Bush policy will live on through McCain…if you let it

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Bush policy will live on through McCain…if you let it

Posted on February 9th, 2008 by vicezilla

In what is all but a technicality, barring a ‘mass coming to their senses’ of the Republican voting bloc, John McCain will be the Republican nominee for President this fall.

Ever since Mitt “tow the party line” Romney dropped out of the race, there has been a lot of talk of McCain’s Republican values. Some say he is more of a Democrat than a Republican. He is accused of not being as far to the right as party leaders would want him to be, but rather a ‘middle of the road’ Conservative. And that, quite frankly scares the hell out of the Neocons in the party.

Since Romney took a bow, McCain has been trying hard to prove to the party that he is a Republican worthy of the nomination. He’s already bowed to pressure from those who want to pull his strings by conveniently ‘missing’ a major vote in the senate on an Economic Stimulus package. Yet earlier he was stumping for votes by talking about “the need to pass a stimulus measure quickly.”

So already it is obvious that McCain is a Republican Party “yes” man. He will say one thing then do the opposite. Sound familiar?

An interesting article appeared in the LA Times today by Tim Rutten. In his piece he attempts to put the pieces of this weeks bombshells about the CIA using torture, and President Bush authorizing the actions into perspective. Here’s what he came up with:

If all this seems slightly confusing, it’s because it isn’t really about waterboarding or any sort of torture. In the first instance, it’s about the administration’s attempt to legitimize the executive coup d’etat it quietly has undertaken over the last seven years. It’s also designed to put the GOP’s putative presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), on notice that, if he wants help in patching things up with the conservative base, he’d better pay deference to an obscure legal theory called the “unitary executive.”

So put all this together and what do you have? A vote for McCain will be a vote for more of Bush’s failed policies. Bush has previously declared that “McCain would be the best to carry forth my agenda.”

So what’s it going to be? Somebody new with fresh ideas to lead the Republican Party, or more of the same old ineffective Bush politics? The ball is in your court.