Sean Johnson - Intentionally - The Education of Sean Johnson

Cohen, long one of McCain’s admirers, says:

“What impressed me most about McCain was the effect he had on his audiences, particularly young people. When he talked about service to a cause greater than oneself, he struck a chord. He expressed his message in words, but he packaged it in the McCain story — that man, beaten to a pulp, who chose honor over freedom. This had nothing to do with access. It had to do with integrity.

McCain has soiled all that. His opportunistic and irresponsible choice of Sarah Palin as his political heir — the person in whose hands he would leave the country — is a form of personal treason, a betrayal of all he once stood for. Palin, no matter what her other attributes, is shockingly unprepared to become president. McCain knows that. He means to win, which is all right; he means to win at all costs, which is not.”

This isn’t about issues - it’s not about whether someone wants to vote for a Republican. Republicans are great people, and generally have very cogent reasons behind their stances on issues. Hell, I’m a registered Republican myself (to vote for Ron Paul in the primaries.) It’s about whether someone can vote for this Republican.

There must be some point where ideology takes a backseat to a person’s character, right? After 8 years of the significant majority of the country being fed up with lies and deceit, why are we so willing to look the other way again?

“And so McCain lied about his lying and maybe thinks that if he wins the election, he can — as he did in South Carolina — renounce who he was and what he did and resume his old persona. It won’t work. Karl Marx got one thing right — what he said about history repeating itself. Once is tragedy, a second time is farce. John McCain is both.”