McCain Called His New Nat'l Pol. Dir. "Worse Than Disgraceful" in 2002
by Jonathan Singer, Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 10:13:46 AM EST
McCain's visit brought Bo Harmon back to town. Ehrlich's former campaign manager is McCain's national political director.Ehrlich created a bit of a stir by hiring Harmon, who in 2002 had run Saxby Chambliss' upset campaign against then-Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia. The Chambliss campaign ran a TV ad questioning the courage of the Vietnam vet and triple amputee.
Among those who objected to the ad: a certain senator from Arizona. "Worse than disgraceful," McCain called it.
John McCain has spent the better part of the last few decades convincing the media to paint him in a good light, particularly by labeling him a straight shooter who does what he says and says what he means. No matter, of course, that McCain is a career opportunist willing to do and say anything to forward his insatiable political ambition.
The evidence of this unscrupulous side of McCain does not begin with his hiring of someone whose pièce de résistance he previously called "worse than disgraceful." From the beginning of his career through today, McCain has shown that he stands for little other than advancing his own career for ambition's sake. For instance, in 2001 McCain was apparently nearly willing to give up on everything he ever believed in, including his vaunted Ronald Reagan, in order to switch parties to give the Democrats control over the United States Senate. Three years later, McCain's campaign approached John Kerry about forming a bipartisan ticket, which would have thoroughly undermined everything he had purported to fight for over the course of his career in Washington. Just in the last few months McCain has given up on his long-standing position on immigration. The list goes on.
No, John McCain is no straight shooter. He is just a particularly cynical career opportunist willing to do anything -- and I do mean anything, including selling out what he says he believes in -- in order to get more power. Maybe this isn't the story getting out in the press just yet. But maybe it's time to see some independent expenditure ads go up telling this very compelling (and, more importantly, true) story about McCain.
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