Enough of the EiBS already. Raise your hand if you are too stoopid to see through this Mctimes crap. All right I see there are still a few sheeple in the room eating the Marley Sweet Grass.
I think it was a bit odd that McCain was out infront of the cameras before the media even picked up on the story. I know he thinks he has an age issue. Hey John we could care less, this is just another stunt aimed at projecting him as some kind of victim. He is still the presumed "Patsy" of the GOP. The problems he has are to numerous to list. For instance look no further than immagration, the gaggle of 14, and any other of his short arms reaching across the isle routines. Look for the real scandel to rock his campaign in October. The swift boat is on the other foot this time. McCain has played out his Vietnam card to the point Americans are sick of hearing about it.
The last 18-20 years has been about building a majority in knowledgable voters by means of talk radio. Those who listen to it daily do so for one single underlying reason. We believe in the accuarcy of information. It is easy to blame the internet for the decline in news paper sales. The Fox News Channel is no more responsible for the falling ratings at CBS,ABC, & NBC. The fact is AM radio is far older technology than cable/satelite TV or broadband internet. I would even argue that newprint technology has increased by leaps and bounds while AM still is about the same. Sure it has grown but I still get static going under a bridge the signals fade out in the evening and are replaced by ones from across the country sometime. Paul Harvey still sound the same telling us the "Rest of the Story" and at night you can get your fill of "Coast to Coast" if thats your tea n' toast.
So why on earth would the talkers who have blessed us with the truth for so many years take this opportunity to change their collective tunes? I heard Limbaugh the other day say that the GOP let the media pick their candidate. Hannity has told us since South Carolina that McCain and Huckabee are working together. In fact almost all of the top self described conservative talk show hosts have gone on this Reagan worship binge that is neither about fact or solution. They drop his name in a way that demeans his legacy by promoting persons in his image who bare no likeness to him what so ever. By default they have resurected McCain from political exile. The failed king makers kept running down the list to the least conservative. So by their example we are supposed to see this as what Reagan would do. I don't think so it might be what Mike Reagan would do or Ron Jr. The Gipper stuck to principles when other lost sight of them. He never looked to the path of least resistance he looked straight past it. The talkers see their role as untouchable. Like Dan Rather they have ratings and like Rather they are in denial of fact. The facts are obvious most republican voters voted against McCain in the primaries. They didn't do it because he looks old, or because of his hair, or even that growth on his chin. It wasn't because they saw better options rather because he isn't one. He has taken positions as a US Senator that have gone clearly against the party platform in all issues of political debate. McCain got on the "surge" bandwagon because he needed a conservative cause to run on. His every action as a US Senator previous to that position thwarted our efforts in the war. He blocks partial birth abortion bans going through the senate then some how gets a pass as a pro-life candidate that is absurd. If an illegal immagration bill calling for the absolute sealing of our borders and the expulsion of all persons illegally in the US came to his desk from the congress he would veto it. If a bill calling for blanket amnesty came to his desk he would sign it. You know it I know it and Rush Limbaugh knows it. Conservative voters don't look for the lessor of evils, we don't vote on our emotions, we don't decide in the booth. Our votes are earned, our trust is earned our memories are long and our betrayors....we treat them the same way we treat a terrorist. We do not negotiate with them. We do talk to them but only to the exent of explaining their vunerabilities.