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Memo to McCain - It's over. Your legacy is at risk
This is a memo to John McCain.
John, my friend, it's over. It's over.
You have now two choices. One will preserve your future legacy to be something positive. The other will permanently enshrine for posterity your absolutely horrific, value-less, distasteful, dishonorable campaign as our lasting and final memory of you.
Which do you want your legacy to be?
Do you want to be remembered as a honorable soldier who actually lived with values? Some who will be respected for his sacrifice and his servie, for his loyalty to his country and his decency as a human being? You can turn it around. You can stop this disgusting excuse you call a campaign. Talk straight with the American people. Stop lying. Stop making stuff up and stretching the truth to ridiculous levels to make an insensible, irrelevant point that affects noone. Pay attention to what Americans want. Care about your fellow citizens. Listen. Respect us. Run, for the four weeks you have left, a decent campaign with integrity. You will not win. But like the Olympics, sometimes it's not only about winning. For you, at any rate, understand it is no longer about winning. It is only about how history will remember you.
Should you continue down the path you are on, understand this. History will not judge you kindly. Even if nothing happens between now and the election, history will not judge you kindly. You will have no honor (and you claim to value that word), no integrity, no followers who quote you with worship in campaigns down the road by our future generations.
It's your choice, John, my friend. Just between you, me and American posterity.
It's over.
John, my friend, it's over. It's over.
You have now two choices. One will preserve your future legacy to be something positive. The other will permanently enshrine for posterity your absolutely horrific, value-less, distasteful, dishonorable campaign as our lasting and final memory of you.
Which do you want your legacy to be?
Do you want to be remembered as a honorable soldier who actually lived with values? Some who will be respected for his sacrifice and his servie, for his loyalty to his country and his decency as a human being? You can turn it around. You can stop this disgusting excuse you call a campaign. Talk straight with the American people. Stop lying. Stop making stuff up and stretching the truth to ridiculous levels to make an insensible, irrelevant point that affects noone. Pay attention to what Americans want. Care about your fellow citizens. Listen. Respect us. Run, for the four weeks you have left, a decent campaign with integrity. You will not win. But like the Olympics, sometimes it's not only about winning. For you, at any rate, understand it is no longer about winning. It is only about how history will remember you.
Should you continue down the path you are on, understand this. History will not judge you kindly. Even if nothing happens between now and the election, history will not judge you kindly. You will have no honor (and you claim to value that word), no integrity, no followers who quote you with worship in campaigns down the road by our future generations.
It's your choice, John, my friend. Just between you, me and American posterity.
It's over.
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I think it's too late. He's already squandered his honor and nobility and betrayed what a desperate and dishonest politician he really is. He's tanked his legacy as far as I'm concerned though I'm sure there are some wing-nuts and ditto heads who actually think he's run a respectful and honorable campaign and he hasn't uttered a single lie and Palin is the best thing since sliced bread.
But not most people. His negativity and obvious lies, his petulance and whining and erratic hail marys have branded him a loser, and a poor one.
He could, like in the Keating mess, go apologize for his behavior, throw Palin under a bus and beg forgiveness, like the serial abuser that he is, but hopefully nobody will take it seriously. I just think what McCain has to do is realize that he isn't as great as his Admiral father or his Admiral grandfather, and he had a good run as a Senator - which isn't bad - and it's time to retire to one of his many houses and live out his years dreaming about what could have been.
October 8, 2008 12:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes. This is not legacy at risk. This is hypocrisy exposed. It is a man now reaping all the SHAME he has sown over a lifetime. It is Karma, visible to all.
The man has reaped Infamy. Which he richly deserves.
October 8, 2008 9:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
I can't believe you seriously believe this echo chamber is a microcosm of the American public. This site is as weird and extremist as any of the freeper sites and in no way indicative of the opinions of the greater whole.
Most people don't need to demonize the opposition to vote for someone. Most people accept that campaigns get nasty and don't take the mudslinging between candidates personally. You really need to get away from this echo chamber and talk to some ordinary people, I think its acting like a feed back loop for you. Most people, even most of the people voting for Obama, don't love Obama or hate McCain. Most people just don't get that personally attached to any politician.
October 8, 2008 12:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain lying? Hardly. Like the "Bill Ayres was just a guy in my neighborhood" lying? Or the "this isn't the Jeremiah Wright I knew" lying?
Obama is the one who is thin-skinned, childish and narcissistic. He and his wife are both two very bitter, angry hate filled people who resent America and want to destroy it from within.
Obama is a thug and a very, very, very scary man -- from the voter fraud, the exhortation that his crazy supporters "get in people's faces" to his "truth squad" and freedom of speech suppression tactics, to his Hitler-wannabee jackbooted, cammo clad youth.
And as Obama edges ahead, even slightly in the polls, the markets freak out, and people wonder why the Dow continues to tank? Capital does not flock to socialist countries, it flees. The financial problems we have now will just be a fond memory of the total disaster that awaits us if Obama gets in.
People with money to invest don't trust socialists, and with good reason.
October 8, 2008 12:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, "Moonpie," we saw everything you attribute to Obama -- come from the bitter, hateful bigot McSame.
And we see the same lies, the same hate-speech, the same America-hating stupidity from YOU.
Perhaps we should make the excuse for you that you're a racist who can't handle eqaulity with those not so white as you because you feel so damned inadequate that you need SOMEONE you can delude yourself is beneath your narcissistic "superiority".
October 8, 2008 12:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
What was the last book you read? When was the last time you changed your mind? When was the last time you were honest with yourself? When was the last time you decided to keep an open mind, rather than hate, hate, hate?
Go have some apple pie. It's on me.
October 8, 2008 12:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
Dear Moonpie:
America: love it or leave it. When your president is Barak Obama, will you gather your belongings and sail away? Just wondering.
October 8, 2008 1:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry, Moonpie, your sad delusions can no longer infest us. Just leave quietly by the back door.
October 8, 2008 1:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Obama is the one who is thin-skinned, childish and narcissistic
That's not what a majority of the American people think - they watched the debates, and can see for themselves who the bitter, angry narcissist is. And his middle name is Sidney.
It's always hilarious to see wingnuts project all their own worst traits onto people they despise, as if it has any correspondence to reality.
I also can't help but notice that here in Northern Colorado there are very few bumper stickers and signs for McCain. Lots of pro-Obama signs and stickers, and even some anti-Obama stickers...but hardly anyone extolling the virtues of McCain or Palin.
Nope, they know their ticket is a real stinker, and they are too cowardly to admit it, so instead they just lash out in anger at the one candidate who actually works to improve everyone's lot in life. Oh well, that's their right, but it doesn't say much about their maturity, foresight, or intelligence.
October 8, 2008 8:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain had no honor to squander. His legacy? You mean the PR cover, or the boozing whoremaster he actually is?
October 8, 2008 12:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
He can earn some. That's the point. That's all he can do in the remaining four weeks.
October 8, 2008 12:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain would rather go down in spectacular, self-destructive flames than be respectful to a perceived social/racial-inferior who is clearly his moral and intellectual superior.
He is a bitter, hateful man who didn't manage to equal his father -- the origin of his problem -- who in turn didn't succeed in trumping his father.
An authoritarian is marked by a rigid, fierce internal suppression of insecurity. I give Bushit and Cheney as other prominent examples. That's why they obsesses about security and protecting "everyone" from paranoid's figments.
October 8, 2008 1:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
John McCain has never had integrity.
I think most of us here have read this, but just in case someone missed it, here's the real McCain:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23316912/makebelieve_maverick/print
October 8, 2008 2:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
My Friend, your memo is on my reading list - right after Hank Paulson's bailout proposal.
I can see the end of my political career from Sarah's house,
McCain 1908.
October 8, 2008 8:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the laugh, my friend.
October 8, 2008 11:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is a gambler. This is the highest stakes game he has ever played and he's betting it all--his reputation, his self-professed "honor," integrity, everything. He is hoping that if he wins, he wins the jackpot and gets to keep everything he has bet. And that's how a gamble usually works. But it will not work that way this time. This is not just another game, One's reputation and honor cannot be traded back and forth like casino chips. He has already sold his soul. It's gone forever no matter what the outcome is on election day. Since he has nothing more to lose he will play dirty until the bitter end. He'd rather live out the remainder of his days as a disgrace in the White House than in the Senate.
October 8, 2008 9:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain and Cunningham can sit crying in each other's company while blubbering about old fighter pilot bullshit and how unfair public life was to them. They can cry about not getting what they were entitled too because they were war heros.
The sooner the better. That whole "America - Love It or Leave It" crowd can suck my big fat fucking dick.
(I think I was 15 years old (1965) when I walking along a street when I was hit in the back with a full can of beer thrown from a moving pick-up truck braking three of my ribs. You guessed it - there was a gun rack in the back window and an "America - Love It or Leave It" bumper sticker on the back bumper. I bet the occupants of that truck dropped consonants at the end of words like Palin or had fake Texas accents like Bush also.)
October 8, 2008 11:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Too funny. We've heard this before. Seems everyone who contests an election against Obama is distroying their legacy by doing it. If I remember correctly Hillary was going to get drummed out of the democratic party for her "nasty rove-like campaign." rotflmao
Here's what's really going to happen. McCain will probably lose the election. Arizona though will probably go red. At least that's what the polls predict. Never can tell though, 4 weeks is a long time in a presidential election and there could be some surprise. McCain will return to the senate with all the power and prestige his many years of senate service has earned him. He's likely to run for re-election in 2 years. If he does he will win in a landslide just as he won in 2004.
His legacy is just fine and will be fine no matter how nasty these last few weeks get.
October 8, 2008 12:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
But will he have the courage to come back on the Daily Show? That'll be the real test.
October 8, 2008 9:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have to disagree with you oceankat. He very well may return to the Senate but I guarantee he will suffer a loss of his former stature. His policy reversals and embarrassing performances will not just be forgotten.
I have no doubt that if he sought another term in the Senate he would win in Arizona. Who knows how he'll react if he loses, which it looks like he's going to at this point.
October 8, 2008 2:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who knows, I think they will just be forgotten. Just as when Hillary became a senator she had no choice but to just forget what senators xyz said and did to impeach Bill and slime her. She did it with dignity and grace, McCain is unlikely to match that performance. But in the end they all know its just business and the show must go on.
McCain doesn't seem like the type of man who will give up the power he has out of frustration that he didn't get the greater power he sought. I think he'll run for re-election. But again, who knows?
October 8, 2008 3:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
COUNTRY CLUB FIRST!
October 8, 2008 8:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!!
October 8, 2008 11:35 PM | Reply | Permalink