Another bold stand by that maverick John McCain

September 3, 2005

Guest Post by Morbo

Arizona Sen. John McCain has done it again. McCain has come out publicly with yet another bold idea that shows him to be the true political maverick that he is.

Heedless of the political consequences, McCain recently aligned himself with President George W. Bush and Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist and announced that he favors teaching “intelligent design” in our public schools. That’s right. John’s for substituting ignorant fundamentalist claptrap for real science in the classrooms of America’s children. What a gutsy move! How can you help but admire this guy? If only more politicians were like him.

The Los Angeles Times reported that McCain

became the latest Republican politician to urge that “all points of view” be presented to students studying the origins of life. He joined President Bush and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), who argued recently that intelligent design should be taught alongside evolution because people in “a pluralistic society should have access to a broad range of fact, of science, including faith.”

Pardon my sarcasm, but I really don’t like this guy. McCain is doing exactly what I said he would a few weeks ago when I predicted that the Arizona senator would soon begin sucking up to the Religious Right in preparation for his 2008 presidential run.

What else can explain this? I suspect McCain knows better than to equate ID and evolution. The word on the street is that, unlike Bush, McCain actually reads books. So why endorse ID now? Gee, do you think it’s because he’s just a typical right-wing Republican senator who aspires to higher office and intends to get there by hitching himself to the right-wing rube machine?

The alternative is equally unpleasant — that McCain really is this confused by the mystery of life.

I suppose it’s possible. After all, I’m confused by a mystery too: mainly, why so many liberals continue to fawn over this conniving, right-wing toad.

So now we are trying to fill our children’s minds with religious mythology as a substitute for science. This is strongly contradictory to the no child left behind rhetoric that was being pushed so hard on us no so long ago. How do we expect to kids to be prepared in a world markeket place if we keep feeding them this crap? It wasn’t all that long ago that the church had so other really swell theories, such as like the earth is the center of the universe and all things revolve around it. It amazes me that these nuts have yet to draw the parellells between the oppresive fundamentalism that we’re so gungho about erradicating in the the middleeast and the oppressive fundalmentalism they’re tring to bring back to the US. I guess it’s ok in their eyes, as long as it’s Christianity.

  • McCain IS Bill Frist cloaked in Viet Nam. I think early nonsense polling has convinced him he’s gonna be the next Preznit, and you’re right, what a pandering snob!

    BC in AZ

  • Okay, I think that theory is correct. Part of
    McCain’s bid for the presidency. He’s the
    suck-up king of the Republican Party.

    But who can explain the biggest suck-up
    of all? Bill Clinton. See Arianna’s post:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/bill-clinton-suckupin_b_6716.html

    A bit off topic, I know, but it’s a mystery I can’t
    fathom. He could have been instrumental
    in bringing Bush down. He could be instrumental
    in bringing the neocons down. Why does he
    suck up to GWB?

  • I actually used to like this guy. But he came down a number of notches in the 2004 campaign and he continues to decline.

  • I knew McCain had the principles of a whore as soon as he stood unquestioningly with the nomination of our own torturer-general, Alberto Gonzales. Even his experiences in Vietnam weren’t enough for him to put principle over party.

    He is a rat.

  • Agree on McCain’s political cowardice and mediocrity.

    But what I wanted to ask was, what do people think of the way he looks these days? I saw a photo of him the other day and he looks 10 years older than he did in 2000. Does anybody else think so? I don’t watch a lot of TV, so I’m interested in what people who have seen him more often say about how he looks these days.

  • as an arizona resident and contacts with the republican residents, mccain is going to have problems getting reelected as senator, let alone as president. the single complaint, mccain’s soulful critisism of bush’s slandering his family, then he is hugging bush on the 2004 campaign trail. the word is mccail is just another pol, talking out of both sides of his mouth. straight talker, i don’t think so!!!!!

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