Is McCain another George W. Bush?

Bravo Jack!  Thank you Mody - this is a distillation of how many articles here at VoA?  Maaan, can we be verbose!  Cafferty shows us what economy and power prose really are!

Trouble is - Jack may be preaching to the faithful.  How many low-info voters will read, understand and believe McCafferty?  We seem to be up against some sorta a priori trust that truth doesn't even dent.  To wit, the dialogue from another article:

(J): But I do like #3 - [McCain]won't budge from an unpopular stand - sure sounds like a third Bush term to me! 

(2C): An asset, June.  He will stick by his decision if he believes its the right thing to do. He will have the intelligence, we won't, so we will react without knowing the facts, but on emotion. 

John Sidney McCain III is DAMAGED.

Much like the silver spooned, alcoholic, coke headed Bu$h who was a failure in his fathers eyes, that drives him to do stupid and bellicose things like INVADE and OCCUPY sovereign countries to prove his 'manliness', Sidney has the same issues...compounded..

But Sidney the Third, has a history of appeasement and collaborating with the enemy to support his own ego and sense of self-worth.

Sidney the Third is MUCH more dangerous to America and the World than Son of Bu$h.

Where Bu$h has his fathers friends and people like Karl Rove and the Saudis to surround him, protect him and feed his ego, who does Sidney have.

Sidney has the memories of being broken by the Vietnamese then collaborating with them.
Sidney has the memories of being broken by the Republicans in 2000 and now collaborating with them.

Only ultimate surrender of absolute power can satisfy the broken ego and spirit of Sidney III....

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely..

Once again, Tuppence, you show that you can talk the talk but, to be effective, you gotta use it to walk the walk - say something meaningful with that political jargon! Otherwise you’re just takin’ up space - a papagayo!

Woops, forgot, you’re against learning a foreign tongue. Sorry!

Junebug, it looks like you have included some small change in your comment.

Referring to (2C): An asset, June.  He will stick by his decision if he believes its the right thing to do. He will have the intelligence, we won't, so we will react without knowing the facts, but on emotion. 

Who is this “we” stuff Kimosabe!?!  It is a given that any supporter of the masked rider won’t have the intelligence, but where is McCain magically going to acquire it after 72 years of avoiding it?   Joe Lierbeman, the grinning shoulder goon???

And that burp about not budging from an unpopular stand?  Bull headed infantile stubborness in a democracy is not very attractive, and we have been force fed that crap for going on eight looooong years now.   No doubt about a third Bu$hite term if the masked rider rides the elephant into the Oval Office.

My 2 Cents, how do you define an elitist?  A rational articulate person? 

May be a double entendre there, Mody.  You know, "intelligence" like in, "Of course I know how many homes I own!"  Or, intel, as in, Bush relied on intelligence about WMDs to launch the attack on Iraq. 

Hard to say - sometimes Tuppence even has trouble talking the talk. 

Adam, are you sugesting that if elected,

Sidney will have the memories of being broken by the NeoCon corporatists and now collaborating with them

and we will all share in those memories with him?

Junebug, allow me to hone one of your points to a slightly sharper point:   

Bush relied on (his faulty) intelligence about WMDs to launch the attack on Iraq.   

This is a small brick, but it is the cornerstone these numbskulls want us to ignore in building our case against this arrogant criminal regime.    

This buck passer willfully played tin soldiers with our troops in his sandbox, and we cannot let him pass the buck by insinuation or statement.  He has to be brought to account.  Now he may have a defense of sort if he admits to his terribly faulted intelligence – but only if we allow the widest interpretation possible of the word ‘intelligence’.

Your remarks are undeniably reality-based, Mody, but "faulty intelligence" is an ex poste concept.  Tuppence's remark is ex ante - "he will have.,.. 

An even finer point, I understand - I'm just tryin' to cut Tuppence some [more] slack because without Indie and MoroninCharge around, VoA can't stand to lose many more contributors.