Who's That Guy?

Remember that republican presidential candidate who ran against Duh in 2000? No? Well, that's OK, he doesn't seem to remember himself either. And that's really a shame because I kind of liked that guy. He had ideas. He wasn't afraid to go against the grain. He often made sense. I would have strongly considered voting for that guy if Duh hadn't "swift boated" him in South Carolina with the (gasp) black love child lie.

After that, something happened. At first, I thought it was just politics. Concede defeat, rally around the candidate, be graceful, all the while waiting for your chance to get back in there. But I'm sorry to say, McCain '08 is just a shell of his '00 self. If that. The guy who used to be a "maverick" has been reduced to a stumbling, bumbling Bush clone. He has become a guy who has flip-flopped on nearly every issue he used to believe in and now just seems like a guy who is willing to say and do anything that his party asks of him.

It's sad. But I keep wondering, is he just doing and saying these things to keep his party happy? Will he then turn around and be that strong guy we saw in 2000? Or is he just a goner? Another "pull my strings" candidate put out there to do the bidding of the "powers that be" in his once respectable political party?

I really do question his mental stability. He really seems unable to stay on top of the issues these days and he continuously embarrasses himself with Bush-worthy blunders. We've already had 8 years of a mentally inferior "leader". Can we, as a country, afford 4 or 8 more years of another "decider" whose best days are long behind him?