McCain: The Dangerous Republican

John McCain, of all Republicans now, most endangers the chances of Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama to be next president of the greatest republic that ever was.

McCain appears to be a grey-haired warrior, which he is: For a man past 70, solid, muscular, a war hero from heros’ genes, witty, charming, tough, engaging, moderate on a few subjects–campaign-financing reform, immigration (no moats, just a fence), buying drugs from Canada.

As such, if Osama Bin Laden from his cave and kidney machine decides to help his favorite American political party, the Republican Party, again win the presidency by launching a few Moslem fanatics at some school or old-folks home in the U.S., McCain immediately would look like the best politician to lead a country under attack.

As a political liberal, do I think Clinton or Obama would be as good or better than McCain were the country seeming to be in military danger? No, frankly I don’t. Not if we speak of a brand new president. McCain already knows what military buttons to push. If an attack came a year after Clinton or Obama had been in office long enough to trust advisors and to understand the machinery of national defense, then I would say, yes, both have bigger and better brains than McCain and are nothing if not fast learners and gutsy people.

For this election, McCain, by seeming liberal, would attract independent voters, especially as the Republican Party’s hate machine spews sewage and venom at whoever the Democratic candidate will be, as it will.

McCain is not liberal. Ask him about abortion rights. Ask him about prolonging the war in Iraq that we can neither justify, explain, win nor afford. Ask him about kissing the fannies of Bible thumpers (if he can answer between puckers). Ask him about relieving the rich of paying taxes so that the poor can do it.

Though many Republicans already consider him an apostate because he does not want to ditch the country, fill it with water and alligators, to keep out impoverished Mexicans and other threats to the political powers of the plutocracy, McCain otherwise fellates the Republican philosophers without gagging.

What about Mitt Romney, you ask? I suspect after Tuesday coming, when California, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts vote, Romney will ghost away, a footnote on Google searches about whether a nation drunk on Christianity would kiss a Mormon, a buss that like licking a toad leads to even greater lunacy.

No, it’s McCain Clinton and Obama should worry about. They should surround themselves with cigar-chewing retired generals and huzzahing prize fighters and hunky male action-movie stars to show that true heroes think they have the stuff to ward off evil from Bin Laden’s cave.