What Does John McCain Stand For?
Three months after (somehow) winning the GOP nomination for president, Sen. John McCain has so far failed to put any flesh on his almost-bare political bones. In other words, McCain is an empty shell or, as Gertrude Stein said of Oakland, There is no there there. Here is a good test: take any successful politician and you can sum up their message or legacy in one easy sentence. For example: • Ronald Reagan: won the Cold War and limited the growth of government • Abraham Lincoln: ended slavery and saved the nation • FDR: kept the country hopeful through the Great Depression and fought Hitler and Tojo Or among current politicians: • Ted Kennedy: big government liberalism is the solution to everything • Ron Paul: Libertarian conservatism is the only philosophy that works over the long haul; Now, take John McCain and try to come up with his one-sentence message. Is it: • John McCain: political reformer, fiscal conservative who took on run-away, out-of-control big spending GOP and who chall
