McCains Dilemma: Will He Honor Bush In St. Paul?
I don’t think I’m alone when I say that there is really only one question about the GOP convention that interests me: will John McCain have the political courage to stand by his convictions and publicly honor George W. Bush’s failed presidency, or will he act like a teenager succumbing to peer pressure and pretend that the president doesn’t even exist? The issue isn’t that McCain and Bush are one and the same. Clearly, they are not; John McCain is a genuine war hero, George Bush is a genuine chicken hawk. And while John McCain demonstrated an independent streak before he embraced his inner Rove, George W. Bush has always been a tool of the far right, his campaign rhetoric in 2000 notwithstanding. But the real problem with McCain is that he’s adopted George W. Bush’s extremist, out-of-touch right-wing policies on issue after issue. There may have once been a time when there was a difference between their policy platforms, but that time has passed us by, and they now share the same destr
