Two days ago I wrote:
of suspending all that he apparently is, and reflect on how he must have felt after being battered by Rove (and Rove's puppy dog George), I would then speculate that McCain knows what he is doing and that he made it spectacularly clear yesterday.
If the outcome on Nov 5 is not only a landslide victory for Obama/Biden but major gains for Dems, at the Federal, State, Regional and City levels, then McCain may have extracted his revenge and served the Republic, big time.
The fundamentalists will be set back by at least four decades as just one of many consequences, and the Republic will be on its way to repair and renaissance.
Thus, what I'm suggesting is definitely at least two standard deviations removed from the most likely - a desperately ambitious dude who knows he's going to get his butt kicked and will do anything to try to make it not so.
Too bad for McCain that he just motivated millions of women to ensure that they each get a shot at kicking his butt.
I had always hoped that after what Rove and Bush did to McCain, that he would emerge as a decent, experienced Republican in the spirit of Eisenhower. It was obvious by '04 that any chance of McCain honoring the memory of was close to, if not, zero.
My empathetic nature always prevails, though, even when it might appear ridiculous ... I'll always hope for the best in each person and that they experience their personal best during this all too brief life we have.
Well, 48 hours later and, increasingly as each moment passes, it is difficult for me to imagine any options other than that:
- Johnny is demonstrating significant dementia +/- a plethora of PTSD manifestations;
- or Johnny knows exactly what he is doing and he is sticking it to Rove, Georgie boy and Cheney (and the fundie, flat earth, dominionist wacko caucus) in ways they never imagined him capable;
- or some combination of the above.
No way would a strategic leader, committed to the sustainability of the GOP brand, do what McCain has done in the past 72 hours.
Simply, no way.
So,
though it is far far into the 'long tail,' if Johnny isn't viciously, consciously driving the GOPer bus into the abyss, then he is completely out of control and has zero chance of recognizing that he is requesting voters grant him the opportunity to drive the Nation, and perhaps even humanity, into extinction.
Either way, my friends, do realize that he has absolutely nothing to fear.
He doesn't need a job, money, ....
He may not even be cognitively capable of reflection or ethically capable of caring.On the other hand, unlikely as it is, maybe Johnny cares or maybe the "revenge" that he has had plenty of time to percolate, and plenty of reasons to deliver to the Rovian, neoconster, dominionist GOPers is his 'hidden agenda.'
Johnny, you may be on the verge of becoming the dude who saved the Republic by driving the corporatist, fundie, dominionist wacko bus into the abyss.
If so, give me a call when you're in Seattle and I'll buy you a latte (double tall, soy, vanilla) :)
Otherwise, RED ALERT AMERICA --- we need to be certain this dude and his secessionist Annie Oakley are crushed by the largest electoral margin in the history of the USA.
Peace,
Bob