Posted by
Matthew Avitabile on Saturday, November 29, 2008 9:49:05 PM
Originally posted at
Jumping in Pools.
It may be a bit early to write about what we're all going to think of John McCain, but I think that I have a bit of the picture.
McCain
will be remembered as the one Republican that many Democrats said that
they'd vote for. Some did (Joe C.) and far more decided that party
actually did matter more than policy or character.
McCain was
remembered as the guy sunk by Karl Rove's tactics. However, for some
reason folks in the media decried his attacks on Barack Obama as the
same as Rove's, even though McCain's were factually based.
McCain
not only believed in the righteousness of the Iraq War, but was willing
to allow two of his sons to join the military. This, and McCain himself
visited eight times, building a solid relationship with Nouri al-Maliki
and the Iraqi government. Many times McCain said that he would rather
win a war than a political campaign. By touting the successful surge
strategy, the
Iraq war is won.
If the war was on the front pages, foreign policy would have been a
bigger issue, and Obama's inexperience and naiveté would have shown
even brighter. Instead, McCain put the country first, and pioneered the
strategy that is saving lives.
McCain was everything people said
they wanted in a President. He was affable, grouchy when he needed to
be, bipartisan, a war hero, and experienced. He stood up to his own
party when he needed to and foreign tyrants when others wouldn't.
John McCain is a hero that comes along once a generation. He will be remembered as such.
But we wanted Change at any cost.