Depending on how you look at it, I am either blessed or cursed by the fact that I get three physical newspapers a day. This morning, two of them, the Day (too lazy to get a link) and the Times headlined the surprising fact that John McCain is backing Obama’s big mistake. This raises a question that has been asked by reasonable people across the nation ever since McCain burst onto the national scene in 2000, when he accomplished the amazing feet of looking good compared to George Bush, causing every Beltway pundit to fall in love with him and cursing the television watchers among us to seeing him blather virtually every Sunday morning. The question is this:
Who cares what John McCain thinks?
Can anyone think of anything McCain has ever been right about? When he comes close to being right (think McCain-Feingold) he quickly finds a way to disassociate himself from reason. Does he have a claim to being an expert on anything, other, perhaps, than self-promotion. When it comes to war…well, he’s never heard of a war he couldn’t support, and there’s never been a moment, at least since September of 2011, when he hasn’t been in favor of either endlessly fighting unnecessary wars he helped start, or starting unnecessary wars that will never end.
McCain is a favorite of beltway pundits because he’s like them: always wrong, and always rewarded for being wrong.
If Obama had any sense he’d start having second thoughts based on the identities of the people that are supporting him on Syria. If John McCain told me he agreed that the sky was blue, I’d have second thoughts on that. If John Boehner agreed with him, then I’d know the sky was anything but blue, no matter what my lying eyes might tell me.
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