donald Rumsfeld be permitted to leave his home? Would Mel Gibson be allowed to eat? If you can nominate John Kerry, take money from George Soros, and send Howard Dean to chair the DNC, you can do anything.
Also realize how the press would treat this story were it a Democrat who’d been caught with his hands in the proverbial cookie jar. Where were all of the fawning accounts of Linda Tripp’s heroism? How come I never saw pictures of Linda Tripp grinning to her adoring fans? Liberals treat Felt like he’s just discovered a cure for cancer; all they did for Tripp was call her ugly.
Democrats won’t vote on judges, but I’ll be happy to vote on this year’s Slimiest News-Makers. The winners, until next year, are John “I-Have-A-Conscience” McCain, and W. Mark Felt.
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