Huffington is Wrong on McCain

Here Arianna Huffington tries to tell you how far John McCain has fallen to the right by noting that he once told her that he did not vote for Bush in 2000. She then makes the argument that he has turned far to the right from that point to where he is now- running for a 3rd Bush term. Her logic is nonsensical at best.

You will note at the beginning of the post, there is an update wherein John McCain has denied telling Huffington that he did not vote for Bush. She then talks about all the spin and denials that McCain has issued and asks why should anyone believe THIS denial. Which is fine, but mean what you say. If her point is that John McCain has made a career of spinning and prevarication well then, great . . . welcome to politics in the 21st Century Arianna! And if her subsequent point is that he has lately sold out to the Right Wing of his party, how is this not, at least a little, contextualized by her previous point? Maybe his selling out to the Right Wing of the party is spin and prevarication to get a nomination he desperately wanted and the true John McCain is still the one who hated what Bush did to his party in 2000 and therefore did not vote for him?

I like John McCain, and say what you want about him, except for that he is a 3rd Bush term. He is most certainly not, but he is Machiavellian enough to know that it will only help him with his base if he has the crazy Huffington's of the world proclaiming him as such.

Well done John.