John McCain

Jim Croce advises McCain from the grave.

By J. Wesley ⋅ May 9, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

McCain is reportedly planning an “energy and global climate change” tour.

What, with a tanking economy, a faltering war in Afghanistan, a saber-rattling Iran, a meltdown in Lebanon, an oil crisis and a screwed-up medical system, there was such a shortage of issues that he just HAD to make global warming a center-piece? The one issue guaranteed to worry business supporters, small-government conservatives and much of the rest of the Republican base? The one issue which will do the most to remind us of past betrayals?

I struggle to find an adequate illustration to describe him. He’s a self-saboteur setting up himself the bomb. As the saying goes, all his political base are belong to us. He should try and remember that.

To really mix metaphors, John McCain is like a kamikaze toreador who can’t help but goad the Republican base. He drives himself to ever-riskier feats of political peril, apparently to please his adoring media audience. Sure, John Stewart will continue tossing him flowers, but if McCain keeps it up, Republicans are likely to give him the horns.

John’s my candidate, however, so I’m gonna give him a nickel’s worth of free advice, courtesy of Jim Croce:

You don’t tug on Superman’s cape
You don’t spit into the wind
You don’t pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
And you don’t mess around with Jim your base.