YOU WANT FOUR MORE YEARS? VOTE JOHN McCAIN

A John McCain presidency would be the ultimate bridge to nowhere-- at least nowhere we want to be headed

The TV is on upstairs and I every now and then I hear someone shouting. I just heard McCain shouting, "My friends... blah, blah, blah... Bridge to Nowhere... blah, blah, blah... I will veto every bill..." Maybe he mentioned and I didn't hear that the Bridge to Nowhere was proposed-- and viciously rammed through by-- three extremely corrupt Republicans, Ted Stevens, Don Young and Lisa Murkowski-- and it was protected by the even more corrupt Republican chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Jerry Lewis, and it was an integral part of the Republican Culture of Corruption of which McCain himself has a participant-- even if on rare occasions a reticent and tentative one-- and that the Bridge to Nowhere was signed into law by the man who has declared McCain his political heir, George Bush (who is also a Republican). I didn't hear McCain mention any of this on the TV but maybe he didn't shout it as loudly as the other stuff.

Nor did I happen to hear McCain mention one of his top advisors today, Mark McKinnon. But maybe he was whispering. McKinnon apparently got a look at the McCain campaign's playbook, vomited all over himself and publicly declared that as soon as Obama becomes the Democratic nominee he's quitting what promises to be a campaign as vicious and filled with divisiveness as anything Rove has ever dreamed up. He'll still vote for McCain, he said; he just doesn't want to be part of the sewer campaign McCain has OK-ed.

"I would simply be uncomfortable being in a campaign that would be inevitably attacking Barack Obama," said McCain adviser Mark McKinnon in an interview with NPR's All Things Considered. "I think it would be uncomfortable for me, and I think it would be bad for the McCain campaign."

This morning General Wes Clark, who would make a great VP for Obama in my opinion, sent out a letter on behalf of the Democratic Party pointing out what a danger McCain is. "If you don't think John McCain is just as dangerous in the White House as George W. Bush, think again. McCain will not reverse the foreign policy mistakes of George Bush. He is content to leave us in Iraq, saying it'd be 'fine by me' if we were in Iraq for another 100 years; he is rash on using military force with Iran. He overplays the military card and doesn't seem to appreciate that the real strength of the nation lies in our economy and in our values."

The McCain campaign is one thing that overrides anything else-- a third term for the policies and agenda of George W. Bush. That's it in a nutshell. The rest is just about making it interesting enough for the mass media to sell advertising. People for the American Way's Right Wing Watch explains why all the extremist loons on the far right are starting to line up behind McCain and sending him love notes like the one above from newly minted McCainiac, Gary Bauer. Meanwhile this short clip sums up what a McCain Administration would be all about: