Friday, April 25, 2008

In Praise of John McCain

It is no secret that I admire and respect the Republican Nominee John McCain. I think he is a man of outstanding qualities and characteristics that make him irreplacable on our national political stage. Another wonderful example of that comes this week in his urging the North Carolina GOP not to run ads attacking Obama over the Jeremiah Wright comments. You can find an article discussing it here.

Surprisingly or not, McCain has come under attack for this decision from the right-wing punditocracy. I was listening to Laura Ingraham on the drive in to work this morning and she was berating McCain over and over, saying that he was tying the GOP's hands with his actions.

McCain should be applauded for trying a new kind of campaign. He should take it to the Democratic candidate on their real policy differences, he should hammer home his "superior" qualifications to be Commander and Chief, and he should stay away from the gutter, racial politics because he has made a career of being above that and better than that and thats what makes him so unique and such an irreplacable force.

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