Now I hope Romney Loses

Sorry, more politics. I've been a Romney supporter for the past while. Super Tuesday approaches some twenty odd states will decide between Romney, McCain and *ahem* Huckabee. I wanted Romney to win, and had McCain as my second choice. Romney won't win the nomination, but McCain's credentials bear scrutiny little better than toiletpaper withstands pee.

Once the facts I've cited below are revealed by the media, (who have coddled McCain thus far), McCain will lose and a Democrat will win, which doesn't bode badly for Republicans in the long run because of the coming recession.

A Democratic Congress and Democratic president will be blamed for the recession, opening up Congressional slots for a Republican Congressional takeover in 2010 and Presidential takeover 2012. In the meantime Republicans can do some much needed soul-searching. In 2012, Enter Mitt Romney part doix.

McCain facts:

You see, McCain doesn't talk straight with the facts. The more pressure he is under, the less straightfoward he becomes. The most recent example is his denial of distorting Romney's past statements on timetables. Before that he fudged the substantive impact of his immigration bill, which was amnesty for working illegals--which isn't in itself a bad idea...at least not as bad as lying about it.

Yay A Maverick!
Then there is McCain's constant reminder that he is a war hero. Really? After driving around a 'vette and dating an exotic dancer during school he graduated 894 out of 899 in the his Naval Academy class, Strangely, McCain was then put into an aircraft in flight school and subsequently crashed it in the bay. Soon thereafter he crash landed another plane in Spain because he hit some powerlines flying too low. After that, he crashed another jet in Virginia. Soon thereafter he married a model (surprise) who had just divorced one of his old Academy buddies (his buddy was ecstatic and invited to the wedding). FYI-She made him promise to stop crashing million dollar Jets.

Boo POW!
After 3 crashes, he requested a combat assignment. Because the Navy is a hearchial organization that defers to sons-of-Admirals, it was quickly granted. He then was shipped off to Vietnam to fly attack aircraft for the Navy and, predictably, was promptly shot down on just his 23rd mission. (one of roughly 530 Navy aircraft shot down in over 100,00o sorties conducted by the Navy during the vietnam war- apparently previous performance is a good predictor of future performance). Thus, combat missions completed: 23. Planes crashed: 4.

Luckily for McCain, his misfortune at flying became his fame back home; when the Vietnamese discovered that his dad was the Supreme Admiral of the European Fleet, they stopped torturing him, tended to his wounds (not very well), and then successfully used McCain as a propaganda tool on the front cover of the New York Times.

Yay Politics!
5 years later he was released and promptly began his political career, based upon his newfound fame as a NYTimes covered, POW-son-of-an-important-person.

Boo Fat Wife!
Upon returning home, he unfortunately found that his wife was no longer a model but had instead suffered her own crippling, near-death ordeal during his captivity, due to an automobile accident in December 1969 that left her facing months of operations and physical therapy;by the time he saw her again she was four inches shorter, on crutches, and substantially heavier.

Yay Rich New Family!
So he courageously started having affairs, admitting later that his marraige ended because of his own selfishness (and ,I assume ,his broken promise to stop crashing jets). After he separated from his first wife, he met another woman, 17 years his junior and, luckily, the heiress of a millionaire beer distributor from Arizona. He quickly finalized his divorce from his old family and began a new one.

A seat in the Arizona House of Representatives and a US Senate seat later, John McCain was a second term US Senator.

Boo Keating 5! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five
Unfortunately he wasn't good at that either. Five years into his political career, he was named by Savings and Loan Collapse investigator Edwin Gray as one of 5 Senators who were pressuring him to lay off of investigating Keating Savings and Loans. Turns out that all five had cumulatively recieved campaign donations of over $1.5 million from Keating. Senator McCain was one of those five, individually recieving $115,000 in donations. Additionally, his wife and father in law had invested some $360,000 in Keating and got free trips on the Keating Jet. Keating eventually failed in a $1.1 Billion dollar fraud. McCain was cited by the Senate for unethical conduct for interfering in the investigation, but his political career endured until he eventually offered a piece of campaign finance reform himself called McCain-Feingold. (Perhaps you've heard of it? it's pretty popular amongst Republicans).

Yay Short American Memories!
Other than that, John McCain is a real American Hero, brought to you by the NYTimes coverage of the Vietnam war and his guest commentary on bombings during the first gulf war (having been a bomber some 23 different times himself).

Boo Democratic Homework Doers!
Mark my words, he will get KILLED in the general election and America will be better off for it. Oh yeah, and just wait for them to bring up the fact that
-McCain has never had a job that his Admiral Dad or POW status didn't get for him. Except for the work it took to marry rich, he has never, ever earned a dollar your tax dollars didn't pay for. -That he graduated at the bottom of his class.
-That he dated a stripper.
-Was rated subpar in his performance evaluations.
-Crashed 4 jets.
-Cheated on his first wife...several times.
-Then married rich.
-Was caught in a corporate scandal.
-Thought about being VP to John Kerry....
-Now is claiming to be the most conservative of conservatives

Voters are going to love all that.