Posted by
rightinsight on Thursday, February 22, 2007 3:17:27 PM
In the last few days one prominent poll showed Rudy Giuliani
leading John McCain by 40% to 18%. With McCain’s strategy this week there
appears to be a good chance he will soon catch Mitt Romney in the polls.
McCain’s
first outburst was to take aim at Don Rumsfeld. He called him perhaps
the worst Secretary of Defense, ever. I know McCain is older than any of the
other candidates so I would expect him to remember the people who filled that
position in the Carter and Johnson administrations. Of course, he had to bemoan
all the mistakes that have been made in Iraq.
A review of statistics showed that over 4,000 military deaths occurred in Bill
Clinton’s first term, compared to the in excess of 3,200 in the almost four
years of war in Iraq. And by the way, I do not recall the liberation of 50
million people in the first Clinton
term. Yes, we’ve really screwed up.
McCain took
a day to catch his breath before attacking the Bush administration on its
global warming record. The senator certainly knows the popularity of a
bandwagon as he is jumping on. Unfortunately for John McCain, this is a liberal
bandwagon.
As we
approach the end of this week, new Senate legislation on immigration, written
by Ted Kennedy, is being introduced. McCain is a co-sponsor. Yes, he is teaming
up with Senator Kennedy, another favorite of Republicans. We know the “flavor”
of this legislation, speeding “the path to citizenship” for illegal immigrants
who have broken our laws. In fairness to McCain, George Bush is basically
favoring this approach. But the case can be made that part of the blame for
2006 Republican losses was conservative anger on this issue.
This week’s
events have convinced me that John McCain is deadly serious about the presidency.
He is positioning himself to capture the Democrat nomination. I anticipate him
changing parties at any moment. Nothing else can explain any of this.