If You Run Into McCain, Be Sure Not To Mention...

Lately McCain doesn't want to talk about the man he said he admires as much as anyone in the world, Colin Powell, who most grassroots Democrats see as a dishonorable and disingenuous cog in the Bush Regime machine, because Sunday Powell, as opportunistically as ever, is supposedly endorsing Obama on Meet the Press. Powell isn't the only longtime McCain crony McCain would rather not answer any questions about. Republican crook Harry Sargeant III has donated a great deal of money to McCain and other GOP elected officials. Mentioning his name on the Double Talk Express will get you left on the side of the road.

Sargeant is the worst kind of war profiteer crawling on the face of the earth, one of dozens among the inner circle of McCain backers. They contribute the McCain's campaign because they want the war to continue and because they want more wars, which make them richer and richer and ever more powerful. He wound up in a position to cheat taxpayers by serving faithfully as finance chairman of the criminal organization known as the Florida Republican Party. His oil trading company has stolen millions from the Pentagon and the taxpayers and he's given a hefty share of the loot to McCain and other GOP crooked pols. Among the Republicans who have partaken in his bribes-- between $100,000 and $250,000 in what many see as protection money-- are Oil Industry shills like John Cornyn (R-TX), Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, McCain (above the legal limit), and the RNC (over $75,000). None will return any of the tainted money. His coziness with high ranking Republicans allowed him to win outrageous contracts he would never have had a chance to get without bribery of GOP politicians.

He has managed to tuck away at least $200,000 bilked from American taxpayers. He has raised over half a million dollars for McCain this year and hosted a fat cat fundraiser for McCain in his Delray Beach mansion, where McCain was able to hobnob and collect checks from elements of organized crime. Sargeant has also been funneling illegal Arab money into McCain's campaign and McCain, reluctantly, is agreeing to return these contributions.

And, of course, it isn't just mentioning Republican stalwarts Powell or Sargeant that will get your head bitten off around McCain. Just start a conversation about his massive robocall slime machine. McCain used to complain about them-- when Bush unleashed them on him in 2000-- and he called what they do "hate calls." Now this integral part of the McCain campaign is bothering people in the battleground states with automated phones calls calling Barack Obama an associate of terrorists. Is it any wonder that every respectable journalist in the country-- unless you consider David Broder somehow respectable-- has noted that McCain is running the worst sewer campaign in history? [Note: One of Congress' most demented and extremist members, Minnesota lunatic fringe Republican Michele Bachmann loves the gutter politics of course. It's what she is.]

Even Maine rubber stamp Susan Collins is denouncing McCain's sleazy robocalls, a tactic that New Hampshire Republicans are calling a "waste of money," while carefully skirting the issue of McCain's fitness to lead the country. Others are just laughing that McCain is using the exact same crooked firm to slander Obama that Bush used to slander him in 2000! McCain sure has sunk to new depths. What wouldn't he do to win?