- The US political circus is an amazing, if not agonizing,
show to watch. First, we saw Rudy Giuliani, the establishment's pre-election
favorite (only because the media said so) go from front runner status to
a disastrous showing in the primaries--garnering less votes than Rep. Ron
Paul, who was systematically denied any meaningful media coverage at all.
It appears the public is either fickle or the media polls were just plain
lying--perhaps both. Then we saw John McCain with almost no support suddenly
rise to front runner status after a barrage of big name newspaper and personality
endorsements so unanimous that there had to have existed some guiding hand.
The establishment boost for McCain is still ongoing in a big way and is
intended to gain McCain a majority of delegates before the convention convenes--which
would eliminate a brokered convention where deals and concession have to
be made in order to gain that majority. In an up or down vote between McCain
or Romney, without Huckabee to draw away votes from Romney, McCain would
lose. That's what the king makers are trying to avoid by manipulating the
public during the primaries. It's time to let America know more about the
real McCain. Believe me, he is no hero.
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- First, a suspicious view from the Left. British journalist
Johann Hari of The Independent in Britain tells Americans "Don't be
fooled by the myth of John McCain."
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- "A lazy, hazy myth has arisen out of the mists of
New Hampshire and South Carolina. Across the pan-Atlantic press, the grizzled
71-year-old Vietnam vet, John McCain, is being billed as the Republican
liberals can live with. He is 'a bipartisan progressive,' 'a principled
hard liberal,' 'a decent man' --in the words of liberal newspapers. His
fragile new frontrunner status as we go into Super Tuesday is being seen
as something to cautiously welcome, a kick to the rotten Republican establishment.
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- "But the truth is that McCain is the candidate we
should most fear. Not only is he to the right of Bush [like almost all
British journalists, Hari is writing from a leftist perspective, who mistakenly
views socialist and globalist Bush as a radical right winger-because of
his Hitler-like pre-emptive attacks on other nations. In European leftist
terminology, Left is using government power "for the people"
(socialism) and Right is using government power "against the people"
-at least those on the Left. In US political doctrine it's very different,
Left is anything furthering government power to restrict liberties and
redistribute wealth, and Right is for less government and more individual
liberty--strictly limiting government power to the defense of fundamental
rights, and banning socialism. At least it used to be that way until Republicans
began shifting to the middle and then to the Left and still calling it
"conservative." Bush is actually center-Left, though his rhetoric
still tilts deceptively to the Right], he is also the Republican candidate
most likely to dispense with Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
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- "McCain is third-generation Navy royalty, raised
from a young age to be a senior figure in the armed forces, like his father
and grandfather before him. He was sent to one of the most elite boarding
schools in America, then to a naval academy where he ranked 894th of 899
students in ability. He used nepotism to get ahead: When he was rejected
by the National War College, he used his father's contacts with the Secretary
of the Navy to make them reconsider. He later married the heiress to a
multi-million dollar fortune [after dumping his first wife who waiting
faithfully for him during his war years].
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- "Right up to his twenties, he remained a strikingly
violent man, 'ready to fight at the drop of a hat,' according to his biographer
Robert Timberg. This rage seems to be at the core of his personality: describing
his own childhood, McCain has written: 'At the smallest provocation I would
go off into a mad frenzy, and then suddenly crash to the floor unconscious.
When I got angry I held my breath until I blacked out.' But he claims he
was transformed by his experiences in Vietnam... His plane was shot down
on a bombing raid over Hanoi, and he was captured and tortured for five
years [Not all true. He was tortured at first, and then he collaborated
with his captors until released].
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- "... He used second his wife's fortune to run to
as a Republican senator. He was a standard-issue Reaganite corporate Republican
[Reagan had his faults but he wasn't a "corporate Republican."
The Left still hates Reagan] until the Keating Five corruption scandal
consumed him. In 1987, it was revealed that McCain, along with four other
senators, had taken huge campaign donations from a fraudster called Charles
Keating [would had insider connections with government]. In return they
pressured government regulators not to look too hard into Keating's affairs,
allowing him to commit even more fraud. McCain later admitted: 'I did it
for no other reason than I valued [Keating's] support.' [Keating and others
were part of a wider insider group of government supporters who were promised
a kind of unspoken immunity in exchange for steering campaign contributions
to politicians the PTB support--like John McCain--a process still going
on today].
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- McCain took the only course that could possibly preserve
his reputation: He turned the scandal into a debate about the political
system, rather than his own personal corruption. He said it showed how
'we need to drive the special interests out of Washington,' and became
a high-profile campaigner for campaign finance reform [which had very negative
effects on independent political free speech and almost no effect on the
big lobbyists]. But privately, his behavior hasn't changed much. For example,
in 2000 he lobbied federal regulators hard on behalf of a major campaign
contributor, Paxson Communications, in an act the regulators spluttered
was 'highly unusual.' He has never won an election without outspending
his opponent.
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- "But McCain has distinguished himself most as an
über-hawk on foreign policy. To give a brief smorgasbord of his views:
at a recent rally, he sang 'Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran,' to the tune of
the Beach Boys' 'Barbara Ann.' He says North Korea should be threatened
with 'extinction.'
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- "These beliefs drive McCain today. He brags he would
be happy for U.S. troops to remain in Iraq for 100 years, and declares:
'I'm not at all embarrassed of my friendship with Henry Kissinger; I'm
proud of it.' His most thorough biographer -- and recent supporter -- Matt
Welch concludes: 'McCain's program for fighting foreign wars would be the
most openly militaristic and interventionist platform in the White House
since Teddy Roosevelt...[it] is considerably more hawkish than anything
George Bush has ever practiced.'"
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- Scary. McCain is no true conservative. As I have documented
in prior briefings, McCain is an expert at playing up his POW hero image
to campaign against government use of torture, and then quietly worked
out an anti-torture piece of legislation which actually permits torture
in the fine print. McCain, like John Kerry also served on Congressional
committees to whitewash the government investigation into POWs and MIAs
left behind in Vietnam, Laos, and Russia (where hundreds were sent for
mind control drug testing, according to Jan Sejna, a former major general
in the Czechoslovakian Army who defected to the United States in 1968 and
provided valuable intelligence on the Soviet Union).
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- One blogger named "Dan" offered up this list
on the internet about John McCain's abysmal record as a "conservative:"
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- IMMIGRATION: he wrote the bill granting amnesty to illegal
immigrants (co-sponsored by Ted Kennedy)
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- SOCIAL SECURITY: he voted to give your social security
money to illegal immigrants
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- TAXES: he voted against the Bush tax cuts multiple times
(but still campaigns as a lifelong tax-cutter)
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- FIRST AMENDMENT: he wrote the McCain-Feingold campaign
finance bill that was declared to be an unconstitutional infringement of
the 1st Amendment (co-sponsored by ultra-liberal Democrat Russ Feingold)
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- SECOND AMENDMENT: he was called the 'worst 2nd amendment
candidate' by the president of the NRA
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- ENERGY TAX: wrote a bill (co-sponsored by his buddy Sen.
Joe Lieberman) imposing a massive tax on energy which, according to the
Department of Energy, would drastically raise the price of gasoline.
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- GLOBAL WARMING: supports radical global warming legislation
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- JUDGES: he joined with Democrats (Gang of 14) to block
the Senate Republican's attempt to confirm conservative, strict constructionist
judges.
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- GAY MARRIAGE: he joined liberals to fight against a federal
marriage amendment
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- CHRISTIANS: In 2000, he famously described Christian
leaders as 'agents of intolerance'
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- ABORTION: he filed an amicus brief against pro-life advocates
in Wisconsin
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- BI-PARTISANSHIP: he met with leading Democrats in 2004
to discuss the possibility of being John Kerry's VP.
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- ETHICS: ringleader of the infamous Keating 5 ethical
scandal which cost US tax payers $160 billion
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- PERSONAL: McCain cheated on his first wife after she
had a severe accident. He then divorced her and married his multi-millionaire
mistress, whose daddy bought McCain a spot in the Congress.
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- With all of this, establishmen king-makers have their
hands full trying to turn sow's ear into a silk purse. As John M. Broder
writes, "Mr. McCain, who has delighted in sticking his thumb in the
eye of mainstream Republicans throughout his political career, is now accumulating
a base of support among party regulars who see him as the strongest general
election candidate in the remaining Republican field."
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- This is not true at all. McCain's support comes almost
exclusively from the same insiders who were promoting Giuliani. They all
switched to McCain when someone gave them the signal that Giuliani wasn't
going to make it (too many corruption scandals revealed and more on the
way), and they needed to make sure Romney didn't accrue the remaining Republican
support.
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- I don't pretend to know who's making these calls that
direct these perfectly timed endorsements, but I know something is going
on behind the scenes that is "too good to be true" to be natural.
Consider:
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- All six major newspapers that gave any endorsement just
prior to the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary (and they did so within
a day of each other) came out for McCain who was polling in last place.
None for Giuliani, the front runner? None! There were no other endorsements
for any other Republicans. There was even an anti-endorsement of Romney.
That's unheard of.
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