The McCain VP Sweepstakes
There’s a fair amount of buzz about who McCain’s VP choice is going to be, and truly, I can understand. Who wouldn’t want to bask in the political brilliance of the Master Maverick, and serve him as his VP?
The man is so profound, he’s despised by the bulk of his own party. It’s jealousy over his political acumen, of course. There is only one Master Maverick, who in his infinite wisdom, built his fortunes at the expense of his own base so he could gather the puff press he needed to pretend he was a real leader.
Now, he is the leader of the party he opposed for so many years, and gleefully driving his fingers into ordinary conservative eyes just as happily as he ever did. No lesser mortal could have managed the feat. Even those who support him are joining in the fun, and using sarcasm, belittlement, and marginalization tactics in an attempt to get the more reluctant ordinary conservatives to go against their better judgement. Some of them may even do so, believing the years of forced capitulation to the Democrats’ agenda that he caused will stop. They’ll believe it, even though it’s his chosen path to his well-deserved political glory.
So, I can’t imagine anyone not choosing to be McCain’s VP. Four years to learn from the Master Maverick, and potentially carry their association with them around for the rest of their careers? Could you resist? What’s the sacrifice of all that pesky credibility anyway? Just carry some antacid around with you in your jacket pocket, and you’ll be able to say every variation of ‘liberalism is conservatism’, just like Dick Cheney did about the Medicare Part B Drug Entitlement for Bush, in no time at all without nausea.
Whoever you choose, Master Maverick, rest assured I will be just as happy to sing their maverick praises as I am yours. If they’re your choice, after all, they deserve all the maverick adulation I can give them.
Filed under: Maverick Commentary on July 24th, 2008
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